Being a sensitive person can be a confusing, complicated thing in this still harsh world. It feels intuitively right to open, to feel, to enhearten our daily life, but the world is still vibrating at a more armored and edgy place. It is not yet attuned to the ways of the open heart. So what to do? We don't want to deaden our capacity to feel, but if we feel too much, we get run over by an often heartless world. I have found my best answer in three places:
Selective Attachment: carefully discerning between positive and negative individuals and environments, and only attaching to those people and places that can hold our tender heart safe.
Strong Energetic Boundaries: being physically and emotionally charged, so that we can more effectively repel unwelcome energies.
Conscious Armoring: learning how to put on armor when necessary to manage the world and difficult situations, and, consciously removing it when it is no longer needed.
If we cultivate these practices, we stand a much better chance of preserving our sensitivity. Once we lose it, we lose our connection to the moment altogether. Here's to a sensitive way of being! What a courageous path.
- An excerpt from 'Spiritual Graffiti'
7 comments:
I hope the yardstick used to measure the negatives and positives was a just one. Else one is under the false impression that the standards he or she has set is in fact the only right ones.
Armour? Like that has ever helped anyone , anytime.
Meer, we all can only hope, at best.
With hope being the most effective catalyst here, how is anything selective or how does it matter is not done in conscious.
Why are women exceeding thresholds of such complexity.
You're too intelligent for me to understand.
That's an assumption with mild prejudice. I am rather a temperamental thief of poetry.
An all-time armour will do. Conscious removal of armour might give room for an unwelcome blow right on the head :) phir kahan tukrrey chuntey phirein gy
All I know is I'm numb most of the times just because of holding onto my feelings for others, after being judged or used or manipulated quite a lot of times. This world is a mess and a brutal place where powerful is always smothering the weak. Being sensitive is surely a curse and if you are a good observer as well, you might end up as a non conventional kind of a person, never to be fit into this society.
I'm reading your posts since 2014 and that's my first comment ever because this is something that I want to talk about.
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