third thing

Initiatory Numinous Experience — I have been putting writing about this off for 11 years now. It was October of 2015; a lot of energetics were going on in and around me all at once. I don't know how to structure this entry/experience…

Ex said she loves me but isn’t in love, then sent mixed signals after breakup — trying to understand what’s going on — I (27M) recently went through a breakup with my ex (26F), and I’m trying to make sense of the situation without getting pulled back into something confusing. For context, she studied veterinary medic…

The reason “just start” doesn’t work and what the research says to do instead — I think a lot of self-improvement advice fails because it misunderstands how motivation actually works. The standard advice is: set a goal, break it into steps, build discipline, execute. And for som…

Where there is "control", there is a) something doing the controlling, and b) something which is being controlled. What are these two things exactly? In ancient Stoic thought, there is one thing, ou…

\^\^ like some people in this subreddit are atheists. some believe in a higher power. some have some secret third thing going on. we're all here manifesting in our own ways

Yeah and IMO while some of it may relate to gender or sex there are many that agree that at it's core it's not even really about that and that many years ago it wasn't seen that way, but more so a ref…

So not a lover or ex but a worse third thing: codependent mommy figure he needs to go to to make decisions.

>Does he still have feelings for her, or is this more about him not respecting my boundaries? It's also a third thing: it's him flip flopping on the boundaries he himself sets. When he blocks her t…

The reason "be kind to yourself" doesn't work is that you're trying to argue with a voice that formed before you had the ability to question it. That voice isn't random. It was built. Usually from e…

I have the same problem as you. I often live in my dreams and want to sleep all day. I feel stuck in the same place, so I don’t want to move forward. But in the last month, I started to improve mysel…