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What is a good hobby/skill that most people should give a try, and why so? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

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What is something like a hobby or skill that you belive almost anybody should give a try, and what makes your suggestion so good compared to other things?

i feel like this is a descent question i guess.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Bleh, I like my version better. I feel a more diverse range of emotions, and I feel those feelings more, not less. I used to be able to ignore things that made me unhappy or were actively hurtful/harmful, and now I can't really do that (except for trivial things). I'm now aware that I feel progressively more miserable if I don't take some sort of action to deal with my feelings. I'm coming at this from a place of intense childhood trauma, so that may explain the difference. I had to do a bunch of EMDR and other very unpleasant things to reach the point where I could stand to live in my own head. That's probably where the disconnect between my mindfulness and the commercial self-help mindfulness comes from.