WHY ARE YOU USING ESCAPISM TO DISTRACT YOU FROM YOUR REALITY?: STOP ENTERTAINING THE UNPLEASANT REALITY & EMBRACE YOUR REALITY
Written By: Yvette Cabrera
Hey You.
Stop what you’re doing for a second and bring your attention here for just one moment.
I want to ask, why are you using escapism to distract you from your reality?
Is it because you are unsure of your current relationship with your partner?
Is it because you have not yet found what makes you happy, motivates you, or inspires you?
Is it that you still have some insecurities that haven’t been dealt with yet?
Is it because you haven’t made peace with your past?
Is it because you’ve not forgiven yourself or those who’ve wronged you?
Is it because you still haven’t let him/or her go and be able to move on?
Is it that you feel stagnant with your living situation?
Is it that your career/place of work doesn’t provide you the fulfillment you desire?
Is it because you have not been able to obtain that car you have been saving up for?
Or because you haven’t been able to pay off your credit card?
Or is it because you have not taken the time to figure out what you want to accomplish for yourself in life?
Whatever you’re escaping from, I want to help you start to acknowledge the contributing factors and help you implement some essential tools and tips to get you on the right path and embrace your reality.
I want to guide you. Stop escaping your reality and turn inward. It is when turning inward leads you to self-awareness to help overcome escapism.
I want to reach you. Meet you at where you’re at. To help you stop entertaining unhealthy realities and center yourself so that you’re not contemplating using escapism to distract you from yourself.
I understand; you find it easier to avoid the reality of the real matter.
It’s easier snd convenient to avoid the problem or situation and allow things to continue.
Gingivitis a solution or resolving is overwhelming for you amidst the ordeal.
It’s simpler to let things be rather than fix or correct them…
It’s better to ignore rather than have to acknowledge your thoughts or feelings when triggered.
Escapism gives you a sense of comfort
For just a moment, it relieves you of the reality you’re living.
But to be honest with you, there’s only so much escapism can offer you until you start to acknowledge it for what it is.
So let me repeat myself, why are you using escapism to distract you from your reality?
Stop entertaining unpleasant realities and embrace your truth.
If you sense that this is coming off as too strong, it’s because I think it’s the only way I can effectively get my point across and get your attention. My point is that we have allowed escapism to infiltrate our realities, making us feel unpleasant and unsatisfied with our lives…
I sincerely want to help you understand that escapism has unnaturally removed us from the Connection with self and driven unhealthy habits into our lives, for it is rapidly affecting our society.
Why are you using escapism to distract you from your reality?
I want to encourage you to start out doing something small. Perhaps, stop entertaining the unpleasant realities and embrace your results.
Let me define escapism for you to explain why I presume escapism is ruining our realities with not only ourselves but also within our relationships with others. For it has to lead us down an unpleasant road of bitterness and betrayal. And I believe if you begin embracing your reality, escapism wouldn’t have to be such an issue.
Escapism is defined as the tendency to seek distraction and relief from unpleasant realities, especially by seeking entertainment or engaging in fantasy.
It’s only in recent years that the term “escapism” is being commonly associated with addressing the way we as a society avoid handling relationships with ourselves and amongst others. Avoiding our emotional and mental well-being is frankly what we just have naturally done for so long. As we go through life, we’ve naturally accustomed ourselves to avoid our thoughts and feelings where we’ve then naturally sun one to escapism.
As I ask this question, please give it some real thought. Why are you using escapism to distract you from your reality?
Today, escapism appears to be very pronounced within relationships as a way of entertainment. It has infiltrated the way we handle relationships, how we approach a problem within it and how we treat the individual with whom we become love. We get so caught up in believing that sticking around for someone is okay when all honesty is unhealthy, and more so, it’s escaping.
Too much of the time, we’re escaping from our reality due to the simple fact that we dislike taking accountability for our reality. We feel that if we take responsibility that it’s a firm of authority or ego-driven. But in reality, it is something we lack most of within society. We refuse to take ownership of our own lives to be responsible, that we hesitate to live out a pleasant and fulfilling life for ourselves. This is why we’ve become so distracted with the mundane and used escapism for so much of our time. We think taking responsibility and ownership of our lives is too much responsibility. But in reality, we acquire accountability to recognize the usage of escapism within our reality effectively.
