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arfie
arfie

Chew time. Just sharing a tidbit from my morning meditations. It be a tidbit I have tried for decades to find words for and I am just giving the new words a whirl. It's okay if it doesn't make a lick of sense this time, either. Works in progress. . .


Don't think about it. . .


The more I command myself not to think about ^it^, the further and further afield I go to distract myself from thinking about it. High voltage mania? My hyper-active metabolism has plenty of voltage to fuel the mania. Catatonia is my personal norm after I am far enough afield to begin leaping tall social injustices in a single bound. Even my hyper-metabolism runs out of voltage, eventually.


In giving myself permission to think about ^it^ in balanced doses, I avoid the escalation into manic distraction.


Testing, one, two, three. . . Am I making sense?

DOS2
DOS2
not sure... thinking about "it" in little steps helps to manage the "it" triggering, avoid thinking about "its" and you become a high voltage power line snapping on the ground/field that social injustice stands on, thinking you are leaping them, until you go into a catatonic state/sleepathon?
High voltage mania sounds like a label to this definition. still not sure "if" I am getting this "it" you have been working on.
Loving support from to far away.
arfie
arfie
Miss you, my Delusional Old Sister.

Wa-a-a-ay too far away. . .
jennyoo7
jennyoo7
Avoiding it has it manifesting into a new it, just give it time, in my experience. I can avoid family problems but not long after I have tummy issues or I'm irritable as hell on the wrong people. Journalling it is a form of discarding it, talking about it is a form of discarding it...avoiding it is a bandaid on a 7" thick wound.
Community LeaderSunCloudJD
SunCloudJD
I have trouble when my mind starts a whirling to..... It can whirl and whirl around until a tornado starts

If I'm able to find some type of a diversion that usually requires another person to focus on it can help but when I'm whirling I don't usually want to be around anyone

Please let me know if you figure this out Arf..... Big hug.......xo
arfie
arfie
Figuring ^it^ out and translating ^it^ into words are two distinctly separate steps in the mysterious maze of Arf World. . . I earnestly believe I do my most productive thinking without words. Words are such a limited form of communication. . .
jennyoo7
jennyoo7
Until you wrote that ^^ I never would of been able to cognitively agree. Like when I said no to being with my family at Xmas there was what the mind thought but truthfully what the body felt underneath the mind and heart says it all.
arfie
arfie
^It^ is a much used pronoun in my personal herstory of domestic warfare. In most cases, I don't believe any of the combatants are fighting over the same ^it^.

In my psych herstory, ^it^ tends to be a summary of complex components.

Dunno. . . Pronouns can be tricky little devils. . .
patti22
patti22
As the youngest in the house, and with the most central of the bedrooms so I could hear word for word all fights...

I agree with you arfie...most aren't fighting over the same "it".
arfie
arfie
Perhaps the most important thing I have learned from all the languages I have studied is just how devilish pronouns can be. . . In every language. . .
nancy6464
nancy6464
‘It’ for lack of a better analogy is a dietary cheat. On a good day you can do it just a little, but on a day not so good, you risk a binge. Just my take on it
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
I like your mention of "balanced doses" That's what works for me. It's what, for me, meditation itself is for. Being able to FEEL sad, without BEING sad, ya know?

Be Muji who feels sad, don't let "it" take over my being and stop me from being me. Stay Muji in the balance.
lovelilbeany
lovelilbeany
Hugs arfie.
mlr0853
mlr0853
for my journey into the realm of 'unhealthy' thinking about "it" can lead me to overwhelming "it's" !! DBT tools are my go to fast, at the first sign of hamster wheel thinking..never leads me to the needed out come "don't think about it also feeds into a much Larger Problem for me, procrastination..Muji expressed my work in progress, balance. Being able to Feel, ??? without Letting ??? send me to my hamster wheel. I also ask myself the question ''how Important is the "it" in the grand scheme of my life
arfie
arfie
The balance is where the gratitude and appreciation exercises come in. When an ^it^ starts whelming, an pause to appreciate is an ideal balancing agent in my personal psychosis.

Appreciation is easier for me than gratitude when the ^its^ are whelming. It is hard to be grateful when lost in a psychic cesspool. . . Small steps. . .
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