awareness
the breadth of things you are able to notice in any given moment - Michael Ashcroft
Supritha S and
awareness
“We’re pretty good at allowing our incorrect certainties to slowly fade into the background, without a crisis or reckoning. We gradually move on, now even more certain about the other things we’re certain of.
Resilience can be found by holding onto our certainties just a little less tightly. One way to do that is to remember just how often the old ones fade away.”
learn to notice what’s happening with your broad awareness of the space around you. I’ve written before about the idea that awareness—the breadth of things you are able to notice in any given moment—can expand and collapse. Collapsed awareness is like tunnel vision, where there’s a sense that the wider world around you goes away while the thing... See more
Michael Ashcroft • How to Make Unfixated Choices
Addictions are attempts to attain bliss without releasing defensive patterns.
Dr. Steven Brownlowtwitter.comThe lowest level of choice is not making a conscious choice at all, which happens when you don’t notice that you even could make a choice. In this case there is effectively no space between stimulus and response, so you just act out your habitual behavior unconsciously. If you ever find yourself skimming the news or looking in the fridge without... See more
Michael Ashcroft • How to Make Unfixated Choices
No amount of productivity will quench our inner fears about self-worth and helplessness.
Leo Babautatwitter.comStuff happens. Your stories about it determine whether it’s manageable or not.
Dr. Steven Brownlowtwitter.comSpontaneity is great but life is just easier and everything goes far better when we have protocols.
Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.twitter.com
It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling responsible for other people's emotions, reactions, and inner turmoil. We have an innate desire to be understood and accepted. So when others seem upset with us, judge us, or want us to change, we leap to explain, rationalize, and pacify. But in our quest to please or appease, we often lose ourselves.... See more
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