
I Made the Decision. The Tension Came After.
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Dear Readers,
I finally made the decision.
The kind you go back and forth on. The one that stays open longer than you’d like. Once it was done, I expected relief — or at least closure.
Instead, I felt tense.
Not because I doubted the choice.
Not because I wanted to undo it.
The tension arrived after the deciding.
That caught me off guard.
We usually assume indecision is the stressful part. That once you choose, the nervous system relaxes. But this felt like the opposite — like the system was recalibrating after the fact.
Almost as if it had been bracing for uncertainty, and now needed time to adjust to commitment.
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Thinking through the logic of the decision didn’t help. I already trusted it. Re-explaining it to myself only kept the system activated.
What stood out was that the tension wasn’t cognitive. It was somatic. A background tightness that didn’t respond to reasoning.
Which raised a different question altogether — what actually tells the body that a decision is complete?
It’s strange how certainty doesn’t always signal completion at the nervous-system level.
Until next time,
Alex R

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