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This is also a valid point. Perhaps instead of saying "not normal" we can say "not required." The same point I wanted to make with
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In my experience, people who try to either foment or suppress their own fear end up mostly failing *and* bringing worse outcomes upon themselves
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Without a doubt. Hence the need for a healthy middle ground, which will always require the ability to exist within the dialectic tension of seeming opposites. A skill sorely lacking in the world.
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I do think self-acceptance can go too far. Much of the time fear/anxiety is the "hey, this is a bad situation and you shouldn't stay in it" signal. A lot of the language of self-care is designed to maintain whatever is, and that's not generally ideal
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Mason, as I stated to Lulie, suppression only applies to an interpretation that results in a reaction that causes a conflict in ideas. What I teach others is a form of reinterpretation such that what is interpreted does not result in a fear/stress/anxiety... reaction
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If people want to do that sort of thing, they're welcome to, but it's precisely how cults work. All those signals most be softened so that attention isn't drawn to axioms that don't make sense and would otherwise raise alarms. Not worth it, IMO
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(My own theory here is that they usually become prone to forcing themselves to act out stories they don't actually believe in, and those stories tend to be worse *and* harder to act on in the absence of buy-in.)
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