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piggy backing on the shoulders of giants DMs warmly welcomed :D

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Pablo Alakobar@the_popemichael·
You've never met a woman who's simply just obsessed with the idea of you. Not love, not desperation. Just simply the idea of you. They'd simp so intensely for you. Then when you don't give the same energy back, watch that become hate. So much hate that they can hurt you. They'd say mean things because the have to compensate for all the "simping" they did. Because they thought they loved you. But they didn't. Just the idea of you. Now, they hate themselves for doing so, then hate you in return. As a man, that's a terrible place to be.
Naomi@_afbeauty_

Are there men that have experienced a woman being a simp for them or it is only men that simp?

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Ideas Guy
Ideas Guy@nosilverv·
Things I'm increasingly convinced are mind viruses*: — The spread of pop psychology and subsequent casual self- and other- psychologization — Scientism, making people replace their phenomenology and received tradition with the fake precision of scientific speech — "Theory of change": the idea you need a THEORY to do things * = meaning beliefs that (1) disempower you and (2) spread from person to person
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Daemonic 🤑@daemonhugger·
Deep Spontaneity I had been an extremely active kid, but after college I became deeply disembodied. I was spending my days ghostwriting as other people, socially anxious and unable to participate in meetings, going home and processing everything in writing afterward. I hated that. I wanted to be engaged in the moment. Thanks to @vgr I discovered Impro by Keith Johnstone and had what I can only describe as an intellectually orgasmic experience while reading it in a Starbucks in 2017. I got into improv. Then I found Meisner acting, which is based on a simple but powerful idea: acting is living truthfully under imaginary circumstances. I went from one of the most introverted people at St. John's to people thinking I was the most outgoing person in the room. I also learned to cry. Not perform crying. Actually cry. In public. That was huge for me. I had been feeling like I needed to cry for years by that point, but couldn’t. The whole experience drove home how disembodied I'd become. I realized I wanted to use my voice more, so I bought a voice recorder and started dictating my journals instead of writing. Talking nonstop for 20-minutes to an hour every morning. The voice gets to things the keyboard doesn't. Nowadays I barely write. I think out loud.
Daemonic 🤑@daemonhugger

More than money or marketing, more than Internal Family Systems or Gendlin or Focusing, my main interest in life is the cultivation of Deep Spontaneity. Not impulsiveness. Not randomness or chaos. Not "making shit up." True spontaneity, as Keith Johnstone describes it.

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Daemonic 🤑@daemonhugger·
Focusing as meta-theory Most people who've heard of Gendlin seem to treat Focusing as one modality among many. As something to add to your toolkit alongside IFS or Somatic Experiencing or CBT. I think that’s the wrong way to look at it. To me, Gendlin built the meta-theory behind all therapeutic work. His process philosophy (the “philosophy of the implicit” as he calls it) is the framework within which every modality either works or doesn't. At UChicago Gendlin teamed up with Carl Rogers and began asking the question: what is actually happening when therapy is successful? As @nosilverv described in his Reach Truth interview, after analyzing thousands of hours of therapy recordings, Gendlin and Rogers realized that the clients who got better were the ones who stumbled. Who tried to say something, found it wasn't quite right, and tried again. The people who were successful in therapy were checking their words against their bodies. Everyone else was recounting stories and insights they already knew. Their words were articulate but, in a sense, empty. Focusing is the essential sub-process that allows you to check whether something is genuinely happening, whether you're spinning wheels intellectually or actually moving. You can do CBT, IFS, shadow work, psychoanalysis — whatever — in a way that never actually touches you. Or you can bring focusing to any approach and check. Peter Levine credited Gendlin for giving him the language on which he built Somatic Experiencing. I think that’s an understatement.
Daemonic 🤑@daemonhugger

I wanted to end by just making some suggestions of other people that I think are really deserving of this award. And the [first] — one of the people that was just mentioned — is Eugene Gendlin. Gene... gave us a language to talk about what we were doing. — @peteralevine

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Daemonic 🤑
Daemonic 🤑@daemonhugger·
Money as a final frontier I've been watching this pattern online for years. People who have done serious inner work — IFS, Core Transformation, Focusing, somatic practice, meditation – often have gone deep in many of the richest territories of human life: love, sex, the body, death, meaning, etc. But almost never money. The therapy world generally avoids it (though that’s changing slowly with Financial Therapy). The spiritual world avoids it as something dirty and materialistic. And then the finance world avoids the emotional, psychological, spiritual and relational human dimensions, instead prioritizing numbers, logic and spreadsheets. Very few people are looking at economic experience from the inside. But something I’ve come to believe more and more is that change is a byproduct of that kind of awareness. People often start with the frame that there’s something wrong, something irrational or nonsensical about themselves that needs to be changed. My take is that the real work is attention and recognition. Witnessing. Seeing the truth of the existing reality and the larger context in which these particular phenomena are taking place. The avoidance, the anxiety, the self-contradictions are real. Something true is already being expressed. Because ultimately our thoughts, feelings and actions are accurate responses to real conditions. And the work is to understand the conditions. I try to create a space where people can finally get curious: what do I actually think about money? What did I learn from my parents and culture? What do I genuinely want? How am I treating money? And how is it treating me? Because usually we don’t actually want money itself. And it’s often not money itself that’s blocking us.
Daemonic 🤑@daemonhugger

Money And The Meaning Of Life by Jacob Needleman #booknotes

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Abstract Fairy@AbstractFairy·
makes me tempted to make a bullshit jobs meetup: you're given random work tasks, your job is to do as little of them as possible and sneak as much writing or creative work as you can
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Abstract Fairy@AbstractFairy·
me at work: so many things i want to write about me at home:
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Abstract Fairy@AbstractFairy·
theosis yidam practice 🤝
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Eden
Eden@EedenEnne·
I used to do this bit when people would try to get me to validate their sketchy decisions where I’d ask “what does your conscience say?” and they would get SO ANGRY
owen cyclops@owenbroadcast

two principles about anger someone explained to me are: if your family smokes, and you stop smoking, they’ll get mad at you. and: if you tell someone else they have agency when they have a problem, they’ll get mad at you. this completely reframed my conception of what anger is.

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owen cyclops@owenbroadcast·
two principles about anger someone explained to me are: if your family smokes, and you stop smoking, they’ll get mad at you. and: if you tell someone else they have agency when they have a problem, they’ll get mad at you. this completely reframed my conception of what anger is.
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Justin Skycak
Justin Skycak@justinskycak·
A prerequisite gap often does not announce itself as a prerequisite gap. Rather, it announces itself as boredom, anxiety, and mysterious resistance.
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The Hapful Man
The Hapful Man@Hapless23·
Once for a tweet that ended up getting 1 like I went through 30 years of an old out of print magazine to verify a quote. I cannot fathom having this mindset.
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Lulie
Lulie@reasonisfun·
One of the main issues I have with critical rationalism (or its Deutschian variant) is that it ignores almost to the point of denying subjective states. Its proponents say the brain is a universal computer. When they do, it’s often in the context of denying that physical differences between people can affect their mind. No interest in meditation or phenomenology. An explicit aversion to subjective states, saying that’s psychology, and what Popper/Deutsch is interested in is the logic of science. They say qualia is a problem for consciousness, but don’t go into why that matters or what the problem really means. But hormones and other physical events noticeably affect thinking on a daily basis. It’s harder to think when hungry. Different thoughts appear in mind when at different times of one’s cycle. Exercise affects thinking. Pain affects thinking. Age affects thinking. We aren’t abstract computers that are divorced from our physical body. This isn’t even controversial: you can check!
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