How Focusing on Victimhood Turns Attention Away from Your Vitality - Whenever you turn your focus toward something, a natural consequence is that you're turning away from something else.
Consider this tenet of attention and natural consequence when it comes to victimhood. With the example of placing focus on one's victimhood - putting your attention there is at the cost of not focusing on what lies in the other direction from victimhood.
You may not intend to shun the thing you're not focused upon, but if you don't put attention there, it is ignored. Without your attention, those things will weaken and atrophy. It’s so important to be mindful of how you choose to split your intention. If you focus on victimhood, there must be other things that occupy your mind for counterbalance.
The Shadow Side of Identifying as Victim - How does victim consciousness set in? There are instances when you feel compelled to identify as a victim. When you're feeling like life is happening TO you and you're getting the short end of the stick. While it may feel this way, you must ask yourself if it’s true. Is it absolutely true that it’s happening to you that way?
It is easy to swim in the waters(Pisces) of pain and disillusionment. It can "feel" like healing, but in reality, submerging in those waters distracts us from processing the trauma and being able to move forward. Excellent points!
Yes, it's interesting because some resist those waters completely. Yet others, can get subsumed by it! Great emphasis that it could "feel" like healing, yet not actually move through with processing the trauma. It's an integration process that we move through!
Thanks so much Norie! Glad this is resonating with you. All these recent Pisces placements have been calling me to explore this topic more, and I'm glad I heeded the call and dove in :)
It is easy to swim in the waters(Pisces) of pain and disillusionment. It can "feel" like healing, but in reality, submerging in those waters distracts us from processing the trauma and being able to move forward. Excellent points!
Yes, it's interesting because some resist those waters completely. Yet others, can get subsumed by it! Great emphasis that it could "feel" like healing, yet not actually move through with processing the trauma. It's an integration process that we move through!
Very insightful! I am enjoying and finding myself in agreement with much or all of this thread of your thinking, James. Thank you!
Thanks so much Norie! Glad this is resonating with you. All these recent Pisces placements have been calling me to explore this topic more, and I'm glad I heeded the call and dove in :)