The Beast Screaming in my Head
No one pays you any attention!! No one cares!!
You sit doodling at your desk while real activists are out in the rain and snow, putting themselves on the line!
You spend too much time on activism! You’re letting down your friends and family!
Activists aren’t interested in art, emotions, and other woo woo stuff!
You are an unpatriotic, peacenik, commie, whataboutist and everybody hates you, even your friends!!!!
JUST GIVE UP!!!!
These are just some of the things the beast is constantly screaming in my head.
Ouch!
It’s tough to shut all that out. Even tougher not to believe it!
How does the beast make us believe it?
We billions are a lot stronger than the beast. The beast is terrified we will find this out. So it does everything possible to convince us we’re worthless, so we can’t wield our power. The beast and its cheerleaders put enormous effort into convincing us that they should rule over us, exploit us, and manipulate us for their own greedy purposes, despite overwhelming evidence that they will destroy the world in multiple ways if we don’t stop them.
The beast invades our brains, constantly driving in messages designed to distract, confuse, isolate, discourage, and thwart us, i.e., get us to do the beast’s work of keeping ourselves under control, ready to do its bidding, and unable to take a stand for our own interests.
I’m a long way from successfully repelling the beast’s insidious burrowing into my brain, but I can declare, with nearly total confidence, that:
its words aren’t true
the yammering in my head is the beast, not me, though it often sounds like me, or like someone I admire1
How do you fend off the beast inside your head that tries to make you give up?
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Yammering which has continued nonstop while writing this.
Julie, I have a lot to say here! I think you should do an interview series on this exact question with people who have strategies we use for this, and collect them, maybe create a book you can sell of them! Note that you asked us how we do it--you didn't include _how_ you do it, your own strategies!
Slow down, breathe deep; literally consider the lilies of the field: 'there is nothing in Living Nature that is not connected to the whole' ( Geothe)