@panicatthesisqo anyone who doubts can see how I #getdown

This button down is so down it's has a button on the back of the collar.

*Talking shit to my collar* Nowhere! You ain't going nowhere!
#getdown

Getting down with button downs. #getdown

Getting down with button downs. #getdown

I get down through button-downs. Nothing is sexier than a shirt that goes all the way up and dominated collar points fixed to your chest.

#getdown

gotta getup to getdown

#JamesBrown #getup #getdown

@lauramarie The healing power of dance has been recognized by healers and shamans througout the ages (but by modern medicine, not so much).

Dance is even more important for many of us on the spectrum who by nature are constantly in motion. Neurotypicals are unnerved by all the movement in most contexts.

On the dance floor, it's OK to move, AND WE DO!

Dancing is the best stim there is.

Another great stim is giving massage.

The only medicine I am taking is cannabis. That smooths out some of the rough edges, and does not have any of the ill effects you describe (rather the contrary, actually).

Since the doctors have left healing dance to realm of shamans and magicians, it is up to us.

I periodically do healing dance workings/workshops. The basic formula is to draw healing energy up through our bodies as we move, use it and then send it forth to whoever needs it.

I am initiating the hashtag #HealingDance

#ActuallyAutistic #GetDown #Healing

#RideTheMusic

You can’t experience that and expect to come out unscathed. Of course your body is feeling all that. We can’t ignore what our bodies are. We have them to feel with. If we don’t let them feel the grief, horror, terror, and emotional pain that come with being a modern person in a dysfunctional society, we will develop big problems.

Stress is a huge deal–unprocessed stress is a pandemic health issue.

I believe that most of what’s considered mental illness is actually a totally sense-making response to violence. That’s part of radical mental health. The solution in my opinion isn’t to medicate feelings away–the solution is to change the world. But while we work on that, our bodies are taking a huge hit.

I love ecstatic dance as remedy. My body needs to be allowed to feel. Trying to kill feelings with pills is an emergency measure that creates more harm, not a long term solution. Ecstatic dance is a safe way to allow my body to have a big reaction.

What if doctors prescribed dance, touch, sunshine, and pleasure? That would have good side effects, and there’s nothing to purchase. Capitalism is not furthered by authentic, self-knowledge based, realistic embodied self-love care. So I prescribe dance, touch, sunshine, and pleasure to myself.

My body needs to have a big reaction to big harms. But it’s not appropriate in most situations to respond immediately. Blowing up at a meeting is not ok. Yelling at people is just passing along harm and frowned upon. I often take the harm and crawl away to safely process it on my own.

But I can’t think my way out of the violence that’s done to me. For healing, all of me needs to be involved, but especially my body. It’s actually not safe, to drag myself to an isolated place to quietly suffer alone. I need movement and community.

#community #movement #health #RadicalMentalHealth #love #selflove #EcstaticDance #GetDown #violence #healing

https://www.listeningtothenoiseuntilitmakessense.com/2022/12/12/ecstatic-dance-as-remedy/

Sweetwater 420fest in ATL this week - psyched to see Spafford and Goose again!

#getDown

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funky goats...

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