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mercurianchild · 1 month

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hey love! what does a Plutonian chart look like? i'm not sure if I have one. how would that affect me?

Strong influence of Pluto…

What a strong Plutonian influence of Pluto in the chart could look like:

Pluto in the 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th house

Pluto aspecting inner planets (Mercury, Venus and Mars)

Pluto strongly aspecting the moon and ascendant, especially tight orbs

TW: mentions of s*x and death!!

Being Pluto dominant or having a strong influence of Pluto means that transformations, ego deaths, feelings of death and rebirth will accompany you for a life time. From my experience, this will be especially harsh in the childhood, youth and maybe in your early adult years. As time passes and as you get older, you might develop self care habits and safety mechanisms to protect yourself and your inner peace. Practising self love, meditation and mindfulness could be important to these individuals, as they could underestimate their beauty and their outstanding personality.

I’ve also seen that most traumatic events happen in the childhood, youth or early adulthood. But that’s just my observation.

Feelings of being deeply misunderstood rise while you are young and this feeling might follow you for years. Constantly searching for someone to understand your complex mind and depth of emotions. These people could benefit from searching for a valve to turn pain, bad experiences and any form of built up emotion into art. Be it writing, drawing, making music…

A reoccurring theme for Plutonians is sexuality. There may be blockages in regards of the own sexuality or experiencing it, but once they overcome this, they literally start to bloom in that area. This could turn into being hungry for power in general (or simply being turned on by overpowering the partner) or in being lascivious. They can be pretty much extreme and freaky in bed, actually. Being intimate never gets boring with them.

I know, this is what you read everywhere, but plutonic people are deeply magnetic and will catch your eye with their intense aura. Even if they are not seen as traditionally beautiful, these natives exude attractiveness and charisma. You just can’t ignore them and they will even stand out in a crowd. BUT! A lot of them don’t have the sex appeal like (for example) Megan Fox has. A lot of them have such an innocence to their appearance, but if you take a closer look you’ll see that they’re like fallen angels.

From my experience, plutonic people will have a deep connection to spirituality or the occult and a profound interest in psychology (for good and bad). They usually get into these things after really hard times in their life. They will attract jealousy and hate like flies, unfortunately and this could take a toll in their self esteem. Even strangers tend to be very competitive and mean to them in some way, because most people simply feel challenged by their presence.

Dear plutonic people,

you ALL are wonderful and you deserve so much more. I feel for every single one of you and I hope you will find true happiness and self acceptance. You’ve been through so much and you deserve the world for all that. I’m sending you all the love you might need right now or later! 🩶

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yourwitchmama · 1 year

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I have been communicating with spirits and feeling energy since I can remember. Because of this, I have undergone many forms of testing, both physical, neurological and psychological. I have no psychotic disorder or any history of hallucinations or delusions. I am a clairvoyant, empathic, telepathic, physical medium, and remote viewer. I believe that everyone can expand on their psychic abilities, so labels aren’t necessarily something you should stick to. I just want to explain my abilities in a clear way so you know what to expect. Clairvoyant means that I have “clear sight” and can see the future. I also experience visions (which are like intense daydreams). Being a physical medium, it is easy for me to communicate with the departed as well as other spirits. “Physical” means that it is easier for me to communicate with spirits in person, particularly when I’m in a spiritually active area. I can touch objects and feel where they have been and what energies they hold. Remote viewing is when I can see places and experience them without being there. It is different than astral protecting because I do not leave my body. My telepathy comes from knowing what someone says before they say it, including strangers. I can also “feel” what people are thinking. The empathic nature of it comes from me knowing how someone feels in depth, even when I can’t see them.

