Stella
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Stella
I believe I am being confronted with this impossible task: making a perfect idea into a perfect creation . What I fail to recognise is that the idea only seems perfect precisely because it has no counterpart in reality .
giulia spadoni riva • you love your potential too much
Some nights, if I let myself lean too far into this thought, it becomes difficult not to imagine that the real crisis is not ecological or economic or geopolitical, but imaginative, a global atrophy of the capacity to conceive futures that diverge meaningfully from the present.
Dreaming while the world burns, Museguided.
Este año concretamente, todos nos hemos roto en mayor o menor medida. Ciertos mecanismos de humanidad y empatía no han tenido más remedio que estallar como el cristal, hacerse añicos, para que pudiéramos seguir manteniendo un simulacro de normalidad. Ese sonido delicado se ha dejado oír una y otra vez en el interior del cuerpo. Se nos ha fracturado
... See moreIt all comes back. Perhaps it is difficult to see the value in having one’s self back in that kind of mood, but I do see it; I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m... See more
Joan Didion • On Keeping A Notebook
Why Isn’t Art Counted Among Necessities?
The answer might be simple: we’ve forgotten. Art is so embedded into the fabric of life that we no longer see it. It’s in the curves of a chair, the logo on a soup can, the story behind a song. But because we don’t always call it “art,” we forget to recognize it as such.
Worse, we’ve been conditioned to see... See more
The answer might be simple: we’ve forgotten. Art is so embedded into the fabric of life that we no longer see it. It’s in the curves of a chair, the logo on a soup can, the story behind a song. But because we don’t always call it “art,” we forget to recognize it as such.
Worse, we’ve been conditioned to see... See more
Art as A Necessity: Rethinking the Fundamentals of Human Survival
Some studies are beginning to show that burnt-out patients may have not only psychological burnout, but also physiological burnout: a flattened cortisol response and inability to respond to any stress with even a slight burst of cortisol. In other words, chronic unrelenting stress can change the stress response itself. And it can change other... See more
The Science of Stress and How Our Emotions Affect Our Susceptibility to Burnout and Disease
The nervous system and the hormonal stress response react to a stimulus in milliseconds, seconds, or minutes. The immune system takes parts of hours or days. It takes much longer than two minutes for immune cells to mobilize and respond to an invader, so it is unlikely that a single, even powerful, short-lived stress on the order of moments could... See more
The Science of Stress and How Our Emotions Affect Our Susceptibility to Burnout and Disease
Every minute of the day and night we feel thousands of sensations that might trigger a positive emotion such as happiness, or a negative emotion such as sadness, or no emotion at all: a trace of perfume, a light touch, a fleeting shadow, a strain of music. And there are thousands of physiological responses, such as palpitations or sweating, that... See more
The Science of Stress and How Our Emotions Affect Our Susceptibility to Burnout and Disease
By parsing these chemical intermediaries, we can begin to understand the biological underpinnings of how emotions affect diseases...... See more
The same parts of the brain that control the stress response ... play an important role in susceptibility and resistance to inflammatory diseases such as arthritis. And since it is these parts of the brain that also