I heard a scientist who studied this talking with Neil deGrasse Tyson. His studies showed that people who learned something by writing it in cursive learned it better than by printing it out and both did better than by using a keyboard. So inventing a cursive keyboard would not help your brain learn better which is the point of education. It’s not necessarily either/or but with all the emphasis on keyboards in schools already I see the point of learning cursive as complementary instruction.
For my grandmother it was a pound. It had the opposite effect she was hoping for (don’t worry about a little dirt in your food) when my young mom interpreted it to mean once she got to a pound she would die.☺️
The or was before react not after. The hard part is not automatically reacting but creating a tiny space where choice is possible. Having said that I would agree that this would not be possible for someone with PTSD who would have to work on the deeper issues first. Putting an and where you said would mean reacting unthinkingly to said chemicals ‘and’ knowing them for what they are. Since it’s the first part of the sentence that gets us into trouble (unhappiness, unease) I maintain that cultivating this space is both possible and useful.
Wow, they’ve made it clear past the panel boundary!