If you are a Four, notice when you are amping things up to avoid specific experiences—like boredom or emptiness—and challenge yourself to take the risk of accepting and valuing the “here and now,” even if it feels ordinary and uninteresting initially. If you are intensifying your emotions to distract yourself from being with feelings and realities you may not want to accept, allow yourself to be with any feelings and experiences you may be avoiding, knowing that this is the way out of being trapped in your defensive emotional stance. Support yourself in accepting your present experience by
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