THEME
Vigilance rather than anxiety
Meaning
The word Priyanka used about a client landed in your sternum, because anxiety is about what might happen and vigilance is about what already did, and you recognised which one is yours instantly.
How it shows up
It arrives as a distinction you would offer a client kindly and mean it. Vigilance is adaptive, not a malfunction, a system that learned something once and has not been given a reason to stand down. Knowing that is not the same as having given it a reason.
Evidence
3 quotes
“I had a physical reaction to the word that I do not think she saw. Something in my sternum.”
First mention
Read the entry →“The thing about vigilance is that it is adaptive. That is the whole point of it. It is not a malfunction, it is a system that learned something once and has not been given a reason to stand down.”
First mention
Read the entry →“what you are describing in her sounds like vigilance rather than anxiety, they look the same from outside and they are not the same thing, anxiety is about what might happen and vigilance is about what already did”
First mention
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