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Mondays suck.

Mondays coupled with seasonal affective disorder & holiday blues? Even worse.

Put yourself first and spend some time with a meditation practice. It might sound tough, but 10 minutes isn’t a long time—and sometimes just taking a moment to breathe can make the rest of your day more centered and calm.

Meditation can:

Reduce stress

Control anxiety

Lengthen attention span

Improve sleep

Boost overall health

It’s also free and can be done anywhere, which is why it is one of our favorite forms of self-care 🤗. Give it a try and tune in.

📿Mindful Mondays📿 with our host Jarrick The Floating Yogi for SIFT Meditation at 8am ET

About the class:

Participants will discuss SIFT Meditation and ways to incorporate it into daily life, then meditate with sound bowls from Buddah A Blessing LLC. Meditation simply puts sustained focus on something. SIFT is an acronym for Sensations, Images, Feelings, and Thoughts. SIFT stands for Sensations, Images, Feelings, and Thoughts. This is an excellent technique for youth to scan and get acquainted with their subjective experience. Jarrick will host a Meditation session where users can observe these SIFT’s and the Meditations ability to create space between them, their triggers, and responses. This will also allow participants to feel more confident if their identified triggers were to arise in daily life. SIFT meditation clears up our Mindspace to make more balanced decisions in tense situations.

Meet Jarrick

Jarrick The Floating Yogi has been practicing yoga and incorporating its philosophy into his life since 2014. He’s trained in Power, Dharma, and Ashtanga Yoga and holds a consistent Ashtanga practice to this day. For several years in his younger days, he was in a band, so he quickly took to Cymatics, the effects of sound, frequency, and vibration on matter and consciousness using sound bowls and other instruments. Jarrick was introduced to Yoga through the fanciful world of Japanese Anime. There he found a world of parallels through the teachings and parables. Jarrick’s kind and gentle manner is well suited to lead students of all levels to integrate the lessons learned on our mat into our daily lives.

hayiah

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMFVa-DlWnE/

boneyardchamp

Your professor will not be happy with you if he says the Stanford Prison Experiment shows human nature and you say it shows the nature of white middle class college-aged boys.

Like he will not be happy at all.

cannon-fannon

For real though. That experiment. Scary shit.

hollowedskin

This reminds me of a discussion that I read once which said Lord of the Flies would have turned out a hell of a lot differently if it was a private school of young girls (who are expected to be responsible and selfless instead), or a public school where the children weren’t all from an inherently entitled, emotionally stunted social class (studies have shown that people in lower socioeconomic classes show more compassion for others). Or that the same premise with children raised in a different culture than the toxic and opressive British Empire and it’s emphasis on social hierarchy and personal wealth and status. And that what we perceive as the unchangable truth deep inside humanity because of things like Lord of the Flies and the Stanford Prison Experiment, is just the base truths about what happens when you remove any accountabilty controlling one social group with an overwhelming sense of entitlement and an inability to feel compassion.

lady-feral

I will always reblog this.

shinykari

I just wanna say that the Lord of the Flies was explicitly written about high-class private school boys to make this exact point. Golding wrote Lord of the Flies partially to refute an earlier novel about this same subject: The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne. Golding thought it was absolutely absurd that a bunch of privileged little shits would set up some sort of utopia, so his book shows them NOT doing that.

roscoerackham

This is also generally true about most psychological experiments.

There’s an experiment called “The Ultimatum Game”. It goes something like this.

Subject A is given an amount of money (Say, $100).

Subject A must offer Subject B some percentage of that money.

If Subject B accepts Subject A’s offer, both get the agreed upon amount of money. If Subject B refuses, no one gets any money.

The most common result was believed to be that people favored 50/50 splits. Anything too low was rejected; people wanted fairness. This was believed to be universal.

And then a researcher went to Peru to do the experiment with members of the indigenous Machiguenga population, and was baffled to find that the results were totally different.

Because, to the Machiguenga, refusing any amount of free money (even an unfair amount) was considered crazy.

So the researcher took his work on the road (to 14 other ‘small scale’ societies and tribes) , and to his shock found the results varied wildly depending on where the test was done.

In fact, the “universal” result? Was an outlier.

And that’s the problem. 96% percent of test subjects for psychological research come from 12% of the population. Stuff that we consider to be universal facts of human nature… even things like optical illusions, just… aren’t.

