#inner-self — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #inner-self, aggregated by home.social.
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We've been dating the climate crisis wrong. Warming started in the 1830s, not the 1950s. The Industrial Revolution didn't just change factories. It changed the planet. That matters now.
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We've been dating the climate crisis wrong. Warming started in the 1830s, not the 1950s. The Industrial Revolution didn't just change factories. It changed the planet. That matters now.
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Psychologists used to see humor as a weakness. Now they know better. Laughter builds emotional strength, sharpens the mind, and deepens wisdom. Your jokes matter more than you think.
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Psychologists used to see humor as a weakness. Now they know better. Laughter builds emotional strength, sharpens the mind, and deepens wisdom. Your jokes matter more than you think.
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We tell ourselves we're persuading when we're actually manipulating. The difference matters. Intent counts. So does honesty. Read what separates influence from harm.
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We tell ourselves we're persuading when we're actually manipulating. The difference matters. Intent counts. So does honesty. Read what separates influence from harm.
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Your kids won't remember every lecture. They'll remember the concert. They'll remember singing badly in the car. Music does what words can't. It builds real connection. Science confirms what your gut already knew.
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Your kids won't remember every lecture. They'll remember the concert. They'll remember singing badly in the car. Music does what words can't. It builds real connection. Science confirms what your gut already knew.
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Britain promised sunlit uplands and got trade barriers. Seven prime ministers in a decade. A housing crisis with no answers. The bill for a century of postponement is finally due. A reckoning worth reading.
innerself.com/articles/social/cul…
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Hiding who you are isn't just uncomfortable. It's exhausting in ways people don't talk about. Your nervous system knows the difference between being yourself and performing yourself. Research now shows that constant self-editing shapes depression, mood, and identity over time. The cost is real. https://innerself.com/articles/personal/attitudes-transformed/behavior/32915-the-hidden-weight-of-hiding-who-you-are.html #InnerSelf #MentalHealth
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Hiding who you are isn't just uncomfortable. It's exhausting in ways people don't talk about. Your nervous system knows the difference between being yourself and performing yourself. Research now shows that constant self-editing shapes depression, mood, and identity over time. The cost is real. https://innerself.com/articles/personal/attitudes-transformed/behavior/32915-the-hidden-weight-of-hiding-who-you-are.html #InnerSelf #MentalHealth
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Breathing for Inner Self
Breathing for the body benefits the body. Breathing for the inner self benefits both the body and the inner self. -
Breathing for Inner Self
Breathing for the body benefits the body. Breathing for the inner self benefits both the body and the inner self. -
William Jennings Bryan fought for the many against the few. Today, demagogues steal his name while picking your pocket. They promise populism but deliver propaganda. What happened to the real thing? https://innerself.com/articles/social/democracy/32882-populism-propaganda-and-the-pickpockets-trick-how-america-forgot-what-populism-means.html #InnerSelf #Democracy
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William Jennings Bryan fought for the many against the few. Today, demagogues steal his name while picking your pocket. They promise populism but deliver propaganda. What happened to the real thing? https://innerself.com/articles/social/democracy/32882-populism-propaganda-and-the-pickpockets-trick-how-america-forgot-what-populism-means.html #InnerSelf #Democracy
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Europeans are wiring up balconies with plug-in solar panels while Americans stay in the dark. Same forces that kept you dependent on utility companies for decades. The gap is deliberate. Here's why it matters and what you can do about it. https://innerself.com/articles/living/home-and-garden/32872-why-plug-in-solar-panels-are-taking-europe-by-storm.html #InnerSelf #Energy
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Europeans are wiring up balconies with plug-in solar panels while Americans stay in the dark. Same forces that kept you dependent on utility companies for decades. The gap is deliberate. Here's why it matters and what you can do about it. https://innerself.com/articles/living/home-and-garden/32872-why-plug-in-solar-panels-are-taking-europe-by-storm.html #InnerSelf #Energy
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Every generation gets the same choice: defend democracy or let it slip. Power wants to concentrate. Always has. We have to argue about fairness and build consensus like our ancestors did. Read more: https://innerself.com/articles/social/democracy/32880-from-tribal-councils-to-modern-democracy-the-long-struggle.html #InnerSelf #Democracy
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Every generation gets the same choice: defend democracy or let it slip. Power wants to concentrate. Always has. We have to argue about fairness and build consensus like our ancestors did. Read more: https://innerself.com/articles/social/democracy/32880-from-tribal-councils-to-modern-democracy-the-long-struggle.html #InnerSelf #Democracy
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You make choices every day without knowing why. Most of us do. But here's the thing: you have more control than you think. Today's reflection shows you how to see it. https://innerself.com/this-that/daily-inspiration/32862-innerself-daily-inspiration-25740-2026-06-09.html #InnerSelf #PersonalGrowth
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The Moon in Pisces is telling you something today. Release what's done. The Sun in Gemini wants to sprint forward. But slow down. Not everything needs doing right now. Some things need to fall away first. Read what the stars say. https://innerself.com/articles/personal/intuition-awareness/astrology/horoscope/32869-innerself-horoscope-june-9-2026.html #InnerSelf #Astrology #Spirituality
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Looking at your shadow self isn't weakness. It's the only path to real peace. Not the absence of conflict, but the strength to meet life with integrity. Stop fighting yourself. Start living.
