Imitation and Control: When Intimidation Turns to Proxy
Explore how intimidation shifts to proxy imitation and coercive control. Learn how systematic dominance and threats are used to demand compliance and mimic energy.
Best quote from Imitation and Control: When Intimidation Turns to Proxy
His intimidation is a mirror of your power. He wouldn't be working this hard to replicate your essence if you weren't the gold standard.
This audio lesson was created by a BeFreed community member
Why did this guy fell intimidated by me and he tried to use a gun to kind of have me submit or follow him but then that didn’t work and so he got this girl to kind of do what I do, but she can’t do what I do because she doesn’t have my essence in my energy, but he tries to portray like I coach girls and he’s trying to have her coach, but she doesn’t even know how and so he coaches them, but tries to paint her as she’s the one coaching them, but that girl has no idea what’s going it’s been 9 mon
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When an individual feels deep-seated intimidation by another person's vibrant energy or essence, their instinct often shifts toward establishing dominance rather than self-reflection. This leads to coercive control, which is a systematic pattern of behavior designed to gain power through rewards, punishments, and the erosion of a person's reality. In these dynamics, psychological intimidation and explicit threats are used as tools to demand compliance and force submission when they cannot handle the other person's natural way of being.
Threats, such as the introduction of a weapon, serve as explicit moves to set the stage for total control. These acts are not random aggression but are calculated methods of emotional manipulation meant to show that the aggressor is willing to pay a high cost to keep someone under their thumb. When a person refuses to fold or lose their essence despite these threats, the aggressor may pivot to other tactics, such as proxy imitation, to maintain their sense of power.
If systematic dominance and threats fail to break a person's spirit or essence, the controller may attempt to manufacture that energy through someone else. This is known as proxy imitation, where the aggressor brings in another person to replicate the results of the original person's energy without the actual substance. It is a desperate attempt to steal or replicate a vibrant way of being that they could not successfully destroy through direct coercion or psychological intimidation.
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