PONDER on THIS for Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 by Sonia Choquette in TRUE BALANCE
"Just as a closed heart causes problems, so does one that is too wide open. Such a heart causes people to be overly sensitive to the energy of those around them, so much so that they actually absorb other peoples' energy. This can be psychically and physically draining, especially when the energy is dissonant or angry. When you are overly empathic, the resonance you feel with others is non-selective. If someone is happy, you feel happy. If someone is miserable, you feel miserable. You are at the mercy of feeling whatever anyone else is feeling, whether you want to or not. It's as if you were a lighting rod in an electrical storm. If energy is being discharged, you attract it...
Though we may tell ourselves that absorbing another's hurt is kind and loving, in fact it is really an attempt to relieve our own discomfort. If we are loving, we realize that all of life's experiences, even the painful ones, need to be honored, and that we need to stay in our own energy field. We must not try to control outcomes or assume we even have a right to get involved. We all need our experiences in order to learn. If we attempt to tamper with those of others, even with the best of intentions, we may be setting them back on their path."
Sonia Choquette, in “True Balance”
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Though we may tell ourselves that absorbing another's hurt is kind and loving, in fact it is really an attempt to relieve our own discomfort. If we are loving, we realize that all of life's experiences, even the painful ones, need to be honored, and that we need to stay in our own energy field. We must not try to control outcomes or assume we even have a right to get involved. We all need our experiences in order to learn. If we attempt to tamper with those of others, even with the best of intentions, we may be setting them back on their path."
Sonia Choquette, in “True Balance”
For more information regarding this book visit Amazon.
A FREE service since its inception, "Ponder on This" benefits subscribers, authors, and publishers by including "links" to Amazon.com and other Web sites where subscribers can learn more about the book being quoted, and also purchase it. In all instances these links are provided as a convenience, and do NOT generate any type of compensation for Pondercentral.
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