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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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In general, I think the causes are a) external feedback signs (something you try works, giving you more confidence) and b) intellectual choices being made. The *consequences* are physical and cognitive postures which have the characteristics you describe.
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Haha, fair challenge. My view is not one of mind-over-matter, but mind and matter are the same process, actually. The causation can appear to go both ways, because they are both expressions of the same thing. Change in body posture can change mental posture, and vice versa.
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