How to Embrace Shadow Futures with Mindfulness
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How to Embrace Shadow Futures with Mindfulness
want to help you create a more balanced mindset between hopes and worries for the future. At the Institute for the Future, we call this using your positive imagination and your shadow imagination
Jane McGonigal • Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything—Even Things That Seem Impossible Today
The unwanted and the shadow imagination are real and necessary parts of our inner landscape. They’re wisdom, dipped in discomfort. When teaching mindfulness, I’ve noticed people either move away from their unwanteds or get sucked into them. Those who move away have conditioned themselves to avoid what they don’t want to hear, see, feel, or think. T... See more
Mary Martin • IFTF - How to Embrace Shadow Futures with Mindfulness
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To move past the dark shadows of existential threats such as COVID-19, climate crises, and economic inequality, futurists must embrace an obligation to insist that things can get better.
Medium • Welcome to Terranascient Futures Studies & Foresight
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Devise a plan for embracing and integrating your shadow self, acknowledging and working with aspects of your personality that are often hidden or suppressed, to achieve a more holistic self-understanding."
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When we feel stressed, anxious, irritated, or angry, one of the things that happens to the mind is that it shrinks down and zooms in on the challenge at hand—the stressful moment, the emotion we don’t want to feel. There’s a researcher, Andrew Huberman at Stanford, who calls this “the soda straw view” of the mind. This is the view of stress. When w
... See moreNate Klemp • A 12-Minute Meditation to Widen Your Perspective
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We need to grip our anxieties head on and force ourselves to imagine what might happen if their vague catastrophic forebodings truly came to pass: what would happen to us if everything we are dimly worried about really came to pass? What are the real dangers? How might we still be OK, even if it all fell apart? Entertaining the most extreme consequ
... See moreThe School of Life • Self-Knowledge (Essay Books)
The only self-defense against unwanted telepathy is to fully embody your own reality. Much of the awareness of what you need to struggle with—past, present, and future—comes to you when you embody your own reality. So you need to muster the courage to direct your intuition to integrate this information and commit all of your senses to resolving the
... See moreLaura Day • How to Rule the World from Your Couch
Collectively, we also need pictures of societal futures that go beyond today’s status quo. They complement but do not replace the necessary work of activism that fights against the injustices of the present. We also need new answers to new problems—the vulnerabilities caused by a more connected world, or by potentially lethal artificial intelligenc
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