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I think this account leaves out simpler forms of noticing. For example, "whiny" is not hard to notice once you learn early in life what "whiny" sounds like. Even when in bad posture you are aware "I'm being whiny" but sometimes you choose to stop, other times you don't.
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even simpler. Somebody tells you "stop whining" and you decide they're right and... do it. ie, I think mental posture is both easier to program, and can be programmed in more ways than physical posture, and physical posture can follow rather than lead for the right personality.
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So here I agree actually - certainly for a thinky person (such as yourself), it's probably easier to engage at the level of mental than physical. We're certainly more comfortable interfacing with the mental than the physical, because we've made everything mental.
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I'm getting a lot more somatically aware in my middle age out of necessity -- aches and pains and stiffness etc. are more noticeable/less ignorable now, so in a way, I'm only now, at age 46 getting the body awareness that natural athletes, dancers, actors etc probably gain at 16
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Yeah it's a shame that it takes something going wrong (pain) for us to pay attention to this. I was the same - only got into 'body work' after decades of chronic knee dislocations. Anyway, fun talking to you, and I'll leave the next tweet lightly in case of interest
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Next time you notice aches and pains, see also if you notice a kind of habitual response to them. A lot of the time we end up unconsciously 'doing' things that can make the pain stronger. It's fun to notice and explore not doing those things.
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1] A crucial skill in life is learning how not to respond to stimuli. In a minute I'm going to ask you to pick a colour. (Stimulus) . Are you already thinking about colours? (Response). I said "in a minute". Notice, without judgement, how you responded. Let's do it again.
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Thank you, that's very kind - happy to explore something that would work for ribbonfarm. Most of my journey here is actually figuring out how to communicate this stuff. This is the most accessible intro piece I've written on the core principle.
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yeah, I read that I think the last time we exchanged tweets... I mean something more general on postures, noticing, etc. the stuff we've touched on in this exchange
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Oh didn't realise - cool that you'd already seen it. The bulk of this stuff remains in tweet threads and is long overdue for proper consolidation in long form. Happy to outline something for ribbonfarm. Certainly a lot that can be said here.
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your orig article is nice as a movie appreciation thing, and learning to decode the acting of reeve and reeves, but I'm mainly interested in regular people who spend a lot of their lives at keyboards, writing, sending emails, etc etc.
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Yeah totally understood. Lots to say about this from the perspective of desk jockeys, it's just harder to use them to make the point clear. Certainly not impossible though - good challenge.
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Cool! Very exciting. Do you have any particular process you want me to follow / way of getting in touch specifically on that? Can just DM you with something when I have an outline
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