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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

I notice my body still wants to do things like “Eat icecream,” almost like it’s testing “does this thing work 👀” “am I actually free to do what I want 👀” before it actually goes on to do what it wants https://t.co/bQjyXwMJLq

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

What happens if you just watch your body and mind and let it do whatever it wants?

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

This actually has a name, and it's called Reactance. It’s the motivational arousal you get from feeling like you can’t do certain things to reassert your freedom again. https://t.co/8vWucJeu80

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

Can’t believe I’ve hung out on this side of Twitter so long and still hadn’t been introduced to this world It takes a while for the existing Reactance to felt unfreedoms to dissolve and dissipate, and once you do, you can start to do what you really want https://t.co/Wi6CXDrqpK

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

it’s one way to understand what teenagers are doing in the world they’re trying to get their environment to sound louder they their own head they’re trying to become their own person https://t.co/1wH7RwgiCl

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

But until then, there really is such a thing as *what you really want* is to act in reactance-according ways. You can’t disrespect that.

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

I watch YouTube videos until I'm like I don't really actually want to continue anymore. https://t.co/pcHz2lJbz1

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

@AbhayPrasanna “if I wasn’t shoulding us into doing work, would you still really wanna watch YouTube videos? really? you would? oh ok then!” :)

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