phenomenology
a philosophy of experience that seeks to explain the nature of things through the way people experience them
by Stuart Evans · updated 2mo ago
phenomenology
- And as far as I can tell, this "generalized" somatic resonance supercharges the skill-specific resonances as well. If you play an instrument, for example, try playing it regularly for a few weeks while letting yourself drop into how the music feels in the deep core of your body, how it changes the space around you, how it sparks memories, emotions,... See more
from Your Body Knows What's Obvious (and so so much can be so so obvious) by River Kenna
Stuart Evans added 3mo ago
- When you encounter a new idea, you change, and so the world changes. When you share an idea with another, they change. When you create a new idea, you restructure the ecological space of ideas itself. At each of these steps, the material world has changed, because ideas and people are part of the world. And when your ideas change so too does your e... See more
from the map is of the territory by Eigenrobot
Stuart Evans added 3mo ago
The best path to uncover our true desires lies in the body. Our embodied experience of how goals and activities feel to pursue can highlight where there’s personal resonance.
from Exploring Our Why by Sam Sager
Stuart Evans added 4mo ago
When we are simply attentive to the raw data of sensory experience, we cultivate a quality of bare attention that is free of concepts, that doesn’t make more out of something than it actually is, that doesn’t build a story around the experience or analyze the experience or imagine a different or better scenario. It is a way of being that is free fr
... See morefrom Awake in the Wild by Mark Coleman
Stuart Evans added 4mo ago
By staying with our raw sensory experience, we cease to see the world through our concepts and subsequent fears. We learn to meet our experience just as it is. A sound is just a sound; a sensation is just a sensation. Nothing more, nothing less. There is profound peace in this quality of presence.
from Awake in the Wild by Mark Coleman
Stuart Evans added 4mo ago
- “There can be no experience of the world without the experiencer and that, my dear friends, is us.”
“Before anyone can make theories or get data or have ideas about the world, there must be the raw presence of being-in-the-world. The world doesn’t appear in the abstract to a disembodied perspective floating in space… it appears to us, exactly where ... See moreStuart Evans added 4mo ago
- "There are two ways to make the world more mesmerizing: to seek out new and increasingly intense experiences, or to loosen the filters that make ordinary experience “ordinary”. You can go skydiving, or you can meditate for long enough that walking feels like skydiving. Either way, I think what we’re seeking is an escape back into what we used to be... See more
Stuart Evans added 1y ago
- We’re following instructions that weren’t meant for us, weren’t taking our phenomenology into account, weren’t a good fit for the composition of modern western bodyminds.
from What is Somatic Meditation? by River Kenna
Stuart Evans added 1y ago
- The place we generally start is with the body. Do you trust it? Are you aware of its signals? Do you know how to take your phenomenology seriously and move your finger? Ironically, putting our minds before our bodies pushes us to a default where our mental pre conceptions pre empt our direct experience. We ignore the reality before us, because it c... See more
from It's Called "Woo" Because It's Fun by Sadalsuud
Stuart Evans added 1y ago