{"id":47962,"date":"2022-09-26T11:24:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T11:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=47962"},"modified":"2022-09-26T13:21:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T13:21:46","slug":"homework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/09\/26\/homework\/","title":{"rendered":"Homework."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Here\u2019s your friendly reminder.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t fight the voice in your head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simply back away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t pick up its frantic suggestions, its loud orders, its harsh remarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t engage with the panic, the doubts, the judgments, or the predictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drop that shit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t debate the thoughts, don\u2019t try to outsmart them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And don\u2019t. Fucking. Argue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just back away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One thought at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And keep backing away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until the thoughts lose the power you innocently gave them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until the feelings are no longer fed by your attention and interest and urge to control, and you stop being a prisoner of that process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until you start to feel at home, safe, okay, connected to that subtle place within that\u2019s untouched by whatever has happened and ever will happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep going, over and over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe you disagree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe you think this is all denial, cheating, bypassing, or whatever smart terminology suits your personal view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do your thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fight your own war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drown in whatever thoughts arise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll just keep backing away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Photo by @brookecagle, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s your friendly reminder. Back away. Don\u2019t fight the voice in your head. Simply back away. Don\u2019t pick up its frantic suggestions, its loud orders, its harsh remarks. Back away. Don\u2019t engage with the panic, the doubts, the judgments, or the predictions. Back away. Drop that shit. Don\u2019t debate the thoughts, don\u2019t try to outsmart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[99,102,97,117,100,105,116,113,107,103,112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47965,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47962\/revisions\/47965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}