A little of every kind of stressor is good for us. A human is a system of antifragile systems. Our bones get denser if we load them. Our muscles get stronger when we cause microtears in them. And our minds can cope with a wider variety of experiences when exposed to a wider variety of experiences.
Just because a message has merit does not mean there is benefit in its delivery. For example, telling a person who is on fire and mad with itching not to scratch or telling a person to not be a jackass when their core nature is jackass. Saying such things will not nudge the state of the world and can only release the puff of hot air that creates chaos — like Edward Lorenz’s proverbial butterfly in Brazil that causes a tornado in Texas.
Don’t know that I’m a proven authority on the subject, but I try to take the usual advice — e.g. no TV in the bedroom, keep it cool(ish,) and go to bed more or less the same time each night.
No thanks. For a standard 7 in. rise step, that’s on the order of 300 floors. During the pandemic when I couldn’t go to the park or elsewhere for exercise, I used to do the five-story stairwell of the building I was living in five times. So, up 25 floors (even with the break of the walk downs in between) was quite a fine cardio workout. Granted, I did 2 steps at a time, but I wouldn’t need to 12X the total vertical height.
Feel the feelings but cut short the rumination with the realization that negative thoughts are waking dreams and have no more inherent reality than sleeping dreams.
Absurdity.
I was hungry, so I ate some food, and I wasn’t hungry afterwards. It actually happens with regularity.
Let’s see. Someone fictional and from the future. I nominate Arthur Dent. #ArthurDentforEmperor
That adults knew stuff and were free to do as they pleased.
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.
Also: Quiet by Susan Cain; Water Margin by Shī Nài’ān; and Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
