#forced me to process like 17 different things as a trauma in the span of 10 minutes which aas the best and worst fucking experience of my

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I haven't cried this much at a fic in a WHILE

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Obligation (Tendou x Reader) - Part 17

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Title: Obligation

Pairing: Mafia AU Tendou x F!Reader

Characters: Includes characters from both Shiratorizawa and Seijoh/Some OC background characters

Includes: Swearing, Guns, Knives, Excessive Violence, Blood, Torture, Threats of rape

Status: Complete

Word Count: 1.7k

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The kiss was gentle, tender and full. Tendou held you between his hands so delicately, acutely aware of the trauma both your mind and body had been through. The urge to crush you to him, to explore your mouth and your body was more intense than he expected, but the image of your poor bruised face was all he needed to subdue those desires. Honestly, he was just happy to have you safe and sound in his arms, even more so now that he had his lips against yours. Sooner than he would have liked, the kiss ended, the red-head moving has face away just far enough so he could look down into your eyes.

Any lingering doubt you'd had vanished, it was like the moment his lips landed on yours, you were once again grounded in reality, aware that the man holding you every so tenderly was real. Though that just raised more questions in your mind. Why was he kissing you now and holding you so close? Why did he look at you with such deliberate warmth? It was so far removed from the cool anger he had shown towards you that it left you feeling dizzy. Though that also have been a side effect of any number of ailments that currently plagued you. Between the drugging, the beating, lack of food and sleep and stress, you were feeling a little shaky. When the kiss ended you found yourself staring back up at him, a bewildered expression on your face.

"Why are you doing this?" You question him before your gaze faltered. It's not like you wouldn't be thrilled if he actually wanted you, but between the kiss and what he had said, you just felt your mind going in circles. "You don't have to force yourself to like me Tendou. Besides... aren't you and Nanako together?" For several seconds there was silence and when you finally got up the courage to look back at him, he looked irritated bordering on angry. You only held his gaze a moment before turning your face away.

"It's ok." It wasn't ok. You still liked him, the feelings you had developed for him hadn't started to fade and the thought of him with someone else hurt.

"I get it." You didn't. Not that you'd had a ton of interactions with her, but Nanako was not liked by anyone you had ever spoken with. The idea that someone as amazing as him, could love someone like her, it made your head ache.

"I'm sure I can talk to Kimura and get our arrangement... retracted." If it would make him happy, you would do it. You knew if you let the marriage happen, knowing there would never be a chance for happiness, you'd be miserable for the rest of your life. But more than that, he would be just as miserable and you couldn't stand it if he started to resent you more than he already did. Even as you said the words, a heavy silence hanging between the two of you, you felt a familiar ache throb in your heart. Deep down the desire to hold onto him, to keep him close, was so strong you almost wished you'd never said a thing. You still very much cared for him and a part of you hoped that over time he might have come to care for you too. Finally, you let out a shaky sigh and start to lean away from him so you can crawl out of his lap. Though before your hands can even touch the ground, you find yourself stuck, held fast in his arms as he pulled you back towards his chest. Tendou bowed his head, forehead resting against the top of your shoulder, unwilling to let you go.

"I need you to know, the things I said to you were all lies. I was angry and insecure and I took it out on you." You could feel him trembling against you as he began to explain what had happened. He told you everything, the things he had heard, the things he had thought, why he had thought them. As he spoke you found yourself giving into his embrace, your own arms wrapping around behind him, fingers running through his hair. "I'm so sorry Y/N. I don't expect you to forgive me and I wouldn't blame you if you decided to leave after all this--" He drew himself up, his large hands coming to rest on your face once again, his deep red eyes gazing down at you. The bruises on your face, the ones that littered your body, they were all his fault, yet he didn't want to surrender. If anything, now more than ever, he wanted to cling to you, to keep you by his side, to show you how deeply he cherished you. "but I don't want to lose you."

