repetitive rhythmic stimulation, drumming, flashing light, anything delivered at a steady pulse, causes brainwave activity to gradually shift toward matching that rhythm, a measurable effect called frequency following, which means a steady external beat isn't just something you hear, it's an input that your internal oscillators start synchronizing to whether you intend it or not, and any practice built around sustained rhythm has been running a direct protocol for shifting internal state the entire time, with the rhythm doing the actual work and everything else being framing
I find it so bizarre that people think it’s more important to be shielded from the thought of bad things than to be given the tools to deal with them.
The pandemic response has been all about shielding people from anxiety rather than protecting them from a harmful virus.
apophenia, the perception of meaningful patterns in unrelated data, is considered a symptom when it produces incorrect connections and genius when it produces correct ones, and the cognitive process running underneath both outcomes is identical, which means pattern recognition at high sensitivity is the same instrument that produced every scientific breakthrough and every conspiracy theory, and what separates them is not the cognitive style but the quality of the reality-testing protocol running alongside it
@Sunny_Rae1@hannahspierMD There are ~500,000 publications on the subject of COVID-19. To say that that there are as many publications on the subject of long covid is an unnecessary exaggeration at best.
Hundreds of vehicles line up for fuel in Yalta as shortages continue to grip Crimea.
The peninsula is currently experiencing some of the most severe fuel supply disruptions, with long queues becoming a common sight at gas stations across the region
A colleague asked why I keep masking at work.
“I don’t like Covid.”
“O yeh, worse 2 weeks of my life, I never want that again.”
They take no precautions for one simple reason.
Nobody else is. Humans think and act socially, not individually.