#Concentration Improvement

[compassionmattersmost]

Stabilizing the Mind: How Focused Attention Enhances Meditation and Calms Mental Fluctuations

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[onefite]

5 Breathing Techniques to Reduce Anxiety and Improve Concentration

5 Breathing Techniques to Reduce Anxiety and Improve Concentration Introduction Feeling overwhelmed by life’s pressures can often lead to anxiety and a dip in concentration levels. Whether it’s due to work, personal relationships, or the hustle and bustle of daily life, finding effective ways to manage stress is crucial. Fortunately, the power of breathing techniques can serve as a simple, yet…

[dykedvonte]

I think a big misunderstanding is the power people give Curly to actually change things about the way the pony express operates or could’ve done things on the Tulpar.

We are talking about a company that docks pay for bad synergy despite mandated psych evals that should tell which staff members would work well together, only allots for 5 hours of sleep despite having literally no other tasks to truly do and locks all resources behind the access of one person. The last one is likely to manage resources and make it easier to justify collective punishment and blaming one person for it; someone needs something in “excess” or the captain gives in? It’s all on them your pay is docked. Instant resentment.

It’s insidious how the company works, it’s by design to distract you from coming after them, to force tensions to line their own pockets. With all the restrictions and forced interactions, altercations are bound to happen. 5 hours of sleep a day, limited sources of entertainment, no real tasks… the monotony alone would cause bad cabin fever, mix that with just only one absolute mediator and you get the exact environment that allows shit like in the game to happen.

The idea he could just complain and try to throw his weight around to get them to dig into their pocket for the crews comfort is laughable and misses the predatory and dehumanizing aspect of capitalism the Pony Express represents. Curly was and is still just another asset to them. Being a top show pony doesn’t mean he’s anywhere close to the actual top. He is the top of the working ladder, not whoever’s in corporate, he wouldn’t even be on the bottom step unlike what Jimmy perceives. The resounding recommendations he would get are almost mocking as they throw him out like nothing just like the rest. Being a shitty fucking company, how much do you bet they’d mean anything anyways, especially since he wanted to leave the field all together.

He made a fuss and they didn’t listen, he says he should’ve done more but you can tell he knows it wouldn’t have changed anything. Jobs like this are willing to make a sacrifice if it means even a penny more. Curly makes a bigger fuss they likely would’ve just found an “unrelated” reason to fire him, hired a more pliable guy or, terrifyingly, promoted Jimmy. The company was failing, going to shut down whether anything happened on the ship or not. But knowing that they were shutting down and that everyone, including him, would be out of a job with this being their last paycheck, he had to factor in not destroying the last bit of their financial stabilities combined with every other issue on the vessel and his own. He gets another cryopod or locks and then he has to break to them that they are not only fired but there will be substantial cuts to their paychecks due to the “upgrades” (things that already should’ve been in place on their part) on top of anything else that could be docked along the way.

You can blame him for saying it so early into the trip but then again, if he mentioned it later who’s to say it wouldn’t have been worse? On the capitalism side alone how would people in a galaxy away from home, out of a job and already stir crazy react? Don’t get me started on how Jimmy would have reacted if he realized he only had two days left to fix what would be a very hard to miss “problem” in his head…

I can’t even consider explaining this as devils advocate because it’s just facts of the world we and they live in and factors that heavily affected the situation. People are just so quick to make claims on the ease of the choices when P.E literally makes it hard to choose to do anything but suck it up.

[checkadii]

mfs do anything but finish their wips . like startign another, for example

[geee-three]

(searches up symptoms of chronic fatigue) hm. oh well. (continues to push through until i pass out)

[coquelicoq]

watching cdramas with french subtitles is the best idea i ever had. if the show is in a language i don't speak i'm already going to have to be closely reading the subtitles, so why not also use it as language practice? the subs go by so fast i don't have time to translate them internally into english, i just have to absorb the meaning without doing that (which is how it's supposed to work but i've never been fully able to do that before). AND the best part is that when i'm going about my day i'm finding that some of my internal monologue is just in french now?? i think it's because subs are almost entirely dialogue...i'm getting hours of dialogue practice without actually having to converse. it's also fun with cdramas specifically because i have by now picked up some chinese vocabulary from watching tv and i get to see how that vocabulary is translated into french. idk man i'm just having a great time.

[boookfreeak]

well I've finished it.

and it's... it's not zendaya... but at least you can recognize zac efron!... right?

and just to clarify, I personally prefer to draw traditionally (and I am too broke to change that at the moment) and my phone camera is shite. so. enjoy!

tags :) @mossbegreen @trapezequeen

[spandexinspace]

Querl and Lyle working apart a lot because of their vaguely overlapping specialisations and, despite trying to maintain an air of professionalism in public, having somewhat over-enthusiastic reunions every other month or so.

[bittersweetresilience]

i desperately need to be able to save scum real life. let me save before i nap and then reload if i have bad rng and oversleep

[ohsalome]

- Anne Applebaum. The Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

[sprucelogsarepeak]

hmm I’d like to give a word of hope to the watcher fandom atm: I’m a dropout subscriber and the shows there have been doing super well and becoming more and more entertaining ever since they pivoted to focusing on the streamer in 2020, and it seems like the watcher gang is following that business model pretty closely. So while paywalls do suck, giving creatives more freedom and less reliance on ads demonstrably improves the things they create

[fran-kubelik]

Anything but dooming feels very dangerous, tbh, but I do occasionally for literal nanoseconds allow myself to imagine the relief that would wash over me if the election was called for Kamala and like. It kind of makes me realize the extent that this election is draining my mental energy without my being consciously aware of it 🥴

[raspberryjellybrains]

every once in awhile i'll start thinking my dad isn't really THAT angry and/or controlling, then he'll just merrily prove me wrong. thanks dad.

[shadowedvales]

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[stackslip]

it's so hot here we've barely gotten anything done so tomorrow morning we'll be up at 4am to be able to do actual progress before the heat gets too bad. for once im looking forward to waking up early lol

[imflyingfish]

Aggh feeling super proud of myself like im getting on so well atm im learning to drive and im learching french and my art is going really well and ive been enjoying spending time with myself and ive been organising more things for my future and now it feels possible and i hit that deadline and ive been more equiped to deal with things that definetly would have given me a breakdown in march and like. This year is going to suck and im not getting everything i want done but its not going terribly either