Stream of Subconsciousness

About Stream of Subconsciousness

Self-hypnotic explorations of physical and mental health, purpose, self-awareness, self-love, lineage, and ancestry. Building on science, psychology, and spirit. Finding balance in the subconscious mind. mindstrengthbalance.substack.com (https://mindstrengthbalance.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Lincoln Stoller PhD CHt CCPCPr

Category

health & fitness · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Dec 2020

Latest episode

7 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

232 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Nov 2026

   Is Musicality Part of Language?

   “Music is the universal language of mankind.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Language is a defining feature of consciousness, and we take this for granted. Without language we can hardly operate as humans. Our ability to use language is unparalleled among other animals. A conscious human without language is almost a non sequitur... Only humans have developed what humans call music, and refined it to an unparalleled degree. No other animal has made sound a creative art. But creating and responding to music is not seen as a primary criteria that defines us. We can easily imagine a person who can neither create nor appreciate music and, under most circumstances, we’d never know they were different... We don’t know when humans first started using language, but we think the cognitive and physical ability developed as early as 200,000 years ago. On the other hand, we’re even less certain about the emergence of music. Judging from the discovery of the earliest bone flutes, music emerged around 40,000 years ago (Honing 2015). However, it’s most likely there someone at least did some humming during the preceding 160,000 years. LanguageLyricismAre Language and Dance Connected?Everyone Continues to Ignore Altered StatesIndigenous Music and Altered StatesStop Ignoring Your DreamsSound Can Guide Your EmotionsMusic as a PsychedelicDo Dreams Have Rhythm? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com/subscribe (https://mindstrengthbalance.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)

2. 

   29 Oct 2026

   Is Grief Intellectual or Emotional? (podcast $)

   This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com (https://mindstrengthbalance.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7) “Grief is mediated by a distributed neural network that subserves a number of neural processes affecting various parts of the brain and its functions... This neural network may account for the unique, subjective quality of grief.” — J. William Worden • An Indirect Approach I have a hard time engaging with most grief either because I don’t get it, or I don’t accept it to begin with. The only seriously grievous experiences I’ve had were the premature loss of two ex-wives and two dogs. The dogs were devoted; the ex-wives were not. These losses were “premature.” The loss of other relationships that might be called “mature” or foreseeable have bothered me much less. I have a natural inclination to avoid grief. I prefer to look into the future. I have no attraction to tear-jerker movies and don’t like stewing in emotion. I’m careful about whom I attach to—more careful now than I was—and it’s separation from deep connection that grieves me. Despite my careful navigation, as a grief counselor, I’m obliged to engage with grief wherever it appears, and while sadness is straightforward, grief is complex. I can control my feelings if I can manage my boundaries. I can accept and resolve a death that I prepare for. Neither my mother or father worked at maintaining their health, and they did little to avoid their encroaching infirmity and eventual death. Neither of them did anything in the way of physical exercise or paid serious attention to nutrition. I don’t think either bothered to take vitamins. I didn’t know when their deaths would arrive, but you could pretty much see them “aging out.” Now that I’m old myself, I take an active approach. I monitor both my mental and physical health, and I can see them change, day by day. I pursue different forms of daily exercise, and monitor my diet and mood. I push myself. It can be a bumpy ride, but I manage to stay in the center of the lane. • The Spirits in the Air• Reaching For Extremes • Emotional Investments • The Grief of Denial • Grief as Contradiction • The Depression Connection

3. 

   17 Oct 2026

   Sporting Dreams... and Delusions (podcast $)

   This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com (https://mindstrengthbalance.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7) “How adventure sport participants make decisions in very challenging, ever changing natural environments… has implications for how people make decisions in finance, medicine, and other fields.” — Audun Hetland (Stringer 2023), psychologist at The Arctic University of Norway Seeking Adventure I’m an explorer and I’m working on a book about people who are drawn to do things beyond what’s safe and familiar. The book will be about the motivations and rewards that drive alpinists, BASE jumpers, and backcountry skiers. These are three sports that have expanded our notion of what’s possible and, in the process, resulted in a lot of dead alpinists, jumpers, and skiers. I’ve been interviewing people who do these things, reading academic studies about extreme sports and the memoirs of introspective practitioners. The mindsets of these people have much less in common than you might think but, once you think beyond simply taking risks, this makes sense. “These people are not reckless… Risk is not the main motivation but rather something that pushes them to focus and achieve mastery in their activities.” — Erik Monasterio, MD (2019) Christchurch School of Medicine, New Zealand It will take me quite a bit of time and many words to explore the question of why people do these things. The more I read, the more I appreciate how much has already been said, and how little I might have to add. I’ve gradually been led to take a different tack. I want to explore what these sports have in common with things that normal people do, which is take risks, seek exuberance, creativity, reward, and generally advance our world view. The risks and rewards are obvious, and while they make for exciting stories they don’t explain anything. I’m most interested in the question of how we expand our thinking, and that invites the question of what real change these sports offer, if they offer any.

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• Jillian Reilly
• Lincoln Stoller
• Ivan Palomino

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