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Ok I am really enjoying it. The method feels a little like realizing you have to use soap to clean up oily messes, when you’ve been using water this whole time. https://t.co/X8i5rVYqCV
Also reminds me of loving the resistance, listening to it and extending care, to release this weird bind where you are trapping yourself. https://t.co/T8AZsXVyBU
One question that keeps coming to mind is— how do you draw the line between something that is simply outside of your control/a side effect of our societal institutions vs something that is being affected by your shadow desires
“You are not who you think you are.” Major concept put out in this book that your self concept has a massive amount of room to expand https://t.co/pAR5KL8vdz
“Anytime I’m anxious about something, I’m actually tenderly caressing the possibility of it…” https://t.co/yEZypTnByf
reading EK I am reminded of this tweet— the attitude of getting off on what you have (disrespect? scarcity? shame?) by affirming that a part of you deeply craves this heightened experience, and through this deep approval releasing yourself from an entrenched pattern https://t.co/CRCwG4td1b
this works as an existential kink angle— how are you secretly loving your worst experiences? feeling incompetent > secretly love being taken care of feeling like not enough > secretly love being the underdog
Idea of a “havingness level”— that you as a person have a determined level of good things (love, attention, money, etc) you can have. Any more than that you start to feel uncomfortable/like it’s too good to be true, and you pull yourself back down to your set level. https://t.co/umDiaMXx9L
Idea of treating your emotions as an aesthetic. “Wow, I really feel anxious, rejected, and ostracized right now. This is such a visceral and creative experience, what a work of art.” https://t.co/5ykJfDCCj9
