Wednesday, October 9, 2013

JTL Day 57 – Day 10 of 21 days of Writing Every Day – Work Angst as Resistance


When things get stressful at work, meaning – when I get scared of the potential outcomes of certain events, I go into this mode of work and then come home and vegetate. I feel like if I do anything else other than some mindless activity that I will not have time to do it, even though I have time to vegetate. I also feel that if things at work go really bad, I might be out of a job or income and therefore will not have the time to dedicate to writing. This is strange, but true.



Basically, I cannot seem to write consistently unless things are going well at work. So, for the past month or so, I have had a series of things at work that were all very 'scary' and very stressful because I was fearing the potential outcome of these things, and as a consequence, my writings fell of a cliff because I was basically too scared to write. I was too scared to commit myself to something other than thinking about these 'problems', working, or vegetating. But the vegetating. is not just as a release from the stress, it is because of the strange rationale that I have no time to write because of the potential disaster that these work-related-events may cause. I don’t even know how to really say this. This is just what is in my head and I am getting it out as best as I can. I also have this problem with doing chores and other responsibilities when things at work become scary.



I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that I cannot write while under stress.



I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to be to 'scared of potential bad things happening to me to write'.



I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to go into cycles of stress and then release wherein when I go into the release phase I am only able to do things that are distracting me from what I am allowing to stress me out. And within that I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to participate in energy-cycles of tension and release where I become so tense that I cannot fathom doing anything else other than the exact opposite: complete vegetation.



I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to participate in the thought that 'I cannot write because I am too stressed out”



I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed to myself to participate in the thought idea that 'I cannot write because 'bad' things might happen to me'



I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that if something bad might happen to me, that I must either worry about it or spend time forgetting about it; and within that I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to use stressful events as an excuse and justification to waste time.



I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to participate in the emotional reaction of stress towards potentially adverse events.



I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to connect the emotions of stress and fear to potentially adverse outcomes to events, particularly at work.



I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that I need to participate in stress in order to fix potentially adverse scenarios.



I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that if I take care of my practical responsibilities while 'stressful and scary events' are going on in my life, that I am somehow not taking full responsibilities and action in helping ensure things work out to my benefit. And within that, I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed my participation in this rational to form a basis for me to waste time.



I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to connect the emotion of fear to outcomes that could be adverse in my life.



I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to become consumed with thinking about potential solutions to stressful events to the point that I feel that I need to release myself by 'vegging out'



I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to label and define outcomes that could potentially be adverse as 'stressful' and within that I forgive myself that I have not allowed myself to approach these with practical solutions and breathing.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to spend energy thinking and worrying about the potential outcome of events to the extent that I then need to 'veg-out' in which I spend no energy just goofing off and doing mindless activities.



I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to ignore the realization that everything has a consequence and that all that I can do to be most effect is spend time considering the most effect solution and then be sure that it happens to the best of my abilities and beyond that I need to remain here and breathe and walk through my day, in and as the breath.



I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not see, realize, and understand, that I am participating in energy cycles by going in and out of the emotions of stress and fear and then vegging out and laziness. And within that I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to trap myself into my mind and energy cycles by participating in these emotions.



I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to participate in resistance to writing because of the strange logic that 'I cannot write while potentially adverse events are simultaneously going on in the background because bad things might happen to me if I do so' -And within that I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to participate in this strange logic rather than sorting it out, through writing, and breathing as a solution.



I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not see, realize, and understand that I have been allowing events in my life to be the basis for whether or not I can remain here and direct myself to stopping my mind and that this leaves me completely subject to my outside environment.



I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to only be able to direct myself to stopping my mind if my 'life is going well'.



Self Commitments:



When and as I see myself going into stress and resistance to writing over potentially adverse outcomes, in my life or at work, I stop my participation in these emotions and I breathe. I bring myself back here as the physical and as the breath. I do not allow myself to participate in stress and us stress as a formation of resistance to taking self-responsibility to write myself out and stop my mind.



And thus, I commit myself to writing-out my stress until I am clear on this point and I also commit myself to breathing through points of stress, as they occur, and remaining here and directing myself to continue to write my daily, or almost daily, blogs which is my self commitment to stopping my mind.



When and as I see myself going into the energy cycles of beings stressed out and fearful, and then going into the direct opposite of vegging out and not thinking too much, I stop and I breath because I see, realize, and understand that this is an energy cycle fueled by my thinking too much and participating in the resulting emotions of stress/fear of potential outcomes and then the opposite emotion of 'vegging out' as a release point of the stress.



And thus I commit myself to breathing through the stress and the fear of potential outcomes at work, or anything in my life, and remaining here and directing myself to apply the best practical solution and then continue with my self-commitments and self-responsibly to recreate myself as a living, breathing, physical being, instead of allowing this energetic cycle, that I have identified, as resistance.

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