When anxiety sends thoughts spiraling into the stratosphere, the mind detaches from breath and body. The speaker calls this disconnected space the void, a purple-red zone above earth where unresolved issues linger. Recognizing what pulls you there can restore the grounding that breath provides.
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I don't matter. I don't matter. What else happens? Um, I'm a horrible person. Horrible person. All of this inflicting what? Anxiety. Which does what? Disconnects you from your breath. Anxiety, dissociation, Asian. Disconnects you from breath. And the breath does what? It keeps you grounded. Okay, so it's not a bad thing to think about things. It's not a bad thing to use your logic, to use your reasoning. To make decisions. But if you're in a place where the rabbit holes of thought have been spiraling and spiraling on end, bringing your mind all the way up into the stratosphere— and let me get this, let me get this clear for you guys, like, this is just to draw an image of it. If you are so disconnected with time that your mind is up here in the stratosphere, you know what's going to happen when you come back down? You get gravity sickness. You get ill because your mind and your body has now been divided for so long that it's trying to reconcile that time apart. It's trying to reconcile how to be human again. So where does the void come into play with all this? I was actually going to use purple for the void, but that's okay. Oh no, I hit my camera. I was actually going to use purple for the void, but that's okay, I'll use red. What, what is the void? Here's the void. Here's the void. All up here. And the ground? You know, we got our grass, some trees, everything good that is on the earth, right? Like, we have, we have the earth. Okay, it's not gonna be a perfect picture right now. Okay, there's Earth. The void contains what? Unresolved things. And that's how we got here in the first place. It's because we were thinking about something unresolved.