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RE: Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 8 - Shannon - 07-03-2025
(Yesterday, 12:27 PM)Sky Wrote: I did two months of OSC, and I started my break about a week ago. How long do I have to wait until I can start HOWL v2 for transitioning from one 6G product to another? Is it two weeks?
1-2 weeks. 2 is better, but not always necessary.
RE: Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 8 - Shannon - 07-03-2025
(Yesterday, 12:55 PM)callie Wrote: @Shannon
I read your journal and saw that you have EPHRA in preparation for July. I’d like to offer some feedback as well as share a few ideas. First off, have you ever considered creating a sub similar to UH, or perhaps adding a physical healing component to the next version of EPHRA, specifically aimed at helping regulate the nervous system?
I ask because UH has been the only sub I’ve been able to use long term without crashing into a deep autonomic freeze state. Other subs tend to leave me more dysregulated than before. I believe the physical healing aspect of UH provided a sense of safety on a bodily level, which allowed me to actually process emotions instead of shutting down and dissociating from them. I’ve experienced similar benefits from purely physical healing subs as well, which reinforces this idea. Of course there could be other factors involved in why UH worked so well for me but I think this is a major one
The last sub I used was OGSFv3, but I found it too intense for my system. My nervous system has been chronically dysregulated for the past few years and even the masked format eventually led to deeper dissociation, causing my system to shut down. I believe this reaction is primarily due to deep, existential shame and hopelessness rooted in trauma being triggered, without enough internal safety to process it, so my system goes into survival mode
That’s why I believe a future version of EPHRA, enhanced with a physical healing component and additional elements to help regulate the nervous system and create a deeper sense of safety, could be helpful to anyone, but especially those with complex trauma from childhood. Trauma experts often emphasize that the body needs to feel safe before it can release and process trauma. So I believe this kind of approach could be transformative for people with complex trauma, such as CPTSD.
It might also be helpful if healing subs included two sets of listening instructions, one for individuals with average to moderate trauma, and another for those with complex trauma and/or early attachment issues that go back as far as birth
What are your thoughts on these ideas?
UH was a nightmare. It forced a specific level of physical healing vs emotional healing, and it became unusable for a lot of people as a result. Instead of being the "Swiss army knife" I had hoped, t was causing issues because there was too much of one, which couldn't be adjusted if you wanted the other.
I have found myself very not impressed with "experts" in the last 5-7 years. I have also found that a lot of the mainstream conclusions about things in the realms of psychology and related fields are actually incorrect. My repeated experience has been that I do the R&D and experiments, conclude they're partially or completely wrong, and then 2 to 10 years later, someone publishes a book proclaiming this amazing new breakthrough that turns out to only be what I discovered years previous, which everyone ignored because mainstream science/psychology said otherwise. So I'm not going to just believe or accept whatever "the experts" say, especially about something like trauma.
My current research, development and experimentation has been strongly pointing to that trauma is almost entirely an emotional and somewhat mental phenomenon, and the physical aspects of it are the downstream from the emotional and mental trauma. The only areas where I have found significant physical correlation resulting are in the brain itself, which is also a result of the downstream from the emotional and mental trauma.
I if your belief in what "the experts" have to say is making that belief something you are trying to make true at a subconscious level, and thus making harder to deal with, defeating your efforts to do otherwise, and using as an escape mechanism to hold yourself in place?
When the time comes, I will be looking at a subliminal specifically for PTSD and complex PTSD. In the mean time, may I suggest you try using Brain Optimizer, if you have not already? It may be helpful in changing the pathways you have developed based on conscious and subconscious trauma responses.