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sometimes you just gotta feel the feel, why? https://t.co/EGcHmFsemb
the higher cognitive space can schematise all it wants, and it’ll may only ever change thoughts to help feelings shift, one tunes into what one is actually feeling. by taking the mental move of “feel the feeling,” something non-trivial happens: https://t.co/2t4CkoghfH
it is touched, and so it can evolve https://t.co/fjIpFSQnZU
@nickcammarata @QiaochuYuan @Malcolm_Ocean @OperationMoksha @visakanv @Conaw @nibrasibn @webmasterdave There was a sense in which “I wanted a pizza.” There was a sense in which it didn’t turn to be really, but feeling into the intermediate step did non-trivial work for me.
rather than zoom past them, getting a little glimpse out yer window (👋) but never be able to hitch meaningfully because you’re moving too fast https://t.co/HmLQQANsaG
there’s a kind of stillness and non-reactivity, to thought, that allows for that meaningful hitching https://t.co/bakVvGV37I
this, what I’m calling hitching, or having touched the feel, matters, because it’s what lets the feels, instead of being cramped 😖, & trying to operating semi-autonomously from your consciousness — lets them expand into your whole consciousness & mutate https://t.co/JVi7s1qLWs
be like this cat is what im saying stroke yer feelings https://t.co/1CnZVYPXJB
that’s the informational/updating side on the healing/social side, the reason it matters for feels to be touched, is healing of social problems (or even otherwise) really best does happen when feels are touched and they can be touched . . . by ourselves.
that touch is saying, “i perceived you, i felt what you are feeling, and this is ok” tagging that feeling too as “this is tolerable. this is allowable into consciousness. this is respondable-to” https://t.co/yAQOt0Afhy
this is the conceit of IFS, or of Buddhism — the Self energy in the first, intrinsic spacious enlightenment in the second that when we approach ourselves as almost separate beings, we engage ourselves with a similar healing as if someone else who was kind did https://t.co/atBPBWeXbu
these are the central message of psychoanalysis, Focusing, or most emotional alchemical traditions that to free what wants to be freed, it must be touched. that to love what doesn’t feel loved, it must be been with https://t.co/VBX2CXa9FR
all i have to do is just feel, and continue feeling, and continue feeling. and this sense appears. my own mind starts talking to me with kindness and non-näive clarity it’s so magical. this is what it must mean to witness beginningless enlightenment
i mean, it’s a wonder we have thoughts at all. where do those come from? they just sort of do. it’s not that much further of a stretch to construe it as god, or beginningless enlightenment, or yourself. it’s the same thing https://t.co/hxwccQcDU6 https://t.co/LoV86FtmS5
(or, as in IFS, Self energy) https://t.co/zv8fMud1Jk
this is the conceit of IFS, or of Buddhism — the Self energy in the first, intrinsic spacious enlightenment in the second that when we approach ourselves as almost separate beings, we engage ourselves with a similar healing as if someone else who was kind did https://t.co/atBPBWeXbu
there actually is no such thing as an IFS-style ““Self”” — it’s a not a thing, rather it’s the emptiness of the Mind what deblending does is deblend from various form, until the emptiness of the Mind is reached, and the sparking glimmer of enlightenment glitters through the rest