Ive been trying to collect my thoughts for like two weeks now on what sally reed’s real happy ending would look like and I have found absolutely no answer but it is I think helpful in understanding what’s going on with her last episode before she agrees to go with barry.

Because it’s an absolutely bonkers decision and we see absolutely none of her deliberation really - in fact she has a connection with an agent and might be able to get some minor roles! So it’s kind of surprising when you see her decide to go to her home where you both know he is. Like it’s weird! Until you remember Barry is about how the entire entertainment industry is inescapably exploitative especially towards women. The thing is that Sally wants to be famous but tied up in that is needing to feel safe and powerful. Its not worth disentangling the two theyre co-constitutive. And with Joplin? When she was her own boss with recognition and power? It was taken away from her in a heartbeat and there was no recourse. And she’s furious because she thinks if she’s just good enough and if she works hard she should be owed it. And if someone else like Natalie or Barry gets it she can’t handle it.

And so her entire subplot in episode 4 is in this frame the most concise perfect storytelling. She gets back and is so close to the Thing that will Make it Better, it’s the moving and fame and production and the lights flare. And then she meets a famous oscar-winning director who’s working on a project she hates, with actors cast to be conventionally beautiful and a nonsense plot and 90% green screen. And Sally acts for her, assuming that being good will actually get you something, and fails! (Don’t EVEN get me started on the gender politics here. the only man is the agent offering her a gig but it also doesn’t move the needle because women in barry do misogyny too)

So the realization that HAS to come is that this is futile. She will absolutely never be powerful without someone holding a trapdoor that can take it all away. You can direct CODA and you’ll still be stuck here. She will never be safe. And she can’t go home. So after that, well. Barry.

THE NOBLE PURSUIT TO BECOME UNBEHOLDEN BY TIME, TASTE, AND OTHER SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS

I believe when offended by another person, particularly for a disagreement in taste in pop culture, humans rather than believe someone could be so cruel quickly imagine a more palpable psychoanalysis of the offender in order to soothe our jangled egos. One of the most common excuses I see is jealousy - you're being mean because you're really just jealous. Another is that the opinionated are purposefully trying to be superior or 'edgier' for playing contrarian. These excuses seem to stem more often then not from no reasonable assessment of the individual (for do you really know what troubles their psyche?) then from this social cliche of making said assumption. Which had me wondering, why do we need that reassurance? Why must we wield accusations of jealousy, bitterness, immaturity, mental problems, egomania, even internalized misogyny, to account for differences of opinions and wipe our hands of the responsibility of being nothing like the offender? Why is that easier to swallow?

What if too, an opinion is just an opinion?

What if, I don't like it, because I don't like it?

I can't speak for anyone but myself. So, to that, I know there are underlying causes, traumas and unique points of view which might reflect both a mental instability or bitterness at times as well as simple matters of personal taste affecting my opinions. Sometimes, I dislike something because it is out of line with my world view, which is directly tied to my lifelong experiences and influences. Sometimes, I just don't like the way it mixes with my senses, like high pitched singing or cantaloupe. What determines the later seems learned, intrinsic, and if I am feeling less rational, cosmic. So it goes, of course, for the things I love. Rarely, I think, am I truly 'jealous' or otherwise 'trying' to be anything. If one denies these accusations when accused, though, it does nothing dissuade the accuser. Such personality defects are something a person will never admit to, right? Therefore, this so called argument seems to me an attempted disarming of the opinion, in lieu of attempting understanding.

A root of my problem with this all is more about not accepting the ugly negativity, petty anger and bitterness in others, or not wanting to feel it in themselves. Even it was jealousy at the core, why not let that person feel what they need to feel? Let me put it this way:

I am bitter about a lot of things, I get as passionate about certain things I dislike as much as things I love, and there's a lot at play to make me feel like stale, cold, left-out all night coffee on the inside. But you can't simply tell someone to stop being bitter as much as you can't tell a depressed person to just cheer up.

One stranger flinging insults at the thing they don't like, to come across another stranger who likes said thing flinging insults back to the first  - neither is better than the other. Regardless of the point of view or intent of either, there is one generalization of both, of all of us, I will venture to make:

We're all just kinda insecure.

The worst part of human insecurity in the pop societal landscape is that often what creates the insecurities of one stems from the insecurities of another. I see all the time in my peer group (and the American world at large) an obsession, conscious or not (and likely mostly not), with proving to the world that they are Cool and have Taste. They do this often by making fun of the things which are currently trendy to make fun of to prove they understand what's right and wrong, as reinforced by the circle jerk of others they perceive to also be Cool and have Taste (and perhaps an underlying current of the fear of aging - of losing what is perceived to be only for youth in this regard.). They do this because they want to be accepted, into that circle of higher low brow. Which as far as I can tell is mostly an imagined group, or acquaintances they might encounter within a subcultural sphere doing the same thing (ie: want to fit in with the death metal crowd? Talk a lot about how terrible nu-metal is. Don't you feel clever?). Perhaps I surmise this because I too did this once, when I was an adolescent. And you might read this and think, that all sounds immature, and it is.

