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• energy wheel. Spirit is the hub. But in susto, the gateways are often sources of stress and energy leaks rather than sources of vitality and rejuvenation. And the difference begins in the mind.
• When you drink water, you are able to speak, to express who you are in the world.
• anxious, you “explain” your anxiety to yourself in a seemingly plausible way that is often quite irrational.
• Even Western medicine knows that chronic fear depletes our energy, that even low-grade fear or anxiety lowers our immune system over time, and that this makes us vulnerable to physical and emotional ailments. So recognizing susto as an energy-depleting spiritual condition that can cause physical, emotional, and psychological harm is common sense. I...
• the “susto self” and the “indigenous self.”