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The Moon releases what's dead weight in Pisces. Mercury in Cancer tells you to feel before you speak. Venus and Jupiter both sit in Cancer now, pulling hard toward real connection. The sky is tender and urgent. Read today's horoscope. https://innerself.com/articles/personal/intuition-awareness/astrology/horoscope/32863-innerself-horoscope-june-8-2026.html #InnerSelf #Astrology
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What you say and what gets heard aren't the same thing. This week's InnerSelf looks at communication, choice, and meaning. Awareness changes everything.
https://innerself.com/this-that/newsletter/32876-innerself-magazine-2026-06-08.html
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This week the cosmos won't let you sit still. Uranus is rattling your cage. Venus and Jupiter are calling your bluff. A Gemini New Moon says it's time for honest talk and real change. Watch the video, then decide what needs shifting in your life.
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Your ears hear words. Your brain hears your history. That gap between what was said and what you understood? That's where most fights live. Read why miscommunication happens and how to actually listen.
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The story you tell yourself about who you are runs your life. Today's piece shows you how to rewrite it with real intent and kindness. Your next chapter starts with honest words about yourself.
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This week asks you to feel before you think. The Moon wanes toward grounded Taurus while Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter cluster in emotional Cancer. Your commitments from the New Moon face honest reckoning. Head and heart are in conversation. Listen to both.
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The Moon's nearly gone in Aquarius. Mercury just moved into Cancer. You feel it: the pull to stay cool and detached fighting hard against what your gut wants to say. This is the moment to name what matters. Read more: https://innerself.com/articles/personal/intuition-awareness/astrology/horoscope/32850-innerself-horoscope-june-7-2026.html #InnerSelf #Astrology
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Your brain on cannabis isn't simple. THC muddles short-term memory. CBD might protect against brain degeneration. The dose matters. The type matters. Context matters. Science is still catching up to reality. Read the nuance.
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What's your actual price? The rally ticket. The lost friendship. The retirement hit. Add them up. What number do you get? https://innerself.com/articles/social/justice/economic/32835-how-much-are-you-willing-to-pay-to-have-donald-trump-as-your-president.html #InnerSelf #PersonalGrowth
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Your mind wants to scatter. Your heart wants to stay close. Both are right. Today's sky says tend to what matters most, even if it means sitting still. Read today's horoscope: https://innerself.com/articles/personal/intuition-awareness/astrology/horoscope/32849-innerself-horoscope-june-6-2026.html #InnerSelf #Astrology
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Most people chase happiness like it's hiding somewhere else. Stop. The thing you're looking for is already here. It's you. When you accept life as it is—your flaws, your fate, your freedom—something shifts. Joy stops being a destination. It becomes your actual life. Read more: https://innerself.com/articles/personal/happiness-and-self-help/21188-liberation-becoming-what-you-are.html #InnerSelf #Spirituality #PersonalGrowth
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Those tiny hummingbirds aren't living on sugar alone. They need insects, minerals, and protein to survive. Your feeder is just part of the menu. Plant native flowers and let some bugs live. https://innerself.com/articles/living/home-and-garden/gardening/21192-why-don-t-hummingbirds-get-fat-drinking-sugary-nectar.html #InnerSelf #Wellness
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Romantic love isn't just chemistry. It's history, culture, and biology tangled together. Passion fades. Companionship grows. Understanding how this works matters if you want love to last.
https://innerself.com/articles/personal/relationships/couples/23447-just-what-is-love.html
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Moon in Aquarius pulls back what drains you. Pluto amplifies the work of letting go. Sun and Uranus in Gemini spark sudden clarity. Today demands you see things fresh. Read what the stars say about release and renewal.