But that doesn't mean adults grow out of that immaturity.

But it does soothe my jangled nerves when exasperated with these peers to remind myself that they're probably just coming from a lot of unresolved insecurities. As we all are. This feels to me like the logical approach, the one of the mediator, the armchair psychologist who can put humans into an order that sits better with reason and less with pure emotion. The trouble is, emotion is what I am mostly made of.

I am exasperated, and a little insecure, and no logic in the 'verse is going to iron out this and the anger that ensues from it. But, regardless, here I am, making stabs to sort out my own perspective and hopefully change yours a little bit.

What infuriates me the most about posturing to appear current, or cool, or otherwise proving you have the 'right' taste is one.) some immature junior high nonsense as aforementioned, two.) stems from and creates world wide insecurities especially in us particularly sensitive folk, and three.) is a completely arbitrary, ever changing, shallow concept within itself. So, why buy in into it? Let's compound this last point with another arbitrary social construct: time.

Measuring time in itself is a necessary technological development for civilization*, but the ways it is qualified by culture and reinforced by taste seem to warp the perspective of it for a good deal many. It also strikes me as having sped up in a post industrialized world, with the decades of the 20th century remembered in such compartmentalized generalizations and stereotypes that generally we fail to remember the fluidity of evolving design, technology, and pop culture (or perhaps also our relatively short distance from it). Let alone, that those living through it were not prudish neanderthals to whom we could never relate. We are obsessed with categorizing time in this way, and we are obsessed with further compartmentalizing generations and giving them names more than I believe we were before (for that I blame marketing and SEOs), but it's never so neatly sorted despite the insistence of meme language and marketing (I have never found an official source concluding exactly where one generation ends and the next begins, and frankly I believe that's impossible and pointless given than any single person will be influenced by multitudes of factors in their personal environment). I believe the truth of the past gets so clouded by these generalizations and stereotypes that the popular view of culture before ours is distorted into caricature.

This is also, I should add, a largely American or Western perspective of time and culture. Itself another limitation of perspective.

I love art, and I love music, and movies, and fashion, and design; but I also love history, and people individually – and I think the art, and music, and movies, and fashion, and all matter of objects, are the best connection we will ever have to people we, limited as we all, can never truly meet nor understand what their moment stuck in linear time must have been like for them. I'm fueled with a desire to do the impossible and try to know anyway. For me, appreciating those pieces left behind is the closest I will ever feel to those times, to those people. I feel constrained by the year I was born, and I feel constrained by the day I die even not knowing when that will be. This limitation only feels more profound the closer I get to the other end. There is no way I think I am the only one, of course, or else time travel fiction wouldn't be so popular.

Except there is one thing that I am grateful for, which might even be the next best thing to time travel or bodily transcendence – eras before this never quite had such an ease of access to the artifacts of the past that I am so lucky to experience.

So the way I see it, there's really no excuse any more. I long for a future where writing off the cultural knowledge of someone because it's 'before your time' is not such a social cliche.** I long for a future where it can all be enjoyed at once, without the social posturing, in spite of the third dimension.

(Perhaps even to spite the third dimension. That's for making me a linear being, ya wanker.)

Yet, even with this wonderful wealth of information, never will I know the past without the influence of the present, and therefore, will never have an unaffected first hand and unbiased account. Therefore, I do as best I can within my limitations. Not just learning about the the things I love, and what led to them, but working to detach myself from the learned notions of taste that affect our point of view.

I need to stop here and make an aside, because I feel the imagined commenter complaining already. When I speak about detaching your present biases to better appreciate the past, I do mean as I hope I have made clear, this specifically speaks to matters of subjective taste in art, design, pop culture, and technology, and the way we get arrogant about our current state as if we have managed to achieve the pinnacle of these things when at no point in history has this remained constant. Social political differences, and the ugly parts of the past that we believe to have progressed away from, I don't mean to say turn a blind eye even when they show up in these mediums. But I also think in order to truly understand those aspects, we need to swap our lens from our current condition to the context of its moment. These ideas weren't created out of nothing and it's very important to attempt to understand why and what created them, and how they continue to affect the present. I think context is king, and even if we regard ourselves as progressed and better than that ugliness, I don't think just mocking, complaining about, or dismissing a work because it has discomforting elements (including even, for instance, dated technology) helps us to really face or understand or ancestors, nor ourselves. Further more, I think language should not be the deciding factor in the intentions of a piece of work or point of view of the creator; that is, if a certain word or phrase or way of putting something was used which we now regard as dated or distasteful, can not always be literally interpreted by only our current definitions and associations – this leads, I think, to misunderstood intentions and missed points. I certainly won't have anything from the past be altered for the benefit of the present condition. But I won't delve into this further for the sake of keeping to my ideas about subjectiveness.

