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Rewiring the Brain

3 min readJan 30, 2025

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PTSD SERIES — Session II : Hippie Hooray. 2022.

It has been four years since researching and experimenting with understanding the structural and psychosocial wellbeing. My interest in PTSD and the affects of trauma on the brain has expanded into understanding CPTSD. As an avid self experimenter, kundalini yoga and meditation practitioner and critical theory and visual culture researcher I combined these three ontological epistemologies to design seminars where I can share and most importantly learn more about as Catherine Malabou theorises : Plasticity At The Dusk Of Writing.

Probably one of the most dense readings, that opened my mind to the world of philosophy and the intersection of religion, politcs and culture.

Plasticity appears as a reconquering of presence, starting from the separation and juxtaposition of the proposition’s membra disjectae — subject-copula-predicate. The idea that subjectivity can only constitue itself by returning to itself, never by announcing itself in the naive movement of birth without history, an idea of a reformed, re-formed subject, seemed to be to be the fukkest expressionof presence. At the same time, according to a more current meaning, anticipated in many resoects by Hegel, plasticity signifiurs the dusruption and deflagration of presence, the “explosive side of subjectivity.” — IS…

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Mindful Mental Health
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Mindfully exploring life and mental health to be the best version of you. Using mindfulness, Psychology and self-care practices to gain awareness of, explore and help manage your mental health. Be well 💖

Imaan Latif
Imaan Latif

Written by Imaan Latif

Critical Thinker from JHB, South Africa.

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