processing really heavy emotions can be really funny and I find that really life-affirming 
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Replying to @maltybegray
This is the good stuff Humour has this weird quality doesn't it, where it can be sort of the cause and the result of letting go of taking ourselves or our concepts very seriously. Mañjuśrī wielding the balloon sword of self-existing humour
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Replying to @misen__
it is sooooo spacious. if you can just laugh a teeny bit at your feelings it’s like boom! suddenly you’re in a nice open field with them instead of all of you feeling crammed in a little phenomenal linen closet
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Replying to @maltybegray
This put a big smile on my face, delightful. Yes! And it's weird, as if the confusion has already been cut through, but we forget and dull out into a state of being very serious. You can't fake yourself into it really, but you can sort of learn how to move in that direction, open
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Replying to @misen__
clown school really taught the difference b/w upset & stubborn. in that context we were able to play w & enjoy so many feelings w/o I dunno reifying them? being recruited by them? so now when I get stubborn for an emotion there’s a real contrast, it’s not my normal anymore
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Replying to @maltybegray @misen__
I was a v serious kid! I used to really defend the things I felt bc I was more sensitive than other people so by the time I knew what my emotions were they’d been negated a lot & I was already defensive deep down about feeling in general. now I’m the Fool kids should get to be
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Replying to @maltybegray
Oh that makes sense, yeah. Nice. I like the use of stubbornness here. Being willing to play is a really helpful first move which almost anyone can make quite honestly from wherever they are, even if they don't have much skill yet (and works in a lot of contexts IME)
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Replying to @misen__
yeah I think we have some pretty enormous walls up around feeling safe but the context of play can sometimes adjust the stakes in the narrative to motivate and allow some experimentation around feelings we normally find threatening.
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I like that phrasing re: adjusting the stakes in the narrative. That sounds right to me.
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Replying to @misen__ @maltybegray
I read it as stakes (sharp bits of wood) in the narrative (an undead vampire). stake the narrative right in the heart.
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Replying to @danlistensto @misen__
oooooh the spooky vibes make it even more fun
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