Hypervigilant Activation: Why Forcing Calm Only Makes It Worse
If you live in a constant state of readiness, your first instinct is usually to try to shut it down. Relax.Calm yourself.Control your thoughts.Work on your triggers.Understand your childhood.Do more healing. Here’s the problem. Hypervigilant activation is already effort. It’s a system that learned to stay mobilized because staying mobilized was safer than relaxing. When […]
Why I Stopped Trying to Force Healing
For a long time, I believed healing worked the way improvement works. If something was wrong, you worked on it.You applied insight.You increased effort.You disciplined yourself.You tried harder. That approach works in many areas of life. It does not work well with root-level adaptations. I learned that the hard way. The more I tried to […]