emotional flourishing

shinzen young’s periodic table of happiness elements. https://t.co/6YNQQpQOMl

thoughts from today: 1. if you often struggle to do things (take action, complete tasks etc) you may have a lot of unfelt anger in you. feel the anger. express the anger. you may find you have more energy to do things with 2. a great deal of your time can be spent avoiding

“When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.”

— Zhuangzi

we’re slow to learn because most learning is about emotions yet most of us are taught to focus on everything but emotion good learners often have great emotional/psychological management the most effective way to learn and make progress is to cultivate beautiful emotions via the process (the act) of the skill you’re learning but somehow most of... See more

First off you gotta learn to listen to your senses and your body — esp gut and heart rate, which can help you understand how you *actually* feel about any situation. I think a lot of people are numb, disembodied, so they find it too frictionless to talk themselves into a life they hate and out of one that fulfills them bc they can’t tell what’s act... See more

ON GROUNDING I think I *get* grounding now, so here goes nothing: First, don't ask me how this works but it is just a FACT that you can shift what you identify with. The car, your phone, your VR character, the character you're playing in a play, in a game, (in life...), etc.… Show more

In my experience, we don't need to 'try' to feel emotions, it's more a case of unblocking what gets in the way. Here are ten common barriers, any others you might add? https://t.co/ygqLrK5YH4

it really is possible to massively reduce psychological/emotional suffering a.k.a what your interiority feels like all day long it’s not twitter hype, there are many ways to get to it, and it’s worth endlessly talking about so everyone who wants emotional wellbeing encounters it