If you’ve read anything I’ve ever written, one of my books or articles, or taken one of my courses or classes, you know that I speak from my heart and my personal experience. I use examples from my own life so you know that I know what it looks like to wake up every day and question just about everything.
Like:
- What’s my purpose?
- Is it still the same as it was yesterday?
- Will I always be this sensitive?
- Is the anxiety that still crops up for me from time to time an indicator that I will slide back into my old unhappy self?
Because I am human—spirit in physical form, that is—and because I am a Highly Sensitive Individual (HSI), I have my own individual set of abilities and sensitivities, experiences, and circumstances. There is nothing off the table when it comes to developing my conscious awareness of what’s going on for me. Writing for you is my way of shedding some light for myself and anyone else interested in walking the talk of being that spirit and this kind of human in physical form.
It’s really encouraging to be able to comment on the fact that I’m hearing more and more people saying things like, “You get to choose how you feel, how you react.” And yet, if you’re anything like me, at least the way I was for so long in my life, there was absolutely no way I felt I could choose how I felt.
My emotions led the way every step of the way. And no one ever suggested there could be a delineation between what I felt emotionally and how I experienced it energetically. There was no vocabulary back then, at least in my family-friends circle, for that type of discussion or that type of thinking.
So it’s a relief to hear that there’s a way out of victimhood (just watch Will Smith’s incredible video to see what I mean). All we have to do is stop blaming other people for our problems and start accepting responsibility for everything in our lives.
Yeah. Easier said than done.
Can You Really Choose How You Feel When Things Get F—ed Up
No one wants to feel that the things that happen, the experiences we have (the “bad” ones), our own fault. That we have manifested them. Nothing speaks louder than the voices of guilt and shame that follow us around and attack like rabid dogs.
That’s why the key to self-love, acceptance, and yes, responsibility, is changing our perspective on the very idea of FAULT. If I create my reality, that doesn’t mean things are necessarily my fault. All it means is that I get to make choices about who I am and how I proceed through my life. Being human is a constant Catch 22 of getting caught up in what’s happening around us.
Being human and knowing we are more than the physical body takes us beyond the blame-and-shame game into a level of consciousness that encourages us to look long and hard at HOW we choose to perceive that same world.
Emotion vs Energy
When we perceive something differently—whether it’s something or someone from the past, the present, or even potential future events—we are making a choice to FEEL differently about it. Then, instead of stopping there, with our emotional response, we can learn to level up into the energetic realm. How do these people, these events, feel vibrationally?
As soon as I experience frequency rather than emotion, I have removed the element of blame, shame, and fault and activated an energetic frequency in myself of Intuitive Logic.
Guided by Intuitive Logic is how I meet my days.
