"If you ask yourself the question of choosing between guilt and resentment - choose the guilt, all the time! Resentment is a poison that slowly kills you from the inside."
Quote by Gabor Maté in yesterday's live webinar on his book "The Myth of Normal" [2024, it's GREAT!!!].
The webinar was hosted by Vera Etkinlik and in part translated simultaneously from Turkiye to English and I have to say, orga/technical broadcast etc. were almost perfect!
https://mackncheezemusic.blog/the-power-of-being-weird/
Being weird is your edge. Every breakthrough, every work of art, every truth worth hearing came from someone who stopped pretending to be normal.
#TheArtOfBeingWeird #ArtOfBeingYou #OwnYourStory #TheMythOfNormal #MackncheezeMusic
2025+ goals, written Jan 12 2025 12:59pm
1) Buy a bike
2) Continue chaos garden - build raised beds, build up shade protection for assumed hotter summers year by year 🤪
- Rain barrels
- Drip irrigation/olla’s
- Year round food production
3) 5 items of clothing or less
-Focus on thrift
-Finish current projects
4) Use up the makeup I have
-Make my own replacements if possible
5) Gabor Mate’s #TheMythOfNormal
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我觉得某种意义上来说，“正常vs不正常”也是一种二元价值观霸权，非黑即白，但事物都存在灰色地带。脱离这种价值观也可以理解为是某一程度上的非二元nonbinary。
二元的“正常与不正常”思维未能认识到神经认知差异的复杂性和相互关联性。神经多样性neurodiversity挑战了这种binary的思维方式，通过认识到这些差异存在于一个谱系上，而不是两个截然不同的类别中，这提供了更微观的视角。
ND的存在就是证明了人类认知和神经体验的多样性，也是一种非二元的认同。
将“正常”定义为一个固定概念的想法，这种观念可能是有害的。我们认为正常的事物——比如压力、逆境和创伤——实际上往往是有害的。“正常”这一概念是社会建构的，因为社会规范随着时间的推移而变化。
在上世纪70年代，同性恋还被列为《精神疾病诊断与统计手册》（DSM）中的一种精神疾病；在美国南部内战前，一位名叫塞缪尔·卡特赖特（Samuel Cartwright）的路易斯安那州医生曾将奴隶逃跑的愿望病理化，称之为一种名为“逃亡狂”（drapetomania）的医疗疾病。
虽然这些例子今天看起来荒谬，但在当时却被当作客观科学接受，这突显了正常性的观念是如何受到文化和历史背景的影响而变化的。
According to Dr. Maté, our brains are hard-wired to expect warm welcome everywhere at all times. Every experience of meaness and rejection and pain is a trauma to our little brains.
This feeling doesn't stop as we grow. We live in a traumatized world that we have normalized. This is not normal.
#traumatizedworld #BelovedPresence #wholiness #GaborMate #TheMythofNormal
More from "The Myth of Normal" by Gabor Maté.
I feel like heart-centred, spirituality-based people will read this and be like, "yeah - of course." It feels validating for this worldview to be supported by science.
Nothing about our society is inerrant or 'fated'. It's all just choices made based on bad information. We have better information now. Let the revolution begin.
"The Myth of Normal" by Gabor Maté is blowing my mind right now. He is talking about The Irreducible Needs of Children and the premises are SO VALUABLE for healing in adults.
We don't STOP needing all of this because we're adults.
Now though, we need to be the parent, and provide this love and support to ourselves. We begin to dissolve the blocks to knowing that the Universe, all of Creation offers love and unconditional support to us, as we are, with both hands open.
The Myth of Normal is science validating my life-long feeling sense of the world in a way I have never experienced before. Fundamentally we need the safety and security to feel and express our emotions in order to become fully mature and functioning human beings.
Ummm, YEAH
Western society has been traumatizing generations by trying to flatten us all into consuming, worker automatons.
#TheMythofNormal
#EmotionalIntelligence
#feelingsense
#empatheticwaysofknowing
#wholiness
🌈 breaking ranks.
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