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When coping strategies become avoidance patterns

I realized I have been using breath work to avoid feeling anxious rather than to actually be with anxiety and now I do not know how to practice anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Spiritual tools initially used for regulation can become subtle forms of resistance to direct experience of difficult states.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Socratic dialogue as method?”

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