this is because your level of awareness tends to decrease to your level of equanimity (if not, you'd go crazy)
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Louise 🔸 (in Berkeley 7/22-8/12) (@LeRoyDesCimes)
My most anxious friends are also my friends least aware of their environment. I'll be walking with an anxious friend and point out a beautiful house, or an unusually shaped tree, and they're always surprised to see it.
yes there's an "anxious -> closed to environment" causation but does it also go the other way? "opening your awareness -> less anxious"? There's got to be, right?
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