Which leads me back to that infuriating thing about 'taste' within time – arbitrary, shallow, ever-changing. Not to mention, cyclical and reactionary against itself quite often. There is a phenomena that I call the 10-20 Rule, which particularly  applies to fashion trends, but I feel I see it applying to all matters of pop culture (music styles, film trends, etc), possibly even more now than before. The 10-20 rules has three parts: before 10 years we haven't really distanced ourself enough from the past to see it as garishly different, therefore we have yet to categorize or analyze it fully; between the approximate 10 and 20 year mark, the trends of the past become too dated to bare and must be made fun of at all costs (or so it seems); at 20 or so however, it's been long enough that our yearning and interest in those previous styles are renewed, reinterpreted, and reclaimed especially by those who were not there to live it. Especially, or perhaps most integral to this theory, if it's different than whatever trend we leave directly behind.

It's by no means an original theory. I think those with even the slightest awareness of clothing style changes recognize the recycling of trends every 20 or so years. What I feel I gave a name or at least more personal thought to are the first two parts of the rule. I write this in 2020, and I've been seeing fashion of the Y2K pop up for a couple years now (and also predicted it. Am I bitter about this? Maybe; I have my self analysis ready for another essay.) and now fully cementing itself in all mainstream fashion forward outlets (but I also see adults not ready to accept it). At the same time, I am hearing and seeing plenty of mockery directed at the mid to late 2000s, smack in that war zone of 10 to 15, for music or styles that went along with it, while also seeing teenagers now wax nostalgic about the years they were babies and wishing they could dress 'emo' now (and you see, according to my philosophy, they could and should, they should enjoy whatever they want, and the holding them back is the perception of not being cool or current, and perhaps also the means of obtaining the articles to fulfill their desires. Which as much as I personally have no nostalgia for emo music or junior high, makes me sad for them). As for 2010s, of course as the decade ended plenty of retrospective articles emerged, but the same fear of the trends of the past are slowly just beginning to trickle in from the first few years. My friend tagged me in an Instagram post of a picture of a celebrity at Coachella wearing Jeffry Cambell Litas in 2012, which were massively popular probably between 2010 and 2012, and the Instagram post played on the nostalgia baiting while snickering at them and comparing them to Crocs and Uggs (I'm sure even in its prime they had their naysayers).  Which, personally I think Litas are much more stylish and was annoyed as a teen that I did not own a pair at a certain point. A lot of the comments echoed 'too soon' or 'I remember loving those'. That post exhausted me.

(This Instagram post however got me thinking, the cycle might be accelerating as the 2010s enter the 10-20 range of years removed, as the beginning of this decade coincides with the beginning of things like Instagram and fast fashion. The documentation of microtrends and of everyone's lives therefore increases, along with our desires for needing to see new things constantly amidst seeing the same things exponentially, leading to this unsatisfiable visual overstimulation...)

And the exhaustion set in when I realized, I'm not even 30, and if I live for another 50 years or more, I'm going to have to go through this cycle again, and again, and again, and again, and again.

It is not so much the idea of cyclical and equal-opposite reaction trend cycles in themselves which bother me (although I have never ever liked minimalism and lived for its death since the day I was born, and if it comes back, I will continue to fight against it as the definition of 'taste') – but the way I have observed people engaging with them. Specifically, when in one decade some style is deemed awful, and in the next, the same person might suddenly change their tune and love it. This feels fickle. This feels like identity crisis. This feels like capitalistic brainwashing, because if you didn't change your taste, why would you buy anything new?

What are trends but repetition? Too soon and too strange is hard for people to digest; but see it presented enough times (especially on perhaps the wealthy or famous or attractive or young) it becomes desirable. See it too many times it becomes boring; the opposite reaches its desirable phase, and suddenly, the previous trend isn't just boring but dated. Horrifying. I'm fascinated by why this happens – because it feels like nothing that relates to the instincts of more primal humans. Perhaps I wrong, perhaps there is a more natural causation. From my vantage point amongst the trends, though, it feels like conditioning – and the only escape is to really, really look deep in yourself, and know what you genuinely love, and embrace that with sincerity and resolve.  

Being aware, probably hyper aware, possibly neurotic, about such things creates the frustration as much as it allows me to attempt to distance myself from it. My only reprieve from, as far as I can imagine, will be to untangle my involvement from this pop cultural hellscape as I age and, somehow, learn to not care about any of it and enjoy and be myself (and to others, not caring about the distance between youth, and all the involvement of Current and Cool that goes along with it, being left behind). Which is, above all, the center of what all these tangents point back to. This is much easier theorized about than done – I am tangled in pop culture, reinforced by my job that exists only because of it and the coworkers who are mostly all in that awkward phase of late 20-something between youth and a midlife crisis, also steeped in it, wherein they complain about simultaneously being out of touch and not knowing how to 'adult'. And clearly, pop culture is a topic which interests me - either by actually enjoying it or by analyzing it in a detached and cold alien sort of way for which I'll half-jokingly blame my sun sign.

