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The expressions that you used ("deathly ill", no sleep tonight) make me think that you may be lacking some perspective and/or are identifying too closely with y
by armitron 10y ago
The expressions that you used ("deathly ill", no sleep tonight) make me think that you may be lacking some perspective and/or are identifying too closely with your body.
Sometimes, it pays to take a step back and contemplate on the fact that you will eventually die. If you vividly visualize that projected moment of your death and make it real in your mind, you will realize that possible problems you may be having in your everyday, mundane life now appear insignificant. You may also be filled with anxiety and dread. Alternatively, you may dissociate.
It is that dissociation that will allow you to identify with something other than your body (nothingness) and thus be free of such (unexamined) reactions.
- jacquesm 10y agoThat's quite a handful from reading one sentence in a comment about a person that you do not know irl.
- throwaway9475 10y agoIt also pays to realize that when people say something makes them feel "deathly ill", they're probably using it as an expression to signify how shaken they are by something.
- armitron 10y agoWhich does not contradict anything that I wrote. "Shaken" can also be an unexamined reaction.
- sgt101 10y agoWhen I was a younger man I lived as if my life was separated from death by a single sheet of paper. At any time I was ready to die, it made me free and fearless. Then I held my first child, and I understood what folly I had fallen to.