emotional flourishing

Emotions are co-constructed between people, and interpretations are partly individual & partly culturally mediated The idea that "everyone is responsible for their own feelings" is true, but that's not a license to disregard the effect of your behavior on others

it really is possible to massively reduce psychological/emotional suffering a.k.a what your interiority feels like all day long it’s not twitter hype, there are many ways to get to it, and it’s worth endlessly talking about so everyone who wants emotional wellbeing encounters it

we’re slow to learn because most learning is about emotions yet most of us are taught to focus on everything but emotion good learners often have great emotional/psychological management the most effective way to learn and make progress is to cultivate beautiful emotions via the process (the act) of the skill you’re learning but somehow most of... See more

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to make, to work, is a constant dance with emotions; exploring and regulating emotions is the main ‘work’ of work imo. and isn’t unknotting emotions all that inner work is as well? so, i think the divide between inner work and practical work doesn’t make sense. isn’t useful even

shinzen young’s periodic table of happiness elements. https://t.co/6YNQQpQOMl

First off you gotta learn to listen to your senses and your body — esp gut and heart rate, which can help you understand how you *actually* feel about any situation. I think a lot of people are numb, disembodied, so they find it too frictionless to talk themselves into a life they hate and out of one that fulfills them bc they can’t tell what’s act... See more

The Gift of Patience Instant relief is always at your fingertips. Want a boost? Here's some food / drugs / porn / attention. There's an app for that. There's a million apps for that. How many industries would collapse if everyone understood that you can just be with the feeling? You can just be sad or scared or angry or lonely or uncertain. Step ... See more

thoughts from today: 1. if you often struggle to do things (take action, complete tasks etc) you may have a lot of unfelt anger in you. feel the anger. express the anger. you may find you have more energy to do things with 2. a great deal of your time can be spent avoiding