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Day 2: Mapping Your Vision & Defining Objectives

https://notestonowhere6.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/day-2-mapping-your-vision-defining-objectives/

Expressive Writing for Addiction: How Journaling Heals the Brain

https://notestonowhere6.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/expressive-writing-for-addiction-how-journaling-heals-the-brain/

Expressive Writing for Addiction: How Journaling Heals the Brain

https://notestonowhere6.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/expressive-writing-for-addiction-how-journaling-heals-the-brain/

Expressive Writing for Addiction: How Journaling Heals the Brain

https://notestonowhere6.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/expressive-writing-for-addiction-how-journaling-heals-the-brain/

Expressive Writing for Addiction: How Journaling Heals the Brain

https://notestonowhere6.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/expressive-writing-for-addiction-how-journaling-heals-the-brain/

Expressive Writing for Addiction: How Journaling Heals the Brain

https://notestonowhere6.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/expressive-writing-for-addiction-how-journaling-heals-the-brain/

Sometimes the hardest thing to release isn’t a person.

It’s the story you keep telling yourself about what could have been.

That’s Detachment.

#TheReset #PsychozoicEra #Detachment #LettingGo

Sometimes the hardest thing to release isn’t a person.

It’s the story you keep telling yourself about what could have been.

That’s Detachment.

#TheReset #PsychozoicEra #Detachment #LettingGo

Sometimes the hardest thing to release isn’t a person.

It’s the story you keep telling yourself about what could have been.

That’s Detachment.

#TheReset #PsychozoicEra #Detachment #LettingGo

QUIETLY, KEEP WALKING 💎

At seventy, I sometimes wonder what I would want an elder to have told me when I was young.

Probably this:

Don’t take anything too seriously. You will not solve every dilemma you encounter anyway. Try new things. Try new ideas. Try different ways of living. Meet lots of different people. Travel and have different experiences in unknown places. When something stops working, move on.

QUIETLY.

There's no great drama you ever need to contain. No need to prove that you were right or that the other person was wrong. No need to turn every ending into a battle, or even some of them.

I spent a lot of my life believing certain things were so terribly important; they weren't, but I defended them anyway. I argued endlessly for them. Above all else, I wanted to be right. I wasted a lot of time on meaningless details. Now I can’t even remember half of what they were about. That tells me something. Perhaps life isn’t about getting it right.

Perhaps it’s about fully experiencing life and knowing when it’s time to let something go and keep walking.

@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@disability
@pwd
@joinin

#Life #LettingGo #Perspective #Wisdom #KeepWalking

QUIETLY, KEEP WALKING 💎

At seventy, I sometimes wonder what I would want an elder to have told me when I was young.

Probably this:

Don’t take anything too seriously. You will not solve every dilemma you encounter anyway. Try new things. Try new ideas. Try different ways of living. Meet lots of different people. Travel and have different experiences in unknown places. When something stops working, move on.

QUIETLY.

There's no great drama you ever need to contain. No need to prove that you were right or that the other person was wrong. No need to turn every ending into a battle, or even some of them.

I spent a lot of my life believing certain things were so terribly important; they weren't, but I defended them anyway. I argued endlessly for them. Above all else, I wanted to be right. I wasted a lot of time on meaningless details. Now I can’t even remember half of what they were about. That tells me something. Perhaps life isn’t about getting it right.

Perhaps it’s about fully experiencing life and knowing when it’s time to let something go and keep walking.

@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@disability
@pwd
@joinin

#Life #LettingGo #Perspective #Wisdom #KeepWalking

QUIETLY, KEEP WALKING 💎

At seventy, I sometimes wonder what I would want an elder to have told me when I was young.

Probably this:

Don’t take anything too seriously. You will not solve every dilemma you encounter anyway. Try new things. Try new ideas. Try different ways of living. Meet lots of different people. Travel and have different experiences in unknown places. When something stops working, move on.

QUIETLY.

There's no great drama you ever need to contain. No need to prove that you were right or that the other person was wrong. No need to turn every ending into a battle, or even some of them.

I spent a lot of my life believing certain things were so terribly important; they weren't, but I defended them anyway. I argued endlessly for them. Above all else, I wanted to be right. I wasted a lot of time on meaningless details. Now I can’t even remember half of what they were about. That tells me something. Perhaps life isn’t about getting it right.

Perhaps it’s about fully experiencing life and knowing when it’s time to let something go and keep walking.

@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@disability
@pwd
@joinin

#Life #LettingGo #Perspective #Wisdom #KeepWalking

QUIETLY, KEEP WALKING 💎

At seventy, I sometimes wonder what I would want an elder to have told me when I was young.

