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🤔 hmm interesting thought but I’m not sure I buy this entire;y... they’re definitely overlapping but not co-extensive. I’ve held and worked from a great mental posture while slouched physically, and vice versa.
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Poor physical posture and poor mental posture are actually caused by the same thing, which is a kind of 'checking out' - like when you come back to yourself and ask "where was I just now?" So signs might general pattern of tension or 'holding' (doing). twitter.com/m_ashcroft/sta
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it's easier to detect shifts than to characterize them, for example, going from whining/complaining about an unexpected shitty thing I have to deal with to just deciding to deal with it. That one would kinda fit your thesis. Usually physical posture changes follow.
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I might frame this as: - in whiny mode, the idea that you might be able to just deal with it is outside your awareness (compressed). You are 'stuck' in whiny mode. - for some reason your awareness expands to include 'just doing it', which then becomes available to you as a choice
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"for some reason" is doing too much work in your analysis above :D I'd put the causation in mind-over-matter terms. You're always aware in the abstract of whiny-vs-deal as intellectual options. When you commit or switch, somatic changes *follow*. I think we differ on causation.
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