Best parts of sadness: - low tolerance for my own bullshit. - seeing how quickly emotional & cognitive activity congeals into fixated attitudes - making myself laugh at the weirdness of humanity - lack of hopefulness - sweet, sticky, rice puddingy quality - enjoying it -> release
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For anyone under the impression that sadness - or any state of mind - isn't ok: 1 - actually notice the emotional flavour in your body 2 - get interested in the flavours, textures, changes 3 - notice the impulse to repress or enact 4 - remember that any state of mind is workable
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This is the basic advice that changed my cognitive frame around emotion in general. Being told that absolutely any state of mind is fundamentally workable, had a tremendous impact on my life at the time. I thought I'd share that, in case it helps someone, somewhere, sometime
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Do you mean, how did it change my cognitive frame around emotion? Or, how did it have a tremendous impact? Or, how would it help someone?
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I don't think it's that the person is making the state of mind workable, as such. But it's a powerful shift in perspective to go from 'oh this monolithic emotional sensation is undesirable and inherently bad', to 'oh this is feels hot, throbbing, stabbing, heavy, vibrating' etc.
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Of course there is a similar perspective shift to be had wrt any strand of sensation, but especially somatic emotional sensation and thinking, both visual and discursive. eg: 'this thought about x is very real and very bad', versus 'oh, thinking....so what.' (Loosely speaking)
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