the rhythm of processing: daily life vs. travel
these days: my mind feels like over-stuffed luggage. I’m bloated. sluggish. travel is like a sudden flood of intake for the mind/body to digest — fast.
what causes discomfort is not the sudden inflow; it’s the backlog of things to process. the problem with thinking/feeling deeply is a constant feeling of psychic constipation. the question is: how do I upgrade my internal processing power?
how to process while traveling (a list)
explore keeping a daily diary at multiple layers of experience: EXTERNAL (seen/heard/saw/events), as well as INNER REACTIONS (felt/experienced/thought), and a deeper layer of INNER VISION (sensed/imagined/wondered/dreamed).
experiment with diary forms: public vs. private. textual vs. visual.
focus on collecting threads of thought - instead of needing to follow a thread to its end. go wide & expansive now — knowing that you can go deep later.
centering the self comes before processing experience (aka, wellbeing practices).
condense your practice into micro-blocks of < 30 minutes.
find consistent windows of time where you’ll be undisturbed everyday (for me, it’s after 11pm, when everyone is sleeping).
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