Slow MoverJun 10

Recluse


My dis-ease is a predisposition towards withdrawal.

The world is not a safe place. I will not stick my neck out. I will no longer dance in weird circles in the kitchen to the sounds of Putamayo. I will write "I will be quiet" 100 times on the chalkboard while the rest of the class snickers behind me.

I will refrain from, well, refrains. I will accept the tongue screw. I will worship in silence.

I will slip deep underground like a hard shelled seed. I will lie within the carapace and not long for release. I will be content as a blind, flightless pupa.

I will accept the notion that all I have done I have done for no one, including myself. It will remain hidden, weighing down the bookshelves in my mind. The drawers filled with poetry will be thrown out in exhausted haste. The paintings will occupy thrift store bins. The songs will remain unsung. The rest will help fill up the local landfill over which, many years later, a new subdivison will be built.

So I research expatriation to islands.

I seek places that welcome the weird. I listen to other expats. I remember those rare visits when I traveled far away and wonder why I returned.

In some ways I never did. I am still there. My eyes rove across the satellite images trying to find me.

I have left a piece of me wherever I have visited. Will the fragments ever return to me again?

So I seek an ocean oasis where the sum total of my existence is to rest, with no one and nothing to press in on me, except the warm breeze off the sea, my dreams like sea turtles crawling across the warm sand and disappearing forever into the deep blue.

#Artist #dickinson #discomfort #escape #expatriation #expats #island #recluse #refuge #Safety #Travel #withdrawal
Kathy BrysonMay 19

About a third of the way in is where I stall and have to restart - where's your quit spot? What keeps you going?

#Writing a Novel: The Psychology of Quitting https://www.rollingstone.com/culture-council/articles/writing-novel-the-psychology-of-quitting-1235559003/

#amwriting #writingtip #writingprocess #avoidance #discomfort

Writing a Novel: The Psychology of Quitting

Here in the muddy middle is where confidence erodes, not because the writer lacks ability but because the process becomes complex.

Rolling Stone
Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)May 18

BDG Feature: Stop Running from Discomfort: What Meditation Actually Teaches

đź”— Read more: https://bit.ly/4ulk41Q

#Buddhism #BuddhistPractice #Meditation #EmotionalWellBeing #WellBeing #Suffering #Discomfort

Zsolt ZsembaMay 12

What You Think You Want vs. What You Actually Need
https://wp.me/p84YjG-aQA
#wants #needs #personality #relationships #whoareyou #alone #friends #discomfort #zsoltzsemba

https://zsoltzsemba.com/know-who-you-are-before-relationships/

If You Don't Know Who You Are Alone, Relationships Will Confuse the Hell Out of You - Zsolt Zsemba

You spend your whole adolescence being shaped by what other people think of you, what your parents wanted you to become, and what the culture tells you success looks like.

Zsolt Zsemba
Show threadKent PitmanApr 22

@commissionerHR @coe

We'd like to think rights are inviolable, but they are fragile and borne of stability and surplus. When those are threatened, people get more casual with what they'll do for others.

Also, the very notion of annual meetings has an inappropriate stability baked in. Climate is accelerating, which means the pace of its wrath is not synchronized to budget cycles or the Earth's leisurely path around the sun.

At this point, the very notion of an annual meeting about climate is a statement of denial. It is essential to meet as often and for as long as is needed to get serious action. It may be uncomfortable for representatives to ask there host nation or company for resources or calendar time, itself the most precious resource, but if those entities are not up to feeling uncomfortable in service of something larger, then THAT is the key obstacle and the smoking gun of denialism.

Climate change should be making us uncomfortable. It promises much worse than that, and soon. Discomfort helps to set priorities properly. Smoothing over discomfort admits the acceptability of status quo priorities.

Ask for semi-annual meetings or the right to variable lengths of time to get real points across and obtain serious commitment.

Survival of the species is on the line, and too many places in the world are hierarchically arranged so that that will be managed by herd thinning in vain hope that's enough to let our most affluent survive at the expense of others. In other words, kindness and human rights will be the first casualties of a society structured to preserve its sociopathic leaders at all costs.

