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Avoidance

is an outcome of the struggle. As a reaction to struggle people start to avoid Whatever

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their distressing feelings and thoughts. As much as

avoidance

gives short-term relief, its long-term result is more and more struggle, that’s because

avoidance

takes you away from the

life

you value the most into a

life

of restrictions. And the reason that people keep doing the

avoidance

strategy is that they don’t want to face the truth, the hard truth, which is, feeling anxious even if it was more than you can bear, sometimes it is a normal human process. The antidote for

this

behaviour is being accepted and compassionate with yourself. Let’s say that anxiety is not a normal feeling and that no one should ever feel it, would you let it take over your

life

? Knowing that fighting back will not work and even make the problem worse? Of

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the answer would be no, that’s why being accepting will make you live the

life

you value knowing that these emotions are part of your

life

. And the way to do

that is

by watching your thoughts and allowing yourself to feel whatever you feel without any resistance and

as a result

, you will have room for it.

Thus

, you will have the energy to focus on your

life

. In the end, we all suffer. And the things that we care about are largely connected to our suffering.

Nevertheless

, you can liberate yourself from suffering by living in an accepted and defused way, and seeing your

life

as an unfolding process, that evolves as you move. Remember that nobody chooses to have anxiety or depression but you can choose how to approach them.