Brian Burns

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[Brian Burns @bburnskm]

@micyoung75 was it bongino?

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@TVachaW Thank you, this is very helpful - feeling with hands vs listening with ears...

[Vacha @TVachaW]

An underrated way of overcoming overthinking is by deploying Magical Thinking.

There is nothing that breaks the spell of the "rational" thinking mind better than the counterspell of "irrational" thinking.

An example of this is the use of a Magical Object to counter the tendency towards overthinking.

One can buy - or better yet seek out in their environment - an object that they find magically inspiring.

It could be things like a discarded bird's feather, a beautiful crystal, something made from the wood of a tree you love, or a ritual object like a cross or a vajra or a magic wand.

When you find yourself over-thinking or find your nervous system over-loaded you can hold the object and feel yourself casting out the excess thought-energy or nervous-energy into the object.

This method works so well precisely because it ruptures the logic of the thinking mind.

The rational mind is something of a closed system which is why thoughts so often run around in endless closed loops.

Introducing an irrational logic allows for an escape route from this loop.

Having an object outside the body that you can place internal energy formalizes this escape route physically by showing a place the energy can go without just being circulated endlessly in the mindbody.

The more absurd and fanciful this idea seems to your logical mind, the more likely it is to work for you.

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@stevesgirl56 @RepRobertGarcia oh, great idea! yes, since they wouldn't do a live or taped session, we can make it for them.

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@ZarkFiles @NYCMayor and this is going to happen with bombs?

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@JoeRingo5 @ProudSocialist it's a spectrum, not communism OR capitalism

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@tedcruz You think bombs are going to make a country do whatever you want? That just makes the survivors more determined enemies. You should focus on building relationships, not trying to force other people to your will.

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@spttestslope @EvanLuthra @JDVance @VP @marcorubio @SecRubio yep, muuuuuch bigger than what the military currently focuses on - seems the whole economy is at risk? @PeteHegseth

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@lmqlai @EvanLuthra @grok use as few as possible, and turn off autoupdates

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@AmirJafar0 @JamieBonkiewicz there is no way this is gonna hold water...

[Dr. Linda Berman @LindaBerman4]

Psychoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present.But the future is alive in the present too.The future is not some place we're going to, but an idea in our mind now. It is something we're creating, that in turn creates us.

Stephen Grosz

[Dr. Linda Berman @LindaBerman4]

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Franz Kafka

[Béa Gonzalez (sophiacycles) @SophiaCycles]

I became a psychotherapist because I so love the imagination. William Blake says: “The Imagination is not a State: it is the Human Existence itself” For me, psychotherapy is essentially an affair of images – of how we imagine and, more important, reimagine ourselves.~Vannoy Adams

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@__megalith @anishmoonka yes!

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@EmmyJewelAus @St_Mikeal advice can backfire, as the study shows

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@Austin_Police cbs austin says someone shot at two fire stations and another guy who's in the hospital now.

why don't they post that info here and pin it??

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@Acyn how does she stand to be on this show?

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@LeighStJohn33 Awesome post, very applicable to our whole society!

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@LeighStJohn33 awesome, love this approach

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@Fried_rice I feel bad for the company, and for whoever made this mistake. Hopefully Anthropic can recover - I'm sure they have lots of other interesting ideas.