When I speak of transcendence from time and the pop cultural constructs therein, this is not some metaphysical hallucinogenic trip in the desert meditational hoo-ha that I am promoting – it is 100% a psychological frame of mind that I've actively had to work towards through reflecting on the ideas I'm attempting to present here, researching all my interests and discovering new things from past culture as often as possible and how it informs the present, and above all, reflecting on and being comfortable with myself past, present, and future. Part of, and probably the main driving force behind, making fun of the trends of the past concerns itself with the horror when faced one's earlier self (especially as an adolescent). This being is in terms of naivety in words and action, the things enjoyed, the clothes and hairstyles worn, the inexperience in skill (especially for the arts), etcetera. The current trend is to 'cringe' when the evidence emerges (and part of me feels there's something to critique about those then and now comparisons where people show off how they are 'hot' and 'normal' now compared to their awkward nerdy tweens selves, who were possibly more fearless to experiment.). I believe this is part of young adult immaturity (not that older adults don't do it too, but young adults seem particularly sensitive and I believe it's due to the perseverance of adolescent insecurities), and I believe true maturity comes when you can look back on all those things and appreciate them or at least have no embarrassment for it. Outgrow shame. Like it or not, they are you, after all.

Now I don't know if maybe I just had a different sense of individuality from a younger age than others (Again, I don't mean to sound elitist, I just don't have any other perspective) in which I early on valued individuality to most costs of alienation, but I have little to no shame like this. Everything I am now expanded from who I was then. I have no shame for art I drew when I was 12, because it reminds me of the imagination I had then and the skills I built (am building) and the themes that persist. I have no shame for the music I enjoyed when I was six or sixteen, because I still access and enjoy it all without the disclaimer of nostalgia and it led to more and more musical discovery (and because I never, after all, followed current trends in that area). I have journals dating back to age 11, and yes there are things written there I wouldn't say now, but I will share it all with you****, because being ashamed of it would mean to be ashamed of all that was necessary to get me to who I am now. I find them cute, mostly. And, who really cares, besides ones self?

To me, the past self is just as concurrent with the present self, and both are needed to realize the future self. If there is anything close to a forth dimensional state of being a human can achieve, it is to see all moments of personal experience as one continuous narrative of persona. After all, even if actively bettering ourselves, we don't really, consciously notice much of a change, until we look back (not unlike changing trends). Certain negative traits, too, I believe should be managed, understood, rather than destroyed, with time and reflection – allowing oneself to see the weaknesses and strengths in those aspects of character. In this way, we don't really change at all.

When I recall experience of the past, it's not often the details of what happened that persist, but the emotions I felt in relation to those moments. We often act as if we've grown-up so much as to be removed from those emotions, and maybe if we did relive an experience (which in a way we can when revisiting those bits of pop culture) we'd react in different ways. Here's the paradox of my view: we can't relive those moments because of our linear state, so the fixed memories of the emotions from that experience follow us through (consciously or not) like pieces out of time. We can reflect and grow for the future, but we will always be affected by our past experiences.

I have wondered if there's something wrong with me for feeling just as sensitive at 28 as at 15 as at 8 when someone comes along to make me feel as alienated as I did when (more indirectly than directly) taking a metaphorical dump all over the things which bring me joy. Stirring up those very same emotions. That perhaps I am developmentally stunted somehow. Shouldn't I have resolved my own adolescent insecurities? Shouldn't I be able to truly brush off the opinions of others and be mature about it? Someday, coming out the other end of youth, maybe I will transcended and truly be unaffected by caring about these things. Such is my goal. I might want someone to come along and read this and be more thoughtful about the world, but ultimately I can only change how I interact with those whom I will never reach.

That being said, I've concluded there likely isn't anything wrong with me in this regard. And if it isn't obvious, I've obsessed over that concern for a while. My sensitivity is a fault and a virtue of my personality. My passion and opinions can be exhausting even to myself but at least I'm living with exuberance. This strong sense of persona helps give my existence meaning, and that's important on my more nihilistic days. Plus, I'm only twenty something, closer to thirty, and while experiences have matured me in some ways, one doesn't just eliminate the various traumas of growing up by stepping over the boundary of the legal drinking age and making fun of teen angst. We remember, if we realize it or not. What we have to make efforts to do is not forget. How else will we really know ourselves? How else will we truly understand others? How else will we reach out to younger people who remind us of our past selves, and maybe do some good for them?

Another so-called insult I see is the accusation of 'seeking validation'; of course we are, and I don't see anything necessarily wrong with wanting that. Of course we are. We're all bouncing around a confusing and complicated existence, affected by the circumstances of our past and present and culture and trends and emotions and limited perspective trying to make sense of ourselves, our purpose, our lives. Hopefully just trying to make the most of it. We all need a bit of validation now and then, or we need catharsis to scream out our bitterness into the world to purge it from ourselves. Especially those awful, negative, opinions - even if it's more destructive than creative - we just need to expel those demons. We hope to have it echo back by someone who recognizes the tune – because we want to be seen and heard and understood by at the very least just one other person searching for the same thing.

Despite all these words, at this end there is really only simple message I want to get across:

We are a little insecure; but self acceptance is just as contagious. It would do us a lot of good if we could all just be more a lot more genuine, and a lot more thoughtful, and a lot more kind.

