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What you need is what you refrain from the most
Posted on October 21st, 2017
What I'm noticing in the last days is that I've started to do and behave in the ways I used to be repelled by in the past. I got enough flexibility to change my point of view on them and I'm exercising the possibilities of the new ways.
So for example...
Movie plots
Posted on September 14th, 2017
Okay there's one thing about me that is quite strange I believe. It's quite difficult for me to follow the plot of a movie (or a book). If I want to enjoy it I can't follow the plot. It's a set of scenes and realizations in my head, and sometimes some ...
Your perception shapes your reality
Posted on August 2nd, 2017
Imagine that this world was actually designed entirely by a highly specialised diagnostic machinery that was able to read into your brain, into your thoughts, who had access to the information about your every past experience, and designed every tinies...
The brain stores memories with no emotions attached
Posted on April 18th, 2017
.. in hippocampus, and amygdala reacts to those memories with emotions when the memories are recalled.
I just read this somewhere. But hey this means that the emotions are dynamically generated each time a memory is accessed. How come that each time I...
Thinking without words
Posted on February 5th, 2017
I often hear or read about taking care of the tone of voice which we use to think our thoughts in our head.
Makes a lot of sense, but there is one problem for me with that - I do not use words or sentences when I think, I do not use speech. I remember...
How I saw my brain working
Posted on February 5th, 2017
I just want to describe an experience I had once after smoking weed a few years ago. I do not smoke it regularily and that was one of very few times I did it. I was in a very relaxed and happy state back then, also just last days of a long spiritual tr...
'Mindsight' by Daniel Siegel
Posted on February 1st, 2017
That was the first book that I read that sparked some kind of light on my own mental and emotional experience. That was the book that really gave me hope that a change is in fact possible. With a simple statement:
Thinking certain thoughts does change...
