there is a revolution taking place in biology before our eyes
I spent the past month reading the papers & interviews of @drmichaellevin, and wrote a long-form essay explaining his work and why it's important
devastating how long my ego held out against the Atomic Habits Agenda because SURELY I can do more than 5 minutes a day of the things that are important to me to get done everyday. I'm not like the others I swear
I'm obsessed with this paragraph: "It is a fool's goal to try to become an isolated being whose feelings are seemingly not influenced by their environment. The goal is not infinite tolerance. As we reshape, the world reshapes. As the world reshapes, we reshape."
There's this surprising enlightenment cognitive dissonance that is quite prevailing, that one could become a being that feels good (not just have equanimity) no matter what is going on around them, yet at the same time that person would say everything is interconnected. And one
I'm gonna take this up a notch: I don't just find this tendency a little off, I genuinely despise it. feels like a lot of the meditation discourse around here is an egregious case of collective bypass, like "let's bliss out while other people burn and die." I also really don't
as much as I love to see discussions of “reducing muscle tension” catching on
there’s still something a little off to me in how they can overfocus on the individual.
versus relational/contextual frames of wellbeing