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magioffire · 1 year

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(cw for discussions of drugs/drug use)

@ crime/detective fiction writers, urban fantasy writers, writers who want to put fancy made up sci-fi or fantasy drugs into their homebrew world, writers who write characters who use drugs, and people who just need a good resource for learning about altered states of consciousness, ive got you.

i recently remembered two sites i used to frequent for researching psychoactive substances, and they continue to be useful, thorough resources to this day. i also have had a few people come to me over the past few months asking for such resources to help with their writing. i feel like i should share them with everyone! most people might not even find these websites in an average google search.

its hard enough being a writer and having a search history full of ....questionable google searches, all for the sake of research of course. the more taboo or specific the information, the harder it is to find reliable and non-biased sources of research. drugs are likely among the most difficult topc to find information on. where does a person need to go to learn about such things? make a deal wth an evil dark web wizard in exchange for forbidden drug knowledge???

wouldn't it be nice if you just already knew some free, safe, surface web websites to go to that would take you directly to the information you're looking for, saving you tons of time of scouring search engines for little crumbs of info?. well, your prayers you didnt even know you had have been answered. here you go:

erowid.org

ive used erowid as my go to for reading other peoples personal experiences with pyschoactive substances since i was a teenager. its not just a drug experience archive though, it also hosts plenty of scientific and historical articles (some very old and rare that would be pressed to find freely available in many other places on the internet) about pyschoactive substances and altered states of consciousness of all varieties. another great thing about erowid: it lists the LEGALITY of each substance it catalogues in many dfferent countres. erowid uses legal, academic and community sources to provide a much more well rounded view of the topics it hosts.

erowid catalogues personal experiences of real life people who have published their experiences to the site (located in erowid’s psychoactive experience vault). people have recorded their experiences using everything from coffee, to lsd, to cocaine, to 5-meo-dmt, to alcohol, to mad honey, to cough syrup.

it is a go to source if you need some insight into the mind of someone recalling the most intense mushrooom trip of their life, or if you are curious if anyone has actually even *tried* that one obscure drug you heard about in a movie once, or you need to know the hour-by-hour subjective effects of a certain drug. theres good experiences, bad experiences, spiritual experience, mundane experences. i highly recommend erowid for anyone looking for a more organic, personal, and much less clinical AND less criminalized view at the effects of psychoactive substances on minds and cultures.

https://psychonautwiki.org

pyschonautwiki will give you pretty much everything you need to know about every single psychoactive, ever, and its always being updated.

on any given page you will find information like: historical and cultural use of the drug, what drug class it belongs to, the pharmacological make up, common routes of administration, subjective and physiological effects ranked in terms of how frequently they occur and at what doses, what is considered a threshold dose, an average dose, a heavy dose, an overdose, and a lethal dose (all lethal doses are overdoses, but not all overdoses of every drug out there are lethal), and lots of safety info. this site goes very deep into recording the cognitive, sensory, psychological, emotional and physical effects of drugs.

its a super clean, easy to navigate site. i believe its most useful as a resource to writers who want to know how to portray a drug trip or drug abuse accurately down to the last detail -- as every drug creates a unique and entirely subjective effect. like erowid, this site’s collection of information expands beyond just substances: it also has information on other states of consciousness not induced by substances, including lucid dreaming, meditation, and near-death-experiences.

long gone are the days of portraying your character’s fever dreams or sci-f space drug trp as a parade of pink dancing elephants (unless, of course, thats exactly what your’e gong for. then by all means). now you dont have to do nearly as much guess work as to how a specific substance generally effects people, and get more creative ideas for how you can rattle your character’s psyche.

hopefully, these resources might prove helpful to find a no-bullshit attached resource with minimal anti-drug propaganda, and most importantly credible information about drugs and drug use. so people can research these things without ever actually getting involved in anything dangerous. they are also, obviously, good harm reduction resources, which is the original intention of these sites.

i will continue to add if i find more good safe websites!

disclaimer: these sites are intended to be used for educational and research purposes. do not try anything illegal or dangerous that may be recorded on these websites.

#writing resources #harm reduction #drugs #resources.#this seems like its comng out of the blue but i feel like with quite a few people in the rpc have characters #that use drugs in some shape or form #since lately i realized just how censored and sanitized most search engines have become #cant even find these sites most of the time unless youre looking for them #hopefully someone will find them useful!!#also if you dont like: block dont report thanks lol #drug use cw #long post #ooc.