You remained quiet for several seconds, though to the anxious red-head before you, it felt like an eternity. You'd be lying if you said it didn't sting a little to know the truth, to find out he had thought you were capable of being so self-centered and greedy. However, knowing even a fraction of his past, how people still treated him even now, it made it that much easier to understand his actions. "You won't." His eyes widen at your words, a smile pulling across your lips. "To be honest, I don't want to give you up. I just, well at the time, I didn't think you--" "Well I do." He interrupted your unsteady thoughts and let out a deep sigh of relief, it felt like a weight had been lifted. "I care about you so much, I can't really put it into words but I suppose if I were to try..." Tendou paused, regarding you with a gaze brimming with adoration, his thumb pulled delicately across your bottom lip causing your lips to part. "I love you."

Once again, you sat in silence, staring up at him wide eyed. It took your mind a little longer than normal to process what he had said. In the span of a few minutes you found out that, not only did he not hate your guts, but that he liked- no, he loved you. Without realizing it, tears had started to pool in your eyes, spilling across your cheeks. It was only when Tendou's expression was clouded with worry that you realized what you were doing. "Tell me what's wrong, beautiful." He brushed your tears away with his thumbs, as you collected your thoughts together. Not that there was much to think about, you'd liked him from the first moment you had met and that feeling had only grown with each moment you had spent together.

"You love me?"

"Mhm, very much." The smile on your lips spread wide as you let yourself cry a little more. You knew this wasn't a dream but hearing him confess his love to you sure made it felt like one. "Satori--" You spoke his name softly as you leaned up, using your grip at the back of his neck to pull him down. "I love you too." You whisper your own confession against his lips then close before closing the distance.

This kiss was different than the first, it felt more heated and intimate, perhaps a side-effect of your mutual confessions. His tongue slid across your lips, and without hesitation you let him in. Your fingers twined in his hair while your other hand laid flat against his back, using the leverage to pull yourself up and against him. Tendou couldn't help the moan that slipped from his throat, your body now flush against his. When the two of you finally parted, lips red and swollen, chests heaving as you catch your breath, it took every ounce of his resolve to stop. If not for the deep purple marks marring your pretty face, he wasn't confident he could have stopped. Though if that hadn't been enough, that fact that he could feel you wobbling in his arms, along with the dark circles around your eyes, well that was enough to show that you were more or less running on fumes and adrenaline.

"My sweet girl, let's get you back into bed. You need to rest up and get better so we can go on a date."

"A date?" You squeaked out the question as he lifts you into his arms and stands.

"Mhm, so you better start thinking about what you'd like to do."

Tendou crossed the room and placed you carefully onto the bed. "Ok." You nod, watching him as he straightens up. He offers you more smile before turning to leave, though a tug at the bottom on his shirt had him glancing over his shoulder. "Don't go..." There was a small tremor in your voice, hints of fear in your eyes, in that moment he would have done anything you'd asked to make that frightened expression disappear. "Hey now, don't worry. I won't go anywhere princess." He spins around, crouching beside the bed while his hand smooths your hair back. That wasn't enough, you needed him closer, needed to be in his arms and to feel his warmth. "Hold me?" Your request catches him a little off-guard but he happily concedes. He quickly toed off his shoes and crawled onto the bed, pulling you into his chest as his arms wrap around you. He rubbed slow circles against your back, his touch was gentle, easing your mind as you relaxed into the bed, eyes growing heavier with each passing moment. As you started to drift off a question strays into your thoughts and in your half-asleep state, you couldn't help but ask it.

"Satori."

"Hm?"

"Is this a guest room?"

"No."

"So it belongs to someone?"

"Mhm."

"Who?"

"Me."

With each question your words grew more and more mumbled until finally, the only answer you gave was a hum of acknowledgement. Tendou let out a happy sigh, tilting his slightly so he could rest his cheek against the top of your head. Before he knew it, his own breathing had slowed and he too drifted off, feelings of contentment and bliss washing over him.

