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started reading "eastern body, western mind" by anodea judith on @nuanceexists's recommendation and feeling extremely called out by literally everything she says involving the root chakra what do you mean "the right to be here" 🥺 https://t.co/4GS2N13mqq
EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS IS TERRIBLE https://t.co/aVIvM5hXXx
this chapter goes hard from the beginning jesus this woman is not fucking around https://t.co/oSmQgaetCH
"Without boundaries, natural excitement gets dissipated and diluted and becomes ineffectual. When we lose our ground, our attention wanders and we appear vague and insubstantial." 😅😅😅 https://t.co/F396E2eWpe
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"...the issue of trust vs. mistrust becomes a basic experience of your very self. This is your first vague sense of whether or not you are glad to be here." oh noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo https://t.co/EnabACvNWN
"If our instinctual impulses do not get us the things we need in order to survive, we learn to distrust or ignore them, and simultaneously perceive the world as hostile. To distrust our basic instincts is to put ourselves at odds with the deep core of our physical being." https://t.co/5VZo6Fe6Gu
"Technological birth, in which the infant is pulled out into bright lights, spanked, and separated from the mother, is such a shock to our ancient nervous systems that the experience is an assault to our neurological sense of ground." biggest oof 😰 https://t.co/uRsFNFvD82
hey guys fun fact about me: when i was ~1 my dad moved to singapore a year ahead of me and my mom for job reasons and we didn't join him for another year after that 🙃 my mom told me that when we joined him i didn't recognize him anymore and cried https://t.co/5YAus11p20
"Abandonment threatens our survival. It makes us feel unwanted, and we doubt our right to be here." "Or we may accept abandonment too readily, and interpret the slightest criticism or mood change from our partner as a signal that we are unwanted." https://t.co/9tBRB10HJv
"Each one clung to the security of what they had, essentially putting their energy in a holding pattern that provided false security. Without basic trust, they all feared change." "Abandonment by others also creates a tendency to abandon oneself." D: https://t.co/k3cCP5Zc4H
HOSTILE EATING SITUATIONS https://t.co/KRH1AinyeR
both of my parents grew up during the cultural revolution 😬 https://t.co/AmfTU7ecPp
"This is the hallmark of a deficient first chakra: the body is deadened and the consciousness is elevated, creating a profound mind-body split. An adult with damaged ground is usually plagued by a terrible sense that something is wrong, but cannot identify what it is." https://t.co/idjYYNRitP
"I gave Mary assignments in self-care, oriented toward basics like eating and sleeping. I recommended that she get a massage each week, take walks frequently, and indulge in pleasurable things like long, hot baths." nice 🥲 https://t.co/dt5bvqDl3x
lots of nice little bits here. "Dream images may hold a lot of charge, and this charge may spontaneously arise in the body as one discusses his dream. Truth also has a charge, especially when it has been previously hidden, as if a gate opens in the body." https://t.co/ZSLNKLOd7k
"Deficient first chakra types need to discover their ground. They respond well to working while standing and using exercises that charge the body... They need encouragement to form themselves and maintain that form, which can be strengthened through challenge." hmmmm https://t.co/TlwFCwPZQc
this is probably less relevant to me personally but the claims about physiognomy are interesting in a general way. "The body is more likely to be large and dense" etc. is interesting. "Physical movements such as dancing, walking, swimming, or simply stretching" probably good https://t.co/z7IWfDRKyS
second thread: exercises and suggestions and stuff https://t.co/mFZX60sfdO
ok fam yesterday we learned we all have root chakra issues, so: what does anodea judith actually suggest we do??? "Careful observation of the way a person walks, talks, moves, breathes, sits, and looks out from behind their eyes tells us about the underlying patterns." https://t.co/ZefWDNmvVx https://t.co/1Rl54UmZeY
@TylerAlterman https://t.co/Ykdzcp8jC6
"grounding exercise": "bend and straighten his knees several times slowly, inhaling while bending and exhaling while straightening and pushing them into the floor... If this exercise is done correctly, a mild trembling in the legs will begin." https://t.co/mdQmEX2N8j
@QiaochuYuan @nuanceexists the right to be here, without being exceptional https://t.co/OJFraPd6L4
@QiaochuYuan @nuanceexists the right to be *here*, in this socially occupied space, without doing anything https://t.co/ejOmaeBAX2
@QiaochuYuan @nuanceexists this is one of the books that has hit me hardest as I’ve read the smallest percent of it!! 💜 I’ve only read like 10% and sponged it all up instantly. It’s one of two books I’ve left permanently in my van, yay I’m excited that you’re reading it https://t.co/YAw4qQc65x
@nat_sharpe_ @wholebodyprayer @Malcolm_Ocean but 4real: I read a few pages from this book and immediately resonated with this dance of 'manifesting current' and 'liberation current' as a guidance for unfolding, choosing, wanting, sculpting my life. https://t.co/GKXIfloaYo
@QiaochuYuan @nuanceexists also I’m doing some serious root chakra healing right now, especially sorting through my air quality sensitivities with respect to housing. andddd remembering to eat. happy to find resonance with you walking this path too https://t.co/oA97Mg5Wj5
@QiaochuYuan @nuanceexists oh wow! I had those bigtime time last year, to the point where eating a random gluten-free pizza crust would make me suicidal for ~2hr. after continuing to witness&eat& listen as an act of love, I finally found a safe zone & feel nourished. hope the same for u (and me abt air)💜