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Stop trying to fix everyone else. Your real power lives in understanding yourself. When you anchor that in compassion, love becomes your tool for peace.
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You search for shoes. Your neighbor searches for the same shoes. Different prices appear. Not a glitch. It's surveillance pricing at work. Companies watch your wallet and charge accordingly. Read how they do it.
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Heat kills the poor first. Climate change isn't just warming the planet. It's redrawn the line between survival and danger. AC isn't a luxury anymore. It's life or death. https://innerself.com/articles/social/justice/economic/32814-why-access-to-air-conditioning-is-the-new-measure-of-poverty.html #InnerSelf #Climate
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Depression treatment hasn't changed much in decades. Now psilocybin research is shifting psychiatry. The real question: Can we use it safely and systematically? What the latest science shows.
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You're chasing promotions and relationships like they'll fix you. They won't. Stoics knew better. Control what's yours: your effort, your character, your response. Let go of the outcome. That's where real success lives.
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We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly re-spawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.
John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American writer
East of Eden, ch. 34 (1952)More about this quote: wist.info/steinbeck-john/83944…
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Sitting still does nothing. Except everything. No agenda, no striving, just presence. That's where joy lives. Read why doing nothing might be the most productive thing you'll do today. https://innerself.com/articles/personal/spirituality-mindfulness/meditation/9948-sitting-quietly-doing-nothing.html #Mindfulness #InnerSelf
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Your friend is struggling. Listen without fixing. Ask what they need. Don't disappear. Depression lies to them about being a burden. Prove the lie wrong by staying put. Professional help matters too.
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Your weather app doesn't tell you the climate story. One cold winter doesn't erase warming trends. Understanding the difference changes how you plan your life. Read why it matters.
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A super El Niño is forming. Global temps could hit 1.7°C above baseline by 2027. Fertilizer costs up 50%. Droughts and floods hitting food regions hard. Buffer stocks are thin. Insurance companies are bailing. Most governments are still pretending this is temporary weather.
Welcome to the moment we didn't prepare for.
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Exploring antarātman — the inner Self at the heart of Hatha and Tantra Yoga — reminds us that practice is not about adding more, but about uncovering what’s already here.
In a world that pulls us outward, turning inward becomes an act of freedom.
A return.
A remembering.#Yoga #Tantra #HathaYoga #InnerSelf #Consciousness #Meditation #FediverseYoga #MindfulMovementhttps://www.tiktok.com/@syntaxsorcerer74/video/7620141495722511618?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Can the man say, Fiat lux, Let there be light; and out of chaos make a world? Precisely as there is light in himself, will he accomplish this.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-12), “The Hero as Poet,” Home House, Portman Square, LondonMore about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/82017…
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Painting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
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Painting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
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Painting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
It is well said, in every sense, that a man’s religion is the chief fact with regard to him. A man’s, or a nation of men’s. By religion I do not mean here the church-creed which he professes, the articles of faith which he will sign and, in words or otherwise, assert; not this wholly, in many cases not this at all. We see men of all kinds of professed creeds attain to almost all degrees of worth or worthlessness under each or any of them. This is not what I call religion, this profession and assertion; which is often only a profession and assertion from the outworks of the man, from the mere argumentative region of him, if even so deep as that.
But the thing a man does practically believe (and this is often enough without asserting it even to himself, much less to others); the thing a man does practically lay to heart, and know for certain, concerning his vital relations to this mysterious Universe, and his duty and destiny there, that is in all cases the primary thing for him, and creatively determines all the rest. That is his religion; or, it may be, his mere scepticism and no-religion: the manner it is in which he feels himself to be spiritually related to the Unseen World or No-World; and I say, if you tell me what that is, you tell me to a very great extent what the man is, what the kind of things he will do is.Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-05), “The Hero as Divinity,” Home House, Portman Square, LondonMore about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/80591…
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Painting on paper, 20 x 20 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
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