Maria J

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Emotional regulation is the process of experiencing an emotion, allowing the sensations to pass through the body (rather than trying to distract oneself with, say, drugs or alcohol or an iPhone or food), identifying it (‘I am angry right now’ or ‘I am sad’), and breathing through it until it eventually passes. The practise of emotional regulation

Nicole LePera • How To Do The Work: Recognise Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self

Emotions

Here is a process that a shaman lady I know has for reckoning with suppressed anger. Interestingly I find this much more effective than the "hit things while screaming route" which actually now seems like a way to AVOID fully feeling one's rage https://t.co/28XAUD0uA2

Tyler Alterman

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Emotions

Healing. Emotions are messengers

Nothing determines what real suffering is except your mind; there is no other test.

Sasha Chapin • How I Wish Trauma Had Been Explained to Me

Emotions

Nothing determines what real suffering is except your mind; there is no other test.

Reminders for myself

Reflecting on this email from a Sublime believer:

Consuming media has become a massive time-suck for humankind. Only decades ago, the average person had one source of information, if any — the newspaper. Journalists chronicled happenings relevant to their community. And that was it. Someone got married, someone is selling their house, someone died,

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Lyrics

I don't write, write the rules

Don't follow you

And the strangeness, it all works

Let it swallow you

See me (It's all a hoax)

See me (Play along)

I'm funny (It's just a joke)

For real (You're not wrong)

See me (It's all a hoax)

See me (You can call it a joke)

I'm funny (Play along)

For real (It isn't wrong)

Funny Music

Funny Music

I'm funny for real

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Funny Musici - Gelli Haha

The epidemic of constant communication

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“We are living in an epidemic of constant communication. Love, once measured by presence and understanding, is now quantified by response times and message frequency. Love shouldn’t be a quiet battle over who cares more. It should be felt in the spaces between words, in the trust that lingers even in silence–even miles apart. The right person won’t demand proof of love; they’ll know it’s there–unspoken but unwavering.”