#mentality flow

[brytning]

I saw a post the other day about how difficult mindfulness meditation can be, especially for people who are neurodivergent, and OP was frustrated that their therapist never recommended anything else. There are many opportunities to bring mindfulness, focus, and intention to activities you already like! Learning about flow state has been a real eye-opener for me.

[parasolladyansy]

A little art therapy as I realized how my creative phases were like the water cycle 🌧️ If you’re also in a bit of a creative “dry spell”, this one’s for you.

PS: thanks so much for all your support / input on my artist’s block post. Just seeing your response helped me sketch out what I’m gonna do for the next couple of comics. I may not make my deadline, but it feels a lot better to have a plan. 🩵

[wafsspie]

Rekindling a friendship (bad quality :( sorry!!)

[karasucatt]

Lansoni but like they don’t settle in Camelot. Sonic leaves Camelot to the other knights of the round table and goes on adventures with Lance by his side the whole way.

Lance “You had the chance to be the most powerful Mobian in the land. And you threw it away? Why?”

Sonic “Being king to too boring! I trust that the others can lead Camelot in my absence. I’m the Knight of the Wind Lance, and the winds telling me to run!”

Lance “I will never understand you my lord.”

Sonic “But you’ll follow me?”

Lance “To the ends of the earth.”

[onionninjasstuff]

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[sergle]

I think I'm going to make a temperature blanket this year

[snottyshawty]

The flow state I go into doing a productive thing I enjoy:

The flow state I go into while picking my skin:

[cobaltfluff]

so i started playing persona 4

where are the QoL features

[yoan-le-grall]

[areallyuniquename]

[1000fingers]

dear fellow artists who draw gordon porlock as a fat man i love you !!!!!!

[itspileofgoodthings]

I can’t tell you how much I am not naturally suited to Tolkien’s prose and storytelling. He writes so beautifully and excellently but it is not an instinctive immediate fit for me, to the point where I often have to reread a sentence to know what it’s saying or to track an image he’s presenting or to follow a literary device to its conclusion. Yes, even when I’m reading the hobbit. Like; for whatever reason reading Tolkien is a hugely high bar of entry for the way my mind works and it’s been so wonderful to feel like I have finally found my way in. And I really think I have!

[kissedbyyouniverse]

[shamelesslyimpurrfect]

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[fumble-art]

Oversensory

[simcardiac-arrested]

growing up is like, every single thing you thought would be so complicated and unmanageable and unthinkably difficult turns out to be, actually, pretty simple. and every single thing you thought was so simple and easy to understand and how come adults don’t get this turns out to be painfully hard to deal with, to actually understand and internalize.

the thing you thought you had all figured out—somehow, you forget the right way to handle it. the thing you thought would dictate the course of your entire life, the thing you thought would ruin you forever—you move on in 2 months. the worst thing to ever happen to you hasn’t caught up yet. maybe it never will. maybe life shouldn’t be based on which worst thing happens when.

a hobby you thought would be a silly one-off becomes an all-time favorite. a genre you could never see yourself getting into can offer you the best story you’ve ever experienced. an inherent belief you thought you’d never budge on starts getting cracks. a person you’ve only ever seen in passing and had short conversations with can become your closest three, five, seven years later.

everything you thought about yourself can turn out to be wrong. you’ll get better in ways you didn’t know you could. you’ll slip and fall just as much, get new scrapes along the way as you survive yet another mess of a job, a situation, a relationship. it might be fear, or it might be happiness when you’ll look at yourself in the mirror and not recognize who it is.

so yeah, i guess, if i had to describe what growing up feels like, i could say i’m closer to figuring my life out, or i’m even more lost than before, or that it’s like a rebirth, i’m becoming a new person, i’m finally getting to know myself, or the many, many other things people say when you ask them.

and they’re all right, of course—the future you dreamed for yourself at age 12 is no longer there to guide you anymore, but sometimes it does feel like you see things clearer, like the pieces occasionally click in your head even if you can never comprehend the puzzle. you’re still who you were at your core, but you’re also starting to peel back the layers, to find such things that you never even imagined could be you.

so yeah, i guess, growing up is all of those things and more. it never stops to wait for you to realize it’s happening. it’s changing, changing in a way you can never anticipate, changing in a way that will simultaneously ache deeply and make you the happiest you’ve ever been. it’s the most complex, most intricate experience a human could have.

but, like most complicated things, it’s also actually pretty simple.

i mean—it’s just plain fun, isn’t it?