Limerence feels like the most intense love you’ve ever had. But its machinery looks less like love and more like addiction — obsessive, involuntary, and organised around uncertainty rather than …
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Ashly
Ashly
Ashly writes TrueAwake. She's not a therapist or a teacher in any lineage - she's someone who has spent years actually doing contemplative practice, reading the research behind it, and keeping notes on what worked and what turned out to be nonsense. She writes the guide she wanted when she started.
Most meditation habits die within a month, and it’s almost never a discipline problem. It’s a design problem — the habit was built to depend on motivation, which is exactly …
- Meditation & Attention
Walking Meditation: Why Moving Attention Can Be Easier Than Sitting Still
by AshlyWalking meditation trains the same attention as sitting practice, but the movement gives a restless or anxious mind something to hold onto. For a lot of people it’s the easier …
Meditation is marketed as universally calming. For most people it helps — but a real minority find it increases anxiety, dissociation or distress, and that risk almost never makes it …
Loving-kindness meditation asks you to deliberately wish yourself and others well. It sounds soft, but it has a more solid research base than most contemplative practices — including some findings …
Mindfulness and meditation are used as if they mean the same thing. One is a quality of attention you can bring to anything; the other is the formal practice you …
Lucky girl syndrome says decide that things always go your way, and they start to. Part of that is a real, useful effect on how you act. Part of it …
Subliminal audio promises to reprogram your subconscious while you sleep — for money, beauty, a new personality. What priming research actually shows is real but tiny and fragile, and nowhere …
The 369 method has you write your desire three times in the morning, six at midday, nine at night. The structure does something real to your attention. The number itself …
Scripting means writing out your desired life as though it has already happened. Some of what the writing does is genuinely useful. The ‘already happened’ framing is the part that …

