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androidsixteen
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Be wary of yang activities that masquerade as yin Are you actually resting, or are you doing vinyasa yoga, hopping in a sauna, eating a cheat meal, or working on a “side project”? All of these examples can ofc be yin nourishing, but there is a tendency (esp. in American culture) to exert oneself under the guise of rest
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marlo
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totally. for me, real rest requires addressing deeply-ingrained toxic beliefs around productivity, laziness, self-worth, etc. otherwise i’m so stressed about resting it doesn’t work anyway. sometimes it’s easier to just do some kind of productive fake yin activity than deal with all the trauma 😂 working on it though!
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androidsixteen
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Maybe don’t *work* on it and see what happens 😉
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marlo
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what do you recommend for complex trauma/cptsd?
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androidsixteen
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Tough to answer without knowing details. It's like the Anna Karenina line, "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Trauma & illness are the same way. Each experience is unique and bound up in how your body experiences it So maybe the first thing I would suggest is to dis-identify with the trauma. If you conceive of yourself as a traumatized person, dropping that identity will help Eckhart Tolle talks about this in one of his discourses with a woman that has MS and calls in and asks him how to cope with the immense pain she feels. He suggests that while it sounds counter-intuitive, losing the concepts / identity around the illness and just being with it can decouple the ego from the illness Otherwise the ego reinforces itself by being identified as sick (because it ironically prefers being *special* over healthy and mundane). When the ego recedes, the body's intelligence and innate healing power can be brought back to the situation Continued below...
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androidsixteen
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The second thing I'd recommend is finding some practice around embodiment One way to get out of cycle of over-thinking and not resting enough is to cede power to the body By physically focusing on the sensations in your body and "mapping" it out with your proprioceptive senses, you can really reconnect with the innate intelligence in your biology That can tell you more in detail about what your trauma means and how to unwind it than any external source, including doctors or psychologists Once you start listening to that inutition, then a path will unfurl in front of you. I've experienced this happen, and it's quite magical -- though it takes time and intention to "connect the dots" All that said, I hear you on the challenges with trauma, and wishing you the best in navigating yours. That's all any of us really needs to do in this lifetime ❤️
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marlo
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thanks for the thoughtful reply! i was hoping you had some magical hack that was super fun and doesn’t feel like work at all haha tolle is great. listening to the power of now 15 years ago was probably my first real step towards a spiritual practice and healing i kind of see it like math these days. pattern recognition and debugging the ego structure, often with emdr. unraveling and re-weaving applied neurology is super interesting! i am learning a bit but all in good time. definitely need more embodied practices though. i found structural integration extremely helpful but looking for free/diy options these days 333 $degen 🤍
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