It’s apparent more so than ever that we have fallen into the habit of blaming others. We are removing accountability from ourselves. We’ve placed ourselves on this never-ending cycle of not taking accountability for the realities we’ve allowed to exist within ours and indirectly, excusing any form of responsibility for our actions, words, or behavior. We’ve reached this extreme of having placed so much burden onto others that it’s fogged our perception of self-reliance and distorted our view of our reality. We no longer seem to recognize the value in establishing relationships in our reality because we’ve lost interest in taking on that responsibility snd accountability; therefore, escapism has been a reflection of why so many are leading unpleasant lives.
And it’s why I ask you, why are you using escapism to distract you from your reality?
We’ve lost interest in our personal growth or lose a sense of self when we maintain such a busy life, go through a breakup, grieve alone and go through a traumatic change within our realities. These waves of inevitable life circumstances may steer us into a dangerous place of escapism, so we must tend to our core personable issues to fully embrace our reality.
So take a pause, and let me reiterate: Why are you using escapism to distract you from your reality?
Stop entertaining the unpleasant reality and embrace your truth.
Just stop and think of the possibilities if you’d stop using escapism to distract yourself from yourself and what your reality would look like if you embraced it.
You would be at peace. You would feel more satisfied within your relationships. Be more content with yourself. Value yourself. Appreciate others. Be grateful for what you have. Feel whole and complete without needing to escape from reality you’re living in.
Come on and take hold of yourself and well being. Stop making excuses and focus on embracing your reality. Let’s stop entertaining all the nonsense, the drama, and stop getting caught up in the things that aren’t leveling us up in life. We know very well how unpleasant it’s made us feel. And at the end of the day, it’s not done anything but distracted us from our reality.
So let’s not ignore the question: Why are you using escapism to distract you from reality? Stop entertaining unpleasant truths and embrace your reality.
Once you’ve removed all the distractions within your life. You will begin to become more present in yourself.
Once this occurs, you will start to turn inward and build a healthy path toward embracing yourself.
Stop entertaining unpleasant realities and embrace your reality.
Once you begin to eliminate escapism and embrace all aspects of your reality, you become self-aware; and begin the inward journey.
Turning Inward directs you to be self-aware.
- Turning inward, you gain a deeper understanding of self.
- Allows for an open mind
- It brings about clarity
- enhance your intuition
- shapes your worldview.
How to Begin Embracing Your Reality Through Turning Inward.
3 TIPS FOR HOW TO TURN INWARD:
1. Take time each day to be quiet. Just bringing in silence can do so much for our mental webring. — Start with a 5-minute meditation
- Bask in the sun for 5 minutes.
- Find a comfortable place and space to be.
2. Do one thing at a time.
- Stop multitasking for a moment.
- Focus your attention on one thing.
- Allow yourself to be present.
3. Exercise.
- Practice physical exerting to get your mind off of things.
- Practicing yoga, aerobics, Zumba, bike ride, running, cardio, etc., will help you maintain a state of flow.
As you adapt to embracing your reality, you begin to adjust by coming back to yourself and centering yourself.
Centering Offers You. inner-peace
- Centering aligns you.
- Centering balances you when you’re feeling stagnant.
- Centering helps the inner navigation system (GPS) to navigate suppressed emotions, feelings, and thoughts.
- Centering gifts you the opportunity to embrace your present moment.
- Centering refocuses your attention on gratitude.
- Centering puts you back in balance with nature and the cosmos.
How to Start Embracing your Reality Through Centering.
3. TIPS FOR HOW TO CENTER YOURSELF
1. Breathe Mindfully
2. Be Present
- Focus on the moment.
- Limit your distractions and be present.
- Put technology away for a brief time and be present
3. Be Aware.
- Be aware of your emotional state.
- Please, when you’re feeling out of balance.
Often when we ignore or choose not to deal with our emotions, we become overwhelmed and feel stressed that we lose control of our own emotions.
As we come to a close, I genuinely hope you allow yourself the space to really ask yourself, “Why are you using escapism to distract you from your reality?” when you find yourself in those distractable moments.
It will introduce you to so much and allow you to embark on the journey toward embracing your reality.
So to initiate that journey, stop entertaining the unpleasant realities and embrace your truth.
