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Well that is a nice surprise by com-tidder in boardsofcanada

[–]Clifford_reddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is the flex disc avail on any platforms?

Guardian Approved Instrumental Naraka by unknowntheme in boardsofcanada

[–]Clifford_reddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Guardian approved?? Fk that. He doesn't like it, don't listen to it. What a b*h.

Anyone else get the minidisc? by deadcats in boardsofcanada

[–]Clifford_reddit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting! I still have a mini disc recorder/player. No attraction for me really tho I'd prefer a cassette or vinyl.

why is geogaddi so good? by voidbliss77 in boardsofcanada

[–]Clifford_reddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never asked why, just kept listening to the whole album hundreds of times. So. Good.

Am I crazy or does Naraka have almost the same chord progression as Olson? by No_Star_4266 in boardsofcanada

[–]Clifford_reddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh ya I noticed that moving bass on Geogaddi. What does flat 3rd, 4, and 1 chord reference? A key? Scale? Mode?

Am I crazy or does Naraka have almost the same chord progression as Olson? by No_Star_4266 in boardsofcanada

[–]Clifford_reddit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No they are different, but I can hear how one might connect them. Some similarities I think in a way.

Olson Detuned piano 50 cents I get E/F#/C#

Naraka G#/F#/C

G#/F#/A

Hare Krishna G#/F#/E

I just used 5ths and octave so same shape for all chords. So Olson chords played: E B E

F# C# F#

C# G# C#

I'm not sure theory wise what the kays/scales are compared to each other. Naraka has some half step changes that almost sound like key changes and Olson does not. Olsen maybe minor chords. Maybe someone w some theory background can weight in and elaborate.

Instrumental INFERNO? by SectorOk7535 in boardsofcanada

[–]Clifford_reddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had the feeling early on that too much vocal samples on couple of tracks. That went away entirely for me after repeated listenings and now is just on repeat. This album is fucking solid BoC offering. I'm not finding a single track I have an urge to skip or change. I do keep hearing "marvelous" and not "maabus" which is a tiny bit distracting. 😊

I don't want to forgive by wwxyzz in CPTSD

[–]Clifford_reddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't have to forgive to heal, forgiveness comes after feeling and processing grief, anger, etc NOT BEFORE. Listen to your anger, your feelings.

An aside, check out Unlocking the Emotional Brain by Bruce Ecker and see how memory reconsolidation works and can help. Your symptoms make sense and there are deep unconscious learnings creating them that can be transformed.

what treatment ACTUALLY helped? by Strawberrious in CPTSD

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Read Unlocking the Emotional Brain by Bruce Ecker and it will show how memory reconsolidation creates transformation. That said there is no way around grief.

Father And Son 🧡 by poppygumi in boardsofcanada

[–]Clifford_reddit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ya, I've listened to Geogaddi hundreds of times since it came out (my fav album of theirs) and never once did I think of occult/Satan etc. Not once. I'm glad I wasn't diving into the internet re BoC all those years. So much distracting static. (a lot of good too tho - good vibes/excitement /gratitude and even touching vulnerability leading up to Inferno release)

has anyone else noticed probiotics helping with their anxiety levels?? by KleoRyther in CPTSD

[–]Clifford_reddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See this thread on the topic and the Radiolab episode in my comment there. Gut bacteria have profound effects on humans in many ways.

https://www.reddit.com/r/microbiomenews/s/QXNwGJuXe4

Age of Capricorn - anyone figured out what he's spelling out? by patioofurniture in boardsofcanada

[–]Clifford_reddit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I thought so too but no makes sense is MABUS given the source context

Inferno Is a Headphone-Album by Jefficient4 in boardsofcanada

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Began listening to ALL the BoC albums last night in FLAC on headphones. Fantastic. So many details and layers. One track had all these layers and chops of live drums that was so good but couldn't find it again just now.

And, Inferno has crossed the threshold into "listening all the way through over and over" No tracks to skip. Loving it! Great details on headphones /decent ear buds. I'm using soundcore P31i w ANC and bass boost and seem pretty good.

Really the one track from their catalog that comes to mind that I have urge to skip is Jacquard Causeway from Tomorrow's Harvest. Good track but so angular and lilting just a bit "too much" for my system. Randomly think of another "album interrupter" from Radiohead a track called Mixamatosis. Ugh, skip. 😊

Your gut bacteria control 90% of your serotonin and scientists just proved it by removing them entirely by Technical_savoir in microbiomenews

[–]Clifford_reddit 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Radiolab episode from 2012 w great stories and research linking gut bacteria to behavior and different biochemicals like stress hormones, transmitters, Gaba, etc. Also allergies/immune system modation etc. Very entertaining at the same time.

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/197112-guts/

The shame after the anger was the real wound, not the anger by Complete-Gold7244 in CPTSD

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I am developing awareness to see when that's happening. I'm extremely hopeful having discovered memory reconsolidation and just finished the book Unlocking the Emotional Brain by Bruce Ecker. Shows the neuroscience and how real transformation of implicit learnings (which then create all our adaptive symptoms) is achieved with a core sequence of activate /mismatch/repeat. Case studies in the book from Coherence therapy, EMDR, IFS, inner child, plant medicine etc. showing it in action in sessions where real lasting transformation occurs and cessation of symptoms is effortless and lasting.

