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To have neck pain in your body is to also have neck pain in the mind. It’s a competing demand for attention, that makes us tighten the shape of our awareness to exclude, and end up excluding a lot else. https://t.co/n8gqgIZf5Z https://t.co/ljTDIVAKlP
What puts it in the same category as something like posting thirst traps and getting attention? It’s a kind of brain discomfort/expectation error, around wanting/needing more of something to feel ok, like hunger (skin hunger? attention hunger?). An itch. https://t.co/5kavBFL7tg
@Malcolm_Ocean 😳 This . . . is an unreasonably powerful explanation. I could imagine using it to also explain - why colours feel brighter after playing the Wrong Thing improv game - etc. Any time perceptual experience is altered into a state of emptiness, vibrancy, and clarity.