Originally Posted by soberlicious

Samseb, one doesn't need to completely understand exactly how each part of the brain functions to be able to apply AVRT. By Trimpey's own admission, it's a very simplified model of how the brain works. The key for me was the split, because much like the Buddhist approached to dealing with hindrances, AVRT teaches the split as a technique enabling one to become the observer of the desire or craving, to stand at a distance and not act on it, but rather watch it come, watch it go.

For me, the purpose of the approach is not to actually believe there is a beast, or to think I'm literally of two separate minds, but rather a technique (the T in AVRT) for stopping a behavior. It's actually an age old technique. Trimpey tweaked this approach based on what he learned from the self-recovered population.