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To me, non-coercion is highly connected to self-love. Pushing yourself around is not a loving act, and bumping up my self-care and wellbeing has made it easier to find more aligned ways of moving through life. I haven't written extensively on my own process, but I recently read this post that might be enjoyable: sashachapin.substack.co…
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To me, non-coercion is highly connected to self-love. Pushing yourself around is not a loving act, and bumping up my self-care and wellbeing has made it easier to find more aligned ways of moving through life. I haven't written extensively on my own process, but I recently read this post that might be enjoyable: https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/how-i-attained-persistent-self-love
I also have a potential bit of feedback starting to form. It's far from fully formed, but I'll gesture at the outlines. It's about the dichotomy between Systematic and Spontaneous, which I guess you map to the hemispheres, given that your practical link points to Iain McGilchrist's work.
I believe many people are stuck in a controlling, coercive, "having mode" way of being. This is related to "being in one's head", or stuck in analysis. For those people, jumping to a more embodied/"being mode" way of being might be a good way to get unstuck, having more ways of being available to them.
After becoming unstuck and getting comfortable in what you call the "spontaneous mode", I think it's important to aim for an integration. To me, healthy intuition-supported analysis is a valuable asset, and I am using it to tinker with my life in ways that allow me to find non-coercive ways of being.
Given the segment on environemntal cognition, I am guessing you're similar. However, there is a pedagogical challenge here - finding ways to encourage exploration of what you call the spontaneous mode, without alienating the fruits of the systemic mode. It's easy to go overboard when "moving away", and cut off Systematic parts, leading to the issues you gesture at in the "Wholeness" paragraph.
More practically, I'm thinking of STEM people who burn out and drop out to live totally different "go with the flow" lives. Some of these people could benefit from integrating their STEM talents with their intuitive talents, forming a greater wholeness.
Thanks for the feedback -- you know, I've talked about this a fair bit elsewhere a few times, cuz it feels obvious to me, but the question has come up enough times that it's probably worth putting together a proper articulation about.
fwiw here's a recent discussion on this: https://x.com/the_wilderless/status/1736474006755152148?s=20
Thanks for the link, that makes sense given the model.
I am a bit confused regarding the claim that right hemisphere cultures want to integrate left hemisphere thinking - I'm used to thinking in terms of Wilber's pre/trans fallacy, and a stage-wise progression.
Either way, thank you for your work! :)