Visualisation

An inner image that reminds you where you end. Breath at the edge of your own skin. A closed door. A coat. Feet on the floor as a picture as well as a fact. Protection teaching that makes you frightened of every room is not protection. It is marketing.

Some people need a picture because a sentence is too thin on a loud day. That is allowed. If the picture becomes a ritual you are scared to skip, it has turned into fear.

The right image leaves you more able to look, not less. The wrong one makes you flinch at empty corners. I will not train you to flinch at empty corners.

Before: imagine your own outline, or a door you can shut after. During: if you feel yourself taking on their weather, feel your feet, look at the cards not the panic, remember their life is theirs. After: take the coat off. Choose something ordinary.

A picture that returns you to your skin. Kind, boring, repeatable. Then you do the close in the real room.

Battle images. Entities as a hobby. A visualisation so grand you never wash your hands. Fright sold as training.

You imagine a closed door after a friend's grief reading, then you actually leave the room and eat. The picture helped the nervous system. The sandwich finished the job.