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Also! Activating your stress system makes you constipated, dry mouthed so you aren’t salivating, lowers libido etc because if your body thinks you need to fight or flight, none of those systems are as important anymore, so it diverts resources away.
— Mar 16, 2020 07:40AM
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“Us vs them” is deep in our evolutionary core. It’s extremely easy to spot differences to separate yourself from someone else. But what if instead you shift your own mindset to think about similarities between you and others?
— Mar 20, 2020 06:08PM
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- “Equanimity is neither apathy nor indifference: you are warmly engaged with the world but not troubled by it.”
— Mar 20, 2020 08:31AM
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“Emotional pain with no benefit to yourself or others is pointless suffering.” Also it makes it more likely for you to suffer again b/c you’re re-enforcement circuits of pain in your brain.
— Mar 16, 2020 07:52AM
