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RE: Surprise Muthafuckas! I just joined Steemit, and will be posting about Psychology, Life, Well-being and Happiness!
Look forward to reading some of your material on well-being - I'm interested in the benefits that connecting with nature can have for people both physically, mentally, spiritually and socially...and also how connecting with the sublime via psychedelic experiences can also cure relational problems....that being not only relationships with friends and family, and ourselves, but also our relational problems with the natural environment, which it's actually kind of interesting to analyse both sets of relations through the same conceptual lense. Anyway - following! Good luck and steem on!
Well, studies have shown that being around nature for 30 minutes as opposed to city life lowers cortisol levels which reduces stress and anxiety. Psychedelics are definitely powerful tools in showing you that it is possible to have a radically different experience of consciousness and helps you imagine standing in someone else's shoes a bit better and makes you not want to harm any live beings. Thanks for the follow and will follow you back and best of luck to you too!
Yes there's quite a recently burgeoning research literature regarding the well-being benefits of contact and connection with nature which I've been discovering recently. I completely agree as regards the power of psychedelics in allowing you to see things from others perspectives. It's quite exciting that restrictions on research in that field is starting to ease up, so they can start to show evidence for all the benefits that users of psychedelics could intuitively tell you from their own experiences :)
definitely exciting as fuck :D, oh also something about psychedelics opens you up to the idea that it's possible that every single thing you know is wrong, and shows you you've been caught in the momentum of life and never taken a moment to question everything. It makes you doubt everything and the end of that long journey results in a transformation of who you are and what you believe. Also, the fact that they can reliably produce mystical experiences and how that isn't in science yet is beyond me. Followed you btw
Can I ask what psychedelics you may or may not have taken....I don't know what country you are in or what sort of stigma surrounds it so it's kinda awkward to discuss these things on an open blockchain! What psychedelics do you know about? That's a better way of phrasing the question. Actually hold on, bah, I don't even want to have this conversation on the blockchain!
Lol, I kinda agree, and even though I'm currently in a country where it's not okay but at least not frowned upon, I may eventually be, so is the steemit chat also public/on a blockchain?
As far as I understand the blockchain is permanent and open. Everything you write here will be here for posterity. I saw someone posting baby photos jokingly written as though the baby was writing it, and I just thought, there's so many moral questions hanging over that!!! I bet there'll be plenty of court cases in the future of parents by children for compromising their privacy before they are of an age of consent. And so, let's face it, seems like our governments are pretty fascist at times, there's so much surveillance, I don't feel like giving away too much of my self on these platforms. I dunno, it's an interesting topic for someone to write about here on Steemit!!!
Agreed, you should write about that. But I don't believe steemchat is open, is it? I just made an account on it yesterday and I feel like we'd have a super interesting conversation if you made one. Give it a try
Steem chat? Where's that?