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Why The Monks And Nuns Are The Way They Are — Part 1

I hope you are happy and healthy and enjoying what seems to be a bit of recent improvement in conditions. If we want our conditions to improve more consistently in the future, taking some tips from the monks and nuns will be very helpful. How do you feel about maintaining confidence and security that enable you to always look at life on Earth as a friend that you are traveling with, and never as a threat to be defended against? How do you like the idea of having an internally generated sense of well-being and happiness that is immune to assault by external circumstances? How about the notion of being a consistently kind and caring person to yourself as well as others — and eliminating doubt, fear, compulsive behavior, guilt, envy/jealousy, and anger from your life?

Yep! That all sounds good to me too. That’s why I think the two chapters from the book Reincarnation Through Common Sense that is entitled, “Why The Monks And Nuns Are The Way They Are — Parts 1 and 2” contain some of the most important things I have ever observed and written about. These chapters total 17 pages and there are another 8 pages about similarities between the system in southeast Asia and the system from Tibet. But with due respect to the short attention span world that we live in, I will post excerpts that contain only @ 1000 words. The first of these is below. The second will follow next week. If you are interested in the rest, it can be found in the book. More party-heavy, less esoteric excerpts from all three books will appear online in the following weeks.

I am damn sure not going to become a monk and I doubt that anyone who reads this is going to become a monk or nun either. But there are a lot of things monks and nuns do full-time that, if adopted even very part-time by us regular humans, can turn a hellish life into a decent one and a decent life into a more heavenly one.

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Why The Monks And Nuns Are The Way They Are — Part 1

THE BIG BRAIN THING

“In the cultivation of the mind, our emphasis should not be on concentration, but on attention. Concentration is a process of forcing the mind to narrow down to a point, whereas attention is without frontiers.” J. Krishnamurti

The locals visit our Temple often. Some come on to the grounds screaming, crying, angry, depressed, or otherwise agitated. After a half-hour of talking with our Wisdom Professionals, the formerly forlorn usually leave smiling. Why do so many people come here to see the robe wearers, and why do all these visitors leave feeling so much better than they did upon arrival? Why are the residents of this Temple so much fun to be around? What makes the Monks and Nuns who they are? There must be some reasons I’ll never know, but a few are obvious.

The first is The Big Brain thing, and the team spirit it entails. The second is reincarnation — but this is certainly not the kind of reincarnation you are used to hearing about. These two factors meet at so many crossroads that it can often be hard to separate them, but let’s try to talk about one at a time, beginning with The Big Brain thing.

Everybody’s got a brain and a mind. Many people consider these to be different words for the same thing. Technically, the brain is just a biological organ while the mind is something deeper and more inclusive. But in case it makes you more comfortable to do so, we will use these words interchangeably here. It won’t hurt anything. The words soul or spirit might be more accurate, and consciousness is actually what we’re talking about — but some folks think of these terms as abstractions. We can use the more familiar words “mind” and “brain” for now. Many people seem to find those terms more familiar and easier to understand.

It is widely known that any human uses only a small percentage of his or her mind/brain at any given time. Exactly how much gets used and what those percentages pay attention to having always been very important matters.

The Monks and Nuns believe that each individual carries a deep responsibility to focus the greatest possible percentage of their mental facility on the best, kindest, most loving, and most wisdom-heavy attitudes and functions they can produce. Fulfilling this responsibility is not optional but mandatory for them, as it probably should be for all of us. They recognize this responsibility as a necessity because it affects individual, familial, societal, and planetary relationships — as well as our survival as individuals and as a species.

Directing the use of our minds toward constructive positive ends is not an esoteric or saintly activity to be practiced only by cloistered Wisdom Professionals. It is a very practical and logical activity that can influence every human’s personal life. Material and emotional satisfaction are most comfortably born from a base of mental satisfaction. Happy and compassionate people feel prosperous, regardless of financial income. They don’t often steal from or kill each other.

Whether conscious of it or not, we always think of an action before we do it. There are big advantages to thinking consciously. The residents here know that any action should be avoided if it doesn’t help and that blind emotions bubbling up unrecognized from subconscious depths lead many folks into destructive actions. There are no blind emotions here. By quieting their own mental turbulence, these robed folks clearly see what they are thinking, and then steer it. Everything they do is done on purpose. Nothing gets away from them.

