Mental Mechanics

Overwhelm, blocked progress, naming what you feel, and how meditation practices work.

The Mental Mechanics domain covers questions about what is happening when there is more coming at you than you can act on, what is actually stopping progress on something, how to put an emotional experience into words, and which meditation practice fits a given situation.

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The Mental Mechanics Territory

  • psychology
  • motivation psychology
  • emotional literacy
  • affective science
  • cognitive science
  • stress physiology
  • behavioural science
  • cognitive load theory
  • self-regulation
  • executive function
  • study skills
  • academic success
  • social and emotional learning
  • contemplative pedagogy
  • mindfulness in education
  • contemplative studies
  • school counseling
  • wellbeing education
  • mental health literacy
  • workplace wellbeing
  • academic coaching
  • emotion differentiation
  • meditation traditions
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How the Mental Mechanics Engines Connect

Four internal states get treated as one thing and are not. Having more coming at you than you can act on. Being unable to move on something specific. Not having words for what you are feeling. And wanting a practice for working with attention itself.

They are frequently mistaken for each other. Overwhelm reads as a blocked project. A block reads as a motivation problem when it is a clarity problem. And an emotion that cannot be named tends to be described as one of the others.

Signal, Stalled, State Sense, and Still State separate them: what is driving the overload, what is actually stopping progress, what the emotional state is, and which practice fits the situation.

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