Parasite | Bong Joon-ho | 2019

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Parasite | Bong Joon-ho | 2019
This is not an exit, Kevin N. Murphy
Prefatory essay by Alan Watts to Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism by D.T. Suzuki. https://www.instagram.com/p/B3YtdJVnLz9CVo_JyIwVEPZ2ukhviytRVDHT7c0/?igshid=10oguaegs0w3e
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From A New Big Five: Fundamental Principles for an Integrative Science of Personality by Dan McAdams and Jennifer Pals
Villa Borghese. Rome, Italy.
Found the Ocean
“Many of us spend a life time avoiding our emotional pain and it does become more and more toxic as long as we keep it buried. It will literally make us ill, physically and mentally as Bessel Van talks about in the book, The Body Keeps Score. The little quip, “What you resist, persists” has proven very true in my life. The only way out of that trap is to stop avoiding and learn in whatever way makes sense to us as individuals to feel once again and to embrace and absorb and therefore transform the pain of our lives. This is how I am healing. Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives. What is split off, not felt, remains the same. When it is felt, it changes. Most people don’t know this. They think that by not permitting the feeling of their negative ways they make themselves good. On the contrary, that keeps these negatives static, the same from year to year. A few moments of feeling it in your body allows it to change. If there is in you something bad or sick or unsound, let in inwardly be, and breath. That’s the only way it can evolve and change into the form it needs.”
— Monica Cassani, Healing the body/mind with the willingness to feel
when you accept a situation/a problem and you treat it with a well intended heart, authenticity and no maliciousness in your words or actions, the problem usually either tend to get solved or you’ll come to realize that what you thought was an issue is actually a gift or an opportunity
How to Be a Person in the World
Your purpose in life is not to love yourself but to love being yourself.
If you goal is to love yourself, then your focus is directed inward toward yourself, and you end up constantly watching yourself from the outside, disconnected, trying to summon the “correct” feelings towards yourself or fashion yourself into something you can approve of.
If your goal is to love being yourself, then your focus is directed outward towards life, on living and making decisions based on what brings you pleasure and fulfillment.
Be the subject, not the object. It doesn’t matter what you think of yourself. You are experiencing life. Life is not experiencing you.
at Lion Rock, Sigiriya, Sri Lanka https://www.instagram.com/p/BsDIvjuHeqG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1r75lmb9btdb5
The hard life of macaques https://www.instagram.com/p/BsArqjTnDdu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=edj50shx8wxh
It’s not that you have issues…… it’s that you have a tendency to continue using instincts you picked up in childhood that are no longer useful to you on your journey towards achieving openness and intimacy and reliability in your personal relationships w others. It’s not that you’re defective or difficult or incapable it’s just that what you learned to do to save yourself from the experience of abandonment or rejection or ridicule or failure is not helpful here anymore and you need to start thinking creatively and collaborating on better ways to cope with that instrinsic fear that you are not correct, that you are faking, that you will be found out and left, whatever it is
Turtle hatchery 🐢🤗 (in Sri Lanka) https://www.instagram.com/p/Brur3HwncMt/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5s5vae86emwp
I’m prefacing this by disclosing that I am someone who does take daily medications for mental condition before I get dragged
I know that the overwhelming majority of “drink water, exercise, breathe” mental health experiences don’t fully understand the nuances of mental un-health or neuroses when they prescribe these as solutions to mental ailments over modern psychiatric treatment. But I do think we have to strike a balance between understanding how our world,shaped by the conditions of neoliberal capital, have created/exacerbated our current mental health crises and understanding the diversity of treatments we must consider in treating or coping with the latter. I’m reminded of this quote shared by @mehreenkasana from Charles Bowden,
“We are an exceptional model of the human race. We no longer know how to produce food. We no longer can heal ourselves. We no longer raise our young. We have forgotten the names of the stars, fail to notice the phases of the moon. We do not know the plants and they no longer protect us. We tell ourselves we are the most powerful specimens of our kind who have ever lived. But when the lights are off we are helpless.
We cannot move without traffic signals. We must attend classes in order to learn by rote numbered steps toward love or how to breastfeed our baby. We justify anything, anything at all by the need to maintain our way of life. And then we go to the doctor and tell the professionals we have no life.
We have a simple test for making decisions: our way of life, which we cleverly call our standard of living, must not change except to grow yet more grand. We have a simple reality we live with each and every day: our way of life is killing us.”
Our changed relationship to nature and how we sustain our very bodies stemming from the never ending coercion to work in order to survive has meant that we’ve forgotten or overlooked the simple rituals of breathing, hydrating, exercising, or even eating and their enormous impact on our mental well-being. These shouldn’t be derided as inconsequential steps towards better mental health but should be embraced and implemented on a structural scale in any sort of addressing of mental health. We need to reminded of these simple rituals while, yes, embracing the benefits of modern pyschiatry. These won’t help with BPD, ASD, clinical depression, etc but when you have these the symptoms of habitual dehydration, malnutrition, lack of blood flow do have mental manifestations and can exacerbate more ‘complex’ conditions.
Anyway kids, take your meds but also do drink water, eat some food, stretch, socialize not as more or less immediate cures for your condition but as integral rituals towards a long-term consideration for your physical and mental well-being.
From little things big things grow 🌱 https://www.instagram.com/p/BrXixrBnRQ1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1l4cctpcrm60a