I didn’t watch this video, but am familiar with “The Body Keeps the Score”, and want to contribute supporting evidence (that I don’t recall being discussed in the book).
I’ve taken and taught voice for theatre, following what’s called the ‘Natural Voice’ method. (Look for a book called “Freeing the Natural Voice”, by Kristin Linklater, though other practitioners have augmented that since.) To summarize: bodies have natural resonating chambers, that act like the sound-box of a guitar or violin; tension in the body inhibits sound vibrations; release the tension.
It’s a completely physical process: exercises are about making sounds and feeling their vibrations in the body, relax, rinse repeat. It’s occasionally odd, but not ‘woo’ in the least. Very pragmatic, and not at all psychological. Nevertheless, people have incredible emotional reactions while doing it. Linklater’s theory is that we develop habitual tensions in response to things that hurt us (physically or emotionally), and that releasing tension releases emotions connected with the original incitement. (You can call that trauma, if you want, though I don’t think Linklater ever uses that word. I never did when I was teaching, though maybe with “kids these days” I would.)
In fact, those responses are kind of non-psychological, in that they’re not like a flashback, or anything like that. People don’t necessarily (although sometimes they do) have any knowledge or memory of the inciting events, but their bodies do. It’s a fascinating process, which I think gets at these ideas from (as it were) the other way around.
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web > Releasing physical tension causes emotional reactions
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39336088]
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web > Choose to consider an arbitrary thing fun
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39326389]
One of (if not the) most valuable skills in life is being able to choose that you’re going to consider an arbitrary thing fun.
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web > Libertarians
“Especially since most minimalists want to keep exactly the economic and police system that keeps them privileged. That’s libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.”
- Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (1993)
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books > The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Anne Fadiman)
“The Hmong and I have a lot in common. I have an anarchist sub-personality. I don’t like coercion. I also believe that the long way around is often the shortest way from point A to point B. And I’m not very interested in what is generally called the truth. In my opinion, consensual reality is better than facts.”
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books > The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Anne Fadiman)
As Dostoyevsky’s Prince Myshkin asked, “What if it is a disease? What does it matter that it is an abnormal tension, if the result, if the moment of sensation, remembered and analysed in a state of health, turns out to be harmony and beauty brought to their highest point of perfection, and gives a feeling, undivined and undreamt of till then, of completeness, proportion, reconciliation, and an ecstatic and prayerful fusion in the highest synthesis of life?”
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web > Seizures deja vu
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Epilepsy/comments/13y6u50/comment/jmlgxjm/]
My simple partial seizures are always strong deja vu, never mystical, though it is very strange thinking that you kinda knew what someone was going to say while they are saying it. Almost like I could say it along with them. It’s the same if I’m reading something, the words seem to ‘fit’ the context I’m in or the thoughts I had moments before reading the words.
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books > The Mountain in the Sea (Ray Nayler)
Science, at least as we know it, has its limits. In the end, it cannot see into all aspects of reality. One’s inner life, personal knowledge, and sense of meaning are mysteries into which science can only partially penetrate. What seems most impenetrable at present is the brute fact of consciousness: the fact that we once were not, and now are, and are aware of being, and are having a first-person experience in the world which is real—and yet somehow unquantifiable by any means currently available.
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web > What is reality
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Psychonaut/comments/192y8yz/comment/kh5x3hg/]
It’s fun! Reality is you. If you existed for eternity and knew all things, eventually, you would break yourself into separate pieces each with its own unique perspective and experience with an infinite amount of variations and realities. You would purposefully forget who you are just so you can get so intimately and hopelessly wrapped up in it that you are totally convinced it’s real. Its ALL for fun! Enjoy, or don’t! Not enjoying is also part of the enjoyment of it all. Namaste
https://www.reddit.com/r/Psychonaut/comments/192y8yz/comment/kh6lmxw/
Fave take so far. Part of enlightenment is realizing that you create your reality. Take the time to fully feel the depth of your emotions when they arise OP. And no, I don’t mean just sadness. I’m talking anger, fear/anxiety, grief, guilt, shame, etc
Emotions are just energy in motion. When you fully allow them to be there, they inevitably run out of energy. Don’t try to change them, don’t try to reconcile with them, and certainly don’t identify with them. Just observe them and the thoughts that come up as the emotion runs it’s course
We are all taught since childhood to suppress our emotions, and as a result, we accumulate a lot of this negative energy within our bodies that effect the way we look at the world through the lens of the ego
When you learn to consistently release all this energy over time, you will find that you are in a much more joyful state, and attracting more joyful experiences into your life
Reality is supposed to be fun. And the ultimate gift the creator gives you on earth is the ability to choose what meaning you place on everything. Life is inherently empty and meaningless. You get to choose the meaning you place. You get to choose how you respond to life. Enjoy every moment. And when it’s unpleasant, allow yourself time to feel the emotion and release it. What you resist, persists. But what you give your attention to disappears
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books > The Mountain in the Sea (Ray Nayler)
“The great and terrible thing about humankind is simply this: we will always do what we are capable of.”
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books > The Glass Hotel: A novel (Emily St. John Mandel)
after days of imagining this conversation he almost began to long for it. It turned out that never having that conversation with Vincent meant that he was somehow condemned to always have that conversation with Vincent.