Scientist, truthist, systems thinker, impact player. PhD: Immunology at @thedohertyinst Work: Health Systems Innovation President: Ultimate Victoria
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I love this quote from Kahlil Gibran: “Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.”
Wisdom without heart becomes arrogant and indifferent.
Philosophy without joy becomes..
jesseka retweeted
Coming back around to Christian mysticism after developing my Zen sensabilities I have really come to love the implications of grace working upon us. That is it's a practice/path that implies & anticipates divine action. Someone other than me making the first move. I think thats pretty radical.
So much of my prior practice was built around my own abilities and attainments, my own efforts. That has all served me well but within Christian mysticism I find this invitation to put all that down for a moment. An invitation to stop working on love, and to instead let love work on me. A paradigm shift from I - it/subject-object, to I-Thou/Subject-Subject.
All thats been asked of me.. of perhaps anyone isn't to do more, perfect this or that... just to be still and know, to taste and see, to ask and recieve. I have found this to be fairly disruptive to my usual form, expectations and posture. I love it.
jesseka retweeted
I've been meaning to share these thoughts for a while and touched on them briefly in a recent conference talk. They are relevant to a lot of the discussions today.
Learning to listen is a skill. Yes its harder for sensitive neurodiverse folks because our bodies feel so chaotic but that makes it all the more important. Your nervous system needs support and care and beginning to pay attention and trust those signals will eventually pay off. I promise you. Continuing to live in disconnection will be our downfall
jesseka retweeted
Did you know attention help regulates your immune response?
"Our findings therefore establish a causal
link between attention and immune regulation in vivo, suggesting that processes often considered autonomously regulated, such as inflammatory responses, are influenced by the voluntary allocation
of attentional resources."
nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
I think maybe i should get the phrase ‘UNLEARN CATASTROPHIZING’ in catastrophically large letters tattooed on me 🙃
My guess is the limit is related to the capacity for joyful baseline experiences within your interpersonal network. ie if your 5 closest friends grow capacity with you… maybe it’s unlimited
If effective therapy requires trust and psychological safety does that mean we think its a good thing for people to develop that kind of a relationship with a LLM? I’m not convinced we do…
1. As a society we have really not processed the fact that LLMs are already human-level therapists in most ways that matter, and much better than almost all human therapists in some ways (more patient, more knowledgeable, less judgmental). Therapy is now approximately free! Update your consumption of it accordingly!
I say Claude specifically because a bunch of friends have had really good experiences talking through emotional issues with it.
Probably some of my followers have particularly good prompts for making Claude a better therapist (@nearcyan maybe?) If you do please share them here!
It seems possible that physics will accept space-time as not fundamental before western medicine will accept the mind and body are not separate things…
I know that generally specificity is better but 1) it reduces the chance you will utilise any given persons best skillsets - they might have ideas you never would and 2) being specific can be SO hard especially when overwhelmed
My challenge with this - and i am really trying - is to figure out how specific to be about the kind of help i need. Do you think there’s a better or worse level of specificity? Eg the different between ‘help me find a job’ vs ‘help me improve CV by reviewing it and commenting’
The healthy way to hold power is to empower others. The toxic way to hold power is to hoard it for yourself.
jesseka retweeted
Most people vastly under-exercise their dogs & it harms their mental and physical health. 30min, twice a day brisk walks (every day) is the bare minimum … & some need far more. @cesarmillan points out: If you truly love your dog, you’ll get it the exercise it needs.