You can read an article about it here. But the crux of it is that psychology is plagued with confirmation bias, and people are shaped more by their environment than we realize.

daggers-drawn

What this has created tho is a medical system that centers the psychology of middle and upper class white men.

intactics-deactivated20211231

immediately tempting god a second time right after you walk off the consequences of the first time. based strictly on the assumption that god won't tell the exact same joke twice in a row

catsoverloaded

A black dragón floating above the clouds

themediocrehuman

So others need not squint to read “On March 11, 889 CE, 17 year-old Emperor Uda wrote: ‘On the 6th day of the 2nd Month of the First Year of the Kampo era. Taking a moment of my free time, I wish to express my joy of the cat. It arrived by boat as a gift to the late Emperor, received from the hands of Minamoto no Kuwasahi. The color of its fur is peerless. None could find the words to describe it, although one said it was reminiscent of the deepest ink. It has an air about it, similar to Kanno. Its length is 5 sun, and its height is 6 sun. I affixed a bow about its neck, but it did not remain for long. In rebellion, it narrows its eyes and extends its needles. It shows its back. When it lies down, it curls in a circle like a coin. you cannot see its feet. It’s as if it were a circular Bi disk. When it stands, its cry expresses profound loneliness, like a black dragon floating above the clouds. By nature, it stalks birds. It lowers its head and works its tail. It can extend its spine to raise its height by at least 2 sun. Its color allows it to disappear at night. I am convinced it is superior to all other cats.’”

deepwaterfiction

Text: All cats slip easily between realities, but kittens born in these halfway spaces always come out a different breed of feral.

larkstonguesinaspicpart1

mormonism is sooo funny to me because its straight up one of the few Religion Religions that isn’t regarded as a kooky cult despite the fact that it’s like 100% based on a weird racist scam but we all have to play nice and pretend that its real because there’s like a couple million of them living in utah who are very invested in the whole thing

larkstonguesinaspicpart1

Like it really goes to show that the only difference between a cult and a religion is having a membership number high enough to get some senate seats and an Entire State

commongayboy-deactivated2018082

teacakes

her robotic, glacial voice; the blood; the gasps from the crowd; the way her mic hits the ground on beat with the song; its performance at its peak

kungfuchunks

iconic

lilith-apologist

she gave unhinged women our rights

brucefromfamilyguy

i watch this video exactly once a month and it gives me full body asmr

n-yks

This was fighting for gay rights

blah-kay

We will forever stan

commodorecliche

never forget her commentary on this performance:

“The methodology behind what I’ve done is that, when they wanted me to be sexy, or they wanted me to be pop, I always fuckin’ put some absurd spin on it that made me feel like I was still in control. So you know what? If I’m gonna be sexy on the VMAs, and sing about the paparazzi, I’m going to do it while I’m bleeding to death and reminding you of what fame did to Marilyn Monroe, the original Norma Jean, and what it did to Anna Nicole Smith, and what it did to… Yeah. You know who.”

sennachtrin

Who was she reffering to? :^

divinefaggotry

I’m pretty sure she was referring to Princess Diana

sennachtrin

ok thank you ^^

vengefulslytherin

I actually think she was referring to Amy Winehouse

kickassfanfic

Either one of those works; it’s also possible that she meant someone else, or that she left it unspoken because it applies to so many other women.

theconcealedweapon

If you really care about preventing government tyranny, your #1 priority must be making sure criminals have rights.

And that's not a joke or an exaggeration.

If criminals don't have rights, then all the government has to do is find some excuse to label people as criminals, and those people will no longer have rights. It's what literally every tyrannical government in all of history has done.

If you believe that people who break the law should forfeit their rights, you're literally as pro-tyranny as a person can get.

wallisninety-six

People that are like “climate change is worsening and all of humanity is going to deserve it” should realize how kind of evil and insane of a thing that is to say Like, no actually, the masses of people in the world that are impoverished, homeless, poor and working paycheck to paycheck to survive, plus the masses of indigenous folks, POC, queer and religious minorities trying to survive the trauma of generations of industrialization & colonization DON’T deserve to go extinct over the actions of a few dozen oil executives and an economic system we have no control over, especially when we’re doing all that we can for a safer healthier planet wtf

The lives of 7 billion humans do not deserve extinction over the actions of very few oil companies destroying the planet, don’t say shit like that.

sabertoothwalrus

just realized at the end of Adventure Time a bunch of humans returned to mainland Ooo but they never addressed the fact that rainicorns eat humans

sabertoothwalrus

it was from a 2011 season 2 episode!!!!!! (it's "soy people" because humans were thought to be extinct but if there are alive humans in Ooo now...)

batshaped

character concept: defrosted forum poster from 2004 travels america spreading love and confusion to 2021’s most sad and jaded social media burnouts

this is my original work. other versions are reposts.

originally posted to twitter. also check out my webcomic

abdulllahma

i owe myself an apology for allowing shit i didn’t deserve.

abstract-woman

do you think there's any confirmed cases of rappers who have never gotten their dick sucked rapping about getting their dick sucked. was there ever a song about dick sucking that very clearly shows the person who wrote it has never gotten their dick sucked. like people just listen to it and say "that isn't what dick sucking is like at all"