The Immune Response To Power
people are taught to disown their power to get their attachment needs met and believe they'll get them met by sacrificing themselves to the systems that caused the conditions that prohibited their needs from being met in the first place everyone is clawing their way up because the pecking order generated by disowning your power causes poor conditions for people who don't play by the rules, which is genuinely threatening the way out is reclaiming your power while improving stress dissipation capacity "having what everyone wants" without the Appropriate Markers is perceived as defection and you get the full force of the nexus of unmet attachment needs projected onto you, which is incredibly destabilizing if you have It, they don't, so they need to reinforce the pecking order the INSTANT someone/something notices you've reclaimed your power, there's an "immune reaction" that kicks in you have to be capable of processing this in realtime, as it occurs, consistently- to avoid compliance, p
people are taught to disown their power to get their attachment needs met and believe they'll get them met by sacrificing themselves to the systems that caused the conditions that prohibited their needs from being met in the first place everyone is clawing their way up because the pecking order generated by disowning your power causes poor conditions for people who don't play by the rules, which is genuinely threatening the way out is reclaiming your power while improving stress dissipation capacity "having what everyone wants" without the Appropriate Markers is perceived as defection and…
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