emotional flourishing
truths, pointers and perspectives for equanimity and happiness
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emotional flourishing
"The instructions for how to Do Nothing are very short - just two sentences: let whatever happens, happen. As soon as you're aware of an intention to control your attention, drop that intention."
Shinzen Young [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ6cdIaUZCA]
Just sitting meditation. Practising being a.k.a doing nothing a.k.a no effort
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
nibras - still mostly offline - ꩜ نبراس ◡̈x.comthread
If you have a closed-off heart, and find it difficult to open yourself emotionally to other people and experiences, maybe stop running headfirst at trying to connect, and instead just take a cooking class, get way way way too into Jiu Jitsu or slavic poetry.
River Kenna • Stop Running Headfirst into Problems
The most profound shift in my relationship with emotions came when I started viewing them less as states to manage and more as visitors to host.
Each feeling arrives with its own intelligence, its own temporal logic, its own way of moving through the body.
Anxiety isn't just worry - it's a... See more
Sux.comOur external struggles with life mirror our internal struggles with integrity.
Dr. Steven Brownlowtwitter.comON GROUNDING
I think I *get* grounding now, so here goes nothing:
First, don't ask me how this works but it is just a FACT that you can shift what you identify with. The car, your phone, your VR character, the character you're playing in a play, in a game, (in life...), etc.... See more
Guy HAS FINISHED WRITING THE BOOK (BETA)x.comFirst 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... See more
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