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Think Less, Love More
On St. Teresa of Avila, Facebook, and Arguing with Propaganda
The last few days I have found myself getting caught up in the need to correct others again. Usually what this entails is me reading something just flat out wrong in a Facebook feed, going to some trusted source to check the accuracy of the statement, then posting something along the lines of “Not true actually” followed by a link to said reliable source.
I can hear you now. It is pointless. I know.
I also know that this effort emerges from my own mind, for a need for things to be “right”. It comes from a space in my “head” which tends to see problems as right/wrong, either/or, all/nothing. That is also the space where it can feel pointless and exhausting to argue with the disinformation.
There is another space, however, the space of the “heart”.
Now I am not prone to move into flowery terms like “heart space”. I tend to ground my own work with my patients in the science of what helps us heal. I do not put much stock in remedies that do not have good research behind them. It is also why I believe that there is a discernible truth as to whether there was a creche in the White House during President Obama’s tenure there.
There was.
