Kirsten
@rootyarn
Following threads of not knowing and seeing what structures they form. Delighting in the pulse of life and the moment. Trusting in living systems, the cosmos and the trip that is life.
Kirsten
rootyarn.com
Exhaustion and the way we behave under exhaustion being part of our identity and therefore hard to break out of.
Linked with habits and addictions and ‘denial or comfort hideouts’.
Feeling necessary to be exhausted to function in the system just like other forms of sedation.
It serves a purpose and is reinforced by the system and habits.
Link with
... See moreAll of this research shows that we are the great masterworks of our own storytelling minds—figments of our own imaginations. We think of ourselves as very stable and real. But our memories constrain our self-creation less than we think, and they are constantly being distorted by our hopes and dreams. Until the day we die, we are living the story of
... See moreJonathan Gottschall • The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (A. Jaffé, Ed.).
If we think that the ‘other’ is the only one who ‘needs’ to do this work, we are negating the very anatomy of psyche that belongs to every person on this planet. When we negate the presence of our shadow, we often project it onto the other and move into binaries thereby... See more
instagram.comIdea that we can leave our body behind and just exist on another plane. As selves, personalities, inside constructs we have built but all that time our bodies are the space actually creating our reality.
Could do meditation imagining not just no language, but also no body, what would we know without a body. What would we share, talk about, think
... See moreA tradeoff occurs every time you get feedback. You become slightly more mainstream, slightly more aligned with the zeitgeist. You become marginally more of an exploiter than an explorer , standing on the shoulders of the giants who conceived the paradigm you’re striving to build upon. This is very effective when you want to align your work with... See more
Leber • The Feedback Tradeoff
Yes, kinda want to do some of this with rootyarn. Own thoughts but also curating.
We think we tell stories, but stories often tell us, tell us to love or to hate, to see or be blind. Often, too often, stories saddle us, ride us, whip us onward, tell us what to do, and we do it without questioning. The task of learning to be free requires learning to hear them, to question them, to pause and to hear silence, to name them, and
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