Right now, if you tried to stop feeling every emotion moving through you, your muscles would have to tighten to do it. And if you held that tension long enough, you would not call it suppression. You would call it stress. You would call it exhaustion. You would call it your everyday life.
In this clip from Know Thyself, the conversation exposes one of the most overlooked drivers of human behavior. The constant, unconscious avoidance of emotion. Think about how many decisions you make in a single day just to keep yourself from feeling something.
The choices you make to avoid feeling like a failure.
The choices you make to feel loved.
The chase for happiness.
The endless scrolling on YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram just to escape a moment of discomfort.
Most of us are not really living. We are reacting. We are quietly building our lives around the emotions we are unwilling to feel. And the price is enormous. The energy required to suppress what we feel is the same energy that should be fueling our presence, our creativity, our peace.
What is one emotion you have been quietly avoiding that might be ready to be felt?
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