BREATHWORK: 🏴☠️Avoidance🏴☠️
Breathing into the Places We Refuse to Look
"What you resist, persists."
— Carl Jung
Avoidance is not absence—it is presence hidden in the dark. The unopened letter, the conversation unsaid, the feeling buried so deep it echoes through your bones. We do not escape what we avoid; we drag it behind us, like a phantom tethered to our heel.
It begins with a small step back. Averted eyes. A hand waving it away. “Later.” “Not now.” “Too much.” And slowly, a life forms around the things we refuse to touch.
The body remembers. Every moment you turned away left its print: a jaw clenched too tightly, a breath held too long, a stomach knotted in silence. Avoidance is not emptiness—it is pressure. A balloon stretched thin around everything you dare not feel.
It wears masks: distraction, busyness, numbness, perfection, control, endless scrolling. It whispers: “If you don’t look, it can’t hurt you. If you don’t touch it, it isn’t real.” But beneath every avoidance lies longing. Longing for truth, for release, for the raw wound of what is.
This breathwork is not about forcing confrontation. It is about noticing the instinct to turn away—and gently staying. Breathing into the skipped beat. The tightness in your throat. The urge to run. With each inhale, invite what you fear closer. With each exhale, let the body soften around its shape. Not to fight. Not to fix. But to feel.
The breath will take you where the mind refuses to go—into the room you keep locked, into the silence you never broke, into the ache you swore you’d never feel again. Not to overwhelm you, but to remind you: you are vast enough to hold it. Strong enough to face it. Tender enough to let it break you open.
Let this session be the loosening of resistance. The turning of your face toward what has always waited. The simple, trembling yes to life in its rawest form.
Here, avoidance does not vanish. But you do. You dissolve into presence. You remember what it is to stand unguarded, unclenched, awake.
Just Breath. Just Witness. Notice the Sound of the Shadow Stepping Into the Light.