In fact, attention is a pretty critical unit: - Where your attention goes, your energy goes - your body and brain resources go in tandem - The quality of your attention is the quality of your engagement with the world Give good attention, you tend to get it back.
-
Show this thread
-
The discourse on "why meditate" often stops at creating calm, or reducing stress This misses so much richness...
It also confines meditation to discrete space for calm. Rather than a skill, useful in *everyday practice* ...
A muscle you build because its always useful1 reply 0 retweets 4 likesShow this thread -
Mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) is better geared into everyday life. But has similar traps. Being "mindful" feels like being hyper-conscious and cognitively engaged in our everyday actions. At worst, a performative over-overt-awareness.
1 reply 0 retweets 3 likesShow this thread -
Before I go ahead. Worth noting I have the feels that, as much as possible: 1) we should make mindfulness-type practices broadly accessible, 2) emphasis should include how they useful/are used in the daily practice, can change your real life, etc That's what drives my interest
2 replies 0 retweets 5 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @jstanotherview
chad donkey from shrek 2 Retweeted chad donkey from shrek 2
it’s easy for me get frustrated with how financially inaccessible these practices can be but i often forget how difficult it is to even discover this stuff + receive the knowledge in a legible/actionable formhttps://twitter.com/choosy_mom/status/1220468969284308994 …
chad donkey from shrek 2 added,
1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @choosy_mom @jstanotherview
incidentally though, nerdy rationalist-adjacent twitter is one of the best resources for this kind of learning—i found out about alexander technique, wu wei, impro, and a lot of other ideas right here on this birdapp
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @choosy_mom
Yeh. This part of twitter is a huge boon. For me, the best is that people will take down your bad thinking, or challenge your assumptions. I think it's the interaction (not wrote learning) that pushes up the price of many of these therapies up. And what makes them transformative
2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @jstanotherview
definitely, it’s much easier to unload specific problems and technique hangups with therapists/coaches than with twitter mutuals
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @choosy_mom
That's true. But genuinely surprised how far twitter mutuals can push thinking. In a way that just doesn't feel like *work* as per therapists/coaches. Slow drip exposure and personal opening.
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @jstanotherview @choosy_mom
Perhaps together it's an optimal (still financially tough) combination.
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.