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*Although scientifically measured, there is some arbitrary perspectives even at this level. Take, for instance, year zero AD revolving around Jesus when there are other religions besides Christianity in the world, or the fact that some cultures use a lunar calendar and not a solar one. Not to mention, it is fixed on the earthbound existence - that is, versus another planet. Space does not give a hoot about time as we sort it.

** The only excuse is your interests might just not align into caring about these things the way I do. I want people to educate themselves, but one thing I've had to work to remember is not everyone gets so passionate about these subjects. Saying just this sentence probably makes that sound like I regard myself as the most detached intellectual in the room. I don't mean to imply that. What I think I mean is: I've had to work to recognize that my obsession with music, movies, art, and history along with my long time lamentations of being limited to a third dimensional state, is a very large part of my self-imposed identity and I forget that's not the case with everyone.

*** I have a lot of Fashion Laws of Physics, and another is Trickle Down Fashionenomics, which again is just a new name I gave to the established concept of how fashion goes from the street, to the runway (or sometimes starts at the runway), to higher end brands, to trend forward moderately priced stores (Urban Outfitters), to mid tier or low cost fashion forward stores (Forever21), to big box department stores (Walmart and Target). By which time, streetwear and runways have long moved on.

**** Unless you are my parents, but that's for other reasons.

YogaHub Teacher Spotlight: Chris Flack

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Chris Flack informs us regarding his yoga journey by breaking down his experience with reflection, as well as uses helpful meditation tips!

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I meditate 24×7. I, am a legend.

... I do not as well as, I'm not. When I started meditating I'm quite certain that was my goal.

On a yoga resort ten years ago we did a walking reflection as well as, I won. I 'd absorbed the environments, considered what I was mosting likely to have for supper and also what yoga exercise pose I could photograph to look awesome on my new Facebook account. I was the fastest to the midway point and also was pleased with myself. At that factor the trainer discreetly informed the group that the idea was to be your slowest self. Heading back I remained in last area the entire means. I remember believing to myself, " I am a tale".

Five years later, pressing myself as difficult as I might for success in the company globe I wound up burnt-out as well as was identified with depression.

Today I practice meditation two times daily. Am I worry totally free? No. Yet I have an extremely active life and also this is an essential component to maintain me solid. My emphasis is extra acute, my rest deeper, and also I do everything slower. That does not indicate I do not get points done, yet I observe initially then respond. An easy instance would be being reduced up on my bike when cycling to work (generally other bikers with earphones). Previously I might have right away screamed '**** off you ****** **** arsehole", whereas currently, I 'd stop as well as possibly silently mumble "arsehole" (nobody is perfect). The advantages, however, just really came when I began doing it frequently, and also yet among the obstacles to meditation for a lot of is locating time. this post will hopefully bring some light to how to remove such barriers.

Why is this relevant to you? Being stressed out is currently normal. The pace of contemporary life indicates the majority of us are conditioned to be on vehicle pilot and in a haze of ideas 24×7. It's as if we get on a continuous adrenaline drip as well as whilst that aids us endure challenges, being ' constantly on' is not sustainable. As mindfulness expert Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn explains: " We have Stone Age minds in a digital globe,".

If we assume of this continuous sound creating a practice of interruption, meditation is one option to bring us back to the here and now moment. Each time we do it we are exercising a mental workout to strengthen the routine of focus.

Meditation is usually marketed as bells and smells which does not interest everyone. Thankfully this is changing (although I personally enjoy the scents and bells!) and also right here's why:

1) The evolution of mindfulness means meditation is currently clinically proven.

Just to get the definitions out the method here's mine (some individuals might not agree with these however they're how I separate both):

Meditation is a formal method (there are many strategies which I'll go on to in my next message "I'm a meditation flirt"), to focus on today minute without reasoning ie. the image of the individual sitting with their eyes closed. Transcendental Meditation (emphasis on a specific concept in an official practice).

Mindfulness is an informal practice to focus on today minute with no judgement. ie. something we can do in whatever we do. Jon Kabat-Zinn took this mainstream when he established MBSR (Mindfulness Based Tension Reduction) taking this ancient word for recognition, constructing a clinical situation for huge well-being benefits and making it something any person can do by providing it in a secular way. For instance, mindful strolling (ie. practising a normal task however simply doing that point (single tasking), no listening to music or inspecting your snapstreak).

2) Science (neuroplasticity) has confirmed we can improve our brain physical fitness at any type of age.

And why is this important? Workout just truly removed when scientists started to show the advantages. The large difference there was that it gives more pleasure principle towards goals such as limited buns and a six pack.

Celebrity endorsement as well as glossy products like Headspace as well as Buddhify go some way to make it attractive but unlike physical health and wellness, you can disappoint off your mind health and wellness in a bikini so it will certainly be a slow-moving revolution

3) Being 'always on' produces a habit of interruption as well as mediation does the contrary. Most of us struggle in the present interest economic climate and also yet those diversions are only going to obtain stronger. I'm a little prejudice right here as I run UnPlug, a individuals advancement company that runs business programmes to assist individuals develop focus in a distracted world. Disconnect programmes provide behavior change as well as conscious practice is a tiny element of what we do yet a very essential part.

