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If the ordinary egoic sense of consciousness evolved for environments where a constant hum of fight or flight mentality helped keep us alive, advanced meditation may offer a way of reprogramming some of these inherited tendencies that no longer serve us in our comparatively new evolutionary environments, like discarding clothes that no longer fit.
Meditation Is More Than Either Stress Relief or Enlightenment
Oshan Jarow
Research hints that the energy-generating organelles of cells may play a surprisingly pivotal role in mediating anxiety and depression.
Mitochondria May Hold Keys to Anxiety and Mental Health | Quanta Magazine
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Exercise: Who Am I Now? For a single conversation or even a whole day, try showing up for life as someone with no history, no narrative. Notice what it’s like to live without a story, without a preconceived idea of who you are and what’s happened to you. Drop “before now” and let there be only “now.” Notice who you are (or become) in the absence of a self-story. Notice how it feels to be free of your story on you.
Can't Stop Thinking
Nancy Colier and Stephan Bodian
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