That's a very nuanced take. I dont take offense to using "techniques" to fix "problems".
I'm more annoyed by the usual phrasing of these things as life changing and revelatory.
I'm more annoyed by the usual phrasing of these things as life changing and revelatory.
But when they work for someone, they can and do lead to important revelations and/or life changes.
I'm a firm believer in one's ability to "reprogram" themselves, having done it to varying degrees across the span of my life. Perhaps it doesn't work for everyone. It doesn't always work for myself, especially when life makes the required self-discipline hard to maintain.
I'm biased by my own success, obviously.
Maybe it's time to unstick yourself from these patterns. Life changing and revelatory can be as much evolutionary as revolutionary. There's no need to narrow them down to their extremes.
Personally for navel-gazy articles like this I think it's more useful to focus on telling one's own story instead of making broad edicts and sprinkling in some science in an effort to lend legitimacy to them. What works for one person won't work for everyone, but "I was in X situation and did Y and it helped me" is far more likely to be helpful for someone else than simply "Do Y", especially when you're writing for a wide audience.