I cried more after I left my job and my daily work/commute cycle and felt better for it. melted away tension from my face and body
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Guy on left was too trapped/stuck to cry. Emotionally constipated
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scrolling through my youtube videos and I can see a huge difference in the muscular tension in my face
same hoodie, same macbook camera, similar lighting conditions... holy shit twitter.com/visakanv/statu…
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> how to release your Emotional constipation
I’d buy that book. The analogy is really good
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the origins of "emotional constipation" on twitter, as far as i know (although it's a term i heard and used irl previously):
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Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean @meditationstuff and @QiaochuYuan
Digging into this, the metaphor of emotional constipation / being regular / diarrhoea is both memorable and just seems kinda *right*, right?2
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Oh sweet it came from my friends riffing... it’s so so precise I absolutely love it. Filled up with stuck emotion that needs discharging...
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i bet TCM has all sorts of wild valuable stuff. i wonder if it works better on chinese people specifically too. something to look into at some point
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singaporean: *has literally any problem*
TCM uncle: ah, you very heaty. drink this cooling drink. stop eating all the heaty food
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girlfriend problem? your boss don’t respect you? back pain? money no enough? aiya, too much heaty that’s why
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y'know what like maybe he right tho
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