15/06/2026
Lately, I’ve been sitting with this self- enquiry around "avoidance".
There are so many ways to.. avoid, yet what exactly are we avoiding?
Our feelings? The present moment? Ourselves?
I see how easily we find ways to leave our own energy field and disconnect from what is happening right now. Perhaps the mind is the easiest escape route of all. But avoidance can wear many faces.
It can be alcohol. Recreational drugs. Endless thinking. Constant busyness. Focusing exclusively on meeting our social roles. Social media scrolling. Exosting the physical body. Even meditation. It can be also caring for everyone else while quietly neglecting what is alive within ourselves.
The more I observe, the less I find myself judging any particular form of avoidance. We all seem to have our preferred way of managing intensity when life feels overwhelming emotionally, mentally, or spiritually.
What interests me now is not the form the avoidance takes, but the awareness of it.
Can I notice when I am leaving the present moment?
Can I notice when I am trying to escape discomfort instead of meeting it and allow the river of life flow through me?
Perhaps beneath many of our avoidance strategies is a simple difficulty in allowing life to unfold. Trusting. Letting go. Having faith. Being with what is, without immediately trying to change it.
When the ego feels tense, contracted, and uncomfortable, escaping can feel like the most natural thing to do.
And yet, awareness changes everything.
Not to make judge ourselves.
Not to make us wrong and wanting fix ourselves.
Simply to see and from that place everything may change.
What are your favorite ways of avoiding the present moment?
