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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When did someone pushing back on you actually help you grow more than someone cheering you on?”
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You’re doing sex wrong: What I wish everyone knew about the emotional presence, physical skill, and energetic magnitude of blissful, fulfilling sex.
Emotional Presence Orgasm is a paltry goal Orgasms aren’t always a clear yes-or-no thing for me. There’s an ever-growing range of pleasurable experiences that I call “orgasm,” and the one I’m certain would be widely agreed upon as an orgasm is the least pleasurable one for me... The Pathology of Ungrounded Development
One of the ways psychological development can become pathological is if the current primary level from which a person operates isn’t grounded in skillful integration of the previous level.... - annabeth...
I Don't Have To
I’ve had an intellectual understanding that I don’t have to do things, but I’ve recently realized that it was tethered to old beliefs. "I don’t have to visit my grandmother if I’m willing to be a bad granddaughter/bad person." or "I don’t have to buy my friend a birthday present... On Things I Loved That I Dropped
In a workshop I attended several days ago, everyone ended up sharing, one-by-one, about their experience or relationship with the subject of God (with a capital "G").... - Philip...
Are We Ever Awake/Free/Thriving Enough To Not Practice?
Through the years, I’ve had periods in my life where I feel so overwhelmingly good that all my daily spiritual practices (yoga, meditation, prayer, Big Mind process, relatefulness, spiritual study, etc) fall to the wayside.... Why you should post more:
Everything is a mirror of everything. We’re all censoring most of our awareness. Uptrust is a currently curated community where we can actually practice thinking. The more I post the more direct I’m being with everyone in my life.... How relationships cultivate Who I Want To Be
I have this thing consistently happen in romantic relationships about 10 months in… I find myself doing a full inventory of if my partner is helping me become who I want to be. What am I training myself to do in this connection?... This reminds me of a conversation I recently had where a few layers down they realized they were afraid of being a terrible person and dying alone. And I was like, excellent, it sounds like making peace with being a terrible person and dying alone will free up a lot of energy for... - annabeth...
UpTrust is both destroying my interest in other social media platforms and improving the way I interact with them. It became blatant to me this week when I realized my screen time limits had long since stopped popping up for social media.... Welcome to Deep Takes on Hot Takes
Hello and welcome to Deep Takes on Hot Takes! Thank you for being a part of this. This is a huge experiment—and we believe it matters a great deal. I believe that what we start here over these next four days will plant seeds that will have an outsized positive impact on the... Some Thoughts on Boundaries
Boundaries are mine. My portals to connection. They’re statements of fact: “whoops, I’m sorry, it turns out I can’t love from here anymore.” The purest form doesn’t require anyone else to uphold. I can say “no” to a party I don’t want to go to.... Patience, aka fractal Forming Storming Norming Performing
Yesterday I was in a circle where someone said something like, "Okay, I’m learning that what I shared (10 minutes ago or something) created more distance and division in the group, and that’s not what I want." I could totally see where they were coming from, with the immediate... - annabeth...
How Spider-Man Shows Us the Beautiful Power of Beginner's Mind
If you’re like most people, when a shocking thing happens you instantly go into anger, fight, or some other emotional reaction. Just like Doctor Strange did in the 2016 Marvel movie.... - tommy...
AI gave me TikTok brain
I fell into a pattern of ask ChatGPT first, think second. And it caused me to think less for myself. Any problem or idea with building my business, writing software, etc. my default would be to ask ChatGPT, read its response, then start thinking about it.... - onWe don't always have to feel connected with ourselves first to connect with others. Sometimes, I find myself in connecting with the other.byArun...
I'm seeing a couple of themes in here: Stop waiting for idealized/perfect conditions before living. I'm a big yes on this, and I also find that it's much easier said than done. The failure case is really bad: you wait your whole life and then die without having really lived.... - renee...
Loving UR quadrant, actionable, body-driven development
For years, I have been expanding into more into healthy assertiveness and yet what is unfolding in me by lifting weights (now in a more harcore way at the gym) feels profound. Physical practice quite easily leads to distinct, measureable personal evolutions.... - david...
New to UpTrusting, but an OG trust-o-phile
I had an a-ha moment playing the linked game in 2017 which illustrates something interesting about Trust that had eluded me up until that moment: "trust, if treated as a blind decision, without reflection, can be dangerous, and leave me vulnerable." There is also a potent... You're codependent but luckily codependency isn't bad
Picture it, two astronauts floating deep in space. Don't worry how they got here, just know that they're floating so close they can touch. Do you know how space works? If we're in space and I actually bump you or something bumps into me...we'll float...away...possibly forever.... AMA with John Mackey
Wednesday, 2/11 at 2:00 PM CT We’re here to talk about A Course in Miracles, and The Disappearance of the Universe, and how we can help each other home with the practices of true forgiveness.... I think about boundaries as how I’m able to operate while being who I am. Eg. I don’t have generally strong boundaries around being yelled at because I can generally operate with an open heart while being yelled at....