I am confident that (3) will imply meditation and mindfulness become mainstream as it will certainly not simply be a method to aid us with enhanced well-being however an exercise to make use of to maintain focus in an ever disruptive world.

So here are my meditation tips (note: I am not a professional. I'm somebody experienced fatigue, was identified with depression and also researched reflection as one of the approaches to preserve good brain wellness as well as it's functioned):

- Reflection is not a magic pill, it does not treat anxiety, turn you into a hippy or make Trump disappear. If you have a trouble you require to handle, reflection will, however, assistance as a coping device. As the ABC anchorman Dan Harris created it makes him " 10% Happier". For me, I see more concentrate on favorable and also much less on unfavorable in my life. Absolutely nothing remarkable yet gradually that shift is fundamental.

- Reflection is simple however difficult to practice. When starting arbitration, we wind up in a ferocious circle. We try to block out ideas and all of a sudden create anxiety that we can not practice meditation. If we really did not have thoughts it would be like doing bicep swirls without weights. Assume of it rather than not giving the thoughts your interest. When we sleep, we usually have a mind full of ideas and also the much less focus we offer to those thoughts the more unwinded we become. The difference is that we practice meditation with a straight spinal column (so our nerve system is energetic and, preferably (!) we don't fall asleep).

- With the ' constantly on' society this is becoming harder. Nonetheless, what we have to remember is that the very best things we have actually found out have actually come with practice.

- You possibly do not have time to practice meditation. When you practice meditation for some time you'll really have more time as your life will have even more focus. Also if it's simply 2 minutes a day, do it regularly as opposed to binging. Practice is hard yet fool your system by beginning small.

- Meditation can set you back nothing to countless bucks. However, it's worth considering this is your mind wellness. We invest thousands on our exterior appearance and rarely consider our brain health, commonly getting to for tablets when we are worried. One of the most typical anti anxiety medication on the market supplies males the beautiful side result of erectile dysfunction. If being dispirited wasn't bad enough.

- It is necessary to find what jobs for you. Behaviors just develop when we such as something. If tibetan bells or silent retreats make you wince take into consideration a non-traditional reflection such as colouring in books or calligraphy (the trick is to do something you take pleasure in and also single job). Or if your mind is really busy try a more energetic meditation such as strolling or dancing. It's everything about discovering an anchor for your thoughts that functions for you and your present circumstance. I made use of to contemplate the way to work when I resided in Delhi, my emphasis was on the material stream of noise. My mom reviews her prayers every early morning. She's simply doing that a person thing (there's no Sweet Crush in one hand whilst listening to Radio 2 as well as reviewing her prayers). Consider the words utilized. If you're ill of seeing ' Mindfulness' or ' Meditation' in your newsfeed after that take a leaf out of worldwide firm Mondelez's publication. Julia Freeman created a program that never uses those words, instead it utilizes the adhering to words as well as it's been a big success.

Meditation is one point you can do to boost your mind health/fitness. Sleep, nutrition, relationships as well as workout are equally as crucial as well as I'll discuss how I preserve total brain fitness in a future post.

Even if its' just 2 minutes. Do it daily. Change is a procedure not an occasion so try to make it a habit but see to it you start small.

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Chris is Chief Executive Officer and Creator of UnPlug. Reflection is just one of his individual passions. UnPlug aids people handle digital interruptions resulting in boosted focus. The UnPlug team includes psychologists, technology and neuroscience professionals. Conscious method is a little part of UnPlug's behavioural modification programmes.

I'm not buying putting all the blame on Hugh. He's a young fool in love not some master manipulator that you claim he is. He's foolish and a tad ignorant to his surroundings but he's not a bad man. He doesn't even know he's dying yet so he can't possibly know to use that as a manipulation tactic. Pt one

Pt two: I’ve sent in another ask to you about Hugh that’s gone unanswered but I assume you’ve got so many asks it got lost or something.  Saying he has no respect for the man he loves while defending the same man who has no respect for his wife is down right infuriating,  especially if this whole deviation from the the books happens. Show Hugh is just a love sick pup.   Already Ross hasn’t respected her, sure he saved high but he would have left him if given the chance. It was pure chance

Pt theee: and Ross has benefited greatly from the rescue         

Hi, anon.

Gonna respond to your points, but I should also flag up that though I reblogged @rainpuddle13‘s post and didn’t offer a dissenting view, because I agree with the majority of what she says, I didn’t originate the post. I don’t think I’ve personally ever claimed Hugh is a master manipulator, though I maintain that he does manipulate Demelza’s emotions.

Putting this all under a read more, both for length and for people to avoid spoilers if they wish.

I’m not buying putting all the blame on Hugh. He’s a young fool in love not some master manipulator that you claim he is

Yes, he’s a young fool. Absolutely. But whether he’s in love or not is a different matter. In the books, as in the show, he actually only meets Demelza a very small number of times, and claims to love her from almost the beginning. He does this despite not knowing the first thing about her. Yes, he grows to know her more, but even so, we’re talking a handful of meetings across a period of 18-24 months, and letters sent from him to her, but not letters in return. I think he believes himself to be in love, far more than he actually is in love. I definitely strikes me as the sort of young man who believes himself to be in love relatively easily. It’s a crush, essentially.

