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Tension and avoidance

Tension and avoidance

Apr 02, 20261 min read

  • growth/consensus-ism

Feelings we disown

  • The ultimate banger 👇
  • “The steelman of ‘everyone has trauma’…”

Undoing the blocky things

Tension = resistance to thought/emotion/experience

Repress = fragile & slow

Experience the body

Tense your body for 20 years

  • Romeo Stevens
    • https://x.com/RomeoStevens76/status/1455068457091756034

Similar to Confusion and feeling bad and Getting stuck


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  • Feelings we disown
  • Undoing the blocky things
  • Tension = resistance to thought/emotion/experience
  • Repress = fragile & slow
  • Experience the body
  • Tense your body for 20 years

Backlinks

  • Consensus-ism summary
  • Confusion and feeling bad
  • Getting stuck

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