Freedom Dizziness
- Keren Levi-Faran
- Mar 3
- 2 min read
The quiet tremor that means you're still becoming
The Unnamed Tremor
You're folding laundry
Replying to a message
Smiling in a meeting
And then it stirs
A drop in your stomach
A tug in your chest
A quiet, disorienting question
Is this all there is
The world stays the same
But your sense of self blurs
Just enough to notice
That's not a crisis
That's a calling
The Anxiety That Awakens
In existential philosophy, Søren Kierkegaard called anxiety
The dizziness of freedom
Not a flaw in your system
But a signal of something deeply human
The tension between possibility and presence
It often rises when you confront truths you can't undo
That you're free to choose
That life ends
That meaning isn't handed to you
You must make it
Unlike clinical anxiety, which asks to be regulated
Existential anxiety asks to be respected
It doesn't want to fix
It wants witness
The Quiet Shift That Grounds
This isn't about spiraling
It's about pausing
When life no longer fits the shape you gave it
Something in you starts asking
What matters now
What can I no longer pretend fits me
Who am I without the scripts I've worn too well
These aren't signs that you're lost
They're proof that you've outgrown the map
Questions to Let In
When was the last time I felt that subtle shaking inside
What part of my life feels scripted, not chosen
If I stopped managing impressions
What would I do differently
What scares me most about freedom
What draws me to it
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom
Søren Kierkegaard
You don't need to calm the dizziness
Only stay long enough to hear what it's asking
Sometimes, it isn't fear
But freedom
Knocking beneath the shape of things you've outgrown
This isn't a moment to manage
It's a moment to meet
What feels like a tremor
Maybe the truth
Returning to its place in you
You're invited to sit with this shift
Download the practice
The Ground Beneath
And begin
Where your questions first start to move
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