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Atmar's avatar

GNM is based on a sound principle that yes our psychology impacts our health and body greatly but other than that it is a deeply flawed model and approach on many levels both in diagnosis and treatment. It consistently has spectacular failures on both fronts that far outweigh any successes. Psychosomatics is still in its infancy. I have been in the trenches in this space for many years. Practitioners of GNM virtually all greatly overstate its capacity and cherrypick their success stories while not adequately representing those who were not meaningfully helped. The success stories also don’t usually have adequate controls for other variables and so they typically cannot be ascribed to GNM anyways at which point the success rate becomes very questionable…

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Man, this post hits deep. It’s wild how location subtly rewires our entire way of being... sleep, consumption, even self-worth. The part about ‘not needing much’ really resonated. There’s a reason so many high-performance cultures (from monks to deep thinkers) embrace simplicity. Also, your point about AI in consciousness work is fascinating. Feels like AI is moving from optimizing the external (productivity, work, efficiency) to optimizing the internal (awareness, growth, self-reflection). Looking forward to seeing how your AI consciousness project evolves.

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