Micro-transformation: Seeing how meaning makes up a me 🪩
Jan 01, 2026
What’s something you’re making sense of right now? Anything… for example, “There’s music over there”, or “My mom wants me to be more involved with the family”.
OK here’s the practice: Notice how the meaning not only requires a separate you (there and here are separate, mom and me are separate), it creates a separate you.
Eg: The distinction is a mental framework overlaid on a continuum of experiencing that doesn’t natively have these separations. Check it out if you’d like (right now, in your experience, not just conceptually): Phenomenologically, the music and the me-ness aren’t separate; that gets added after the raw act of perception. “Mom” and “me” are both categorically relational in this meaning, requiring each other. It’s not to say there isn’t a separate me, but to say that the framing of a network, or relationship, is at least as valid as the frame of separate entities (amongst many others).
What good is this? Maybe nothing for you, no value imposition here. But I like it because it helps me see more truth. I’m not sure what I am but I know it’s more than I usually identify with. This offers me more flexibility, which then opens me to love more freely. So, it’s a nice way to increase truth and love.
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With love Jordan
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