repetition compulsion
Repetition compulsion refers to an unconscious tendency to recreate patterns from the past, especially those tied to unresolved emotional experiences. This phenomenon often manifests as repeating unwanted life circumstances, such as toxic relationships or recurring struggles, as a way for the psyché to seek resolution or healing.
By recognizing these patterns, we can bring awareness to the hidden narratives shaping our reality and begin to consciously create a life aligned with our growth and authenticity.
unconscious inclination to recreate the traumatic event or it’s circumsatnces
It's an unconscious inclination to repeat
Repetition compulsion is a term coined by psychologists that refer to a situation when an individual finds himself/herself trapped in a loop of reexperiencing the very same uncomfortable and painful life circumstances yet just with different people, in different places and across different moments in time.
if you have experienced any of these emotional wounds:
especially when you were young and didn’t have the chance to fully proccess them, that is, feel through completely
you are stuck in a loop of your psyché orchetrating the very same emotional dynamics for you just in different settings
it does like so because your system hadn’t find solace about these experiences
your system can’t let go the hurt once experienced due to these emotional wounds
and it uses its distinct mechanisms
and now it is shaping your reality in a way
and it tries for you to become aware of the unsettling stuff that is inside of you by you reexperiencing the very same emotional wound
with an effort to
>>> you see you carry this unproccesed that is not felt through completely pain sometimes to the degree that you are unconscious of it, that is you are not noticing it for what it actually is, you just might have Signs of Suppressed Emotion(S)
and as life automatically flows towards the direction of energetical balance (or simply healing - going from dense emotions to more lighter ones that are our natural state of being, the state that we are born with prior traumatic life experiences) you aren’t left with another option just as to face those repeating emotionaly painful situations through different people and cirumctances
it’s a clever way of psyché itself trying to lead you towards resolution because every time you are exposed to the very same emotional wound you are presented with a chnace to look more closely what is there within you unacknnolwedged that lead you to those painful experiences
it’s not bad luck or witchcraft, dear friend
it’s you not leaning to the internal oplaces of yourself that needs your attention and care
you get in into those very same hurtful emotional dybnamics because you are trying to manipulate the external world to get what you don;t have internally when it’s a false logic to be applied if you are seeking resolution
if you don’t accept and love yourself - you won’t find a person that is able to do that for you as he/she will only mirror your internal dynamic
if you feel that you are not enough valued - this is what you will experience in every work that you enroll in, in every relationship you form - not being valued
if you aren;t confident at heart - no item and no person will make you feel confident fully and for prolonged time, only for some moments .
== there reoocuring emotionaly hurtful and draining themes are the law of attraction in it’s effect as we are attracting the very same dynamics in different people, places, circumstances AS IT IS ONLY A MIRROR OF OUR INTERNAL WORLD
so 1) yes, it’s the mirror effect taking place
2) and yes. this continuing reoccurance is your psyché’s efforts to finally find resolution to what is hurting inside by making you go through the very same emotional dynamics and hoping that this time you will introspect the situtaion a bit more to understand that there’s an internal bleeding, the bleeding of the soul is happening and only YOU BY WORKING WITH YOURSELF (YOUR ENERGY) can stop this bleeding, heal the wound and altogether stop the repetition itself.
there are places within you where you weren’t given /resourced enough emotionaly, the unmet emotional needs that you simply try to full fill through external circumstances, people, objects.
when actually it’s the case of you learning to become fully self- efficient adult and provide for yourself the stuff that you weren’t as a child INTERNALY.
it’s a graudal journey
it’s not an easy one,
but it’s the one that is completely worth it
as you are doing it completely for yourslef and what you create for yourself can not be taken by noone and no thing
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unhealthy emotional patterns (toxic relationships, need for external validation, the feeling of being unloved, unaccepted, the one whose boundaries are being constantly violated, …)
some examples:
if you have experienced the trauma of emotional negelct in the child then it’s emotionaly neglectful people that you form bonds with la
toxic relationships
struggle to maintain certain boundaries
refers to a psychological phenomenon where individuals unconsciously
automatically find themselves in the very same unfovourable life circumstances it’s just that each time the settings - people, place and time is different but the underlying theme is the same
repeat certain behaviors, situations, or relationship dynamics, often rooted in unresolved emotional experiences aka past traumas. These patterns tend to emerge even when they cause discomfort or harm,
as this is psyche’s way to bring the unconscious patterns that need resolution ‘to light’ and guide us toward resolution.
it’s an attempt orchestrated by the psyché itself to finally resolve the situation
the GOLD of this phenomena is that your psyché is constructng these repeating life circumstances for you to
I want you to view repetition compulsion as a chance to make things right this time
you see your psyché is so restles about something that has happened in the past
(…)
that it can’t help but recreate the very same theme in your life - you experienece the very same pain and discomfort FOR YOU TO FINALLY LEARN THE LESSON
something has to be done differently this time - and unless you act differently the pattern will keep reemerging with just more intense emotions and suffering
this will repeat itself in numerous times until you will snap out of the behavior patterning that you are unconsciously repeating AND THAT IS NOT FOR YOUR HIGHEST GOOD
don’t be silly enough to think that the universe / god / life itself is punishing you
the life force energy is so inteligent that it is guiding you towards resolution and it is doing that through making you experience contrast
This phenomenon often manifests as recurring unwanted life circumstances, such as toxic relationships or persistent struggles. Yet, even in these patterns, the psyche’s deeper intention remains the same: to bring unresolved emotions to light and guide us toward resolution
it's something that we found ourselves in despite consciously desiring different outcomes. This behavior pattern lasts until we look deeply
Repetition Compulsion is a psychological phenomena
name that psychologists gave to repetitive bahevior patterns of an individual that are arrising from the UNRESOLVED EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCES
This unconsciouss repetition that is implied by the subconscious is the psyche’s way to seek resolution and healing.
This phenomenon often manifests as repeating unwanted life circumstances, such as toxic relationships or recurring struggles, and once again everything is with the psyche’s intention to find resolution
