What do you do with "stuff"?

[tavin]

I am not sure if this will "belong" here so redirect me if need be but scrolling thru I felt like it did so that's where I went lol. Last night a group of us went out to dinner (promise this will make sense the story teller in me just feels the need to set the stage). Once we were sat a couple, a grandmother, and a little boy sat in a booth nearby. Before I looked up I could feel the intense sadness and this weird sickening feeling that I usually only get when around addicts (does that happen to anyone else?) and I knew it was gonna be a rough one to ignore. While I have "came to terms" with the fact that sometimes I just simply know or feel things....I still struggle with trusting in these feelings. Ok so the night went on and the child was full of engery that was understandable all over the place and the parents kept trying to be involved with him (for lack of a better way to say that) you could feel his need to push them away which came out in tears and small yells of frustrations. They told him "everyone thinks you are bad you don't want that do you". All the while they themselves looked like a jittery bag of poop. In that moment I am assuming a uncle popped in (one of those I just know a spirit is there moments) and he just kept saying " he's not bad yall are and yall are gonna end up just like me ....dead and no one will care". It was all I had not to go hug that little boy and tell the adults at the table all my human self thought about them. I was apparently visible upset bc my husband quickly directed me out of the restaurant... Lol sometimes I think he knows me better than I know myself. I cried all the way home and when I walked in my house I couldn't do anything until lifhting a candle sending protective and loving engery to that little boy. I have been shaken by spirit before and in positions where I ignored them completely out of fear of what would happen if I walked up to someone and said hey did you know....blah blah blah. But this was intense and waking this morning I still can't shake it. So my question is what do you do with that?

[mikaya]

Oh tavin. I empathise. I don't consider myself psychic but I pick up on stuff, and s..t like you describe above makes me not want to be on this planet. Humans are so messed up -- they illustrate such painful levels of ignorance and cruelty. That said, i am here on this planet, and my presence can help others to learn to live in compassion. Sometimes I think there is no need to say or do anything -- there is much more going on than we think, and on some level all those people at that table were affected by your presence. In fact, saying something often doesn't help because then they just get defensive. The most powerful thing is to send them love and blessings. LOTS of love and blessings, even to the ones that are being abusive. Feel that love in your heart, let it flow out of you. And that is really all I can suggest . . . let that love arise in you and flow to them, knowing that on some other level, we are all magnificent beings created out of love, and these people will, in time and on some other levels, come to acknowledge that and honor it.

And perhaps also let yourself weep with the pain of it all. I think that weeping can be a powerfully cathartic act, that transmutes what we call negative energy.

[loonwitch]

Hi Tavin & Mikaya
Yes, I think that this is a good discussion to have on this board... first.. and I think you all know I don't have a problem moving things when they would fit better somewhere else - LOL

Interesting, Tavin, Empathy is part of one of the Clairs!  And empaths seem to have a very difficult row to hoe... it is important to understand that EVERYONE has STUFF... even the people with the cleanest homes, have STUFF.. we carry it with us, lifetimes of it in some cases.  And as you know, children are such open vessels of openness.  Our instinct is to protect them.

First and foremost - take the time to grieve and release the strain of having that experience.  There is no need for you to hold it, it is not yours to hold.  I like that you lit a candle and sent energy to that child!

May I suggest creating and carrying a talisman when you are going into public places where you may be affected by other energies in this way?  It will not diminish your ability, but it WILL keep you from having to leave early, and it will help you to focus on the moment YOU are in.

And I agree Mikaya - many humans are cruel - I feel it is a part of our evolution.  As we fight the things that we don't understand and maintain our egotistically belief that we are at the top of the intellectual and food chain in our bubble of existence, cruelty, sometimes as a result of sheer boredom may be the result.  That's just MHO.

Namaste

[tavin]

Thank you both for sharing some wisdoms on this. I took it to heart and it really did help. I think I had to step away in many ways to grieve this one lol. I shield myself when outside of my home but I think a tailsmen is next on my list for sure.

I agree with you both... The world is changing and here are so many that are fighting against that and it is coming out in so many negative ways. In that moment I was so overwhelmed with the reality of those thoughts that I was unable to form the words to "talk myself thru that." Maybe in some ways the lesson was one I needed to be reminded of.