David Chapman’s post on vajrayana [yidam practice](# Yidams: a godless approach, naturally!) (aka deity yoga)
“Your life is built on memes”
As Simon put it:
Your life is essentially built on memes. Memes are easily repeatable phrases with a deep lore of meaning behind them. That is also what a spell is: You say it often enough and it actually starts forming your world.
What to do
Telling your story skillfully
It’s a good idea, when constructing your life story, to construct it skillfully
I have a tendency to be very self-deprecating (so much so that someone recently got angry at me and was like “it hurts us when you do this!!“)
Same facts, opposite conclusions
As Jess says - “I made up a few stories about myself that had the same life facts but totally opposite conclusions and realised a super power”
Fabricate stories
You can use Ideal Parent Figure Protocol to fabricate new, ideal parents. You can use deity yoga to “become” a god (I haven’t tried this and imagine that’s not quite what you’re doing)
You can also write an alternative life history, which could help with the Ideal Parent Figure stuff maybe, because you’re like… getting to know them/making them more real, via fiction
E.g. this tweet by this cool dude
Why do it?
For me → my default story is fairly sad, self-deprecating, etc. I think it should be pretty easy actually to reframe it to like “actually everything I did make some kinda of sense, I was doing the best I could” etc, and this would unlock a lot of self-care, rather than self-criticism, which would be amazing
Recently I had a very brief romantic spark with a very lovely woman and she diagnosed that my primary and only problem is a lack of confidence in myself, that is, low self-worth/not seeing my worth. So yeah, if I want to not fumble another absolute baddie, it’s time to get this shit sorted
Narrative therapy
Someone in the comments named this as narrative therapy (I really liked Jess’ reply lmao):
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