Do I Fuck With Your Nervous System?
“My nervous system always relaxes around you. You’re so calm. I love that you’re not part of the noise.”
My friend, Naomi, as we were leaving Sans Soleil last night.
What I find interesting is that this is not the same experience for everyone.
Naturally.
There are those who feel even more dysregulated / activated around me — precisely because of that same, sane, stable energy.
It’s agitating to their noise.
To the insanity.
To the illusory parts they are still holding onto.
To the dysfunctions that must remain in place to ‘protect’ themselves from the freefall that inevitably awaits.
So they brace even further.
They hold on even tighter.
Because their system is already compromised.
It’s already on high alert.
They are already (and primarily) existing in a compensatory state.
And so…
me just being me will naturally highlight that fact without effort, words or actions, or even my conscious awareness.
And…
they will either collapse as they point to me as the ‘trigger’,
or they will use the experience as it’s meant to be used,
and erect themselves even further.
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