Elspeth
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Elspeth
Pain is a real feeling, but that feeling does not necessarily reflect real damage in the body. Further, although pain depends on brain activity for its existence, this does not mean you can simply think pain away or that pain is your fault. Unfortunately, the processes which create pain are mostly unconscious and outside your control.
Todd Hargrove • A Guide to Better Movement: The Science and Practice of Moving With More Skill and Less Pain
Touch medicine: bridging the gap between recent insights from touch research and clinical medicine and its special significance for the treatment of affective disorders
“Welcome to the temple of your regular life. The garden of your days, the harbor where you catch your breath, the theater of your relationships. This is the terrain where you wake up and transform. The sometimes chaotic, frequently fraught, unexpectedly beautiful domain of the everyday. You do not need to trek to a remote shrine in the Himalayas,... See more
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"The brain is a fantastic organ. It is a purveyor and the generator of fantasies—including the fantasy that I am me and that I have a body."
—Karl Friston
—Karl Friston
Building Resilience and Flexibility in Your Brain
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The people I admire most have a way of escaping the bubble of culture. Sometimes via religion; sometimes via old books; sometimes via time in nature. Without such an escape, propaganda wins. You stop thinking for yourself. Modern delusions grow into an all-consuming mind virus.
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