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Physical resistance
Sometimes, I reallly, really want to start doing something which I've been avoiding. I try to push myself to do it but I feel some sort of physical resistance on me, like trying to push against a large elastic band.
It took me a long time to realise this happens when I try to push myself to do something which I've been avoiding. I've also found that my heart beats quicken and I become very conscious of how I'm breathing.
Does anyone else experience this?
p.s. I've noticed some posts which have mentioned chest pains of some sort - do you think this could this be directly related to the avoidance of something i.e procrastination, or is it indirectly related to stress THROUGH procrastination?
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YES!
Your description of a "sort of physical resistance" is right on target. That's EXACTLY how I often feel!!!
I've been posting and reading on this forum for a month, now, and it's absolutely amazing to me that others can describe experiences which fit my own so closely and specifically! Yes, I get the same heart beat and breathing symptoms, along with hot flashes (you probably don't get those ;) and tingly hands. I've always attributed these things to anxiety.
I also get this weird feeling that I can only describe as wanting to crawl out of my own skin; it feels like my nerves are all firing in response to my MAKING myself do something which, as you put it, is often something I "really, really want to start doing". That's what's so puzzling to me. The task isn't boring or difficult. It's often something I'd enjoy doing. I just react when it's something that I have to do, something with a deadline.
anxiety
It does sound like anxiety. But this gives you good information: What's causing you to procrastinate is deep anxiety about the task. If you know this, you can ask yourself why and find a way to calm yourself down. Knowledge is power!
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Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
I am afraid of pain
Hi Steven
I made 20 years ago a decision to make every morning our bed right after rising up in the morning because the bedroom looks more tidy then. And I have made it a routine and I do it. But I notice it is not easy to make the bed I might notice difference in my breathing brethe faster, once my husband heard I was complaining in a low voice. I did not notice it myself.
I have found out I procrastinate because I do not want to face the pain what doing the bed or any work causes me. I fear the pain. My desease is that working causes me pain at least in starting it. Starting working does not make any pain for a normal person.