Aloha! Open, I'll jump in too, since Flight is one of my biggies!

When I feel tight, anxious, upset, angry that usually causes me to reach for a durry(ciggy) So I guess thats consumption. I have been trying to observe myself in it and look at why I like it. One thing is the nice big inhale and exhale, which I realize I could get when I do a meditiation. There is fear associated with stopping too which I will undoubtedly have to face into.

I have also been working with my flight mechanism which some months back was so automatic. Now I am able to, after some distraction ha ha and dilly dallying around sit with the pain. Sometimes it takes a few goes at it to breakthrough but I guess it gets easier in a way, the more skilled one becomes at facing into the tightness immediately. I do feel encouraged by so much of what I read on this site, I am very grateful.

I have a question too, about feeling stuff- At the moment where I live is in drought and has bushfires, so there is a full on heaviness in the ether from all the tragedy, which I feel v strongly.

My question is how does one know whether the tightness is from my own stuff or the heaviness I seem to pickup from around me?

Any thoughts?

Its certainly a challenge at this time.

Big hugs

Zee