[jncos]

Cobra venom isn’t poisonous. People just get freaked out when they get bitten by cobras and let their negative emotions do the poisoning for them. I’ve been bitten by dozens of serpents over the last fortnight and due to my positive attitude I am healthier than I have ever been in years.

[ada-navarro]

Aquamadre, Victoria Reed.

2020

[realsurrealfeel]

“The Lovers” by Tuco Amalfi

[middleamerica]

Couple in the subway, Paris, 1986, Dolores Marat

[sentient-body-deactivated201807]

[petrichormoth]

5/20/18

[artsytoad]

Yoshitaka Amano, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

www.artsytoad.tumblr.com

[brandistrickland]

Brandi Strickland Cave Garden II Collage, gouache, acrylic, and colored pencil on board, 2013, 14" x 11" print

[vladtheunfollower]

Garth Williams

[powerfrogarchive-deactivated201]

Share if you long for the good old days…

[ithelpstodream]

[stephenneary]

a trip to the mushroom fair

[catasters]

[girlsjustwannahavefawn-deactiva]

I don’t know why but this looks to me like I’m on an operation table receiving surgery from cats

[kireinahana]

Nevermind this is it

[art--felt]

I remember first learning that you can cry from any emotion, that emotions are chemical levels in your brain and your body is constantly trying to maintain equilibrium. so if one emotion sky rockets, that chemical becomes flagged and signals the tear duct to open as an exit to release that emotion packaged neatly within a tear. Everything made sense after learning that. That sudden stability of your emotions after crying. How crying is often accompanied by the inability to feel any other emotion in that precise moment. And it is especially beautiful knowing that it is even possible to experience so much beauty or love or happiness that your body literally can’t hold on to all of it. So what I’ve learned is that crying signifies that you are feeling as much as humanely possible and that is living to the fullest extent. So keep feeling and cry often and as much as needed

[wishyroses]

SHIT WHAT

[teal-deer]

Also let yourself cry. It really is a biochemical release valve to dump out all the chemicals that make you feel stuff.

I honestly think one reason men in western culture have so many problems is that we don’t let them cry, and literally their brains get stuffed with all this crap that doesn’t have a release valve. Men, please cry. You’ll feel better. It’s ok. You are not lesser for taking care of your health.

[freewillandphysics]

This is why tears from different emotions look different under an electron microscope. They’re literally made up of different things. 

Happy tears are structurally different than sad tears than angry tears than overwhelmed tears etc.

[samthe-onion-nigga]

I looked it up, cuz that tidbit was dope to me and..

[skyakafreckles]

Never would have known

[phantoms-lair]

Seriously, crying itsn’t weakness it’s your brians way of dumping neurochemicals when the amoutn gets too high.

[peanutbutterbandwidth]

[anungulateaday]

Chousingha [Tetracerus quadricornis]

[sounddesignerjeans-deactivated2]

Honestly I think one of the most empowering things you can do for yourself is to separate your negative qualities from your identity.

Instead of saying “I’m lazy,” saying “I’ve made a habit of not doing work unless it’s absolutely necessary.” Instead of saying “I’m a bad friend,” saying “I haven’t communicated as much as I should with the people I care about.”

By being specific about your problems, and by framing it as an action that you are consciously either working on or ignoring rather than an unchangeable part of who you are, you allow yourself to accept your mistakes and work constructively on them instead of pretending they didn’t happen or wallowing in blaming yourself.