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honeysuckle-venom · 7 months

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I've had a lot going on lately, psychologically, and I haven't been posting about 90% of it. I haven't been able to, I haven't had the words most of the time. I still don't. The last four days or so have been spent in a psychotic episode of astonishing intensity, one that feels more like our first break when we were 15 than almost anything since then. The whole summer has been very difficult, lots of trauma stuff and system stuff and psychosis stuff I thought I had put to rest coming up but coming up...differently, like the first time all over again instead of echoes? Idk how to explain it, my therapist had all sorts of good words for it in our session today but I was so psychotic I was only processing like 60% of what she was saying and I remember even less. I do know she said encouraging things about how every schizophrenic patient she's worked with has gone through this same process of temporarily getting much much better and tasting health for the first time and then having a significant recurrence of symptoms, and something about how the experience often mimics the first break/is like having the first break again for reasons I was too out of it to understand today but that are part of the healing process. So that was very comforting to hear, because my symptoms this weekend were honestly sort of terrifying.

But anyway. None of that was meant to be the original point of this post. I wanted to talk about how spiritually unprepared I feel for The High Holy Days. I mean, I always feel unprepared, I think everyone does, you're basically supposed to. If I'm remembering right that's even one of the phrases you say. But this year I have done less prep than any time in the last 5+ years. I just haven't been able to. I did manage to set aside one therapy session a few weeks ago to discuss my New Year's resolutions from last year and to what extent I've managed to stick to them, and to decide what ones I'm making this year, which is something really important that I do every year. I take my Rosh Hashanah resolutions very seriously and it's generally a real turning point in the year for me, they aren't the kind of casual resolutions a lot of people make in January like "I'm going to exercise," they tend to be significant decisions about how to live my life and treat myself and those around me. But besides that one therapy session and a tiny bit of contemplation on my own I haven't even tried to do the kind of spiritual inventory or teshuvah that I usually shoot for. And I'm trying to be okay with that. I spent this whole summer really struggling and the last few days psychotic and catatonic; I think Hashem understands that my priority has been to stay alive and that's pretty much all I've had the ability to do. But I'm still pretty much in survival mode and it sucks to be there just a few days before Rosh Hashanah. It's my favorite holiday and I haven't been able to think about it pretty much at all. I have plans to celebrate with friends both Friday and Sunday and intend to go to services Friday and Saturday, but I'm nervous that I won't be well enough for some or all of that. We'll see when we get there, I suppose. It's just a really bad feeling to know my favorite holiday is coming and normally I do a lot of internal and external work to prepare for it and I've done basically none of it and don't even feel that special "Rosh Hashanah is coming" feeling because I'm too busy being crazy. It just feels really sad and disappointing.

#text post #my post #idk my grandma's Rosh Hashanah care package arrived today #and instead of being excited i'm too crazy to even eat any of it bc food paranoia #and it's just...it's frustrating to be in this mental place when i want to be excited about the new year and stuff #and i'm nervous i won't be doing better by friday #i'm really hoping that like once it actually arrives and i eat some apples and honey and go to synagogue it'll help me feel better #but i just don't have it in me to do any spiritual reflection beforehand and i feel disappointed in myself bc of that #and i'm trying not to stress about it bc literally one of my resolutions for the past two years is being more gentle with myself #but it's just hard #jewish tag #elul tag

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rianafying · 2 months

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i feel like we don’t talk enough about what it feels like to love someone you know is not the one for you. like i fully know that you and i will never be compatible, or work, and i don’t even wish for us to work, because that would require at least one of us to change, and i know better than to wish for that. but in this moment, much more than i yearn for you, i love you. and i guess it’s like that with love. or with intense little crushes that feel like love. i wonder if the word crush was invented because it feels like being crushed underneath the weight of your desires. i wish i wished you desired me. but it’s so unlikely, i don’t want to waste my wishes on something so impossible. but i did. at 11:11 earlier today, i was walking home through the park and without thinking i wished for him. what a waste of a wish, and i take wishing very seriously. because i always wish for things more thoughtfully, and i never wish for other people. for example the last time i wished at 11:11, i wanted to wish for him but instead i wished for he strength to deal with however things turn out with him, best case scenario being he contacts me, worst case scenario being he blocks me. and this was a much better wish than the one i made today. actually it’s more than just a waste of a wish. it throws of the balance in my universe. i’ve been extremely spiritual and weird lately, and i take this stuff very seriously. signs and wishes. i just. i’m a little sad that’s all. most of the time i’m fine knowing that this is unrequited but once in a while, it just sucks, unprompted. it’s not like i learned something new, and that this new bit of information has changed my perspective. it’s the same old story, that is harder to swallow at night.

my costar says “Today you’re worried that you’re cutting yourself off from new experiences and retreating into yourself. But some bad company needs to be avoided. If other people don’t tend to your needs, can you step up for yourself?”

humans are more inclined to take risks after a car crash than after a series of psychological defeats. Slow down. Try not to reject every suggestion.