Probably this:

Don’t take anything too seriously. You will not solve every dilemma you encounter anyway. Try new things. Try new ideas. Try different ways of living. Meet lots of different people. Travel and have different experiences in unknown places. When something stops working, move on.

QUIETLY.

There's no great drama you ever need to contain. No need to prove that you were right or that the other person was wrong. No need to turn every ending into a battle, or even some of them.

I spent a lot of my life believing certain things were so terribly important; they weren't, but I defended them anyway. I argued endlessly for them. Above all else, I wanted to be right. I wasted a lot of time on meaningless details. Now I can’t even remember half of what they were about. That tells me something. Perhaps life isn’t about getting it right.

Perhaps it’s about fully experiencing life and knowing when it’s time to let something go and keep walking.

@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@disability
@pwd
@joinin

#Life #LettingGo #Perspective #Wisdom #KeepWalking

QUIETLY, KEEP WALKING 💎

At seventy, I sometimes wonder what I would want an elder to have told me when I was young.

Probably this:

Don’t take anything too seriously. You will not solve every dilemma you encounter anyway. Try new things. Try new ideas. Try different ways of living. Meet lots of different people. Travel and have different experiences in unknown places. When something stops working, move on.

QUIETLY.

There's no great drama you ever need to contain. No need to prove that you were right or that the other person was wrong. No need to turn every ending into a battle, or even some of them.

I spent a lot of my life believing certain things were so terribly important; they weren't, but I defended them anyway. I argued endlessly for them. Above all else, I wanted to be right. I wasted a lot of time on meaningless details. Now I can’t even remember half of what they were about. That tells me something. Perhaps life isn’t about getting it right.

Perhaps it’s about fully experiencing life and knowing when it’s time to let something go and keep walking.

@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@disability
@pwd
@joinin

#Life #LettingGo #Perspective #Wisdom #KeepWalking

#forgiveness #emotionalhealing #personalgrowth #selfimprovement #lettinggo #innerpeace #mindfulness #wellbeing #NeuroScience #NeuroDivergent #NeuroCiencia #Neuro #Neurology #NeuroPlasticity #NeuroCirurgia #NeuroDiverse #spiritualjourney https://mastodon.social/@biohackingpathway/116993757044577041

✮ An Ache That Pricks Even Thorns ✮

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✮ An Ache That Pricks Even Thorns ✮

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What Did I Accomplish Today?

What is the 
measure 
of a 
good day?

Accomplishment 
can be a strange 
idol. 
It promises 
peace 
after one more 
task, 
one more sermon, 
one more song, 
one more post, 
one more 
finished 
thing. 

But then 
the day 
ends, 
and my soul 
still has to 
live 
with itself.

Here in the 
twilight, 
rather than 
asking
what I have 
done,
a better 
measure 
might be:

Did I become 
more free today?

Did I become 
less bitter?

Did I tell 
the truth?

Did I release 
what was 
not mine 
to carry?

Did I move 
even slightly 
toward 
love?

A clear mind 
and 
a better heart 
may be 
holier than 
a completed 
checklist.

So maybe 
my evening prayer 
is simply this:

Lord,
I release the day.
I release what I finished
and what I failed to finish.
Clear my mind.
Soften my heart.
Let me sleep as one who is loved,
not as one who must prove his worth.
Amen

Migraine, Perception, and Creative Flow

Living Inside A Migraine

When pain, perception, and medication reshape daily life

I’ve been dealing with a migraine for nine days. This isn’t just a headache—it comes with aura, Alice in Wonderland syndrome, and persistent vertigo with nausea. My perception gets distorted, my thinking slows down, and basic tasks become difficult. The medication helps with the pain, but it brings its own side effects, and overall, it’s been hard to function.

In the middle of this, something unexpected happened.

A Brief Shift in State

Unexpected focus and creative flow during disruption

While I was heavily medicated, I had a period of intense creative focus. For a few hours, I was able to paint with a level of freedom that I don’t usually reach. It felt like my usual mental filters were lowered. I wasn’t second‑guessing decisions or holding back. I just worked.

The result was different from my normal work—more direct, less controlled, but also more expressive.

This raised a question for me: what actually changed in that moment?

Changes in Perception

How migraine and medication alter access, not ability

Triptans, the medication I use for acute migraine attacks, act on serotonin receptors. They’re not psychedelics, but they do affect how the brain processes signals. Combined with the migraine itself—especially aura, which already alters perception—the overall effect is a shift in how I experience space, color, and thought.

That shift isn’t comfortable. Most of it is disorienting and unpleasant. But within it, there was a brief window where my usual patterns loosened. And in that space, creative work felt easier.

Access, Not Creation

The work was already there—the conditions just changed

It’s important to be clear: the migraine didn’t “create” anything. The creativity was already there. What changed was how accessible it felt. The conditions removed some of the internal constraints I usually work within—habits, expectations, and self‑editing.

