I used to try to tell that to my clients every day:))) Your words really capture it.

… to compensate with increased social-media time, has been a disaster for adolescent mental illness. Compare someone who looks into the mirror to find themselves and someone who wanders through a forest to find themselves. The first is navel-gazing which leads the mind into a room of mirrors, and the second is searching for their soul, a Japanese custom called "Shinrin-Yoku. Why is there such a difference between the two? Well, we now know from a recent study by Abraham Avi…

"The western condition, steeped in the ideas of cause and effect, in the material sense."

Geoffrey Newton

Elena Mustakova

May 3, 2022

I used to try to tell that to my clients every day:))) Your words really capture it.

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