HEALTH
Suppression is defined as a conscious intentional exclusion from consciousness of a thought or
feeling. Repression is a mental process by which
distressing thoughts, memories, or impulses that
may give rise to anxiety are excluded from consciousness and left to operate in the unconscious.
Suppression requires a conscious moment of acknowledgment to make something become unconscious. In order to suppress something in a
wakeful moment, you dismiss it from your awareness. To take suppression a step further—to go unconscious—you have to create a reason, a belief, or
make up a story to convince yourself to suppress
your truth. The big problem is this: if the thing you
want to suppress is something that the Universe
wants you to face and heal, you’re paddling against
the current. Eventually you will have to return to
this scene and act with awareness. Everything you
do to suppress your truth is only a temporary warding off; you’re building a wall you will need to take
apart later, stone by stone.
Universal Love only wants your freedom. It will not
stop for the preferences of your small self. So be
Suppression is built into the
fabric of society. For most
people, in order to start a
business, get an education,
or buy a house, you have to
take on some debt, in the form
of a loan or a credit card. If
you’re not crystal clear about
the interest rates and the
time it may to take to repay
the loan given current and
future employment, you are
completely suppressed around
money and the exchange
between what you want and
what it really costs you.
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Universal Love only wants
your freedom. It will not stop
for the preferences of your
small self. So be careful about
being too picky with how and
when you’re willing to learn
your life lessons.
careful about being too picky with how and when
you’re willing to learn your life lessons. God takes
custom orders for spiritual growth, but you don’t
always get exactly what you want: You get what
you need in order to grow, whether you think you
are ready or not. Grace fills in the gaps. Or as my
wife Emily says, “You get what you get and you
don’t throw a fit.”
Suppression says to the Universe, “I’m gonna put
off learning this particular life lesson. I’ll deal with
this issue someday if I have to, but for now, I’ll put
it on the back burner.” One of my mentors shared
with me that people build their lives around avoiding three things: loss, anxiety, and death. The only
problem is that loss, anxiety, and death are the
three things you are guaranteed to face in life.
Loss, anxiety, and death will imprint a pattern of
anxiety and distress upon your body and mind if
you have not cultivated the capacity to be present
when these experiences arise.
Suppression is built into the fabric of society. For
most people, in order to start a business, get an education, or buy a house, you have to take on some
debt, in the form of a loan or a credit card. If you’re
not crystal clear about the interest rates and the
time it may to take to repay the loan given current
and future employment, you are completely suppressed around money and the exchange between
what you want and what it really costs you. If you
are super aware of what you’re getting into financially, then kudos to you. I didn’t have a clue about
debt when I was twenty-three and started graduate
school. I thought, “Free money. Cool!” Years later,
as I applied my education professionally, and understood that nature of variable and fixed interest
rates, I felt good about paying back student loans.