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๐ŸŒ€ Equanimity: The Mind’s Parkour Move in a World of Anxiety Trampolines...

Why Stillness is a Lie, and Mental Fluidity is the Real Zen-Flex of the 21st Century By Dr. Pradeep JNA  “Deals-on-Deals” Datta | April 2025 | Cognitive Circus Weekly Forget Stoic Stone Statues — Equanimity Is a Gymnast in the Brain Wearing Tap Shoes Equanimity, that oft-abused buzzword of yoga retreats, Instagram therapists, and overpriced incense labels, is not what you think. It’s not about becoming a placid cow in a field of sunflowers while breathing through your third eye and pretending traffic doesn’t exist. No, true equanimity is more like mental parkour across an ever-shifting psychological urban jungle. It’s not a mountain — it’s a surfer. Not silence — but symphonic attunement. Not a still pond — but a jazz solo of consciousness, improvising, adjusting, flowing. And if you think this sounds like Eastern mysticism married Western psychotherapy in a Vegas chapel — you're right. But beneath the incense and ivory towers lies a cognitive revolution. So buckle up, pour yo...

The Great Brain Bake-Off: Why Your Noggin Might Be Undercooked, Overbaked, or Just Deliciously Different...

Reporting from Inside the Flour-Dusted Mind of Modern Psychology WELCOME TO THE NEURAL CARNIVAL—PLEASE MIND THE SENSORY OVERLOAD Once upon a neurotypical Tuesday, someone in a sleek boardroom decided that “normal brains” were the gold standard and everyone else was a defective knockoff—like off-brand cereal in a crumpled box. Autism? ADHD? Clearly mistakes. Disorders. Deviations. Dangerous. Probably contagious via eye contact. And so, for decades, the mainstream marched on, painting neurological differences with the same grayscale palette they use for printer manuals and political speeches. But now—hold onto your dopamine—because the neurodivergent are rising like sourdough starters during a power outage. And they’re here to say: stop diagnosing us like malfunctioning toasters. We’re not broken. We’re just wired differently —which, last we checked, is also the secret sauce behind the Eiffel Tower, quantum computing, and whoever invented ice cream. The neurodiversity movement, that...

๐Ÿ’˜ WTF Is Love Anyway? A Guide for Ugly Little Beasts With No Good Reason to Be Loved...

An excruciatingly long and extremely unreasonable exposรฉ on the absurd miracle of love, the doom of gym memberships, and why asking “Why do you love me?” is emotional terrorism. By The Department of Emotional Damage & Enlightenment Special to the International Absurdity Tribune Let’s get one thing out of the way: you are unlovable. Yes, you. Don’t flinch, don’t blink, don’t even try to moisturize and correct that with a charming anecdote or a trip to therapy. You’re moody, inconsistent, passive-aggressive before coffee and psychotically idealistic after two drinks. Your Spotify Wrapped is embarrassing, and you definitely have at least one pair of socks older than your last meaningful conversation. And yet—someone, somewhere, loves you. Not because you are lovable. But in spite of that glaring cosmic injustice. Welcome to the greatest WTF of them all: love . PART I: Gains, Delusions & Other WTF Life Choices THE ABSURDITY OF REASONS In a world where you can’t even get a...

Autism, Algorithms & Antivax Allegories: Trump and the Curious Case of the 1-in-36 Diagnosis...

  PANIC, POLITICS, AND PANDEMONIUM IN THE NEURODIVERSE ERA By The NeuroTimes Global – An Extremely Long Read for an Extremely Complex World PLANET EARTH  — Once upon a 24-hour news cycle, a curious statistic leapt off a spreadsheet at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and landed squarely into the court of American politics:  1 in 36 children in the United States are now diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). That figure — up from 1 in 44 just a few years ago and a massive leap from the 1 in 150 figure in the early 2000s — has sparked a firestorm of commentary, speculation, science, conspiracy, and cocktail-party psychiatry. Enter former President Donald J. Trump and his signature rhetorical blend of alarmism and unfiltered curiosity, asking none other than Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,  “There’s got to be something artificial out there that’s doing this.” Cue the national whiplash. Autism by the Numbers: Statistics, Spectrums, and Society’s Growin...

Intoxicated by Emptiness: Baudelaire, the Algorithm, and the Human Condition...

From Virtue to Virtual Likes – The Eternal Search for Meaning in an Existential Shopping Mall There is a strange irony in the fact that Charles Baudelaire, 19th-century poet of the spleen and wine-stained despair, may have predicted 21st-century life better than any modern thinker. In a world of curated Instagrams, dopamine-drenched scrolls, AI-generated influencers, and political operas starring aging autocrats, his command to “Always be drunk” rings less like poetic whimsy and more like a survival manual for a species perpetually dangling over the void. But don’t be fooled: Baudelaire wasn’t advocating for frat parties and tequila shots. No, his was a deeper kind of intoxication—the desperate yearning to escape the crushing awareness of time, death, and meaninglessness. He offered three poisons: wine , poetry , or virtue . The 21st century has added a few more: algorithms , status , and Uber Eats . So the question isn’t whether we are drunk. The question is on what —and why . I....