This month, you are ready to take time to regenerate, recover, and care for yourself. This is a commendable move for someone who either undervalues or overvalues what they have. Don't waste time.

The general theme of your life during this period is to learn to appreciate restrictions in your life for the structure they give you. There are many ways to let people back into your life. When you are matter-of-fact about who you are, the space between expectation and disappointment collapses. You will not fall apart right now. A few fragments might splinter off, but you'll remain whole. The deeper you seek, the more is your wonder excited. There is a space between action and reaction. In that expanse lies your power to choose a response.

Try stepping outside your comfort zone. Scaring away anyone who challenges you only reveals your possessiveness.

This month, you are ready to practice noticing signs of boredom and find ways to unplug that restore your strength. This is a commendable move for someone who will only settle for all or nothing. Know your worth.

This month, you are ready to take time to regenerate, recover, and care for yourself. This is a commendable move for someone who will only settle for all or nothing. Take time to improve your relationship to your self-esteem. Use this moment to streamline your aesthetic by getting rid of excess that no longer gives you pleasure.

You’re in a group, but you feel alone. No one seems to understand you. Maybe it's time to plant yourself somewhere new. Either way, don’t force yourself to stay in a situation that isn't feeding you.

Today you feel torn between the pressure to fit in and your love of unconventional relationships. It's good to challenge social expectations if that's what you need. Just make sure you're not doing that thing where you detach from people, and then start to believe that you're so different from everyone else. Discomfort and fear can be a signal that you're on the right track.

Your work this month is to dismantle your superiority complex. This is a big step for you, who believes every boundary was made to be broken. Stay feral.

Notice how what you think you lack makes you vulnerable.

Your vision has been clear regarding your romantic or creative life. There will be a chance opportunity that affects the fields of your natural talents. Try not to be too stubborn. Keep your eyes open.

This opportunity will see its beginnings in significant relationships where they meet with the ways you find joy. Keep an eye on projects you share with your partner, an affair, or a casual relationship becoming more serious.

Whether it’s fate or chance, now is the time to take advantage of anything that seems too good to be true.

wow this last bit is so on the nose, holy shit. i was kind of waiting for a solid sign or a push to reach out to him, this isn’t necessarily that push, but i’m definitely adding it to the list of small signs. i know he’s too good for me, yet he wanted me, yet he showed me kindness. you know, i don’t necessarily believe costar’s predictions because i don’t believe in future telling as a whole but i’ll be really happy if they’re right. i don’t want to take that leap, i have no faith. it’s too big of a jump to make. i have to be able to gauge how unrealistic it is. as cute as being delulu seems on tiktok, it’s pretty bad irl. especially when reality comes crashing down inevitably. there’s so much think about. is time running out? or do i need to be more patient. it’s always so difficult when dealing with lack of information, trying to read someone else’s mind. i have to remember it’s not about him. it’s not. it’s about my wants and needs, which will become bearable or fulfilled. i don’t want to chase someone. a love i have to beg for is not mine to keep. attention i have to fight for is not meant for me. whatever is meant for me, will not be so elusive.

