This one
is simple.
Just substitute Muscles when you think Emotions.
What happens if you tie your arm in a sling and never remove it. Ever.
Why, your arm quickly becomes useless. When you hide an Emotional aspect and ‘never’ expose it, it also becomes useless.
Which leads to further hiding. And further uselessness.
OK, so?
Welll, the problem is, once you have a useless arm, it doesn’t stop there.
Because anything that might push against your arm would then hurt you.
So you retreat even more, just in case.
This keeps up until one day you have an Emotional collapse.
You actually have two decision times.
One is when you collapse.
Hide it again or open up and take the (initial) pain.
The other is ‘now’ when you can exercise that emotional arm a bit, and then a bit more, and then a…
It’s going to happen anyways, why not now and in a more controlled manner, with far less pain?
Exercise that arm!
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To reinforce this, read any 2 below:
# 7 Disaster – 10 Progress It – 14 Eliminating Triggers – 24 The Wedge – 40 So What!
92 Strength – 108 Emotions – 112 Emotions Part 2
Nice one!