Gotta ask

jackspark · Gotta ask

My Emotional Guidance System works very well. I always know, for me, what is true or the moment when I have "remembered" something. If I tear up, this comes from deep inside around don tien (you martial artists), and experience uncontrollable energy...........I KNOW. This event takes place in seconds and is not associated with sadness, pain or suffering. On the contrary it seems only associated with the ah ha moments.

Question is: How do you know something is right FOR YOU? Do you experience physical symptoms? This has been buggin me for a while and need to see how others recognize the remembrance of who they are.

Erin, I would not be asking this question if it weren't for you; you might be one of those pivital people

I've had my fair share and recognizing them is fun

OK, back to changing my sheets...........

bit

Was your aha moment one that warrented changing ones sheets? Sorry. Just trying to help you get your sheet together.
My aha's feel like that puzzle piece (not the ones on the border, those are easy) that you find and it fits right in with a gentle push. Completes the picture. On the other hand, when things don't flow, it's much like trying to force the wrong puzzle piece into the picture, with much pressing, pounding and frustration. I know it's the wrong piece, but I want to rush the process instead of taking the time to find the correct piece. So yeah, it's almost a physical reaction...easy, piiesy or pound and pout. I've gotten better at going with the flow. It may not take me where I thought I wanted to go, but I end up in just the right place for me at the time. Better than going through life kicking and screaming, being dragged and leaving claw marks on my path.

whudson

jackspark

Sorry. Just trying to help you get your sheet together.

Been trying to do this for a while now......... Crap, I thought those claw marks were from the puppy last year.

PasoBaby_CarolU

Personally I have more "ah Shit!" moments then "aha" moments.

whisperingwindfarms

I find that my "aha" moments are the ones in which I realize that I did something that didn't feel right to start with - I ignored my guidance and did it anyway. Or I didn't line up with it.

Sometimes doing something you don't want to do is OK - you ask yourself which course feels better when sometimes neither feels so great. I'm thinking of a year ago July when my family wanted to go through and intervention with my Dad and I wanted nothing to do with it but not participating in some fashion felt just as bad as participating. That's a rock and a hard place moment that we all face.

So I decided which felt better (going to NC and participating) and then I spent the next 24 hours lining up with it and deciding to just show up and be who I am. It worked out better than I imagined.

Those times when it doesn't feel right and I forge ahead anyway - those are my "Oh SH*T" moments. I learn from them though and it's getting easier and easier to feel those coming and dance a little sidestep.

What feels right to me is physical and emotional - physically I feel either relaxation/calmness or good anticipation and emotionally I feel relief.

jackspark

I only tear up when I have discovered something good never at an oh shit moment. Ya know, when you find a puzzle piece like Bit said........

These moments are coming quite frequently right now. Must be a steep learning curve time for mind, body and soul.

whudson

Yup..I tear up too...but not for the Oh shit moments...more for the I don't undrtstand why I am tearing up moments..I'm pretty soft these days.

jackspark

bit

Not related, ONE.

whudson

Nancy we are 1

I think there is a guidance system..the one that feels right and the one that feels wrong....

jackspark

Hearin ya

jackspark

Thinkin about ya Wanda and feeling your aha moment. I know you'll visit this spirit space so just a reminder that 'we' care about what happens to you. Kinda tearin up thinkin about what you are facing.....

whudson

Way to go Nancy

...feeling a little alone in you tears? Well now ya got a buddy

Wow, I read that and out they came...deep breath and another.

I'm doin good Nancy...well, on the most part anyway. Thank-you. I'm still here and read most of the topics. Don't feel like posting much for the moment but I'll get over that.

Something cool though, I've been doing self hypnosis to help me stay a non-smoker

Pretty interesting.

appellativo

Nancy I experience mine just in the same way as you do yours! In addition description wise, it's like a tingling or surge of energy and excitement. I get so excited but in a serene sort of way. I guess, joyful. I want to share it but it's soooo hard because so few people would understand, it seems!

jackspark

whudson

whisperingwindfarms

Oh my. I tear up when I see an ambulance or fire truck go past me. Why? Well I think it's because 1. people need help and are suffering, and 2. other people are risking their lives to help them. Gets me every time.

A little OT but still I know where that place is because that's where this comes from.

Carol told me a long time ago that whenever I cry, it's just the Universe washing my windows.

jackspark

Have any of you been called an Empath? I answered yes to 6 of those questions. I'd like to look into this.....
http://www.drjudithorloff.com/Free-Articles/emotional-empath-EF.htm

appellativo

I've got seven of them. How interesting! I tend to clam up until I can't stand it anymore then I explode. I see my 'explosions' as my problem, my way of dealing, my defense. Others see it as a personal attack, which is not how i mean it (but nonetheless it comes across to them like that.) I'm not sure how to find a happy ground.

I took the 'are you positive' quiz, and it was too hard. I am less positive with people in my immediate family. They disappoint me too frequently on the same issues at times and I can't say that I retain my composure. But my friends acquaintences and coworkers all think I'm a saint. I tend to be consistently understanding and supportive of people that I don't depend on or am not 'stuck with.' What is that?

I'm not sure if it's realistic or necessary to 'change' this pattern. Is it reasonable to be totally okay with everything all the time? Hmmm things to think about.

appellativo

Ha, her book Second Sight is one that I picked up at a clearance book sale a while back. Guess I'll have to read it now.....

PasoBaby_CarolU

jackspark

whudson

First off, I am an empath...Said yes to 5 or 6.

jackspark

Are you sure WE are not just ONE person?

PasoBaby_CarolU

I'm not.

I did get 8 out of 9 on the Positive Energy quiz.

jackspark

7 on the positive energy....... I did find it really hard. I wanted an answer between yes and no

appellativo

carol I couldnt find the original post you quoted about about angst sucking sponges. can you direct me? I dont' get it and I cant stand not getting it LOL

PasoBaby_CarolU

It's in the second paragraph from the page on empathy...

Hute

I liked the part about taking your own car to social gatherings all the time because you want to pick when you go. I've always been very insistent on that and thought I was the only one! I will only climb into a car with someone I really trust will listen to me. Looks like I'm an empath too. I definitely go for the positive, laid back types...otherwise I get too wound up. I'm getting a lot better at dealing with it though.