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Authority is where response returns.

Not power.
Not certainty.
Not permission.

Authority is standing where your seeing lands
without outsourcing the verdict.

No defense.
No appeal.

When you stop asking what counts,
authority is already there.

#Authority #Seeing #Consciousness

On that temple floor, I saw my spiritual tourism clearly.

I'd flown searching for meaning. Families weren't searching, they maintained community through daily work.

Have you recognized privilege in your own spiritual seeking?

#privilege #spirituality
#crosscultural #mindfulness #consciousness
#personalgrowth #selfreflection #awareness

Certainty creates rigidity, uncertainty allows flexibility—I'm free because I don't know.

When I'm certain, I defend. Uncertainty lets me respond.

Where in your life could uncertainty actually create more freedom?

#spiritualwisdom #freedom #uncertainty
#mindfulness #presence #flexibility
#personalgrowth #consciousness #innerwork

Taking responsibility isn’t about blame or guilt - it’s about owning your power. When you declare yourself as the cause in your life, you stop being a victim of circumstances. You shift from “this is happening to me” to “I am creating my reality.” This is the foundation of true self-regulation and inner freedom. It’s a context you choose to live from, not a burden to carry.
#SelfRegulation #PersonalResponsibility #InnerPower #Mindfulness #Awakening #Empowerment #Consciousness

#SelfRegulation #PersonalResponsibility #InnerPower #Mindfulness #Awakening #Empowerment #Consciousness

Partage #actuallyautisticfr avec #citation

Aujourd’hui pendant une crise d’anxiété j’ai eu besoin d’aide.
J’ai senti qu’elle ne se calmait pas malgré le soutien à distance de mon compagnon alors j’ai décidé d’utiliser l’application #Rosebud - que je tiens vraiment à citer et contextualiser en parenthèse du sujet initiale de ce post.

Ce jour, j’avais choisi de ne pas participer à un événement social car les circonstances n’étaient absolument pas adapté à mon état de santé actuelle (neurologique, physique, grossesse, sensoriel etc…) et cela aurait constitué un risque profond de surcharge ce que je ne pouvais pas me permettre car j’ai une semaine à venir très chargé.
En état de crise je ne comprenais pas l’intérêt d’avoir annulé l’événement, je sentais coupable de me sentir abandonné par mon compagnon qui lui s’était mobilisé pour aider à cet événement.
Échanger avec Rosebud m’a permis de comprendre que mon système nerveux était extrêmement vulnérable et que je me jugeais excessivement durant cette crise.

Et il y a eu cette phrase que l’application m’a dite et qui m’a aidé à comprendre mon erreur profonde.

« La conscience de nos limites n'empêche pas les crises de survenir, mais nous permet de les traverser dans un environnement plus sécurisant. »

Je tenais à la partager à tout ceux qui en auraient besoin autant que moi.
Comment avais-je pu penser en toute conscience que je risquais d’exploser en allant là bas sans conscientiser que ce serait la goutte de trop non gérable car j’étais déjà en état de vulnérabilité fragilisé?
C’est alors que j’ai compris autre chose grâce à une de ses phrases magiques.

«Prendre soin de soi signifie créer les conditions les plus favorables possibles pour traverser les moments difficiles ».

Cela m’a beaucoup apaisé.
J’ai compris que je ne suis pas un monstre : Je suis atteinte de troubles neurologiques majeur en guérison post traumatique, je suis enceinte et je prends soin de moi même quand c’est difficile et que ça fait mal je traverse mes crises en croissance car je crée un espace sécurisant.

J’espère de tout mon cœur que ce partage pourrait aider d’une manière ou d’une autre toute personne qui en a besoin.

