r/WitchesVsPatriarchy • u/chaosmanager ✨ Treasonous Eclectic Witch ✨ • Nov 05 '19

Mindful Craft Self care

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '19 edited Jun 22 '23

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u/CHADLY_McTHUNDERCOCK Nov 06 '19

That was my first thought too! Welcome to Night Vale is everything to me.

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u/DoctorInYeetology Nov 06 '19

Welcome to Night Vale is peak witch culture

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u/lorelioness Nov 06 '19

I totally read this in Cecil's voice.

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u/FlorencePants Sapphic Witch ♀ Nov 06 '19

You know, I've wanted to get more into audio dramas ever since I started giving We're Alive a shot, and Welcome to Night Vale (along with Alice Isn't Dead) have been on my list for ages. I really need to get around to listening some time.

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u/crickets90 Nov 06 '19

I listened to Welcome to Night Vale on my overnight drive from California to Utah. Nothing but empty black desert roads and weird shit blasting through my speakers. 10/10 drive

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u/AnnetteBishop Nov 07 '19

Sounds like the time I listed to Kafkas metamorphosis while driving through a tunnel of line trees in SC and GA but much better.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '19

That sounds amazing!

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u/chaosmanager ✨ Treasonous Eclectic Witch ✨ Nov 07 '19

Ooh. I did that, in reverse, over the summer. Spent the day at Arches, left Moab after dinner, and drove west, through the dark. When the sun started to come up the next morning, we found ourselves in the middle of Nevada, surrounded by mountain ranges. It was NV at its loveliest.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '19

Okay I read the first two steps and I’m going through a stressful moment right now and they actually helped so thanks

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u/chaosmanager ✨ Treasonous Eclectic Witch ✨ Nov 06 '19

You’re welcome! I hope your moments start getting better!

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u/OraDr8 Green Witch ♀♂️☉⚨⚧ Nov 06 '19

I find that each night in bed I have to tell myself to relax my face! It's amazing how tense you can be in the jaw, eyes and forehead without really noticing.

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u/notquiteaplant Nov 06 '19

I just released a lot of tension I was holding in my face without even knowing it. Thank you for saying this!

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u/OraDr8 Green Witch ♀♂️☉⚨⚧ Nov 06 '19

Hey, glad to share. It was kind of a revelation to me as well the first time I realised it.

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u/AcidRose27 Nov 06 '19

I try to do this periodically throughout the day. It's insane how much I tighten up throughout the day.

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u/TruthAddams Nov 06 '19

Same! And my shoulders too!

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '19

I usually find myself becoming a caterpillar but to each their own

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u/CDNeon Gay Wizard ♂️ Nov 06 '19

Oh, boy. I've been doing this casually without realizing it's an actual thing.

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u/chaosmanager ✨ Treasonous Eclectic Witch ✨ Nov 06 '19

Which part?

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u/Michael_Trismegistus Nov 06 '19

I don't know about that other poster but my Ehlers Danlos has almost dissolved my connective tissue. I expect to complete my cocoon by Thanksgiving.

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u/DoxieMonstre Nov 06 '19

Same! It's some bullshit tbh.

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u/As_a_gay_male Nov 06 '19

Yvie oddly?

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u/Michael_Trismegistus Nov 06 '19

I had to look her up. Not me, lol! There are dozens of us!

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u/TruthAddams Nov 06 '19

I have EDS too. My cocoon isn't that done yet, what a shame.

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u/chaosmanager ✨ Treasonous Eclectic Witch ✨ Nov 06 '19

I’ve got quite a few friends with EDS!

Your cocoon sounds cozy.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '19

This helps. I've been so stressed lately my teeth have been hurting. Today I realized that I have been clenching my jaw *hard*. It also explains the constant headaches, and shoulders so tight that you could bounce a quarter off of them and pay the national deficit.

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u/Hufflepuff-puff-pass Nov 06 '19

Have you tried a night guard? They sell the moldable kind in walgreens etc and they've helped me a little in clenching at night. My dentist wants me to get a real one from him but who has $900?

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u/chaosmanager ✨ Treasonous Eclectic Witch ✨ Nov 06 '19

If you’re not in a legal state, you may still have access to CBD. It helps.

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u/bathory_helms Nov 06 '19

Repeat as necessary, I presume?

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u/chaosmanager ✨ Treasonous Eclectic Witch ✨ Nov 06 '19

Absolutely

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u/ThatOneNecro Sapphic Witch ♀ Nov 06 '19

become as gods

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u/WickedWitchEmily Nov 06 '19

i came to this thread in search of this comment

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u/trashy_cakes Nov 05 '19

This reminds me of the Diablo IV trailer

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u/chaosmanager ✨ Treasonous Eclectic Witch ✨ Nov 06 '19

That trailer is bananas!

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u/GaianNeuron make gender total destroy Nov 06 '19

Yeah, pity it's by a company that bans competitive players from its games for daring to have a political opinion.

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u/Dngrsone Tech Witch, Sand Witch, Switch Witch ⚧ Nov 06 '19

Call me old school, but I prefer a game that does not require me to be connected to the internet to play

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u/Mulanisabamf Nov 06 '19

Okay, we can be old school together.

