Yes! Objective reality is a theory which cannot be proven.
Fear is just trying to keep me safe. Anxiety is fear that has been taken out of context. It is empowering when I feel my emotions and sensations directly. Resistance only makes it worse. Fortunately, I can stop making it worse.
Trying to be a Creator in a sea of influencers and attention gimmicks also takes courage. How do we separate being ourselves from the online game? I wrote recently about that, in this theory of "Influencer Creep", I found it somewhat amusing.
There's Free will but sometimes we're just stubborn. You have a lot of subjective looking within type of content, as a Psych major, I always like this kind of reading.
Thank you. I think it's really important to get deeper into subjective experience, rather than try to pretend I have any objectivity when I write. I think it helps not only emphasize how much subjectivity influences our point of view, but to understand it better.
Oh, how interesting: you’ve put your finger on something I’ve been playing with my whole life, making friends with fear. As a kid, I used to go walk past this graveyard at night just to get used to the feeling of being scared. Later, as an adult, I remember the first time I really felt fear in mountaineering, when I realized I would die if I fell, but I got used to it and came to realize that you need that fear there to keep you on your toes. Are there other emotions we do that with? I wonder. (And hey, Amy, thanks for the plug!)
Your post deserved to be plugged, Tom, you're welcome. I think all emotions are connected. You can't repress one without repressing them all. You can't feel one without feeling them all.
Similar to fear, I think most people try to repress or dismiss anger, so we struggle with it in the same ways as we struggle with fear. However, anger also drives us to act against injustice and fight for what we believe in. It gets dangerous when we misdirect it or bottle it up until we explode.
Yes! Objective reality is a theory which cannot be proven.
Fear is just trying to keep me safe. Anxiety is fear that has been taken out of context. It is empowering when I feel my emotions and sensations directly. Resistance only makes it worse. Fortunately, I can stop making it worse.
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Trying to be a Creator in a sea of influencers and attention gimmicks also takes courage. How do we separate being ourselves from the online game? I wrote recently about that, in this theory of "Influencer Creep", I found it somewhat amusing.
There's Free will but sometimes we're just stubborn. You have a lot of subjective looking within type of content, as a Psych major, I always like this kind of reading.
Thank you. I think it's really important to get deeper into subjective experience, rather than try to pretend I have any objectivity when I write. I think it helps not only emphasize how much subjectivity influences our point of view, but to understand it better.
Oh, how interesting: you’ve put your finger on something I’ve been playing with my whole life, making friends with fear. As a kid, I used to go walk past this graveyard at night just to get used to the feeling of being scared. Later, as an adult, I remember the first time I really felt fear in mountaineering, when I realized I would die if I fell, but I got used to it and came to realize that you need that fear there to keep you on your toes. Are there other emotions we do that with? I wonder. (And hey, Amy, thanks for the plug!)
Your post deserved to be plugged, Tom, you're welcome. I think all emotions are connected. You can't repress one without repressing them all. You can't feel one without feeling them all.
Similar to fear, I think most people try to repress or dismiss anger, so we struggle with it in the same ways as we struggle with fear. However, anger also drives us to act against injustice and fight for what we believe in. It gets dangerous when we misdirect it or bottle it up until we explode.