As I said, I don’t think I’ve ever claimed Hugh is a master manipulator, but he certainly does manipulate Demelza, whether it’s consciously or otherwise. He flatters her, he charms her, he writes her poetry. For somebody of Demelza’s character, of her background and life experiences, that amounts to a kind of manipulation. And as to the final manipulation - well, certainly he plays on her compassion then. First he tells her this:

‘…My eyes will not behave. Once they refused to recognize a flag at two hundred yards – now they’ll not do it at fifty. Like any rebellious matelot, they will not respond to discipline.’She stared at him. ‘Hugh, I’m that sorry … But what are you trying to say?’He began to row again. ‘I’m saying I can see the land from here – just. Tell me how we go.’ Demelza continued to stare at him in silence. Her hand had been over the side, and she drew it in and let the drops fall on the seat beside her. ‘But it was to be better! You said that when we first met.’‘It was to be better but instead it is to be worse. I have seen two special doctors in London, one a naval surgeon, the other private. They agree that nothing can be done.’For Demelza the heat had gone out of the day. ‘But even if you are short sighted, there must be naval work ashore, or …’‘Not with this verdict over me. They think I have a short time.’’A short time?—’‘Oh, it is all dressed up in the Latin tongue like ribbons on a maypole, but what emerges is their opinion that there is something amiss behind the eyes and that in six months or so I shall be following in Milton’s footsteps, though without a suitable share of his talent.’

And then, shortly afterwards, this exchange happens:

He said: ‘Demelza.’‘Yes.’‘I wish you’d let me make love to you.’‘Jesus God,’ she said.‘Oh, I know it is – ill of me to say such a thing. I know it is both unfair and indiscreet of me even to utter such a thought. I know it looks as if I am trading on this kindness you are doing to me in an unforgivable way. I know it seems – must seem – utterly despicable of me to attempt, or even to think of attempting, the virtue of a woman married to the man who saved me from prison. I know all that.’She said, stumbling over the words: ‘We had better start for home now.’‘Give me five minutes – if only sitting here with you.’‘To say what more?’‘Perhaps to explain a little of what I feel – so that you shall not think too harshly of me.’She crumbled the fine sand in her hand. Her head was down and her hair fell forward over most of her face. She had kicked off her shoes, and her feet were sunk in the sand.‘I cannot think harshly of you, Hugh, even though I cannot understand how you can say it, especially today.’He brushed the water off his shirt. ‘Let me explain about one thing first. You think this is a terrible thing, asking you to be disloyal to Ross. And on the narrowest terms it is. But – how can I try to make it more clear? By giving love you do not diminish it. By loving me you would not destroy your love for Ross. Love only creates and adds to itself, it never destroys. You do not betray your love for Ross by offering some of your love to me. You add to it. Tenderness is not like money: the more you give to one, the more you have for others.’

This, to me, reads as manipulation. It is a conscious, deliberate attempt to play on Demelza’s inherent goodness, her love, her compassion and her kindness. I do not think it is a coincidence that he had, just a few minutes before, told her that he would be blind soon. He has learned her character, he has understood absolutely that she loves Ross and also that she is kind, generous and giving. He is using that knowledge to convince her to give in to the physical attraction between them, and the emotional attachment.

I absolutely don’t believe he’s a ‘master manipulator’. But I think he does manipulate Demelza. He finds out her character and ‘uses it’ against her (I say ‘uses it’ because I remain unconvinced if he did so in a deliberate fashion or whether it’s unconscious).

He’s foolish and a tad ignorant to his surroundings but he’s not a bad man

I don’t think he’s at all ignorant of his surroundings. He is absolutely 100% clear that his attachment to Demelza is wrong because she is married, and married to the man who saved Hugh’s life. He just doesn’t particularly care. If he did care, he wouldn’t have flirted with Demelza, wouldn’t have flattered her, wouldn’t have written her love poetry. Instead he would have stayed away and made sure they only met in company. Now, whether this makes him a ‘bad man’ or not is up to any individual reader’s discretion. I don’t think it makes him ‘bad’, but I think it’s morally reprehensible for him to be aware of all of the real, valid objections to his attachment - which Demelza herself brings up to him (pointing out that not only is she married but happily so, loving her husband) - and yet not only do nothing to avoid the attachment, but actively pursue it. Particularly in the light of having been saved from Quimper by Ross.

He doesn’t even know he’s dying yet so he can’t possibly know to use that as a manipulation tactic.

In fact, Hugh never uses his illness, when it comes, as a manipulation tactic against Demelza. It perhaps makes her feelings more acute, later on, but it’s not a factor in the actual physical infidelity, and not in the emotional infidelity either.

Saying he has no respect for the man he loves while defending the same man who has no respect for his wife is down right infuriating,  especially if this whole deviation from the the books happens.