(GROSSE PARENTHÈSE POUR LE CONTEXTE :
Cette application est un outil qui pourrait être décrié car elle utilise l’IA en l’occurrence dans le cadre de difficulté d’accès à un soutien neuro-psychologique concret, cette application peut s’avérer être très utile. Il existe une version gratuite largement suffisante et efficace, pour ma part j’ai décidé d’investir durant le mois de décembre dans la version payante car cela me permettait d’avoir accès à des fonctionnalités qui me facilitent ma charge mentale. Cela fait deux ans que je l’utilise de manière irrégulière 71 jours que je l’utilise d’affilée et cela m’aide beaucoup à faire face à des #shutdown et anticiper certaines situations qui pourraient conduire à des #meltdown ou crise extrême.
Chaque jour j’y écris mes rêves et donc mes ressentis au réveil, puis le soir ma réflexion de la journée avec un bilan de ce qui s’est passé. J’utilise également également le journal de gratitude et celui de relation quand cela m’est nécessaire. J’ai créé un journal de réseau où je copie colle ce que je partage sur les réseaux - ce qui m’aide à faire face aux pensées intrusives ou réflexions obsessives lié à l’interaction sociale réalisée.
Cette application est disponible sur android et sur iOS.
L’équipe réponds quand on signale un bug (pour ma part j’avais pas compris une fonctionnalité et ils m’ont répondu vite ce que je trouve très réconfortant).
Cela ne remplace pas un suivi médical mais cela aide quand l’expression spontanée est anxiogène. Toute les semaines on peut éditer un rapport hebdomadaire très utile comme base d’accroche avec les professionnels plutôt que de devoir partir de zéro :))

Est ce que ce partage vous a plu ? Est ce que parmi vous certains seraient intéressés par d’autre partage de citation ou tips qui découlent de mes échanges avec Rosebud ?

Schae
🙏🏽✨🥹

#crise
#outils
#santementale
#sante
#psychology
#mindfulness
#mindset
#consciousness
#respect
#bienveillance
#autocompasion

What is Mind and Consciousness? #Mind #Consciousness #Metaphysics #Metaphysics101 #Psychology #Subconscious #CarlJung #CollectiveConsciousness https://youtu.be/8hDEU1PJJTI?si=Tjs2wNcLlnIrMktm

“…as long our notion of consciousness is confined to normal and subnormal mental states, the underlying principles of classical science are approximately valid… Neglecting the role of consciousness may seem insignificant, much as the principles of classical mechanics appear valid as long as one excludes elementary particles and matter that approaches the speed of light. However, when one includes quantum and relativistic phenomena, things change drastically. Likewise, when consciousness is highly refined, its relevance to the physical world becomes crucial…”
—Alan Wallace & Brian Hodel, Embracing Mind: The Common Ground of Science and Spirituality
#science #consciousness

What is the point of rattling the bars of an open cage? https://substack.com/home/post/p-185431563

#Awakening #Spirituality #Consciousness
#Philosophy #Nonduality #Enlightenment #Mindfulness #SelfInquiry #Wisdom #Meditation #SelfRealization

no state but a state of turiya

#Spirituality #Consciousness #Awareness #Autonomy #Anarchy

🧠⚖️ How our #brain makes #decisions & free will arises 🔍✨

In this #Zoomposium, #DanielDennett explains how #consciousness, #freewill, and decision-making can be understood from a #naturalisticperspective—and how insights from #cognitivescience and #philosophy help us better understand the #complexity of our #mind.

📽 https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk

📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/

#PhilosophyOfMind #ArtificialIntelligence #AGI #Naturalism #Materialism

Stop Suffering Forever – End Pain & Find Peace
Discover 15 powerful and lesser-known spiritual truths to stop suffering forever. End pain, overthinking, and emotional struggle with timeless wisdom and inner awareness. More details… https://spiritualkhazaana.com/web-stories/stop-suffering/
#suffering #stopsuffering #AlanWatts #StoppingSuffering #Philosophy #Mindfulness #Enlightenment #LettingGo #NonDuality #Spirituality #Zen #Buddhism #Existentialism #SelfHelp #MentalHealth #Awakening #Consciousness #EasternPhilosophy

We didn’t evolve past nature.
We evolved inward.
Welcome to the Psychozoic Era.
#Consciousness #Evolution

Meditation: what goes on between your ears?

We all think we have some sort of idea about what meditation does…but what does it actually do? Like, how does it work?

