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by gala8y 1417 days ago
I'm not sure if you are joking / being sarcastic or genuine, but I do Voice Dialogue, which is in fact talking to your voices, for a living and it is a big deal. This post is a beautiful, personal account of dialoging internally using writing. Post does not provide _content_ of any of such dialogues of the author, which, in my opinion, is elegant, yet it is written in such a way, that may be encouraging to some. YMMV.
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network2592 1417 days ago
I am definitely not being sarcastic. Sorry to hear that was even a consideration.

The article you posted has a lot more epistemic value. In contrast, the article in this thread is a very basic frustrated rant. It is just unfortunate that the seemingly more discussion worthy article did not receive more discussion.

I am intrigued by Voice Dialogue. Would you care to expand a bit on that? Pointing to any resources would be much appreciated.

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gala8y 1417 days ago
Oh, apologies for reading your comment this way, my bad.

Voice Dialogue is amazing. Perspective that we have different, very much independent sub-parts to our personality is not new and it is gaining more and more popularity (both in professional context (different modes of psychotherapy, etc.) and in popular culture (more and more references which use this 'many parts' view)).

Voice Dialogue in core is _practice_ of talking to these parts of our personality (or rather consciousness) (edit: engaging with them in a conversation). This is where one person engages in a conversation with different parts of another person.

To give you an example, one could talk to Your Inner Child (in fact, one could talk with diffrent child-like energies in you), your Rational Mind, your Cautious One, your Joy, and so on...

If you do it well, a certain shift in consciousness accurs. You just realise that these are in fact 'voices' or 'parts' ('energies' is also a good term) in you and you are not them. I dont hesitate to call it an insight.

Even reading a book about it can make that shift happen for you. I am pretty sure of what I write here. :)

In English there is https://voicedialogueinternational.com

Seminal work by Sidra and Hal Stone, authors of VD, is their book "Embracing Our Selves", which I highly recommend. You can check it out in Open Library: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL8683721M/Embracing_Ourselves

You will find similar approaches, I favor VD for many reasons.

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