Another avoidance strategy consists of switching ones mind away…

Page 55. Another avoidance strategy consists of switching ones mind away from where it needs to be to somewhere irrelevant. From blaming to Alabang to rationalizing to intellectualizing to clowning and cracking jokes to any form of mental busywork that can hold reality At bay. What is being avoided in all such cases is consciousness. Ask essentially, what is being avoided is reality.

— from The Mind in the Cockpit · Art of Living Consciously

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