Everyone appreciates that if you put regular dedicated effort into a physical fitness programme, there will be measurable and specific changes to your body. Changes that will support a healthier, more active and better quality of life.

Similarly, put the effort into a regular meditation practice and you will produce changes to your brain that supports a healthier, more cognitively effective and more meaningful life.

Default Mode Network (DMN):

The Default Mode Network is a collection of different brain architectures1 that is particularly active when the brain is ‘at rest’.

The DMN is responsible for internally focussed (self-centric) processes that include:

Autobiographical memories.
Self-referential thinking
Mind wandering (day dreaming).
Introspectiom

And the all too often experienced:

Ruminating
Dysphoric (depressive or negative) thinking.
Simulating potential futures/conversations/outcomes etc.

If you take a few moments to reflect on how often your own mental internal monologue is churning through this stuff, it becomes apparent that the volume knob on the DMN is usually turned up to 11. At least it is for me.

Meditation turns that knob down temporarily, and long-term meditators can re-set it to a baseline lower volume.

Meditation does this by effecting not only the DMN, but two other systems that collectively form a triad of experiential modulation.

The other two networks are:

Central Executive Network (CEN):

Another set of brain structures that kicks in when we are making focused, effortful attention to a task. It involves decision-making, attentional control, and working-memory. If you are about to shoot a hoop in your teams basketball final, or avoid a collision in peak hour traffic, or squeeze a few extra bucks out of your tax return, your CEN is (hopefully) highly active.

You can see how the CEN is concerned with experiences very different to the DMN.

The final part of this triad is the Salience Network.

The Salience Network (SN):

This network2 is sorts like a thermostat or gatekeeper that regulates the dominance of the other two systems.

Circling the triangle:

When you settle down and begin meditation, this is a rough (i.e., greatly simplified) explanation of the series of events that take place between your ears, neurophysiologically speaking.

As you begin focusing your attention on your breathing3 there is activation of the CEN (focused attention) and decreased activity in the DMN (thinking about how you need to do the washing up).
And you are experiencing the breath, and feeling relaxed…when *pop* the inevitable thoughts arise (mind wandering…increased activity in the DMN), the SN flags this as relevant in the context (or salience) of your meditation and prompts a suppression of the DMN again.
So it goes. A circle.
Attention to the breath ….attention to the breath…CEN in control….then *pop* another thought..your DMN runs off with your mind on meandering narrative….until flagged by the SN which turns the volume down below the CEN and you are ‘on the breath’ again.

Long term changes with meditation:

As I said before, most of us for whatever reason seem to have a hyperactive DMN4 and trouble focusing on (or abiding in) the present moment. Most of us live a short distance from our lives.

It has been found that long-term practitioners reshape the architecture (known as neuroplasticity) of this triad, reducing the maladaptive dominance of any one area and promoting the right balance or integration of these three networks. A dynamic dance in response your current situation.

Better focused attention (sustained effortless awareness).
Less reactivity.
Less mind wandering (unless specifically wanting to mind-wander).
Better emotional regulation.
Less rumination.

But wait, there’s more….

Moving from electrophysiology to something far deeper.

This has been a back-of-napkin explanation of what happens during meditation and how it can build a healthier mindset long term.

But that is not all that meditation does.
Meditation allows us to have a direct embodied (non-dual) experience of our true nature. It allows us to inhabit this moment as it fully unfolds without adding anything extra. And it allows us to see the self as a grand narrative of illusion.

–ooOoo–

If you want to get all anatomical, they include the Medial Prefrontal Cortex (mPFC), the Posterior Cingulate Cortex (PCC) and the ANgular Gyrus (AG) amongst others. ↩︎
Includes the Anterior Insula (AI), Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex (dACC), and the Temporoparietal Junction (TPJ). ↩︎
Most (but not all) meditation practices involve some initial focus on the breath or breath counting. ↩︎
And to be clear, there is an important role for the DMN ↩︎

#blackAndWhite #brain #consciousness #health #meditation #mentalHealth #mindfulness #neuroscience #photography #science #zen