Lidia Yuknavitch, from The Chronology of Water: A Memoir
Notes on healing the body / for those struggling with health issues
โIf you have a disease and you are constantly thinking about it and talking about it youโre going to create more disease cells. See yourself as living in a perfectly healthy body.โย
- Affirm: I think perfect thoughts, I see only perfection, I am perfection
- Visualise your healthy body doing pilates with a hot PT on your huge ocean view terrace.ย
- Remember you have a brand new body as cells are constantly dying and recreating so for the course of these next few years your new cells that are being printed are healthy, loving and supportive.ย
- Affirm: I have the power to feel wonderful, I have the power to feel so good.ย
- Speak only the words of what you want
- Live in the possibility of hopefulness, gratitude, and joy.ย
- Affirm: My body can and will heal itselfย
- Visualise yourself as a healthy baby
- Laughter attracts joy, releases negativity, and leads to miraculous cures
So true, poor babies donโt have anything
โwe should look at life with tourist eyesโ
what a truth
STEM DARK ACADEMIA
I'm a little upset at the lack of stem in dark academia, so here's my list of aesthetic science things, STEM ACADEMIA (dark edition)
โข relating a little too much to the mad scientist trope (and telling everyone "no, no I would never do anything like that, I just want to help people" but like imagine if we could resurrect people)
โข rereading Frankenstein every year, specifically in the month of october
โข "why is STEAM a thing?? Art? who that?"
โข minoring in classics because you still like mythology and history and reading
โข finding the science in art (why things make you feel a certain way, how they do that, what effect they've had on health and medicine) and finding the art in science (isn't it incredible that dna knows how to tell plant cells to break down chlorophyll and this makes the gorgeous fall colors)
โข reading every book that mentions at all a scientist or has a character who is interested in stem (they are few and far between)
โข enjoying the structure of math and engineering but thriving off the chaos that is science
โข where are the mad scientist women? I need this
โข people being surprised when you tell them you're majoring in something "really science-y" after being an absolute bookworm and musician all throughout your childhood and having to defend what your heart desires (no? just me?)
โข CARDIGANS are peak stem culture
โข "why aren't you a doctor? why aren't you going to med school? why are you doing insert reasonable science degree here and not becoming a doctor? don't you want to help people?"
โข wanting to go into genetics but wanting to go into botany but wanting to go into theoretical physics but wanting to go into astronomy but wanting to go into geology but wanting to go into chemical engineering but wanting to go into astrophysics but wanting to go into wildlife biology
โข for some reason having a huge obsession with morals, ethics, and philosophy
โข watching true crime just for the forensic bits
โข watching mythbusters as a kid
โข LISTENING TO TCHAIKOVSKY, BEETHOVEN, BACH, AND MOZART those are the stem classical musicians change my mind
โข doing all your homework and frying your brain then getting to read a simple book that really refreshes you
โข you had the astronomy and archaeology obsession as a kid
โข listening to synth wave instrumentals
โข MITOCHONDRIA IS THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL
โข when people tell you that one cool science fact they learned and you try your hardest to encourage them but girl that wasn't even close to being correct
โข ScienceDirect and PubMed are your go-to databases
โข having lots of intrusive, existential thoughts that sometimes suffocate you, because you know better than most how much dark dna there is or how small we really are in the universe or knowing how much math explains and how little room there is for free will or thinking about how we are made up of mostly four types of atoms
โข reading science or math textbooks for fun
โข reading the fountainhead by ayn rand when you were way too young and didn't understand it but now parts of it emerge from the depths of your memory and you are struck by the power
โข watching marvel and x-men and jurassic park just because
โข reading sci-fi because it's the closest thing to real science in literature
โข knowing a little too much about radiation poisoning and how to really dissolve a body in chemicals
โข wearing white to make up for how little your professors make you wear lab coats
(sorry, I don't know that much about technology and I'm a literal grandpa when it comes to using it myself)
who the fuck invented talking about the weather being boring its the most important part of my day. maybe yall r doing it wrong i feel like this is somehow the fault of the british
i lied, i donโt actually like sex. put your clothes back on iโm going to explain how emulsifiers work
โit is what it isโ andย โwhat will be will beโ convey the same sort of feeling in present and future tense but thereโs no good past tense counterpartย
dream life ๐ธ
i don't dress to impress "men", i dress to impress strangers on the bus who don't acknowledge my existence
Actually my debate style is really complex, you wouldnโt understand it. Itโs a special technique called โpanic and cry.โ Maybe one day youโll get on my level ๐๐ ๐ป