(aka Because apparently sitting quietly with our own thoughts is the ultimate extreme sport.) Humans are fascinating. Give us a feeling we don't want to feel and suddenly we become highly skilled distraction engineers. Here are the classics: - Professional Scrolling "I'm just checking one thing." 45 minutes later you're emotionally invested in a stranger's dog. - The Productivity Olympics Reorganizing your email folders instead of asking yourself why you're unhappy. - Snack-Based Therapy Not hungry. Just conducting important research on what's in the fridge for the sixth time. - Netflix Archaeology Digging through 4,000 titles to find the perfect show. Never actually watching it. - Relationship Consultancy Solving everyone else's problems while your own sit quietly in the waiting room. - The Spiritual Collector Another book. Another podcast. Another course. Anything except five minutes alone with your thoughts. - Busy Being Busy Creating tasks just to avoid the terrifying possibility of having no tasks. - Phone Magnet Syndrome Picking up your phone every time life presents an unsupervised moment. - Future Vacation Mode "I'll deal with that after the weekend." The weekend says the same thing about Monday. - The 'I'm Fine' Championship Winning gold medals in pretending everything is okay while your inner self keeps sending increasingly urgent emails. - The "Let Me Just Clean Something" Escape Suddenly the kitchen needs organizing, the wardrobe needs sorting, and that drawer nobody opened since 2019 has become an emergency project. - The Advice Giving Marathon Giving everyone wisdom you secretly need to hear yourself. - The Comparison Olympics Checking other people's lives so often that you forget you are supposed to be living yours. - The Planning Addiction Spending so much time designing the perfect future that the present moment gets left on read. - The Shopping Distraction

I want to share my insight of today. While Aaron was talking I became aware of my the pattern I carry/ied around being accepted for my spiritual gifts and my 'ideologies' or 'life perspectives'. Since I was a child my gifts were seen as a threat to my parents and my family in general me and later on I was part of friends' circles were my perspectives and values were rejected, seen as crazy and I was often ostracized and categorized as being naive and stupid. This hurt me a lot in the past! I used the meditation to clear out this pattern and feel the pain connected to it. I realized that I diluted a part of me to protect myself and to 'try to fit in' and I have another part who kept showing up in my interactions authentically as myself in spite of being aware of the painful consequences of choosing to do so. I realized that this is not my reality anymore and I don't have to be alone or with people who don't appreciate me as an alternative to it. I released the old beliefs and some tears alongside with it. I also feel so proud of me for not having giving up on my values or on what it is true to me in my heart. I am grateful for that!! ❤️✨ I am also grateful that the world is transforming and because of it we are collectively moving towards something more similar to my values and world's vision. 🌈 Thank you Aaron for this workshop. 😊🌸 I received through synchronicity the hint to join and it is obvious why.