Notes from discussions over the past few years, showing the origins of this blog We need an organising principle or objective or a theme to focus on which will begin to integrate the myriad thoughts, quotes, examples we have assembled. It may be the Super ego, the internal judge which inhibits autonomy and independence. Is there some kind of attraction to one’s own swirl, self defeating and destructive though it is? eg wallowing in self pity does offer itself as a way to fill in time, and can be justified, rationalised. Is it possible to create a space between feelings and negative self judgement eg when inside a swirl, 'worthless' is a feeling, whereas from outside a swirl it can be seen as a judgement, an attribution , a thought. Actually, no more than that. So, swirlees mostly feel imprisoned with no way out. Yet counterintuitively there is a fear of pausing, of slowing down, of looking, perhaps because it might “open up the nerve ends.” Is there always an el...
