From birth on, my baby already had her traits: nice and quiet, patient, only using the sound of “crying” to “tell” us to check in with her needs.
She’s almost six months old now. Every day she’s become a little more like herself.
But there are still moments where something else takes over her. I can feel that she’s fighting that thing, whenever she’s tired, hungry, anxious, or scared. It’s like only one of them can be in front of the stage and she’s fighting for the right to stay.
What helps her at this moment is some kind of distraction.
If she shifts her focus on something else, away from her hunger, tiredness, or insecurity, she could stay.
Is distraction helpful to pull us out of our own obsessions too?
When we feel we are stuck, trapped, or swamped in something – “taken over by something” – can we use distraction to pull us out, too? In the end, our obsessions are just one aspect of our realities.
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