I’ve been riding tbe subway a bit more these days. I am extra vigilant. I don’t stand near the platform. I wear earphones with no music on. Just a couple of dollars gets you far in New York City. Well, gets you far distance-wise on the subway system. You really can’t beat it. The subways are getting packed again. Life may be nearing normalcy. Whatever that may mean to you individually.
As I was riding the subway system, waiting on the platfirm, I came across this graffiti.
Someone had written “I can still feel you”. Who it was directed towards is a mystery, of course. But can’t we all relate, in some way, to such a sentiment? I can still feel your love, anger, disappointment, rage, tenderness, excitement and so forth. Past emotions don’t leave your body. A certain scent or a jacket can bring back emotion memories.
And, you know what? That’s a good thing. Emotions are good for you. They are at the core of who you are and who you can become. They can move you forward. They, sadly, can also make you take a step back. However, you can’t heal what you can’t feel. To feel is to be vulnerable. To feel is to dig into oneself and find one’s roots.
Feel. Heal. Seal.
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psychologistmimi 
So true. Those who feel nothing are dangeous.
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The pandemic has shaken us up, as has finding out about our ‘fellow Americans’ and what they will or will not do to cooperate with public health requirements.
But you can’t keep NYC down forever – it is too much alive, as much as I can’t share it. Keep writing about it.
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Oh my God Yes
Emotions Feelings
Senses Are the Last Frontier
Of Systemizing
Science
And the
First Life of
Social-Empathic-
Interpretive-Artistic
Spiritual Intelligences
The Glue to Cognitive
Executive Functioning
Yes Short and Long Term
Memory And Laser Focus i Just
Bet Someone Who Masters These
Three Will Public Dance in Autotelic Flow
This Way 15,588 Miles in 98 Months Writing
9.8 MiLLioN Words of Free Verse Poetry in 98
Months too Just in Case Folks Don’t Understand
The Power
The Force
The Energy
Of Emotions
Feelings Senses
This Trinity Within
That Does Either Move
Us Or Stop Us Dead in Living Dying Tracks…
And Of Course When i Had None of these Gifts
All The Psychology Profession Could Throw at me
is Pills And So-Called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy That Only
Dealt in Managing Thoughts Not Even Touching the
Root of Life the Light of Free Dance And Song that
Comes From Within The Child Babbling in Joy of Song
Dancing Eternally Now With No Instructions Again
The Feather in the Breeze
The Living
Tree that
Sees
From Within for Real
Of Course that Journey
Must Start From Within
Mileage Varies Depending
on Model and Make of Vehicle And
Vessel of Ship With Sails and Anchors
in Balance
Or Not
Sailing Far in
Fair Winds and
Following Seas
Anchoring Secure
to Protect Mental Health
in Safe Harbors Away
From Storms When Necessary
Yes to Both Survive and ThriVE iN Life
Continuing this
Balance
On this
Wave
Of Life Now For Real…
THinG is Society no
Longer Cooperates Much
To Even Achieve Breathing Life…
One Truly Must Strip All The Clothes
of CuLTuRE Off Dance And Sing
Nakedly Unashamedly on All
These
Clothes
Even
to Truly Breathe
Yet of Course only in my View…:)
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For real.
