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
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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.
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... See moreI’ve been teaching creative writing for many years. And teaching writing is a weird thing, because it’s not just about helping students master a subject. It’s really about helping them discover what stories they’re meant to tell, how best to tell those stories, and how to overcome the inhibitions that inevitably arise when we seize the mantle of... See more
Steve Almond Tells Us
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Saved this in 2020….
Mentioning machines understanding us better than we understand ourselves. Maybe that is because we do not understand ourselves very well and we have relied too much on machines for that understanding. We increasingly do. Tell me how many steps I took, how deep I have been sleeping…what to do if I am not sleeping. Not saying there cannot be very valuable knowledge gained this way, but if we ignore the other ways that we come to know things of course we will lag behind and will be easily manipulated. One of the big spriritual questions often asked as a form of inquiry is ‘Who am I’, and right now when we ask that question we often turn to machines to answer it. What do I do instead you might say? Humans managed to survive (with fewer comforts you might argue, but also more content in many ways) for a long time without machines. If there isn’t a machine when you ask ‘Who am I’, what comes up? What do your emotions tell you about this? What do the trees say? What do the bugs say? What does your skin say? There are so many answers that have nothing to do with machines and this is a form of intelligence. To have any chance at not being hollowed out by machines we need to turn to this other intelligence and start giving it the value it has in our lives. It comes before machines. It is older and wiser and we would not be here without it.
Interoceptive awareness also has existential dimensions. It creates awareness of our self as a body and provides us with an integrated sense of self.
Interoception provides us with a basic sense of self. The insula (the interoception center of the... See more
"Interoception gives us the sense that "this is me; this is my body; this is how I feel" -Kelly Mahler
Interoception provides us with a basic sense of self. The insula (the interoception center of the... See more
Megan Anna Neff • What is Interoception?
NB re understanding others’ perspectives and relating
Want us to reckon with the layers of labelling, with the action of naming.
Oh, so you are saying the people are not real.
Nope, I am asking you to consider though what is real about them. Is it their roles, their titles, their identities? To what extent are they real?
And if not that what is real about them? What is under the layer of labelling?
Your Future ADHD Self: An ADHD-Friendly Guide to Planning and Goal Setting
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Can compliance lead to alexithymia? I (and my photobomber!) have been loving “The Gold Standard Fallacy of ABA” by Julie Roberts. It is so important that we recognize and learn about the dangers of compliance—including how it can condition a person to ignore their inner feels to earn external rewards. This conditioning to ignore inner feels can... See more
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