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Not all pain pushes you away.
Some pain keeps pulling you back.

Not because it feels good.
But because it feels familiar.

The brain is constantly trying to predict what comes next. Familiar experiences, even painful ones, require less mental effort to process. They feel safer simply because they are known.

Over time, patterns become easier to repeat than to break. Not because you want to stay stuck, but because your nervous system prefers certainty over uncertainty.

This video explores the quiet psychological mechanism behind familiar pain, and why change can feel uncomfortable even when it’s right.

Sometimes the mind isn’t holding you back.

It’s holding onto what it already understands.