Comments on: Practice in the “real” world http://blog.paradigm-sys.com/archives/255 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:15:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sandy http://blog.paradigm-sys.com/archives/255/comment-page-1#comment-17535 Sandy Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:38:31 +0000 http://blog.paradigm-sys.com/?p=255#comment-17535 You know, the idea of waking up – or even being mindful – doesn’t suck so much lately. I’m actually been pretty OK about everything since I tried to watch the colors of birds and write down what I was seeing. I tried doing that again yesterday. Similar results. It seems like I have to be truly happy/joyful in order to see colors and think about them analytically at the same time. Like I have to really care about what I’m doing and be happy with both sides of the experience for it to work. Trying that out seems to have somehow flipped a switch in me. I’m still seeing things that I don’t understand, but I don’t need to cry about it right now. I saw a ghost this morning, but things were OK anyway. I felt myself get bigger than my body for a while, but I could still function just fine. I enjoyed all the colors and smells, and how stuff feels, and all the great noises… I don’t feel like I need to shut them down today to be normal. This just feels like my normal. If this is being awake, or aware, or whatever… maybe I can handle it. :-) You know, the idea of waking up – or even being mindful – doesn’t suck so much lately. I’m actually been pretty OK about everything since I tried to watch the colors of birds and write down what I was seeing. I tried doing that again yesterday. Similar results. It seems like I have to be truly happy/joyful in order to see colors and think about them analytically at the same time. Like I have to really care about what I’m doing and be happy with both sides of the experience for it to work.

Trying that out seems to have somehow flipped a switch in me. I’m still seeing things that I don’t understand, but I don’t need to cry about it right now. I saw a ghost this morning, but things were OK anyway. I felt myself get bigger than my body for a while, but I could still function just fine. I enjoyed all the colors and smells, and how stuff feels, and all the great noises… I don’t feel like I need to shut them down today to be normal. This just feels like my normal. If this is being awake, or aware, or whatever… maybe I can handle it. Smile

]]> By: anonymous http://blog.paradigm-sys.com/archives/255/comment-page-1#comment-17534 anonymous Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:28:36 +0000 http://blog.paradigm-sys.com/?p=255#comment-17534 <i>"I was going to ask if you have any advice on how to maintain that during a stressful situation."</i> It seems to me that sometimes in stressful situations people do sll automatically. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization <i>"Depersonalization (or depersonalisation) is a malfunction or anomaly of the mechanism by which an individual has self awareness. It is a feeling of watching oneself act, while having no control over a situation.[1] It can be considered desirable, such as in the use of recreational drugs, but it usually refers to the severe form found in anxiety and, in the most intense cases, panic attacks. ... Individuals who experience depersonalization feel divorced from their own personal physicality by sensing their body sensations, feelings, emotions and behaviors as not belonging to the same person or identity.[3] Often a person who has experienced depersonalization claims that life "feels like a movie" or things seem unreal or hazy."</i> Maybe sll is helpful because it is a deliberate extension of a natural process? “I was going to ask if you have any advice on how to maintain that during a stressful situation.”

It seems to me that sometimes in stressful situations people do sll automatically.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization

“Depersonalization (or depersonalisation) is a malfunction or anomaly of the mechanism by which an individual has self awareness. It is a feeling of watching oneself act, while having no control over a situation.[1] It can be considered desirable, such as in the use of recreational drugs, but it usually refers to the severe form found in anxiety and, in the most intense cases, panic attacks.
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Individuals who experience depersonalization feel divorced from their own personal physicality by sensing their body sensations, feelings, emotions and behaviors as not belonging to the same person or identity.[3] Often a person who has experienced depersonalization claims that life “feels like a movie” or things seem unreal or hazy.”

Maybe sll is helpful because it is a deliberate extension of a natural process?

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