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Wayfinding and purpose
people need many points of contact with the natural world to be happy and AC loses a few of them
which might be OK but all the others have been lost too. In the dead of summer and winter people wear flip flops and travel in space bubble cars to space bubble buildings.
Simon Sarrisx.comToo many things to highlight in this article.
Liminal creativity can help carve a path from disorientation to discovery, from uncertainty to curiosity, from fear to innovation. It can turn scary situations into transformational experiences of self-discovery and self-authorship. In fact, life itself is a liminal space between birth and death.
Think of liminal creativity as a conscious act of venturing out of the mind's perimeter of comfort.
As comic Bruce Feiler says: “It takes about seven years to master something. If you live to be 88, after age 11, you have 11 opportunities to be great at something. Those are your lifetimes. Use them.” Do not fall prey to the self-consistency fallacy. Learn something new. Change careers. Take a risk. Reimagine your identity. Live all of your lifetimes."
Mashup of some Alexander Lowen’s clips talking about energy, feelings and breath.
For you to feel your body, something has to move. Something that doesn’t move cannot feel - it isn’t alive. it’s dead.
First, you gotta get your body alive, then sense what you feel.
You can talk about feelings all day long, but it’s an idea (in the mind) not a feeling.
Feeling is a very simple thing - it’s a sensation in the body that comes when you can sense what’s going on.
You can have good and bad feelings, but if you don’t sense you’re body you’re just a ‘disenchanted spirit’ that’s wandering around, with nowhere to go.
If you put the spirit back into the body, the body becomes more alive, and the spirit becomes more uplifted and fulfilled.
Culture is not a body culture - it’s head oriented, emphasising thinking, power and not feeling. Feeling is the last thing that enters the picture in modern life.
‘Was in therapy for 3 years - we didn’t do much talking, we did body therapy and breath’
Insanity is losing touch with your body and senses
a healthy person is really characterised by a body that’s alive, and vital. Eyes that shine, a voice that’s resonant, a manner that’s soft, a sense of grace, a courage that’s dignified, and not dominated by his ego, with a sense of humility when he talks about things.
Energy through the breath
Feelings are movement
feel an internal movement
in order for it to move there has to be energy - energy creates movement (that’s the nature of energy)
if we make the energy strong enough the movement reaches the surface, and you’re gonna have a feeling.
How do we get the energy?
You have to eat
You have to breathe - you cut of feelings by stopping the energetic process by holding your breath or diminishing your breathing
if your breathing is free and full, your energy is strong, you have strong feelings and you have to deal with them
cutting off your breathing is like slowly putting out a fire, because there’s no oxygen - now that things are cool, and calm, your mind can think.
Caminante, son tus huellas
el camino y nada más;
Caminante, no hay camino,
se hace camino al andar.
Al andar se hace el camino,
y al volver la vista atrás
se ve la senda que nunca
se ha de volver a pisar.
Caminante, no hay camino
sino estelas en la mar.
el camino y nada más;
Caminante, no hay camino,
se hace camino al andar.
Al andar se hace el camino,
y al volver la vista atrás
se ve la senda que nunca
se ha de volver a pisar.
Caminante, no hay camino
sino estelas en la mar.
ppl going through career puberty love to start substacks and startups and sigh loudly when you ask what they do
Molly Mielke McCarthyx.com
@maiaben’s cocktail of kundalini, breathwork and meditation practices to find release + manage your energy