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Not Being a Prisoner to Your Nervous System

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

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How Do We Understand Our Identity as Not Being Conflated?

When we're in a state, that's not really who we are. We're just playing out a script written by the state. You don't have creative or innovative thought when you're in astate. If i'm in shame, it's shame, shame, shame,. shame, shame and rage; if I'm enraged, rage, rage,rage, rage, Rage. In that place we're not having too many crazy thoughts. But there's a difference between anxiety which is fine to have but being overwhelmed or terrified or stuck in high anxiety. That's unnecessary. And as long as we keep identifying with the states we'll get. An owner's manual for my nervous system.

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