The sub/unconscious type of thought, and the actions resulting from it, are usually fueled by instinctive reactions or habitually programmed mental-reflex reactions. These are all too often based on the memory of past trauma or fear of the unknown future.

The most basic sub/unconscious thoughts are survival instincts and callous self-interest — animal reflexes. All of us live partially under the direction of such instincts. Our DNA has carried these instincts since caveman days. They are a physiological part of us. They cannot immediately be erased, but with proper attention, the nastier parts can be transcended.

Our subconscious minds have inherited yet another batch of characteristics and instincts through the training and information we have been given by schools, churches, parents, governments, TV/media, and so on. These are the conditioned reflexes, the behavioral patterns we have observed and absorbed since birth.

These biological and historical patterns coexist as what can be called “the little brain.” A lot of human actions can more accurately be called knee jerk reactions. The subconscious mind has such an entrenched pre-recorded program of how-to-be and what-to-do in it that we often react to situations without giving any thought at all to our reaction. Many people spend most of their lives controlled by mental patterns that they are not even aware of.

But we have all floated into The Big Brain Thing on occasion. When you and a lover feel like one body, when you feel your child’s pain as if it is your own, when you display “superhuman” physical strength/perseverance/clarity of thought in an emergency situation — at these times we go beyond so-called normal human parameters of feeling and function. We wander semi-consciously into Big Brain mode.

The Monks and Nuns live there. Their conscious focus is on the mind and life that we all share in our involuntary coexistence with all other creatures — animal, human, and divine. They are of the opinion that the similarities and relationships between us all are more deserving of attention than the differences. They believe that the mutually beneficial goals that this Big Brained point of view dictates outweigh personal goals in importance.

Oddly enough, it often turns out that personal goals are much more easily attained when universal goals are given priority!

The concept that all of humanity shares a mutual existence and sort of a universal mind containing great power that properly trained individuals can tap into, somewhat resembles Carl Jung’s Collective Unconscious theory — except with the Temple folks it is conscious, the idea had already been around for several thousand years before the great Mr. Jung was born, and it is considered fact, not theory.

The drop/ocean metaphor is often used to explain it. Most of us think of ourselves as an individual drop of humanity. The people here in the Temple think of themselves as an integral part of a vast ocean that contains all living things. Both views have some truth in them. This “ocean attitude” may seem a little esoteric or even a bit weird to many of us, but it has advantages. All individual problems and personal pains recede somewhat when you pay attention to the bigger picture. The freedom and security that the power of an all-inclusive ocean offers is much greater than the freedom and security available to a single drop of water, or a singular human.

Like most of us, the Temple residents have good intentions. But they are more committed and loyal to those intentions than most of us are to ours. They make that commitment functional by donating their motivation for achievement toward improving life for all of their fellow-creatures, as well as for themselves. They constantly work on improving their little drop (self), but that process is always based on how their drop can become a better drop in order to become part of a better ocean (how improving their lives can improve all lives). They are dancing on their own legs, but a much bigger force than any individual is always playing the tune. All ways.

To put it another way, these Wisdom Professionals have trained their little brains very thoroughly in the concern for all little brains. This keeps them tuned to the same wavelength as that bigger force that both contains and is concerned with the well being of all the little brains — The Big Brain. They have, through dedication and strong effort, actually become a conscious cell in and therefore a bit of a co-creating partner with The Big Brain. Call it God, or Dharma, or The Force, or the Collective Unconscious, or the Unified Field. Whatever you would call an all-inclusive divine resource, they are now part of it. Perhaps we all are, anyway! But they are aware enough of their inclusion in the bigger system, and practiced enough in that system’s processes, to be able to direct themselves to coordinate with it. They consistently, consciously practice moving their minds in an internal direction that benefits everything external as much as possible. Loyalties and actions are at least as concerned with the ocean at large as they are with their own individual drop. This affiliation with the Big Brain governs the lives of the Nuns and Monks and all the choices they make. It directs them as surely as any commander directs his or her troops.

