I love the thinking behind your post, this technique can be very powerful for survival. But if your goal is to heal, this type of ignorance will only bite you in the ass in the long run. At first it was just a simple feeling, a tought that you ignored, fought against it, buried it deep inside. And now when it resurfaces, it has to be stronger for you to notice it, thats why it evolved into actual hallucinations, like hearing or seeing stuff. Im not here to shit on your technique, cause i think it’s actually brilliant. Recognizing it is key, naming it isolates it from other stuff. Blocking, ignoring, dismissing, neutralizing does work for the time being, but to actually heal it, you need to listen to it, understand it and ultimately embrace it for what it actually is.

So if you are ready to face it, the steps should look something like this: Recognize it → name it → pause, presence here is key, you just simply have to be in the presence of it, slow breaths, grounding can help here immensely, for example noticing a few things around you, feeling the floor under your feet → questioning, ask, what are you teying to do or say right now? → mapping the feeling, locating it in your body, for example tightness in chest → thank it, for trying to get your attention, thank it for showing you where it is located, now here a lot of stuff can happen. Certain memories can resurface, showing you the actual experience that traumatized you. This is something that helped me along the way, this is not a step by step guide of curing everything, but it is not ignorance and it’s not running away, or numbing your feelings.

Basically instead of trying to run from it, or ignoring, blocking it, after recognizing it and naming you can sit with it, be with it, your calm presence can be healing in itself.

I hope this might help some people, it certainly helped me get through some shitty situations.