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Not in a simplistic manner though. My thinking went through three phases. Phase 1 - Mainly western approach, Until the end of 2019 I believed that the combination of a pill I took for anxiety, with the mindfulness practice is the best long term. Phase 2 - Natural approach At the beginning of 2020 I had an anxiety wave I have not had for years, what made me start experimenting with nutrition, start tapering the drug down very slowely (still to this day! that slow. never do this fast) and started to feel better in the following years, had cognitive breakthroughs about myself and about how to manage my thoughts, what made me believe in the intelligence of my brain and body to solve their problems. Phase 3 - From 2026 actually After a couple of years of a constant trend of improvement and feeling between OK to good most of the time, I had another anxiety wave which took couple of months, which at the end of it, this January, made me surrender many things, be more humble, less intelectualizing my thoughts (what I thought to work great for years turned out to be limited and not enough), more immersed mentally with nature, and also practically with returning to invest more in my nutrition, and seeing myself more as just part of nature, listen much more to premitive desires (which I am deficient in) and devote the following year mainly for them. So which is better, the Western approach or nature? So during last years I got triggered almost every time a family member talked about her training in psychiarty in her medicine degree, and basically each time I felt they are talking too much on western strategies of all kinds for physical and mental health. But this week, I learned something new about the problems with the human childbirth process. This was the first or at least the most significant moment in which I accepted the incompleteness of nature comes from natural selection, but at the same time I saw why this is precisely the reason for the genius of the human body and its ability to keep us alive in a way that no technology could do for even one single hour. So I feel things have kind of integrated better from this moment, and I feel now much more confident to talk about those topics when taking even more than before the side of nature and the natural approaches. In taking a side, I don't mean overlooking the intersections where western approaches are crucial and life saving, but just to put that in proportion, and hopefully no longer getting insecure and triggered in family conversations when I agreed to fall into that "complexity nihilism" of "Yeah both approaches are important" leaving the natural approach still not getting the respect it really deserves from family members, society and culture. So to sum it up, I feel I am coming out of this last wave with an even deeper connection to myself and seeing more sharply the gap between the intelligence of nature and the credit it gets in our time, and I am aiming to incorporate those insights into my therapy work with other people, which I started in the last year (of course after completing the appropriate courses) and to show the side I took in an ever clearer way.

An unpopular opinion these days but I think civil rights more than the most basic ones won't make you happier. More technology won't make you happier, and more opportunities is actually a stressful thing. Better medicine won't make you feel better mentally, but taking care of your body by yourself will.

The title has to be The Village That Survives THE Giant Spiders. I would leave the village just from hearing there are such spiders there.

@BlueOak Personally I am not that scared from missiles attacks but my mom gets stressed only from hearing the news studio talk... so I assume that yes fear here is significant in general especially in the last two years. Hezbollah is dangerous so I understand why Israel needed to act. I don't see this as coming from conquest aspirations. For me, I am not interested in conquest stuff, just to live normal life.

@BlueOak Again I don't know how much such people exist in my country because you are describing here a quite extreme point of view 🙂

@BlueOak How can one know how much those relatively extreme people, who want "war and conquest" as their worldview, are in Israel or the US?

Can you translate the word Zionism into simpler words?

Ok this is one of the videos I liked the most, because it is connected to how I feel all the time about that doctors and therapists think they can treat anxiety or ocd with strict protocols (which I tried on myself for years) which can never reach the depth of their patients problems, and I am thankful that I got to think differently from them. Sure this problem is one of the aspects that comes from logical thinking taken religiously, but for me personally this is perhaps the main aspect. I feel the video really sharpened things and made me feel even more comfortable with trusting my independent thinking. If I try to think about the reason for that logical ideology, I think this is always the fear of being groundless and to lose life meaning. If a doctor or a therapist will have to admit his method is very limited, it can collapse his or her psychological world. Maybe they generally don't feel that fear because there are more layers of protecting brain circuits standing between them and the amygdala, but they just don't know that if they will face their fear they will find out that their world won't collapse but just transform. It won't be without sacrifices, but they will come out calmer and better.

