Author: xiomamusic
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“attention is the beginning of devotion.”
what do you notice? what do you see? what do you hear? what do you smell? what do you feel?
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privatization of public space
I heard of this concept in a podcast and I love thinking about it whenever I am in public spaces. Public spaces feel more private today because of how we can escape into our own worlds. We do this with phones, headphones, or books etc. What was once a shared experience (the sound landscape in…
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“Go to the limits”
“God speaks to each of us as he makes us,then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall,go to the limits of your longing.Embody me. Flare up like a flameand make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you:…
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february reads
Finished just one book this month (whoops), probably started 5-6 which…therein lies the problem. Burnout (Emily and Amelia Nagoski): I chose this book because of the title (lol) and because I’ve heard great things about Emily Nagoski’s work. Self-help books are tricky for me when the author tries to tell me what to do instead…
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when the music transports you to a foreign land in which you used to live
I’ve been thinking about how music transports you back to a very specific time and feeling. Specifically, what it feels like to hear old christian songs from my childhood. I can remember and feel exactly what I felt when I sang these songs… but it feels weird because I’m on the other side of it.…
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you are your safety
All anxiety boils down to questions around safety: Am I safe in my body? Am I safe in my mind? Am I safe with other people? Are other people safe with me? Anxiety is fear, and fear is a feeling caused by lack of safety. The antidote to fear is not saying that the threats…
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aliveness
“Through our body, we can know the world, what it is to feel, to be a self, which ultimately contributes to and is the source of our aliveness.” Hillary McBride (Embodiment and Body Image) What is your body showing you about the world? And what it is to feel?