When working with self-sabotage, I deal with tasks in order, from the easiest to the most sabotaged.
Because each next task I complete reduces the overall amount of stress, which makes it possible to close tasks faster and with less cost in total.
In addition, this strategy also helps reduce all future self-sabotage to a minimum (including the results of self-sabotage: pain, stress, crises, apathy, dissociation, etc.).
What to do if you have zero ideas about which actions you sabotage?
1. Look at pictures on pinterest or somewhere else and choose the ones that resonate the most.
2. Find the common patterns between them.
3. Complete several tasks in these directions and see if the state improves (to understand whether this direction is yours or not).
4. Repeat steps 1–3 until your self-understanding becomes as precise as possible.
If it is hard to understand what resonates with you, then work on restoring sensitivity:
1. Free up energy for the ability to feel – reduce stress.
For example, clean up your social circle, build a basic constructive routine: sleep before 23:00–00:00, 10k steps, etc.
2. Learn self-understanding through simpler desires and observe changes in the state (how much something fits / does not fit):
- what exactly do I want to eat? what foods do I like? what else have I not tried?
- when do I feel cold / hot?
- what lighting is most comfortable for me and in which scenarios?
- etc.
3. After that, move on to the more complex search described above.