Dark sunken eyes, glowing veins running all over your body and hearing dark sinister voices demanding a blood sacrifice are all positive health indicators
one of the worst autistic experiences is finding out someone built a case against you in silence and never gave you one clear chance to understand or fix it.
A little exercise for over-thinkers to try:
Sit still, bring your awareness to your head and try to relax all the muscles in your brain.
"But there are no muscles in my brain!" you might reply.
This is true.
But what I have found is that when communicating with our bodies and our unconscious minds, we get the best results by speaking in their language.
In terms of enacting the mental-physical motion of "relaxing", the mind and body's main point of reference is the motion of releasing tension in the muscles (and actually the veins).
Now its true that the "mental tension" in the brain is held more by things like patterns of neural firing, predictive loops, attentional gripping, stress chemistry etc.
But these are all abstractions and the brain doesn't have an intuitive emobodied instruction its familiar with to release those tensions.
So, trying to do the psychophysical motion of "relaxing all the muscles in the brain" speaks to it in a language that allows it to release these neurologically encoded "tensions."
I can definitely say it's a practice I've found useful.
Give it a try and let me know how it feels.
I’m convinced I can’t unmask my autism & still have friends bc so much of socializing feels like a performance. I’m constantly wondering “what do I even say to that” & coming up with some bullshit bc I’m supposed to. no wonder it exhausts me. I feel like a Creature in human skin
don’t know where i read that some people will fail at nervous system regulation because their brainstem is taking orders from a locked and guarded pelvis, but i haven’t been able to stop thinking about it ever since. it’s just so goddamn true
110 year old Turkish grandma reveals the secret to a long life:
“The Blood Red Gem of One Thousand Cursed Souls granted me the wish of an extended life at a great and terrible cost”
She refused to elaborate any further
ME: im as sick as a [dontsaydogdontsaydogdontsaydog] as like a cat that was realy sick
THE DOCTOR: Ah, I See… [scribbling into palm] Hmm…
THE MOLD IN MY BEDROOM WALLS: [to the tune of Dora The Explorer’s “I’m the Map”] im the mold im the mold im th mold im the mold im the m