🔼: [[💡 Protector Parts]], [[🛡️ Emotional Suppression]] #### 🛡️ Avoiding Not showing up and often spending a lot of energy zigzagging around and away from that thing that already feels like it’s consuming us. Most people avoid to some degree. It feels like torture,[^1] and it's actually more difficult than [[💡 Conflict]]. We dislike certain feelings and then try to manage a situation to avoid the circumstances that bring the feelings up. - Avoidance can lead to [[💡 Neuroticism]]. - [[🔑 Be mindful of anti-North Stars]] - Life is too short to avoid and obsess. - [[🔑 Pain and difficulty cannot be avoided]] In some situations Avoidance makes good sense. Emotions such as [[💡 Dread]] tell us when Avoidance is needed. ###### Lower Avoidance - If you're on a path to a goal and something frightening comes up that if avoided will derail you, do not avoid it. Pressing on will strengthen you and lower your [[💡 Neuroticism]]. ##### Related - [[💡 Anxiety|Anxiety]] - [[🛡️ Worrying]] [^1]: [[📖 ✅ Atlas of the Heart (Show)]] Episode 2