Natália Mendonça

Perfect­ing The Motion

• Natália Mendonça 21 Jan 2019 11:54 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: ChristianKl's comment on: Life can be bet­ter than you think

  I’m fairly cer­tain that in the vast ma­jor­ity of the time, nega­tive emo­tions are ego-dys­tonic.

  They’re not some­thing ac­tively sought out out of a de­sire for mean­ing, they’re some­thing es­sen­tially in­flicted upon the sufferer by parts of their mind that they can’t con­trol.

  I think ac­cep­tance of nega­tive emo­tion is of­ten driven from be­ing in that po­si­tion, a po­si­tion of hel­pless­ness, of­ten driven out of a de­sire to main­tain a good self-image, and avoid en­ter­ing the nega­tivity loop — and not from a po­si­tion of hav­ing con­trol over whether it hap­pens or not, and seek­ing it be­cause it brings mean­ing.

• Natália Mendonça 21 Jan 2019 7:05 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: shminux's comment on: Life can be bet­ter than you think

  Yeah, it would be in­ter­est­ing to in­ves­ti­gate how that would work. I think the in­sights would serve to set a lower bound to mood, the same as what re­li­gion does for many peo­ple.

• Natália Mendonça 20 Jan 2019 23:49 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: shminux's comment on: Life can be bet­ter than you think

  I get bod­ily fa­tigue when I don’t take it for over five days, I haven’t ven­tured farther than that. No par­tic­u­lar rea­son to.

Life can be bet­ter than you think