I often hold my breath while thinking about things I am worried about. My career, my (hopefully) untapped potential, my purpose. It has progressed to hypothetical situations of varying degrees of negative. Not breathing while I mentally go through imagined conflicts is somehow easier. As though I could hold my breath come out the other side unscathed. But it doesn't work that way and I'm just starting to figure that out.

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