Avoidance

In this phase of alarm response, bracing, spasticity, compression and solidity begin. The organism freezes up, cannot move, gets caught in an upward extension. Helplessness arises and it says,
"I won't be a threat, I won't move, I won't give up or lose my ground"
Rather than arousal, there is suspended animation. This is the begining of increased fragmentation with panic and crying responses.

PHYSICAL RESPONSES IN THIS PHASE:
The chest locks in inspiration while the diaphragm locks in expiration, the intestines become spastic and immoblile as the organism pulls totally out of the pelvis and off the ground, the cranial cavity and the spinal cord tube constrict, cranial pulsation becomes restricted and the head pulls back greatly, the throat and nasal tubes constrict, and the hands freeze in a gesture of submission (locking and bracing without any action -- a signal of no contact.)

She is careful not to be beautiful. Too dangerous. Useful, that is what she chooses, always useful, present, there for the sick and the dying and no one else. If they are not broken, she is not there. She is hiding in plain sight, hiding her beauty and her talent, angry at herself and everyone else. Stay busy, keep helping, don't slow down, do not lower the level of stress

or her dreams will catch up to her.

Dream wave slow build over the years, stuffed and stuffed and stuffed, and now swelling. A swelling in the bottom of the ocean of her heart, it swells, slowly at first. Molten core now, building pressure and now it moves, swelling fast, rising and shooting lava into the sea and building until a new island appears

and the dream wave is thrown from the displaced water and speeds towards shore, lava still shooting in the air behind it, wave rising as it reaches the shallows and huge vast enormous tower wall of water

that will drown us all.

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A*void"ance (?), n.

1.

The act of annulling; annulment.

2.

The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.

Wolsey, . . . on every avoidance of St. Peter's chair, was sitting down therein, when suddenly some one or other clapped in before him. Fuller.

3.

A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.

4.

The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.

"The avoidance of pain."

Beattie.

5.

The courts by which anything is carried off.

Avoidances and drainings of water. Bacon.

 

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