It is like when you are all set to get married; you have the date and the engagement ring on your finger. And then? You call it off?
Disengagement.
Well. That’s not it. Not hardly.
As defined, disengagement is the action or process of withdrawing. Yes. Withdrawing from involvement in a particular activity, situation, or group. The act of pulling away from someone or something.
We all know that life is full of challenges. And sometimes, those come in the form of a person, or people, or a situation.
The hardest one of those challenges can be people, I’d say. We encounter all sorts. Sometimes these people can be unkind, abusive, disrespectful, or just plain old bothersome.
We may get caught up in thinking we have to behave in the same way in order to defend ourselves. However, that will only lead us deeper into hurt and even more conflict.
Trying to find a solution can be trying.
Sometimes, we get reactive in a bad way. Responding to any situation by getting upset will only embed us more deeply in it.
We hear the next phrase all the time in these situations — that we should disengage. Only by disengaging, becoming still, and going within can we begin to see both causes and solutions.
I’ve read that we should self-assess. And if we do this, we will most likely find unprocessed emotions that we can finally deal with. The more we are able to do this, the less we will be bothered by the trouble, and the more we will be free to respond in a new way.
Sometimes I have a hard time seeing what those “unprocessed emotions” might be.
But if we can successfully do this, we will be able to find a new awareness. And we will slowly break free.
We all have heard this next thing, too: Whenever people come into our lives, they have come for a reason — to teach us something. Something about our lives. Something about ourselves.
Disengaging and looking within help us find the opportunity to change the situation from the inside out.
And try, we must.
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“Sometimes you have to disengage from the chaos to find peace.” — Olivia Patel
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“Disengaging from a toxic situation is not cowardice; it’s strength.” — Andrew Brooks
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“Sometimes the best way to connect is to disconnect.” — James Thompson
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The other way. The un-doing. The un-way.
