Hi Everyone, Trying out this topic for those who could use help right now with emotional support. Perhaps the political climate and the climate climate are getting to you. Or perhaps you have a way of coping that others could benefit from hearing about.
Or perhaps you are intuitively sensitive, maybe very empathic, and feel like an emotional roller coaster trying to cope with a stressed out, sometimes distraught, and often chaotic collective conscience.
Or you struggle thinking about the suffering of those who are being marginalized these days, or victims of climate disasters. Or you are worried about your children' s futures. Whatever the problem, there likely are a few of you who can lend a sympathetic ear and/or even help with ways to ride the waves of stress.
At least once a day I read something in the press that makes me furious, sad, or terrified. What fears pop up for you? What sadness? And what really pisses you off? How do I cope? I have many ways, including just reading this site, and feeling the connection with all of you. Often I have my dog take me for a walk. I follow her cue and just hang outside, breathing in the air, immersing myself in nature. Or I read over the positive predictions. Breathe. Make a gratitude list. If all else fails, watch something really funny. Or go for a swim.
So how are you doing today? Feel free to let it rip.
There's no doubt in my mind that the recent eclipse and Mercury Retrograde stirred my stuff and wrecked havoc on communications in my world. For example, I lost years of work I had on a hard drive. I could just feel the nasty static of it lift and roll away the other day with a big whew. Life is really hard right now for so many. Maybe it's a matter of location and age, but I feel grateful for how kind life is to me right now. I'm really grateful that I have employment that allows me an opportunity to serve others. I keep pondering the Forum topic about personal change during this period of time and thinking about it. For the first time I'm entertaining the idea of aliens and not just dismissing it. For the first time I'm thinking about how primitive I am as a human being living in a world with other human beings. I'm also thinking a lot about how and why people are so polarized and what can be done to heal division. I know things are politically and environmentally awful right now, but I want to invest in hope.
I'm new and posted this last night under wrong topic. I meant to post here. I have been following this website for a few weeks, just reading and looking at what everyone is saying. I have had dreams, feelings and words out of no where telling me of what is about to happen or future events. I have felt different or strange. I have kept quite or not told people. I journal but am afraid to write what I hear because it might happen. I heard a voice last week say calm before the storm and thought florida. I refused to write it down in my journal. I was afraid what it might bring. I am looking for direction. What am I supposed to do with these feelings?
Hi Cbluefairy, welcome! And thank you for posting. You've raised two of the most common challenges intuitive people have-- dealing with scary premonitions and feeling different or strange. I hope it will help to join this community. You certainly won't feel different or strange here.
As for scary premonitions, that's something we've discussed in some classes, and there is a premonitions class coming up on December 4th in which we will talk about it. How they happen, what kinds we get, the good ones, the scary ones. What they mean. And how to deal with the scary ones so you are not living in perpetual anxiety.
I hope others can offer ideas for you in this forum. So glad you decided to join us.
Gracesinger, Everything you have said resonates with me. The shift in thinking about aliens, sensing that our minds are primitive, etc. I find myself thinking about how primitive we are, but I can't get my mind to advance.
I want to heal the divide but I don't know how. I feel the Republicans are clueless sheep following wounded greedy oligarchs. I feel sorry for them all for the awful karma they carry, but am also seething at the damage they've done to us all. I can't let anger drag me down, though. I go forest forest bathing everyday with my dog. Let the trees heal me.
By the time I was 40 it seemed like life had visited the most distressing challenges on my mother's five children. She sat on my back porch and marvelled at our ability to roll with the punches. She said that she had learned to trust the next generation to be able to have the tools they needed to demonstrate resilience in the face of adversity. I look at my daughter, nieces, and nephew and all of the young adults I encounter. They all seem so naive and vulnerable, but I see their strengths, too, and they need all of the love and help we can give them, because they're going to have to navigate such an uncertain future. We have to give them the gift of trust that they were born for this time and place to meet the challenges with tools we don't have. We got them this far. They'll dream up getting through the next leg in ways we can't imagine. That's not a cop out; it's a gift; it's hope. Jeanne you've shared the most lovely vision of community. An article in the latest issue of The Atlantic describes the iGeneration as a throw away generation, but look at the seventh generation at Standing Rock, the youth in the Black Lives Movement. They're an utterly lonely generation yearning for just one special friend and they're going to create loving communities. I see your vision and I believe. What a blessing you have given me through your sight. Blessings on you, dear heart!
Hi, Jeanne:
You spoke to exactly the thing I struggle with that is the worst: Rage at the damage being done to the country by lying, selfish, greedy oligarchs.
It doesn't do my health any good to seethe with rage, or imagine what I'd like to do with it. Fries the nervous system, in fact.
What has helped: Before I fall asleep, talking with my dead Grandfather about forgiveness. Requesting the angels of my better nature take this anger from me. Avoiding foods that 'heat the system' like hot spices. Getting out in nature and listening to the trees. Loving my cat up real good. Remembering that nature is remarkably resilient and will recover from our species.
The other thing I do is to watch the patterns of what is actually happening very carefully, and look down the road at the results.
I either heard or read this today--that in an upside down kind of way, the situation we're facing has had the enormous benefit of pulling us together. Resistance is NOT futile--it's giving birth to the new world. The crap we're going through as a species is the same terrifying squeeze through the birth canal that we each faced as infants. At the end of the long, hard squeeze is a new life.
What helps is looking for evidence of that life being born.
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Love this, RuneStoneOne. Thank you.
My family who treated me horribly after Trump was elected (they are huge Trump supporters) are in the middle of Hurricane Irma, and frankly, I don't even care what happens to them.
What can happen to cause someone like me, who I consider to be so compassionate and caring and loving, feel that way towards a family member?
It scares me how cold I feel in regards to them. Maybe I have a much larger shadow self than I want to admit.
My family who treated me horribly after Trump was elected (they are huge Trump supporters) are in the middle of Hurricane Irma, and frankly, I don't even care what happens to them.
What can happen to cause someone like me, who I consider to be so compassionate and caring and loving, feel that way towards a family member?
It scares me how cold I feel in regards to them. Maybe I have a much larger shadow self than I want to admit.
Maybe it's a survival mechanism and you're doing what you need to do to ensure your own self-protection and even survival.