And, saddest of all, when the rest are gone, the sociopaths will realize they haven't the skill to do much of anything necessary even for survival, and then they will be gone, too. If I thought we were focused on preserving at least our kindest, or smartest, or hardest working people, I might have hope in this regard. But the ones with the bunkers are none of these things, nor will they be able to keep those bunkers in working order long enough for the planet to recover and humanity to thrive again.

#climate #ClimateDenial #HumanRights #AnnualMeeting #AnnualMeetings #collapse #extinction #budgets #civilization #civilisation #society #discomfort #surplus #stability

The Rebuild DoctrineApr 16

People will spend years avoiding discomfort…

Then wonder why nothing ever changes.

👉 https://therebuilddoctrine.com/

#Growth #Discomfort #LevelUp #TheRebuildDoctrine #NoMoreExcuses #Discipline

yApr 14

you say we must each

you say we must each 
be willing to flex a little 
so that neither you 
nor i become routinely 
stuck in our discomfort 
zone, perhaps
that is another way 
of loving, cadenced  
surrenders that can
reverberate like joy
.
20260413:2053
y

#cadenced #dailyPost #discomfort #discomfortZone #flex #giveAndTake #inRelationship #joy #loving #poem #poetry #postaday #preferences #relationship #reverberate #routine #stretch #stuck #surrender #wayOfLoving #willing #zone
radish

dreaming… a random bit ** in the ending of The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenges from WordPress, here’s your Sunday Weekly Photo Prompt: travel ** medicine buddha mantra: Tay…

yi-ching lin photography
melApr 5

#anxiety #fear #stress

"In terms of finding ways to feel better in the short term, there are interventions that are relatively nonharming or completely nonharming. They’re going to help the #body feel a little bit more comfortable. They’re going to help the #nervous system get recalibrated. But other interventions are going to cause a whole other set of problems. Which doesn’t mean that we can never do them. So if it’s watching TV, because that feels like it’s helping us chill out, fine.

But when that becomes the go-to mechanism for self-soothing, it interrupts the opportunity to stay with the initial #discomfort and begin to investigate it. And that’s basically a setup for #addiction."

https://tricyclemag.substack.com/p/anxiety-is-a-message-from-your-psyche

Anxiety Is a Message from Your Psyche

Buddhist psychotherapist Pilar Jennings on defusing anxiety through curiosity, compassion, and staying with the body

Tricycle: Another Way to Live
Psyche Bubbles Mental HealthApr 1

Sometimes people are not comfortable receiving compliments

https://youtube.com/shorts/Upy_goES0_A?si=vMmag4X86e3PGhIt

#mentalhealth #compliment #discomfort

Reupload: At times we can't handle compliments#mentalhealth #mentalhealthanimation #education

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Futurist Jim CarrollMar 31

"Never let your fear be the barrier to your future!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

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Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
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When I walked out of my corporate job 36 years ago, I was terrified.

I didn’t yet have a mortgage, but my wife and I were newly married and planned to get one soon! I had no certainty that my idea of going freelance would work, and I was pretty scared I might fail. All the while, I was reminding myself that while my career path inside a big global firm was “stable” on paper, I was miserable every single moment.

I had to get out, but my fear told me to stay.

Looking back, I now realize that confronting my fear is a natural part of my career pivot.

Throughout this time, I also learned that fear was often a guiding and prevalent issue within my client base when my solo career pivoted from a pure technology focus to innovation & the future.

Innovation? I’ve regularly seen that the biggest obstacle to innovation isn’t a lack of budget or lack of ideas; it’s the collective fear of the unknown.

Trends? When it comes to the future, I’ve learned that vast numbers of people live in fear of what it represents.

But here’s what I also know: the Infinite Pivot requires you to acknowledge the fear, but refuse to let it take hold of your future.---

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Futurist Jim Carroll knows that too many people see the future as a threat, not as an opportunity - because of their fear of what it represents.

#Fear #Courage #Barrier #Future #Pivot #Breakthrough #Risk #Discomfort #Innovation

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/03/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-5-never-let-your-fear-be-the-barrier-to-your-future/

Decoding Tomorrow: The Infinite Pivot Series – #5: “Never let your fear be the barrier to your future!”