#self-connection

[whisperingwisdom]

BOUND: How to CONNECT With Anyone When You Are DISCONNECTED From YOURSELF

[feminiel]

Detachment is when you withdraw your energy from a desired outcome or from an involvement of your own energy. It’s when you stop giving power to something and give that power back to yourself instead. It’s about being more aware of your own state of being than anything happening outside of you. You detach your energy from something to reconnect with yourself first. ~ @feminiel

[futurefatum]

January Forecast: Extremely Intense Healing - Kyle Cease

2025 is a portal for healing! 🌟 Join @KyleCease on Jan 25th for a live event to align with love & let go of the past. #2025Awakening #SelfLove #Meditation

Published on January 5th 2024 by @kylecease ABOUT THIS VIDEO: The video titled “January Forecast: Extremely Intense Healing” by Kyle Cease discusses the spiritual and emotional challenges and opportunities of the current era, with a focus on preparation for 2025. The speaker emphasizes the importance of “filling your spiritual bank account” through practices like meditation, self-love, and…

[compassionmattersmost]

Navigating Pristine Mind: A Journey into Orgyen Chowang’s Teachings on Meditation

I came upon Orgyen Chowang’s teachings and his book, Our Pristine Mind, like discovering an unexpected window that offers a clearer, quieter view. Chowang, a revered meditation master, speaks about our minds with a simplicity that is both gentle and profound. In his words, I felt an invitation to find not just peace, but a deep, clear stillness—an untouched clarity we each hold within. He calls…

[im-here-homie]

a happy audience is the key to the academy's heart

shadow milk design by @catxolotlquoise

[violentspirals]

[trans-axolotl]

nothing makes me more insane than the phrase "selling your body" btw. like was i not also selling my body at every other job i've had where i had to be on my feet all day, lifting boxes, working in a warehouse, etc. why is it that sex work is uniquely labeled as "selling your body" while every other job is sorted into another category, no matter how much that job might have a physical impact on your body. lmao.

[slfcare]

the most difficult thing about growing as a person socially, as in getting out of your shell and noticing that you are, is that there will still be times when it doesn’t feel like you’ve grown at all! times when you can’t really connect with anyone around you, times when you fail to enter into an existing conversation, times when you say the wrong thing (or nothing at all when in hindsight you probably should’ve). but that’s also kind of the best thing, because that’s the thing that helps you realize that sometimes, it’s not you or your lack of skills or any shortcoming. sometimes certain environments just aren’t for you and certain people aren’t your people, and that’s okay. that’s human. it’s okay to not feel the progress you have made all the time.

[supernovatx]

Obviously “America is Great Again” is a fantastic critique of capitalism and American propaganda, which would be enough to make it an incredible scene on its own. It’s a great song and a great demonstration of the show’s themes, and it’s really well done.

But there’s a tragic layer to that song that really elevates it for me, and that’s because it’s specifically MacNamara singing it.

MacNamara first is introduced to seem like a stereotypical patriotic army guy in the scene where he knocks Paul out. However, he then subverts that in the next scene where we learn his true morals, namely that he believes in love and humanity as his higher purpose and he will put that above the orders of his country if they conflict. He chooses to let Paul live because of that, and when Paul asks if he can save Emma, MacNamara gives him his gun and tells him to go. We learn, as does Paul, that despite his appearance and general vibes, he is a genuinely good person who wants to help and is willing to put his moral code above his patriotism.

But when he gets apotheosized, he becomes the complete opposite. Suddenly his loyalty is to his country only, and his own moral code is erased in service of that, which causes contradictions between the lyrics of AIGA and his thoughts in the scene with Paul. “You can’t run because our borders are closed” when he was helping Paul escape in a helicopter as a human; “Americans should fit a mold” when he didn’t at all fit the “douchey army patriot” mold he was presented with; “There’s only room for right and wrong” when he clearly is able to choose between his own morality and his orders, indicating a more complex outlook instead of a binary. He becomes the stereotype he was subverting, and in doing so he becomes someone that the real MacNamara would have hated. That’s the tragedy of that song, and of the whole show really, is that the people who become part of the hive mind lose their true selves and are only able to act in their stereotypical roles, even if that’s nothing like how they actually were as humans.

There’s also something to be said here about how the us war machine and capitalism corrupts people and makes them into something they would never have been otherwise through a forced loss of personhood but I can’t figure out how to phrase that so

[blindfolded-nakedtruth]

And she loves the way he looks at her.

[feminiel]

At the heart of authenticity is self-connection. Not just at the core of authenticity, but at every core of everything that you desires, at every core that will make you feel fully yourself. It's about connecting with your energetic blueprint.

@feminiel

[redfirefox-55]

Here she is, she is here!

My new darling, One Moment Of Peace, who I guess I will call my sona because aighafjahfks I don’t really know how to do this sona making thing-

[thepeacefulgarden]

[xinilia]

I can’t even with Aloy’s habit of talking aloud for the sake of the player being canonized through gildun’s delightful dialogue— but it also just makes a TON of sense lmao

I can totally imagine how she’d develop that habit growing up in the wilds. Like we already see her doing it when she’s really little so I just think that she never grew out of that urge to just say everything out loud and narrate whatever she’s doing (probably rost would never say shit so she’d always be the one who just talks her head off all day even if he’s not listening to her)

Aloy trying to solve the puzzle of the day: ok so I need to move that crate there— oh wow that outfit is so ugly. ok anyway

random bystander: you know I can hear you right

[godbirdart]

「 boys don't cry 」

about suppressed emotions, downplayed heartaches, and the expectations to remain stoically self reliant without the community and connection needed to help open the paths away from isolated self destruction.