If you're curious there are many psychological mechanisms behind why hobbies that focus on learning and exposing ourselves to new skills can be healing!
1) attentive engagement is naturally elicited by working at what we call "productive friction" or "desirable difficulty" in learning, the stuff that you can't quite do but that is CLOSE. The decentering and close attention to the holistic world that frequently define things like mindfulness meditation are also happening here!
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2024-08-24 16:44:32
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