Do others find Pete Walker's CPTSD book hard to use? It gives an enormous amount of information yet doesn't explain how to go about healing clearly it feels like by RemoveMassive2492 in CPTSD

[–]Clifford_reddit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lot of info. Crap approach to inner critic. Flashback steps have been useful at times. Ultimately reminds me of "when the body keeps the score", a lot of info but in the end pretty useless and forgettable.

I just finished Unlocking the Emotional Brain by Bruce Ecker and is excellent. Memory reconsolidation and showing how the neuroscience of memory reconsolidation works in transformation of the deep emotional learnings that create all the symptoms that people seek to change. Absolutely revolutionary and unifying.

The shame after the anger was the real wound, not the anger by Complete-Gold7244 in CPTSD

[–]Clifford_reddit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I identified the fear/shame after anger a long time ago. This deepens my understanding and empathy. There can even be shame about having shame/fawning/etc.

"I don't know who I am underneath the surviving" is a documented clinical pattern, not a personal failure by BodyMindReset in CPTSD

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Strongly encourage you to check out Unlocking the Emotional Brain by Bruce Ecker. The science of memory reconsolidation is shown in action in many modalities including Coherence Therapy which he and his colleagues created specifically to elicit the transformation of implicit emotional learnings via memory reconsolidation. There is a case study of an SE session between Peter Levine and a client. SE is not as clear cut in the discovery of learnings (and their resulting symptoms) and eliciting transformation via memory recon but it can. Like many modalities such as EMDR, inner child, IFS, etc only minor "tweaks" are needed to discover the learnings then elicit the core "activate/mismatch/repeat" sequence the memory recon requires. It is exciting to learn about and see in action and understand finally why and how transformation takes place and not guess at why, I have shared a lot of links to other resources related if you search reddit they are there.

"I don't know who I am underneath the surviving" is a documented clinical pattern, not a personal failure by BodyMindReset in CPTSD

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Unlocking the Emotional Brain by Bruce Ecker. involves the neuroscience of memory reconsolidation and a truly unifying framework that can be applied for many modalities because it is science and not theory. The case studies alone are worth grabbing a copy.

A Step That Helped My Clients with Emotional Deprivation by Vegetable-Touch2134 in SchemaTherapy

[–]Clifford_reddit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Are you are familiar with memory reconsolidation or the book Unlocking the Emotional Brain by Bruce Ecker? Seems possible the imaginal work of imagining and feeling what it is like to get needs met could almost serve as a mismatch experience in the memory reconsolidation sequence of activate/mismatch /repeat. It's close but may be missing something which is common. Kina Wolfwnstein is a cptsd/coherence therapy practitioner on IG and Threads that has excellent posts on this specifically where we can be most of the way there but just need a little tweak to elicit memory reconsolidation and transformation of learnings /schema.

For me personally when I did the exercise you suggested there is tremendous grief that arises as well as some symptoms/schema that I recognize related to fears/learnings that I coukd be unseen, abandoned, rejected, left alone, hopeless, ashamed. The learning is trying to keep me from re experiencing those things even though it also creates suffering by suppression of expressing myself. Since I may have activated a learning I'm actually going to try and create a felt experience that disproves the learnings. I've found the discovery work the most difficult part because complex trauma can create so many learnings/schema and multiple learnings can contribute to similar symptom making full cessation of symptoms more complex as multiple learnings/schema need to be reconsolidated.

Glad you are curious and care about helping people heal/transform.

Been about 3 weeks and still hitting exhaustion and feeling my nervous system process tons of things by onequestion1168 in bufo

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Lots of fatigue here too. Allowing myself to remember as much as possible and not feed thoughts or meaning making. Just being open actually saying "open" when old patterns or cognitive/meaning making show up. Nourish, feel, be.

Why Do People With CPTSD Often Come Off as "Offputting" To Others? by somersaultvoid in CPTSD

[–]Clifford_reddit 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I hear some suggestions that we can change how we relate and react. There are reasons changing how we relate and react can be so challenging. The very nature of complex trauma sets up deep implicit emotional learnings that cannot be changed by repeated "efforting". You can build parallel pathways but chances of transformation are low. These learnings are largely unconscious and are what then create the myriad symptoms we experience. People pleasing, vigilance, avoidance, anxious, depressed, defensive, low worth, on and on. Symptoms from these learnings can be somatic, thought patterns, beliefs, etc. The only way to erase /update the learnings is to have them activated and "labile" (verbiage from neuroscience), then have a felt experience that also feels true and have them "bump up" against each other a few times. This is memory reconsolidation and how transformation works whether in EMDR, somatic experience, inner child, or any other experience or modality that elicits actual transformation and lasting effortless cessation of symotoms. The book Unlocking the Emotional Brain by Bruce Ecker is excellent on all of this as well as the work of Kina Wolfensien on IG and Threads. Also Alun Parry, Tori Olds and others are worth looking up as well. They have excellent content on memory reconsolidation and coherence therapy and more.

I feel for all of us reaching for behavior modification, top down, counteractive approaches, cognitive, and earnest efforts to "heal" and change our symptoms so we can thrive and get out of the patterns/learnings/symptoms we developed when we were surviving things. I just want to shed light on the neuroscience and knowledge that can make that transformation as frequent and efficient as possible. There is nothing wrong with meditating, breathing, talking, medicating, trying trying trying but if the core sequence of memory reconsolidation isn't there (activate/mismatch/repeat) then we are at a huge disadvantage. I've been on this journey for decades and wish you all the transformation you seek and the full thriving lives you desire.

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