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Hi, Psychologist Mimi,
Found this Research on
Interoceptive Intelligence And
i’m Sure You Have the Kind of
BackGround to Understand the
Current Research Link i am Attaching
With More a More Specific Poetic Interpretation
Of the Research Including the Benefits of Free Verse
Poetry For Greater Mental Health and Well Being
Anyway it’s Something i Thought You Might be
Interested in as a Professional in the Field;
It’s Rather New Research and Not
Everyone has Time to keep up;
My Psychiatrist Wasn’t Aware
of it until he Saw How i
Used Movement
Therapy to
Heal what He Could
Not Find a Way to Heal
And Again of Course it
inspired him to Quit His Practice
And Teach This Kind of Moving Mediation
to Increase Interoceptive Intelligence at a
Teaching Hospital in South Florida; So yes, it’s real:
With Movement therapy; Yes, Moving Meditation in Tai Chi,
Yoga, And Just Getting to Know Your Body through A Free
Dance of Gaining Greater Interoceptive Intelligence
Regulates Emotions Integrates Senses
Providing Mastery of Balance
Of Happiness
Surfing the Waves
Of Life Without Getting
To High Or Low In Other words
Doing What i’ve Done in Flow of
Meditative Moving Therapy of Free Verse
Dance Now For 15,600 Miles in 98 Months
And True the Art of Free Verse Poetry Through
Connecting Words With Imagination and Bodily
Sensations And Emotions Does the Similar as
Yes A Free Verse Practice
Of “SonG oF mY SoUL”
Brings Along with Every
Word of Sacred Song
Yes Every Step of Holy
Dance in Meditating Moving
Ways Lights Up Our Minds in Body
Balance Raising Creative Potential
by Many Fold Along With Cognitive
Executive Functioning of Short and
Long Term Memory And Laser Focus True too
as The Steps and Words Just Autotelic Flow As
We Will Become Happy as We Like And Over
Come Stormy And Rough Waves That Come
Our Way As We are in Mind and Body
Soul Whole Ocean Wave Water
Balance Within Inside Outside
Above So Below All Around
One Force of
Nature
in Balance
Us Indeed For Real…
It Used to Be that Science Minded
Folks Called Activities like Tai Chi and
Yoga, Woo; Yet Now Science Shows our
Emotions Flow through Our Bodily Sensations
If We Don’t Gain that
Interoceptive Intelligence
We Fail to Survive and Thrive
In Mind And Body Soul Real Balance…
Folks on the Autism Spectrum Have Particular
Issues with Interoceptive Intelligence and Of
Course Folks like me on the Bi-Polar Spectrum
Either Live
or Living Die
By Our Abilities
to Integrate our
Senses and Regulate
Our Emotions And the Greater Fuel
(Naturally Occuring Neurochemicals)
We Have to Master Brings Actual
More Potential for Productivity
And Creativity Through
Imagination Than
So-Called
Normal
Folks However
The Key is Regulating
Emotions and Integrating
Senses Naturally Through Bodily
Sensations And Emotions Feed-back
Sadly those Who Turn to Drugs often
Never Naturally Find the Balance And Even
More Lose the Ability to Naturally Regulate
Their Emotions And Integrate Their Senses
So ‘Think’ About this How Much Mastery
Over Your Bodily Sensations and Emotions
Do You Gain Sitting in Front of A Screen
Still; Well, Unless You Are Experiencing
A Moving Meditatiotn through
Free Verse Poetry that
Imaginarily Touches
All Your Bodily
Sensations
Feelings and
Emotions Now
From Head to
Toe You Will Have
A Difficult Experience of
Life Generating A Mastery
of Regulating Emotions and
Integrating Senses From Head to Toe
And i Will Tell You This For me at Least
The Free Verse Moving Poetry is not Enough
Without the Free
Flowing Dance
For the Free Flowing
Dance is What Brings
The Greatest Cognitive
Executive Functioning
in Mind and Body Balancing
Now To Bring A Flow of
Poetry to Surface
Of Ocean Whole
Subconscious and
Conscious Mind And Body
It Totally Feels and Senses like
Magic it is if You always Had A Turbo-charged
Mind and Body Yet You Never Changed into Those
Gear of Human Potential Hehe Ferrari i am Indeed this way
All 12-Cylinders
Fired Up
And Always
Ready to Go As Long
As i Keep the Flow of
Free Verse Moving Meditation
And Poetry Going As Nearly and
Always Practice of Life Art Most WaKinG
Hours of the Day Just Continuing to increase
my Human Potentials More And Oh Yeah the side
Effect Real of the Mastery of Generating Our Own
Happiness Within Otherwise Talked About as the
Kingdom of Heaven Within
Yet no Baby Words
Aren’t Enough
Out of Any Book
Alone Until You Put up
Your Christmas Tree Keep
Lighting it up in New Colors
Forevermore Now Eternally Changing
in Greater Human Potentials And Of Course
Surfing The DarK Waves of Life BacK into the LiGHT..:)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5985305/#__sec1title
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