Is there a better (but often more painful) way to go through this life of ours, than to be wide open to everything it throws at you? I understand the vulnerability in this viewpoint, I know how much it can leave you susceptible to getting hurt, maybe over and again, but I truly believe the is the way forward. Part of my aforementioned ASD, is being perforated and extremely sensitive to everything the world offers. I feel EVERYTHING, but what’s more, I absorb so much too. The rises and falls of each day seep in through all these tiny cracks in me, and before I understand what’s happened, it’s 3/4 through a day and I’m 500% heavier than I was when I woke. The challenge in all this, is I don’t notice until I’m there, 500% heftier and dragging myself, worn out without knowing why.
Tyler, I'm an empath, so I do feel everything. But, I've learned vulnerability is a strength and living with a wide open heart is the only option to be fully alive. What has kept me sane, are good boundaries when I start to feel depleted and the spiritual practices that have taught me not to form attachments or define myself by what I'm feeling, but rather to allow things to move through in a flow. We're sensual beings; we were meant to feel and to feel fully, it's just a question of how do you remain wide open but still take care of yourself... 💗
OMG, Tyler.....I FELT this clear to my bones. You just described exactly how it feels to walk in my skin every day....that heaviness that comes. I definitely have come to understand that I'm highly empathic and intuitive and that a lot of "the things I carry" that create that heaviness is taking on other people's energy, especially when I'm not vigilant about staying grounded. It's become part of my daily life to use crystal energy for grounding, protection, and clearing my energy at the end of the day (my three are black tourmaline, hematite, and selenite). I also began working with energy healing some years ago, and as a Reiki Master, I have learned how to use energy for protection and restoration. But to your point of using the things you absorb in a creative way, channeling that feeling into a new form.... that's alchemy. You transmute the feeling into another container and it then flows through and out of you...so it can be released. I've done that, too. The urge to write often strikes when I'm carrying too much and need a place to overflow. I found myself writing a LOT this summer when tensions were so high and protests were happening from such a deep place of collective pain.
Anyway, this transmutation of energetic feeling.... it's important work the world needs now. Ha! Told you you're a lightworker, Tyler 😏
I feel this 100% and you put it in such a beautiful way. I'm also very sensitive to everything, down to the point where I can feel someone's energy change in the slightest of ways. The highs are the most beautiful colors you can imagine and the lows are the darkest shades. I also wouldn't change a thing – I see it as a superpower. How amazing is it to feel everything so very deeply?
I definitely feel all of this. When I was in the hospital for a few days about 6 years ago, one of the books I took with me was called If You Feel Too Much. It was one of the first times I think I realized that not everyone does feel things the way I do. It’s a blessing and a curse, but like you, I don’t know that I would change it. My feelings govern nearly everything that I do, so it’s hard to think about who I would be without such a big influence.
I am definitely one of those people. I really relate to that feeling of realizing that you are weighed down and filled with emotion and sometimes have no idea how you got there. But like you, I wouldn’t change it. I love the way I experience the world, when when it’s painful.
Tyler, I'm an empath, so I do feel everything. But, I've learned vulnerability is a strength and living with a wide open heart is the only option to be fully alive. What has kept me sane, are good boundaries when I start to feel depleted and the spiritual practices that have taught me not to form attachments or define myself by what I'm feeling, but rather to allow things to move through in a flow. We're sensual beings; we were meant to feel and to feel fully, it's just a question of how do you remain wide open but still take care of yourself... 💗
OMG, Tyler.....I FELT this clear to my bones. You just described exactly how it feels to walk in my skin every day....that heaviness that comes. I definitely have come to understand that I'm highly empathic and intuitive and that a lot of "the things I carry" that create that heaviness is taking on other people's energy, especially when I'm not vigilant about staying grounded. It's become part of my daily life to use crystal energy for grounding, protection, and clearing my energy at the end of the day (my three are black tourmaline, hematite, and selenite). I also began working with energy healing some years ago, and as a Reiki Master, I have learned how to use energy for protection and restoration. But to your point of using the things you absorb in a creative way, channeling that feeling into a new form.... that's alchemy. You transmute the feeling into another container and it then flows through and out of you...so it can be released. I've done that, too. The urge to write often strikes when I'm carrying too much and need a place to overflow. I found myself writing a LOT this summer when tensions were so high and protests were happening from such a deep place of collective pain.
Anyway, this transmutation of energetic feeling.... it's important work the world needs now. Ha! Told you you're a lightworker, Tyler 😏
I feel this 100% and you put it in such a beautiful way. I'm also very sensitive to everything, down to the point where I can feel someone's energy change in the slightest of ways. The highs are the most beautiful colors you can imagine and the lows are the darkest shades. I also wouldn't change a thing – I see it as a superpower. How amazing is it to feel everything so very deeply?
I definitely feel all of this. When I was in the hospital for a few days about 6 years ago, one of the books I took with me was called If You Feel Too Much. It was one of the first times I think I realized that not everyone does feel things the way I do. It’s a blessing and a curse, but like you, I don’t know that I would change it. My feelings govern nearly everything that I do, so it’s hard to think about who I would be without such a big influence.
I am definitely one of those people. I really relate to that feeling of realizing that you are weighed down and filled with emotion and sometimes have no idea how you got there. But like you, I wouldn’t change it. I love the way I experience the world, when when it’s painful.