self relationship & exploration
how we experience, relate with, & feel about ourselves. self-realization, self-knowledge, self-awareness, self-esteem.
self relationship & exploration
i talked to a friend yesterday about an insecurity he feels w singing
when he gets really into a performance, he fears that his ears don't work as well; he glosses over half-steps or inadvertently changes keys
so i shared a take that i think could help someone in ANY art form:
hart the phoenixx.com
Before you begin meditating, it’s really helpful to adopt a permissive attitude towards your current state: however I am right now, it is fine. I like reminding myself that I don’t need to do anything to receive sensation—the universe will keep on being the universe, and interesting data will come to me, I don’t have to force anything. This can... See more
Sasha Chapin • What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Starting a Meditation Practice
Second, you possess even more imperfect knowledge of who you will be in the future. Consider, for a moment, what your life today would be if you were to dictate its future contours precisely and completely at the age of ten. Absurd!
Eigenrobot • You Are Going to Fuck This Up
How I Attained Persistent Self-Love, or, I Demand Deep Okayness For Everyone
Sasha Chapinsashachapin.substack.comLife in Weeks | Create a map of your life with each week as a little box.
lifeweeks.app
Growing up, we turn to our parents, friends, teachers, and communities for guidance like our lives depend on it. Because it does. We have no idea yet how to live, how to learn, how to dress, how to be. Through being explicitly told what to do and implicitly observing what we should do, we learn to earn love and acceptance by living in accordance... See more
Cissy Hu • A lifetime of should-ing
we don’t have time to understand everything