slowly shifting away from "what am i feeling?" to "what do i want?" which as it turns out feels even *more* vulnerable
Conversation
Replying to
mentioned the other day that from least to most vulnerable to share, for him: thoughts, bodily sensations, feelings, wants / desires / imaginings
which resonates for me and i've been reflecting on it
1
2
48
"Suppose an eight-year-old writes a story about being chased down a mouse-hole by a monstrous spider. It'll be perceived as 'childish' and no one will worry. If he writes the same story when he's fourteen it may be taken as a sign of mental abnormality."
Quote Tweet
ironically i'm now gonna quote someone else: keith johnstone said a similar thing in impro about artists censoring their creativity out of worry about how it reflects on them, rather than e.g. seeing art as something that pours out of but doesn't belong to the artist
Show this thread
2
1
23
"We have an idea that art is self-expression - which historically is weird. An artist used to be seen as a medium through which something else operated. He was a servant of the God."
()
Quote Tweet
ironically i'm now gonna quote someone else: keith johnstone said a similar thing in impro about artists censoring their creativity out of worry about how it reflects on them, rather than e.g. seeing art as something that pours out of but doesn't belong to the artist
Show this thread
3
4
30
"Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be 'wrong'... Then we experience ourselves as 'imagining', as 'thinking up an idea', but what we're really doing is faking up the sort of imagination we think we ought to have."
Quote Tweet
ironically i'm now gonna quote someone else: keith johnstone said a similar thing in impro about artists censoring their creativity out of worry about how it reflects on them, rather than e.g. seeing art as something that pours out of but doesn't belong to the artist
Show this thread
2
4
23
oh good wrote a thread elaborating on the thought-body-feeling-wanting ladder stuff from above; worth a read, i'm gonna be chewing on this
Quote Tweet
But even more so than emotions, it seems like soul, purpose, desire can be even harder to *recognize* or *allow* in ourselves, let alone express to others.
Show this thread
1
10
"It's weird. People are weird about soul."
Quote Tweet
I’ve been paying attention to this more, when people talk about what they want, their sense of purpose, their desires, etc,
It’s weird. People are weird about soul. twitter.com/the_wilderless…
Show this thread
2
Replying to
You might like vedana-sati, which is bringing mindfulness to vedana (valence) and looks like bringing attention to whether your pre-cognitive mind has decided things are good or bad. You don’t get to choose vedana, so all you can do is attend to it. It turns it up (a lot)
1
13
The first time I tried this one day walking around for a few hours it amplified the goodness or badness of things by like 5x
2
5
Show replies
Replying to
"what does a part of me want?" feels less vulnerable to me, I think because it's more precise. to confuse these and say that I, as an integrated adult, want some silly thing, feels vulnerable because it's not totally true. A part wants it, and "I" might or might not try to get it
8
