A thing called "Suffocate"
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Suffocate
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How Yoga destroyed :
“Focus on your breathing.â€
Focusing on each inhalation/exhalation was nowhere near as relaxing as advertised; the resultant hyperawareness making her alternately hyperventilate and suffocate.
“Focus on your thoughts.â€
First she was thinking of the Eiffel Tower, then she was thinking of thinking of the Eiffel Tower, and so on, infinite recursions erecting a tower of their own.
The only escape from metacognitive vertigo was to shift focus to thoughts considered as things in her brain. Squishing squirming things, sluiced with chemicals, twitching with mild electric shocks. A head-ful of earthworms.
Exteroception exterminated, ceased existing.

and turned it into







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