This isn't about the teacher or the neurological type which is a wide scale and not two statuses. Each one have a curved self customized path leading to homeostasis and healing and have to figure it out by himself mainly, when teachers and therapists can be a good source of support along the way.

So it is consistent on what it wants to be consistent on, except its moral standarts.

When Iran kills thousands of its citizens there are no mass protests in Europe or the US despite the large influence those governments have on Iran and tools they can use on it. This large gap cannot be explained by surface level political logic.

@Raze This wasn't the main motive of the protests at all. The weaponry support comes from the US is sufficient for everything Netanyahu's government wants to do, so it doesn't explain the protests in Europe and therefore a large part of the protests in the US that come from the same sentiment.

Where s the world?? The protests? Oh, of course, because it isn't Israel.

Fresh news ♨️🥐📺 I am limiting my messages to 3-4 tweets at a time, to give them more breathing room.

Israel is a very unusual case. The only common denominator connecting 80% of its citizens is simply being Jewish, but this ethnic character is precisely what makes the country diverse, as those Jews come from vastly different cultural backgrounds. But during the last couple of years this divergence has been getting sharper. The turning point was in January 2023 when Netanyahu's new government started to pass laws that could reform the court in a way that deeply threatens liberal democracy. Today the continuation of the war has pushed this split to the breaking point, while the new and blessed agreement can only improve it to some extent and temporarily. I will add here posts, videos and tweets showing the diversity in opinions and stances in Israel, and broader, sort of cold civil war happening here. Right-wing sectors are anyway over (and almost solely) emphasized in the international media so I will show them a little less here and will focus on many other voices. All posts are new and from these days, often from the same day or week they are posted (unless I will mention something else). Also all the posts are by Israelis 🇮🇱 only and always translated from Hebrew. The thread is time-limited 📆 and seasonal. I mean, literally seasonal🌧, until early or mid-winter (January maybe) then I will take a break for a month or two from personal threads, and then perhaps will open something similar with a bit different vibe and temperament to keep it fresh, or even a different Israeli related topic that will fit the theme of the time. I will try (apart from today) to add no more than one update every 1-2 days so as not to dominate the forum landscape too strongly and to really make it a choice to read for whoever truly wants to. You are welcome to ask anything you want and to debate.

*than a government held hostage by extremists

Right wing camp 🏰 🛶 news Note 1: From now on only 3-4 tweets at a time, to give the message more breathing room and taking future space limits into account. Note 2: Again, not to show agreement with this camp's tweets (which I mostly oppose) but to show the dynamics between the main sides in Israel.

Hanukka 🕎

American famous singer Alicia Beth Moore (known as P!nk) tells a bit about her life as a Jewish.

Center-Left camp 🍁🍜 news

You are accurate about the Israeli problematic system of governance. Every prime minister must maintain a coalition of at least 61 Knesset members which is more than half of the total number of 120 Knesset members. For example, if Smotrich and Ben Gvir withdraw from the government, they leave Netanyahu with a minority government which is unable to pass new legislation or the annual budget, and the moments the Knesset votes on a constructive motion of no confidence on the government, the government automatically collapses. So basically, if Smotrich and Ben Gvir's parties withdraw, Netanyahu has a very hard time to do anything significant, and most likely he will be left with no realistic option but to run for new elections.

From the last 48h news 📺

So basically, I think, we can say that development is our ability to consciously tap into the natural fuzziness of our thinking (which is close to, or even practically infinite given the complexity of our neural network) and align with it while needing less and less to reduce it into firmer and simpler versions.

https://www.mako.co.il/mako-vod-keshet/the-next-star-s12/shorts/Video-551bd846db0ea91027.htm

Center-Left camp 🎍🍁🍂 news (As always all are translated from Hebrew)