Bliss, the new movie starring Salma Hayak and Owen Wilson on Amazon Prime, is a very human, otherworldly delve into the human psyche. Greg Whittle (played by Wilson) suffers from an unspecified mental illness and has recently gone through a divorce. Now, he is about to get fired. This marks the doorway to Whittle’s psychological break.
Or, does it?
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First introducing the idea in 2011, James Fadiman Ph. D presented survey data illustrating benefits of microdosing at a conference on psychedelic research1. Fadiman offered the practice as an alternative to Adderall and other focus aids.
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What do Matthew McConaughey, Ann Frank, Marcus Aurelius, Albert Einstein, Fredrick Douglass, Mark Twain, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Ryan Holiday have in common?
Give up?
They all are famous (at least in part) for keeping a Journal. McConaughey recently published a memoir called Greenlights, sourcing material from his personal journals. Ann Frank’s diaries provided insight into the Nazi occupation during World War II. And Ryan Holiday’s modern stoic pondering lead him to report journaling as the most important activity you can do each day.
“When we translate an experience into language, we essentially make the experience graspable.”11
Dr. Pennebaker, Author of Writing to Weal