That’s not something I want to rely on. The cost is too high. But it does point to something useful.

If a change in mental state can affect how I access creativity, then there may be other ways to reach similar openness without the physical toll. It suggests that part of my creative process is limited not by ability, but by structure—how tightly I control the outcome, how much I filter while working.

There’s also a broader connection here. Decades ago, I had experiences with psychedelics that shifted how I saw the world and myself. Those experiences helped me let go of a lot of fear and rigidity. I don’t return to them now, but the perspective they opened up has stayed with me.

That perspective has been important in dealing with chronic migraine. The pain itself isn’t optional, but my response to it isn’t fixed. Over time, I’ve learned to manage the mental side of it—how much resistance I bring to it, how I interpret it, and how I move through it. That doesn’t eliminate suffering, but it changes its intensity and impact.

The recent experience fits into that same pattern. Even in a difficult state, there was a moment where something shifted—not into relief exactly, but into clarity of a different kind.

For me, the takeaway isn’t about the medication or the migraine. It’s about access.

The kind of creative flow I felt isn’t something external that I need to recreate through extreme conditions. It’s something internal that I was briefly able to reach under unusual circumstances.

Openness and Letting Go

When the boundary between experience and experiencer softens

There’s also a quality in that state that’s familiar from meditation. It’s a kind of openness where the usual sense of separation starts to fade. Instead of feeling like an observer acting on an experience, there’s just the experience itself—no clear boundary between the one perceiving and what’s being perceived. In that space, the need to control or interpret loosens, and the work unfolds more directly, without the usual distance between intention and action.

Working with Pain

Perspective, resistance, and what can shift

Another layer to this is perspective. The difference between being overwhelmed by the experience and moving through it often comes down to how it’s held. I wrote previously about the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path as a framework for navigating chronic pain from migraine and lupus. What stands out to me now is how practical that framework is—not as philosophy, but as a way of adjusting perspective in real time.

When The Pain Takes Over

A reminder that practice isn’t always accessible

Pain is present. That part isn’t optional. But the added weight—resistance, fear, frustration—can shift depending on how tightly I hold the experience. That said, this isn’t always accessible. There are moments when the pain takes over completely. Last night was one of those times. I woke up in the middle of the night in severe pain after my first medication didn’t work. I couldn’t find my stronger medication, didn’t have my glasses, and ended up searching through cabinets, drawers, and bags in a panic. I knew that without it, I might end up in the ER—where the treatment helps, but comes with hours of discomfort and side effects. I was overwhelmed, in tears, and scared.

In moments like that, there isn’t much space for perspective or practice. But experiences like this also make something clear to me: without meditation, without the framework I’ve built from Buddhist practice, I would likely be living in that state of panic much more often. My commotion woke up my husband, who came in—calm, steady, not caught in the panic I was in. He found the medication, and he cleaned up the mess I had made searching as I went back to bed. That contrast stood out. It reminded me that while I can’t always access those tools in the moment, they still shape how I move through these experiences over time.

Returning to Openness

Creative flow, meditation, and another way of relating to experience

It’s not easy to stay open in the middle of persistent pain. In those moments, it’s hard to remember that the pain will pass—that it isn’t permanent. Pain forces attention into the present, but not calmly or intentionally. It can narrow everything down to urgency and survival. At the same time, it can act as a kind of teacher. It shows where resistance builds, where fear takes hold, and how quickly the mind tries to escape what’s happening. When I’m able to step back, even slightly, I can see it less as something to fight and more as something that reveals how I relate to experience.

What I keep coming back to is this: the experience changes depending on how I meet it. Not completely, not all at once, but enough to matter. And in those moments of openness, there is less separation—and a little more space for things to be as they are.

I painted this over six hours while medicated for a migraine, drifting in and out of focus. The haze loosened my usual self‑judgment, and the work shifted into something more fluid and intuitive. It’s not complete, but the evolution itself tells the story.

Cultivating Calm with Sunday Softening Practices

Last year’s unpredictability led my focus to waver; my essays, meditations, and Instagram feed transitioned from careful curation to something more spontaneous and less intentional. Despite the time constraints that challenged my efforts, my desire to maintain a presence remains strong, as I aim to share creations that, in turn, provide others with glimpses of the peace I have discovered through various mindfulness practices.

Finding Stillness

I am shifting back towards more deliberate, niche-centered posts that enable not only myself, but readers and viewers as well, to find that still point amidst the unpredictability of life. Although this unpredictability remains unchanged, my experiences over the past year have taught me patience and provided the wisdom to accept life’s inherent uncertainty.

