🌀🐇 #111 extreme bliss, motivation, inner landscape

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[Read it here.](​ 🧘‍♀️ Nick Cammarata On Jhana: Buddhists say that if you meditate enough, you can learn to enter a state of extreme bliss called jhana. [Read more here.](=)​ 💪 Dopamine and Motivation: Andrew Huberman on a relationship to work that will give you an edge. [Watch it here.](=)​ 🎇 Image of The Week ​ "NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a lush, highly detailed landscape – the iconic Pillars of Creation – where new stars are forming within dense clouds of gas and dust. The three-dimensional pillars look like majestic rock formations, but are far more permeable. These columns are made up of cool interstellar gas and dust that appear – at times – semi-transparent in near-infrared light. Webb’s new view of the Pillars of Creation, which were first made famous when imaged by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, will help researchers revamp their models of star formation by identifying far more precise counts of newly formed stars, along with the quantities of gas and dust in the region. Over time, they will begin to build a clearer understanding of how stars form and burst out of these dusty clouds over millions of years." 🔮 How Loss Clarifies Loss and the grieving process that follows can catalyze a deep reflection. Through this, we can come into greater clarity around the ways we’ve been living out of alignment with our values. Loss can also instruct us to forge new values as we now have a clearer picture of what really matters in life. After a break-up, we might see things that we tolerated that aren’t good for us. In the future we would be clear that this behavior is now a dealbreaker and we refuse to allow ourselves to be treated in certain ways. On the more positive side, we might see more clearly the things we do want. The things that we really cherished in our partner and seek to find similar qualities in a future someone. If a loved one passes away, we might uncover the attributes that we deeply value and admire. This can propel us to emulate these traits that have impacted us so deeply. In doing so, we take the loss of something beautiful and internalize that beauty so as to make it a part of ourselves. ️‍ 🌊 Launching Oneself Into The Stream Enjoy these articulation of the good life from Carl Rogers: “I believe it will have become evident why, for me, adjectives such as happy, contented, blissful, enjoyable, do not seem quite appropriate to any general description of this process I have called the good life, even though the person in this process would experience each one of these at the appropriate times. But adjectives which seem more generally fitting are adjectives such as enriching, exciting, rewarding, challenging, meaningful. This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-fainthearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life. Yet the deeply exciting thing about human beings is that when the individual is inwardly free, he chooses as the good life this process of becoming.” 🤓 Learn This Word Kenshō: Seeing (ken) one’s nature or essence (shō); perceiving one’s Buddha nature; sometimes interpreted as an initial or brief awakening. ⏳ From The Archives A hand-picked classic HighExistence article. ​[Mozart as Medicine: The Health Benefits of Music](​ David Binanay started playing the violin when he was five. By age twelve, he performed at the world famous Carnegie Hall in New York City and, soon after, at the White House. In 2006, fresh off graduation from Villanova University, Binanay was positioned perfectly to build his life around music. He had just moved into his own place and started a job at a high-end violin shop. That’s when he noticed the bleeding. Music and The Mind It was a gastrointestinal bleed. Binanay had experienced one before, and he called his mom to let her know what was happening. She wanted to help, but David stopped her. “Don’t worry about it. I’m going to handle it myself,” he said. This was the first time Binanay tried to handle a serious health issue on his own. When he arrived at the hospital, things began to spiral out of control. His hands started shaking, and his mind began to separate from reality. “It was my first psychotic episode,” David recalls. The situation went downhill fast. After resolving the bleeding issue and leaving the hospital, Binanay’s psychosis continued. He started having delusions and became fearful of everything. “I couldn’t even walk into a grocery store because of the fear,” he says. “I didn’t really know what I was afraid of, but I feared for my life. In the span of one week, I went from being normal to having a complete psychotic breakdown.” This was the peak of David’s psychosis, but his battle was just beginning. He would struggle with schizophrenia for the next five years. His medications worked, but David had trouble sticking to them. There was one thing, however, that always seemed to help. “My dad would look at me and say, ‘Dave, go get your violin.’” ​[Continue Reading](​ Access 98 Summaries Of Books That Will Make You Better Stairway To Wisdom is our premium newsletter and library of wisdom-packed book summaries. [Get Your Free Trial](=) 🎬 Endnote We hope you enjoyed this issue of Down The Rabbit Hole. Feel free to reply and tell us what you think. Want to help us spread the word? 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