[2025-11-27 at 03:51] note
https://www.blissbrah.blog/p/a-simple-technique-that-helped-me
do the motion on what's there, day to day triggers
longer dedicated sessions, 30m
then progress to doing 30m+ sessions on specific worse topics, very vividly
and it's useful to look for subtler forms of triggering
- What also worked was to invoke triggering memories like my brother eating aloud, and say, “I hold no anger.” Or to think of ghosting Xeno and say, “I hold no regrets.” Often, there would be some anger or regret. Then I would look for the regret or other y button of course.
- Other versions of the question were also helpful, such as “Where's the lack button?” “Where's the trigger button?” Or “Where's the y reason?”
- Saying the causes x and results y portion (not the inquiry question) out loud and repeating them helped evoke stronger emotional responses in the body.
i think it's just
need reliable/deterministic triggering
but, <100% certainty (>epsilon uncertainty) that you necessarily need to react (like basically you see it as causation not just rly strong correlation). or maybe another way to say is like, you dont get immediately wholly carried away by the trigger and youre able to peer into it for multiple minutes. anyway ultimately you just want a good playground for peering into the mechanism
then, maybe the button / gap / etc analogies are not helpful, maybe what owen means by "search for the button" is really a lot more like what i mean by "giving it to the ball"
then apparently after enough reps it just becomes obviously clear that there is literally no causation / necessity to react / "button" / perhaps it's like, you can always let the ball have it?
this seems pretty reasonable actually
if you view it as just smth like DRSB or smth like a post from a random redditor on r/LucidDreaming
and then we know the body gets used to things pretty easily, re: running, re: DRSB
and somehow this actually seems part of noobie gainz
idk if useful for others but i feel like could be very useful for me to just view it like . very decoupled from buddhism, just 0.1% of what the E-word actually is, this is truly just a bastardization of buddhism, it's literally just a cool silly easy hack that the human body/brain can do, as easy as overtone singing or lucid dreaming, but even this cool silly lil hack somehow has rly cool effects just bc everyone else in the world is evil or mistaken/wrong (re: bowling physics, re: 2008 housing crisis)
kinda like how DRSB has no use for people who are actually drawers, and DRSB is really just for beginners, and theres so much to learn after DRSB, but it's the most efficient beginner guide, and it takes you from zero to post-beginner really well and really fast
and actually [copying reference photos] is actually an incredibly actually simple skill and the first thing you should learn bc it's so foundational and actually we used to have too low of a bar for graduating from "beginner" and like it should really be that if you cant copy ref photos then youre still in beginner stage
its kinda like how "beginner" in speedcubing nowadays means like 30+ secs, but like 30 secs used to be world class actually. then cube tech got good + metalearning got good + etc
imagine a world before and after DRSB is normalized . it's like, pre DRSB era, "beginner" means you can make smth look sorta okay . post DRSB era it's like youre a beginner if you cant copy a ref photo, and you should progress from that stage in 100 hours maximum
like, Minh Thai didnt use CFOP
situation --> sensations --> gap --> reaction --> stories, feelings
Eventually, staying with both the basic sensory experience and the incipient push/pull of reaction will be possible. This vantage point may be unstable at first, so just keep coming back to it. It may take a few looking sessions for this to settle in.