Emotional Weight & Internal Burden
Understand how emotional weight builds and how to lighten it.
The Feeling of Carrying Life All at Once
It feels like carrying life all at once.
Past,
present,
responsibility,
possibility—
held together
without separation.
This sensation
is not weakness.
It is a precursor signal.
The system communicates capacity
by compressing experience.
Normalizing this
prevents panic.
You are not failing to cope.
You are registering load
accurately.
Recognition
is the first form
of relief.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Sometimes it feels like I'm carrying my entire life—past, present, and future—all at once. Is this normal?
It is a common symptom of "high loop velocity" paired with low integration capacity. When your Narrative & Identity system can't finish and file away experiences, they all stay "active" in your immediate awareness. This feeling of carrying "everything at once" is a structural signal that you have reached your capacity limits. Your architecture is no longer able to categorize and store information, so it collapses into a single, heavy "now".
If I'm at my capacity limit, what is the first step I should take?
Stop trying to "process" the whole load. Your Reward & Pursuit system will want to find a solution, but that just adds more loops. Instead, acknowledge the signal: "I am currently at capacity". This validation allows the Threat system to stop sounding the alarm. DojoWell recommends narrowing your focus to the single most "embodied" task in front of you, letting the rest of the life-load sit as "unintegrated data" for now.