Break the Avoidance Spiral and Reclaim Your Agency #shorts

Channel: Simply Always Awake

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Language: English (YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] any kind of dissociative response or

[0:02] free state is actually trying to avoid

[0:04] something, right? And again, if it's

[0:05] emotion you're trying to avoid, then

[0:07] it's the discomfort around emotion. And

[0:09] the discomfort is just be because of

[0:10] your out of practice in a sense. So you

[0:12] see how it kind of it's like a downward

[0:13] spiral if you just keep avoiding. So you

[0:16] have to turn that avoidance pattern

[0:18] around, that part of the coping

[0:20] mechanism. And again, it means sematic

[0:22] work, it means emotion work, it means

[0:23] trauma work. You have to take it on

[0:25] yourself to do this stuff. Um, and

[0:27] sometimes it's just telling yourself you

[0:28] can, right? Because with the

[0:30] stoaltification wound, a lot of what

[0:32] happens is you you actually don't

[0:33] believe you can. You you kind of lose

[0:35] the ability to to recognize that you

[0:38] actually do have agency. You can make

[0:40] things happen. You can take the

[0:42] difficult step. You can feel into the

[0:44] difficult emotion,