Fantastic advice that I think you should try for yourself. I often end up being the one who writes or finds the trainings around here, why don't you all give it a shot too?
Things I'd like you to try for yourself.
This is something we can do together.
This zine mentions how we are always changing no matter what. People always say this one thing, "would you be making your younger self proud?", and I know we have talked about hating this question before. But it is also impossible to make our current selves proud, it seems. If you could use breathing, relaxing, and focusing on a self that makes you proud to change into a better person, how well would that even work? Could you find a way to make it actually happen? Is there a better way to spend your time relaxing?
this is about breaking big expectations down into smaller expectations. we do this often with goals, but it's helpful for experiences like hypnosis or just enjoying literally anything. i think that this might help you tolerate and enjoy unexpected changes, like "as long as i get one of the things i was anticipating, this change is okay." i think this might help us compromise better during our time together, and that might also help us with our other close friends as well.
i think the concept shared here is meaningful to all of us. sleepingirl mentions being "drunk off of moonlight", mentions "time travel", all to explain the idea of something being sacred in that it is set apart. i think that all of us exist in the way we do in the search for what we call "pockets" or "midnights"-- these times when nothing and no one seems to exist except us and what makes us happy, these times when time seems limitless. maybe time dilation. it's important to set things apart. i think that's also why we can't all get it together and be aligned. when one person is in charge of the group for too long, it ceases to be a special time. i kind of think that that's okay. what do you think?
