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Thanks Armee. That's such a clear description of the process!

It's been pointed out to me that when I'm dissociated (as I still am) I don't pause in my speaking with anyone. There's no intake of the other person's ideas, hardly any intake of breath!

So I think a useful tool for me would be to practice a pause-breath technique of some kind. Maybe it'd give me, the real me, a chance to hear what's being said and respond whole-heartedly

It does. I'm still awaiting it. I'm currently shifted from denial/fighting to fragile/spacy

It's strange having awareness of it, it's new to me

Perhaps it's progress

I've yet to achieve the ability to know I'm dissociative on my own

I'm told and then react in a manner akin to the stages of grief

It ends with heartrending cleansing tears
Once I'm told, I know it hasn't ended until the tears come

When at last they do, the world is washed clear and I'm myself again, for a while

"reverse the polarities"
It's a trope
Why is it a trope?
Because it's a truth
The energy is flowing backwards
Just as Evil is the reverse of Live

Hi Rainy, yes it is the same

That is a comfort Armee, just reading that over and over.

I've been having dissociative episodes, or maybe one long episode of varying intensity for maybe two, three weeks.

I've brought home yet another book. "Living Nonviolent Communication: Practical Tools to Connect and Communicate Skillfully in Every Situation"

So I'm hopeful about that

What is my goal? If my goal is unclear, my tasks are unknown.

What is my destination?
If I have no destination, how can I choose a route?

Nope, no good
Metaphor failure

Dog Everything = everyone participated in the emergency stop

Dog Everything

Need the equivalent for

Frustratingly inchoate, incoherent

Doesn't help that silencing is triggering

Need outlet, venting, expression

Full stop... Remove self... Express Rage in Contained Environment

Channel, Corral,

Crisis Management

Cortisol
Adrenaline

Dog Everything
Disengage
Disperse
Decompress

Beautiful!!!!

Thank you Coco :-)

That's really powerful, Sligenach. The one about the fist. Did you write that?

Thank you Armee. Yes that's from me

Five fingers become one fist, they are the same hand of doing
Destruction is mindless, needing only one blow
Creating is mindful, needing all five fingers
Kindness and cruelty are counted on the same hand, they have the same weight
Five fingers, one fist
Thus kindness seems smaller, five kindnesses weigh the same as one cruelty

Better to do one thing at a time, and fully do that one thing only.

I want to be the same person everywhere

The bell chimes, inviting me to remember that I am

Why should I let ghosts of the long past destroy my future?

"Think you of the fact that a blind person cannot see. What senses do we lack that we cannot see and hear another world all around us?"

Cleaning the kitchen is easy. What is cleaning? It is moving what is unwanted from one place to another. Away and out

Sunlight shining through a window reveals smoke and dust in the air, but only fresh air blowing in pushes it out