The Pattern of Short Relief

This is the "Pattern of Short Relief." Your Threat & Safety system prioritizes immediate comfort over long-term coherence. When you are in a high-trigger state, any relief—even if brief—feels like a survival necessity. Pattern recognition is the tool that breaks this cycle. When you see the "chase" as a repeating pattern that never leads to a landing, the allure of the short relief begins to fade.

It moves the behavior from the "automated" to the "evaluated." Once you recognize that the relief always fades quickly, the Reward system begins to lose interest in the chase. You start to see the "short relief" as a structural trap rather than a solution. This realization allows you to tolerate the initial discomfort of an open loop until you can find a more stable, high-density form of completion.