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Doug “Ten” Rose may be the biggest smartass as well as one of the most entertaining survivors of the hitchhiking adventurers that used to cover America’s highways. He is the author of the books Fearless Puppy on American Road and Reincarnation Through Common Sense, has survived heroin addiction and death, and is a graduate of over a hundred thousand miles of travel without ever driving a car, owning a phone, or having a bank account.

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Is Suppressing Emotions Bad For You? Jocko Willink Vs. Science

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Is Suppressing Emotions Bad For You? Jocko Willink Vs. Science

Should a man suppress his emotions? More precisely, should he contract his (facial) muscles to avoid displaying an acute emotion he has judged as bad in order not to look hurt, angry, sad, afraid, excited, exhausted, disdainful, or intimidated?

Science Vs. Experience

According to the scientific literature, suppressing emotions is a maladaptive emotion regulation strategy. It is linked to anxiety and depression (Schäfer et al., 2017) and impairs well-being (John & Gross, 2004), cognitive functioning (Richards & Gross, 2000), and relationship formation (Butler et al, 2003). Emotion suppression diminishes our happiness, makes us forget what was actually going on while we were stifling our emotion, and causes troubles connecting with other people on an authentic emotional level.

Furthermore, emotion suppression a relatively ineffective emotion regulation strategy because it starts regulating the emotion when it is already in full effect, which requires a lot of effort and often sets in too late (Sheppes & Gross, 2011).

Have you ever tried to suppress your nervousness when you were really nervous? Emotion suppression upsets the body with a stress response (Gross, 1998), including increased activation in the amygdala and sympathetic nervous system (Cheng et al., 2009). This amplifies the emotional reaction. The more we fight being nervous, the more nervous we get.

Another major problem of emotion suppression is that it focuses the mind on a negative emotion. By suppressing a feeling of anger, we start worrying about feeling angry. This attaches us to the emotion and heats up our mind. In addition, we start tensing our muscles, which costs energy.

Still, there seems to be something valuable in stoically forcing the body to express rational pride rather than irrational emotions—staying cool in the face of adversity. A real man does not get angry and a real man does not cry, right? In the video below, Jocko Willink and Echo Charles discuss the warrior’s approach to emotional self-control.

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God, I love this clip (pardon my emotional expression). Here are the key points:

Don’t express negative emotions by complaining or making excuses—it’s a weakness.

Separate your feelings from your behavior: act like a winner, no matter how you feel.

Don’t react emotionally and don’t let your emotions out on other people.

Don’t lay your cards on the table by letting other people see how you feel.

In cases of deep grief or severe trauma, you have to express your emotions to restore mental health.

In everyday life, stifle your emotions: by keeping them inside, you learn to manage them.

According to the scientific evidence, following this Machiavellian advice of not only verbal but also muscular emotion suppression can make us anxious and depressed. Moreover, does stifling our emotions not stifle us altogether? Does it not turn us into slaves of our frontal cortex, slaves of our overthinking mind, slaves of our self-inhibition?

For Jocko, the discipline to suppress emotions is a matter of freedom. But what about the courage to express emotions—is this not a form of freedom, too? Shouting out our hatred, punching out our anger, crying out our sadness, shaking out our fear, and dancing out our joy: some people experience emotional expression as supreme self-liberation.

Do Your True Will!

The Mindcoolness approach to emotion regulation is, as always, doing your True Will, which can mean one of three things:

Emotion suppression is one of your core values because you want to appear masculinely stoic at all costs. (Be aware that this may be an ego issue.)

Emotion expression is one of your core values because you want to appear uninhibitedly authentic at all costs. (Be aware that this may weaken your will.)

Emotion suppression/expression is merely a tool to do whatever is in line with your core values. (This is what I will discuss further below.)

Emotion suppression, even though not optimal for your bodymind health, can be useful in competitive situations: If you get knocked out in a fight because you showed pain or fear, you probably failed to do your True Will. If you lose a million dollars in a poker game because you showed excitement or worry, you probably failed to do your True Will. If you did not close a business deal because you showed anger or disdain, you probably failed to do your True Will.

