avoidance, distraction, protection
The easiest things can happen with no conscious effort, but the truth of experience remains where I cannot see it. The easiest things often involve a kind of deception or forgetting, a convenient story that the brain believes even when the body doesn’t. The easiest things stacked up over time inside me. The easiest things made me feel empty and... See more
Easiest thing
My protectors take the form of anxiety-inducing distractions. Isn’t it scary how you don’t feel real right now? Don’t you think you should wrap it up because no one wants to deal with you? These thoughts are topics that I could worry about endlessly. And that is by design - they are meant to distract me from the pain indefinitely.
“for this one you gotta just vibe
worrying about the speed of your healing hurts you the most
im gonna be around for it”
Text message from Paris Goode
Constant anxiety is an unconscious defence against what is calling us to a deeper understanding. Ever-present anxiety actually covers over and prevents me from feeling fully what I am worrying about. Constant anxiety is our constant way of not paying attention. Anxiety is the trembling surface identity that finds the full measure of our anguish too
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