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Gm Viv
There’s a nice analogy to a river. Water flows through the same path for years, carving a deeper bed and always taking the path of least resistance - internal habits and conditioned reactions. Your neurons become accustomed to sending energy down the same pathways again and again.
To divert the water and carve a new riverbed requires intentional work and ongoing energy. Identifying that conditioning and building new habits is hard. But with practice - creating new neural pathways - the stream moves. A new “path of least resistance” begins to form. And with time, your habitual reactions shift into an intentional response, and later that desired response (from a place of awareness and equanimity) becomes the new habit.
Mindfulness is a very reliable path to freedom 🫂✨🤍
I lieke this very much bw, Viv gm
✨🙏🏼🫂 well said!
It all starts from the mind and we can be as free or trapped as we choose to be!
It’s profound 🤍
One of the most eloquent descriptions of the effect of LSD on the mind is as follows:
The mind sets into habitual behavior like a snow-covered hill get ruts from sledding the same paths over and over. LSD in the brain is like a fresh, thick coat of snow erasing all existing paths, removing "guard rails" and allowing for a completely fresh start.
Another fine analogy, in my opinion. This is related to the science of neuroplasticity and neurogenesis!