Ross has respect for Demelza. He absolutely has respect for Demelza. Even within the show, that’s clear. But in the book, this section from Ross’s POV makes his respect for her, and trust in her, absolutely clear. This takes place at Falmouth’s house, in section of the book that it looks like they’re going to cover in 3.08 - after Basset offers the nomination of MP to Ross, when Ross and Demelza have already discussed Hugh and her softness for him:

So he must not take too much account of the way she was blooming tonight. But he suspected there was something different about it; some look of serenity he had not noticed before. Of course any woman likes admiration, and new admiration at that, and she was not different. They had quarrelled once on a ballroom floor – God knew how long ago it was – that time, if he remembered, he had angrily accused her of leading on a pack of undesirable and undeserving men, and she had retorted that he, Ross, had been neglecting her.

This time he was not neglecting her, and only one man, the man she was dancing with, was in any way being led on. Armitage was an honest, charming and likeable chap, and there was nothing whatever to show that Demelza was more than the passive recipient of his admiration and attentions. Ross hadn’t really very serious doubts about Demelza; he and she had been so close so long; but he hoped she didn’t allow Armitage – almost by default – to imagine something different.

(bolded by me for emphasis)

Ross trusts her. He respects her. In the books, they are about as close as they have ever been since their marriage. Now, I agree that in the show the situation is different. The problem in the show is that the reconciliation between them, at the end of s2/beginning of s3, was not as complete and as deep as it was in Warleggan.

Regardless, Hugh is still approaching a married woman, married to the man who saved Hugh. I personally feel Hugh ought to respect that. Fair enough if you feel differently, particularly within the show.

Show Hugh is just a love sick pup

Yep, agree with you there, particularly the implication of ‘pup’ - ie, puppy love, immature love, a crush. He does not, cannot, truly love Demelza, because he does not know her.

Already Ross hasn’t respected her

As I said above, Ross does respect her. Certainly he respects her in the books, but also in the show. For example, leaving her in complete charge of Wheal Grace when he, Henshawe and Zacky Martin (ie, the three managers of the mine) go to France to attempt to rescue Dwight. He wouldn’t do that if he didn’t respect her intellect and common sense. There’s also the respect of recognising, at the end of 3.03, that she has every right to take decisions without him when he’s not there, and that he should support that.

Admittedly, he shuts her out of his decision-making rather more often than I’d like, but that’s not actually a lack of respect so much as it is his habitual inclination towards going it alone. I think, in the show, he doesn’t always acknowledge how capable she is, nor understand that her point of view is valuable, but ignorance isn’t the same as disrespect.

And also, frankly, it’s a fairly typical attitude of the time towards the role of men and women within marriage. It’s a difficulty that’s partly arisen because of this apparent need to ‘modernise’ Demelza, and make her more active and fiery. It becomes difficult to stick to the book in terms of her accepting and understanding his decisions. They have written her as being far more vocal and forthright about (for example) the risks involved in any given venture, but the decision is still made, because Ross’s decisions are often the reason the plot moves forward, and so he doesn’t listen to her, doesn’t discuss things with her, and so it comes over as a lack of respect that I truly don’t think he feels.

sure he saved high but he would have left him if given the chance. It was pure chance… and Ross has benefited greatly from the rescue  

Yes, absolutely, it was pure chance. But that doesn’t mean that Hugh doesn’t owe his life to Ross. If Ross had not come for Dwight, Hugh would not have escaped. Full stop. And therefore, given the privations of the prison and, in the show, the inhumanity of the French guards, it is entirely likely that Hugh would have died there.

Yes, Ross has benefited from it. But does that really mean that Hugh should be given a pass on approaching Ross’s wife? Does it mean that, because Ross has gained a level of fame and honour for ‘rescuing’ Lord Falmouth’s nephew, we should not protest the fact that his chance rescuee is making advances on Demelza? A chance rescue is still a rescue. What does it matter what benefit Ross is or isn’t gaining from it?

Now, I will qualify all of this by saying that my opinion is based on the books, and that I am still willing to hold fire on show!Hugh until the end of the series, depending on how 3.08 and 3.09 play out. However, so far, I feel he’s being portrayed with remarkable book!accuracy, so I’m not certain how much my opinion will change. I think it will depend mostly on how they portray Demelza’s side of things. But as I’ve said before, in the books, Demelza doesn’t turn to Hugh because of any neglect on Ross’s part, or because of any dissatisfaction with Ross or with her life with Ross.

On a final note:

I’ve sent in another ask to you about Hugh that’s gone unanswered but I assume you’ve got so many asks it got lost or something.

Was this the ask about my opinion on the differences between show!Hugh and book!Hugh? It hasn’t got lost, but as you know, I do have to pace myself, and it’s a question that I’ve wanted to hang on to until I had enough energy for a proper answer. Which, today, I’ve now used up on this answer! :D I almost never delete asks without responding in one way or another, even if it’s only ‘I’ve talked about this before, check my tag’, so if an answer to a question hasn’t appeared, it’s not because it’s lost, it’s just because I haven’t got there yet. I have some asks that have been sitting in my inbox for months, but they’re not deleted and not forgotten, I’m just eternally playing catch-up because I get so many asks!

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