I know the secret to the quiet mind but wish I’d never learned it
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Re: I know the secret to the quiet mind but wish I’d never learned it
#2This headline is like a bad r/nosleep title. Someday, somehow, I hope we move past this dumb clickbait style.
Re: I know the secret to the quiet mind but wish I’d never learned it
#3This headline is like a bad r/nosleep title. Someday, somehow, I hope we move past this dumb clickbait style.
the attention economy demands it, as long as it reigns supreme we'll never be free from this dumb shit
Re: I know the secret to the quiet mind but wish I’d never learned it
#4This headline is like a bad r/nosleep title. Someday, somehow, I hope we move past this dumb clickbait style.
Also misleading...usually when people talk about "quiet mind" they're talking about meditation, not TBIs
Re: I know the secret to the quiet mind but wish I’d never learned it
#5Reading the author's description of waking up in a hospital bed reminded of when I found myself waking up in one. I felt like I was peeing the bed and was embarrassed about it. I couldn't move or look much, so I was exploring with my hands to "assess the damage" and wondering how I was going to explain wetting the bed as an adult to whoever when I discovered the good and bad news. Good news - I hadn't wet the bed. Bad news - I had a catheter.
The author's brain injury, of course, is much more unsettling. But, if the old you has died, then it's not coming back. May as well make the best of the new you.
Re: I know the secret to the quiet mind but wish I’d never learned it
#6This headline is like a bad r/nosleep title. Someday, somehow, I hope we move past this dumb clickbait style.
You think it's an article on the downsides of excessive patience or zen meditation, but no, TBI.
As a tangent: I learned how to enter a waking ideation / guided daydreaming state associated with sensory deprivation without extreme stimuli removal. It is good for startup ideas (not that they're any good but for generating them), fiction novel outlines, and letting your subconscious out.
Edit since I can't comment below right now:
I'm so sorry, I learned it intuitively by spending days / weeks by myself without human contact or interruptions in a low stimuli environment. Instead of going "crazy," it's possible the mind can entertain and amuse itself. I think this also explains why kids (and adults) in very poor countries have such wild imaginations and are so happy when they have almost nothing. And, where else would magical realism arise if not Colombia?
Re: I know the secret to the quiet mind but wish I’d never learned it
#7This headline is like a bad r/nosleep title. Someday, somehow, I hope we move past this dumb clickbait style.
Just think 35 "persons" voted for it. Most probably than not the voting is being heavily manipulated, but still.
Re: I know the secret to the quiet mind but wish I’d never learned it
#8This headline is like a bad r/nosleep title. Someday, somehow, I hope we move past this dumb clickbait style.
the attention economy demands it, as long as it reigns supreme we'll never be free from this dumb shit
I think we need more obsessive and honest curation of titles.
Perhaps a "launch a title change vote" feature so the community can fix it.
Re: I know the secret to the quiet mind but wish I’d never learned it
#9Cars are so incredibly destructive to society, in so many ways. But most people are so blasé about them.
Re: I know the secret to the quiet mind but wish I’d never learned it
#10To de-clickbait this article: the author had a traumatic brain injury which eliminated her racing inner monologue.