Allowing Flow

We often hold assumptions and expectations without justification, which can cloud our judgment and hinder personal growth. This journey leads us to realize the significance of flow—not just as a concept but as a transformative experience that allows us to engage deeply with the present moment.

Reflection

It is a topic I’ve explored extensively in my essay, Open Awareness: The Gift of Gracious Acceptance, where I delve into the nuances of being open to life’s unpredictable nature. Embracing this mindset can lead to profound insights and inner peace. To complement these reflections, I invite you to explore the meditation below, which serves as a practical guide to cultivating this sense of flow and serenity in your daily life.

Gentle Reminders

I often revisit my own writings and meditations as life becomes overwhelming, making it difficult to maintain a sense of peace. We need gentle reminders and practices that we can slip into during hectic moments. Over the past few weeks, I’ve actively engaged with the basics of meditation, yoga, and lymphatic flow movement, aligning my mind, body, and spirit energetically to a state of calm amid the chaos. From this still point, I aim for my work to feel deeper, more genuine, and authentic.

Work Week Flow

I am on an inviting journey that embraces the comforting essence of Sunday softening. For many, including me, Sunday is that cherished interlude before the hustle of the workweek kicks in. It’s a day infused with serenity and anticipation. While meditation and writing ignite my creative spirit, I work full-time as a professional in chemistry and geology. This unique mix allows me to relish my Sundays as the slow day before diving back into a more technical workflow. This path not only enriches my experience but also offers you a touch of softness and warmth as you prepare to face the new week ahead.

Sunday Softening

Sunday softening invites you to take a moment to feel your breath and your body, actively noticing tension and where emotions reside in your body, and allowing for a gentle release. As you breathe in deeply, envision the air filling your lungs and nurturing your spirit, while you exhale, let go of the burdens of the week behind you. It serves as a small reminder of who you are beneath the labels, revealing the essence of your true self, which gets overlooked in the busyness of life. In this sacred time, allow yourself to reconnect with your inner being, appreciating the stillness and presence that is always available to you. Recognize that you can return to this mindful space at any moment, embracing the peace and grounding it offers, cultivating a sense of calm that can guide you through the challenges ahead.

These posts will be shared each Sunday on Instagram, Facebook, and right here. I warmly invite you to share your word in the comments, and together, we can create a safe space to hold those thoughts.

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My watch battery died on a Sunday. I ran without data for the first time in years.

Day three, something shifted. Without numbers, I started noticing different things.

What do you notice when you remove the measurement?

Read the full essay

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#yogasutras #aparigraha #yogaphilosophy
#nonattachment #running #yoga
#mindfulrunning #spiritualpractice #lettinggo

✮ Maturity is Far Away from Home ‐ Iridescent ✮

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Memories live in my heart, not in a box of old junk. I’m taking photos of the sentimental stuff and letting the physical clutter go. Keep the memory, release the weight! 📸
#LettingGo #Minimalism #BipolarLife

Read today’s Club post: https://open.substack.com/pub/speakingbipolar/p/keep-the-memory-lose-the-clutter?r=y4fp9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Pre-save "Void," the latest album from Chasing Echoes, now available.

https://linktr.ee/Digital_Poet

#releases #music #newmusic #ChasingEchoes #PoetryMusic #EmotionalSong #Heartbreak #LettingGo #digitalpoet #toxiclove #indiepunk

5 taoist ways of non-resistance. Which one speaks to you the most?

#einzelgänger #einzelganger #philosopher #quoteoftheday #philosophy #quotestoliveby #dailyquotes #thoughts #thoughtoftheday #lifequotes #strength #flow #embracechange #lettinggo #nonattachment #nature #taoist #taoism

The Strength of Walking Away: Insights from Marcus Aurelius #MarcusAurelius, #Stoicism, #PersonalGrowth, #InnerStrength, #Mindfulness, #LettingGo, #MentalPeace, #SelfImprovement, #WalkAway, #OvercomeFear ⏩ https://tinyurl.com/325w95yk

Thursday February 1, 2024

Today the Moon 🌖 goes from themes of balance in Libra ♎,

to a deep dive into inner truths in Scorpio. ♏

The Moon's square to Pluto also brings a symbolic death and rebirth process. 🦋

Intense themes could come up... 😳

that are inviting you to release what no longer serves you, 🍃

and deepen your trust in yourself and the process. 💖

More in this video! https://youtu.be/RY6BVlVtfJw

#Astrology #AstrologyHeals #Scorpio #ScorpioMoon #Zodiac #InnerTruth #Rebirth #LettingGo

Outgrowing Relationships Is a Natural Part of Life's Evolution, and It's Okay to Move Forward Without Them. #LettingGo #SelfGrowth #EmbracingChange