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Originally Posted by precaryous
I'm 59. Been in and out of therapy since 21. I heard Oprah say (at our age) "What's left to figure out?" Well.... I found that sort of invalidating. Oh, well.
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And yet she seems to be very much still seeking, does she not? Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle, Brian Weiss, Tony Robbins, the list goes on and on.
I am 47 and was in therapy a few years when I was a teenager, then skipped it entirely during my 20s and 30s, and then had run into some trouble this decade that prompted me to get back into it again.
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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