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When outward focus becomes a way to avoid inner awareness

I can focus on everyone else's needs and problems with incredible attention but the moment I try to pay attention to my own inner experience I go blank.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Chronic attention to external demands can be an unconscious strategy to avoid the vulnerability of genuine self-encounter.

Ideas that help explain it
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