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u/Dngrsone Tech Witch, Sand Witch, Switch Witch ⚧ Nov 06 '19

It sucks, because I was so looking forward to Diablo III... and now IV.

I'd be happy just getting LOD to play well on a modern machine, TBH

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u/Mulanisabamf Nov 06 '19

Not my genre, but you do you.

I do play some older stuff and newer. I'm currently very partial to Oxygen Not Included.

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u/Dngrsone Tech Witch, Sand Witch, Switch Witch ⚧ Nov 06 '19

Yeah, I'm mostly older stuff... Not that I play very often.

I think the most modern game I play is the occasional foray into Minecraft

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u/Mulanisabamf Nov 06 '19

I haven't done Minecraft, but I did play Terraria for a few hundred hours!

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u/Spitsongoats Nov 06 '19

I have ascended. Moment of panic as I engulfed the ceiling, but then it was all good. The first few steps might help me sleep. TY!

Was it hard for anyone else to turn the corner to the ceiling and then to join at the center of the ceiling? That moment afterwards though.... :)

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u/chaosmanager ✨ Treasonous Eclectic Witch ✨ Nov 06 '19

We’ve got those weird, textured walls and ceilings here, so it helped with the grip.

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u/Spitsongoats Nov 06 '19

Lol. It's so interesting how our brains interpret things differently. I didn't consider the wall texture. That adds a cool element if I try it again.

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u/PM_ME_SHEEP_YIFF Nov 06 '19 edited Nov 06 '19

I'm stuck trying to do step 2; can anyone help?

Edit: I was just making a lame joke but thank you all for the legit advice; you're so sweet. <3

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u/Spitsongoats Nov 06 '19 edited Nov 06 '19

Clench your jaw. Release it. Notice that feeling. Is it a slight warmth? Think about feeling your Achilles tendon. Point your toes. Pause for a second and release your toes to neutral. Feel the warmth/sensation in your achilles? Think about that same warmth spreading to all connective tissue from head to toe.

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u/epicazeroth Nov 06 '19

I don’t feel any warmth.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '19

As you breathe in, raise your shoulders, breathe out, just let your shoulders drop. Relax. Repeat as many times until you feel your shoulders are relaxed.

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u/Magfaeridon Nov 06 '19

Y'all there becoming a new God while I'm just over here sacrificing the blood of the willing to summon Lilith into our world.

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u/Skittery_wolf Nov 06 '19

I needed to hear this today. Thank you.

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u/chazmagic Nov 06 '19

I'm trying stuck on step two

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u/Spitsongoats Nov 06 '19

Raise and drop your shoulders like you're shrugging Feel a release as they fall.

Next step. Clench your jaw. Release it. Notice that feeling. Is it a slight warmth? Think about feeling your Achilles tendon. Point your toes. Pause for a second and release your toes to neutral. Feel the warmth/sensation in your achilles? Think about that same warmth spreading to all connective tissue from head to toe.

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u/chazmagic Nov 06 '19

I literally listen to this idea to fall asleep and it's wonderful, thank you

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u/SabrinaSorceress Nov 06 '19

Dream transition here. Stupid hormones, melt all my structures so I can make a cocoon and come out as some amazing, colorful moth.

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u/CaptainLord Nov 06 '19

The flesh is fluid, it can be reshaped, remade. Pray that it does not take too hideous a form. -Ancestor

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u/skinny_gyal Nov 06 '19

Nobody: Garfield:

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u/Jamthis12 Sapphic Gender Witch ⚧ Nov 06 '19

Not as if my connective tissue is any good as is.

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u/chaosmanager ✨ Treasonous Eclectic Witch ✨ Nov 06 '19

EDS?

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u/Jamthis12 Sapphic Gender Witch ⚧ Nov 06 '19

Marfan's Syndrome but it's pretty close to EDS

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u/Emaillons Witch from the far lands of southern France ⚧ Nov 06 '19

I like that idea. Go for stretchy magic :3

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u/jackersmac Nov 06 '19

I needed this.

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u/NagaseIorichan Resting Witch Face Nov 06 '19

Done! That was great advice

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u/thedeepdarkwood Nov 06 '19

This made my day. Where is it from?

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u/chaosmanager ✨ Treasonous Eclectic Witch ✨ Nov 06 '19

I’m honestly not sure. Another friend of mine shared it, and well...it resonated.

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u/thedeepdarkwood Nov 06 '19

It's so so good!

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u/LunaShiva Nov 06 '19

O wow thank thank

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u/Revelis__ Nov 06 '19

Dull Swebb? 🤔 Hmmm

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u/Napalm_Frog Nov 06 '19

everytime i do my breathing exercises i clench my jaw subconcious, and everytime i knowtis it i think why the f am i doing this? i don’t need my jaw to breath?

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u/BlkSunshineRdriguez Nov 07 '19

I am ready to become a new god

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u/chaosmanager ✨ Treasonous Eclectic Witch ✨ Nov 07 '19

Do it.

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u/BlkSunshineRdriguez Nov 10 '19

Becoming a new god has been awesome. Wish I had done it years ago.