Although stifling your emotions can be necessary in heated situations as a short-term solution to achieve your goal, other situations may afford you to express your emotions, say, by creatively expressing your inner life in an artistic way, by letting off steam on your heavy bag at home, or by being delighted to see your girl again after three months. However, only if your default first response is spontaneous emotion suppression can you choose whether ensuing suppression or expression is more useful—and more true to your will—in your specific situation.

Healthier Stifling

To suppress your emotions in a healthier manner, consider it a pragmatic self-control exercise, keep it brief, and bundle it with adaptive emotion regulation strategies: learn to accept whatever emotions come up, learn to reappraise emotional situations, and learn to redirect your attention to solving the problem at hand. Hardening yourself through deliberate exposure to emotionally challenging situations (facing fears, etc.) helps, too.

If you judge an emotion as bad, you can even learn to become aware of your judging consciousness and accept the judgment itself as a whim of your mind. And if you separate your feelings from your behavior to do what you truly want to do, you can learn to focus less on the emotions and more on what to do next—taking action trumps worrying about emotions.

If you find yourself in a situation where you must stifle your anger to complete your mission, consider that bottling up your anger for a while conserves it, which enables you to meditate on it later and to ultimately attain greater acceptance. You can tell yourself that it strengthens your emotional immune system, but ensure that your expressive stifling is deliberate, strategic, purposeful—not reactive, impulsive, compulsive.

Also, beware of stifling muscle contractions becoming habitual patterns of impulsive reaction, because chronic emotion suppression is both mentally and physically debilitating. The line between stoic self-mastery and neurotic self-inhibition is alarmingly thin.

Now, finally, does a real man cry? Only if he truly wants to; so probably not. But maybe his life has taught him that crying can be a valuable tool for self-liberation or for communicating empathy: who are we to judge if we do not know his True Will? And does a real man get angry? Only if he truly wants to; so probably not. But maybe his life has taught him that anger is a valuable tool for self-expression or asserting himself: who are we to judge if we do not know his True Will?

This was me some years ago—practicing catharsis, which I learned is better for boosting testosterone than for managing aggression.

The Studies

Butler EA, Egloff B, Wilhelm FH, Smith NC, Erickson EA, Gross JJ (2003). The social consequences of expressive suppression. Emotion 3(1), pp. 48-67, doi: 10.1037/1528-3542.3.1.48.

Cheng L, Yuan JJ, He YY, Li H (2009). Emotion Regulation Strategies: Cognitive Reappraisal Is More Effective than Expressive Suppression. Advances in Psychological Science 17(4), pp. 730-735, doi: N/A.

Gross JJ (1998). Antecedent- and response-focused emotion regulation: divergent consequences for experience, expression, and physiology. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 74(1), pp. 224-237, doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.74.1.224.

John OP, Gross JJ (2004). Healthy and unhealthy emotion regulation: personality processes, individual differences, and life span development. Journal of Personality 72(6), pp. 1301-1333, doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2004.00298.x.

Richards JM, Gross JJ (2000). Emotion regulation and memory: the cognitive costs of keeping one’s cool. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 79(3), pp. 410-424, doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.79.3.410.

Schäfer JÖ, Naumann E, Holmes EA, Tuschen-Caffier B, Samson AC (2017). Emotion Regulation Strategies in Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms in Youth: A Meta-Analytic Review. Journal of Youth and Adolescence 46(2), pp. 261-276, doi: 10.1007/s10964-016-0585-0.

Sheppes G, Gross JJ (2011). Is timing everything? Temporal considerations in emotion regulation. Personality and Social Psychology Review 15(4), pp. 319-331, doi: 10.1177/1088868310395778.

Further Reading

Willpower Condensed: Master Self-Discipline to Do Your True Will

How Scientists Measure Emotion Regulation

Should a Man Listen to His Emotions?

How Anger Arises in the Body

Introduction to Mindcoolness

Should You Use Willpower to Deal With Anxiety?

The Path to Mindcoolness #8 – Principles Over Emotions

Jocko Willink on Willpower Fatigue