Seeds of Stasis
Stasis is usually described with a negative connotation, but I am seeking it out after an intense period of burnout. I want to know its shape, its limits and its hues.
Seeds of Stasis
16/11/25
Estar en estasis, corriendo este maratón. Me quiero recuperar de este atropello. Quiero estar en silencio conmigo sin sentir vergüenza, hasta a solas me superviso. Todo lo que corro, oculto, entierro para poder descansar de las miradas que viven en mi interior. Ahora soy mi propio padre. Parpadea, uno, dos. ¿Estás en estasis papá? ¿Puedo
... See more“Life is ceaseless movement; stability is found in balance, not rigidity.”
— Neil Theise, Notes on Complexity
For me, harmonizing with the trouble is not to find perfect synchronicity or balance, but to move and be moved into a trans-contextual dance of aliveness . It is to become sensually intimate with the push and pull, the tension and release, the agony of death and the joy of living that exists in each moment – with each in-breath and out-breath. As... See more
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Lisa Olivera • Ten things, part five
Art constitutively thwarts immediacy, urgency, and utility; its most direct use rests in this indirection—but today’s immediatist art aspires to void itself, and theory has been following in its wake.
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I HATE the social media trend of making people feel like any state other than regulation is a bad thing. True regulation is the ability to transition between states, not get stuck in a perpetual false state of so called calm behavior. AND moments of true dysregulation can wake us up to the world and our place in it. All of your humanness is... See more
instagram.comThe human body employs hundreds of feedback loops to keep your blood pressure, body temperature, glucose levels, calcium levels, and many other processes at a stable equilibrium.
James Clear • The Paradox of Behavior Change
The natural tendency of life is to find stability. In biology we refer to this process as equilibrium or homeostasis.