as firmly as i believe that in this moment, there are times when i have doubts about the whole system. is there even such a things as meant to be, because that would mean believing in fate. who feeds fate, who influences fate. does fate think? does fate change its mind? is it weirdly too close to believing in god? as if god has anything to do with anything that happens to us. is everything random? this thought always scares me a little. i’m not my best self when u believe everything is random. but believing in fate gives it more structure, more harmony. even though it doesn’t change what happens. fate could be chaotic, and randomness could be organised, there is no way to know. what do i want and why do i want it? a lot of my recent wishes have come true. i wished to keep what i have, and for things to not get worse. things are not only not worse, they’re actually so much better? so hard to stomach the news. what i want is, for things to keep improving, not just stay where they are. slow and steady. i also want to not have so much worry in my heart. so much misery and restlessness. specifically, i want my health to improve, i want to have a clean room so i can work on my fashion collection and also have my friends over or to increase the chances of bringing my crush home, for dinner and drinks. i will be honest, i am trying to lose weight, but i’m trying to do it in a healthy way, like not starving myself, but it is hard to maintain the balance since i’m so much more familiar with spiralling rapidly into an eating disorder. i have these moments when i feel so ugly, and others when i feel pretty and they happen in a dizzyingly quick succession, but i rarely feel normal about the way i look. for the longest time it didn’t matter because i didn’t care about looking good. (even though it negatively affected my self esteem because i let myself go a little too much) but all of a sudden i do care. i want to be pretty. i want to be desirable to someone specific. which is so lame. because it’s like changing myself to be someone’s type, but so far what i’m changing is my literal health and wellbeing, fixing which is an objectively good thing to do, regardless of my reasons and intentions.

^all of that i wrote at 1am last night and now it is 2pm the next day. i’m less heartbroken more stressed about life and everything. whether im eating too much. also about my medication. one of my best friends just asked me if i wanted to go out for dinner tonight, and it’s a cheap place, but it felt like it wasn’t cheap enough? plus it’s all you can eat and i won’t be able to take advantage of that today as i’ve been trying to eat less lately. i should go on a day when im really hungry and actually want to eat a lot. also im broke, as always, so it’s hard to justify eating outside. i really need to get a job. omg now my friend wants to make dinner for me, i don’t deserve such kindness. i love my friends. there is good in the world. my faith has been restored.

it’s later in the day and i’m feeling angry and skeptical. maybe because i’m on a call w my dad. he’s literally so evil. so is my mother. now i’m just angry and worked up. it’s hard to be nice to them, it’s so unnatural, and it’s exhausting to be fake so they keep paying my tuition fees. anyway, yeah im bummed out. about a lot of things. i’m sick and im tired and im heartbroken, and i dont feel so good. i’ve been feeling pretty gross being covered in mucus all day, and also applying my meds and cling wrapping my limbs. my room isn’t getting cleaner from just wishing it. i have to actually do the cleaning. why can’t i be worthy of love and romance? why does it always end with me, alone in my room, scared of intimacy, wishing for a better life. it’s like i’m never happy, never content. how can i be? my body and brain hurt. my heart hurts. i like just one guy, after so long. and idek what i should do about it. if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. plus he’s so out of my league. like what am i even expecting will happen, it’s like having a crush on angelina jolie or something. entirely unrealistic. there is nothing there for me. i’m just so pissed at my parents actually. that is where all this negative energy is coming from. i just need to drink a lot of tea and gather my head. i wish i was perfect and my life was perfect and maybe this way, maybe my crush would want me back? idek him. i just like his face and energy and voice and vibe so far. i don’t know nearly enough about him but everything i do know has just been so good, like, how can someone be so perfect. and how could i be so far away from perfection.

it’s gonna be fine i’m gonna be fine. i was on the phone with a friend. another friend brought me dinner to my house. a delicious bowl of tofu and mushroom curry with rice. there is order and meaning to this universe. today was an emotional rollercoaster, but i’m going to be okay. hope has reentered the chat.

#personal #journal entry #the prettiest man in the world

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untitledsensei · 1 year

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There are three types of dreams

Everyone should know the different types and use it for spiritual growth

1. Dreams from Allah

These are true dreams and true visions that are from Allah. These include seeing things that later manifest in the future in 3D reality. They come with an intense feeling of knowing it was from Allah. These dreams include seeing prophets or witnessing the origins of creation as well as witnessing aspects in history. In my own experience I have noticed that this type of dreams come with a golden/yellow/orange hue in the air.

2. Dreams from the nafs (the soul)

These are psychological dreams that show you your inner self. Your unconscious mind, which is the root and foundation of your self. This includes your fears and traumas. These are dreams where the things you fear the most are happening in your dreams so that you may face the source of these fears which are often trauma related and left psychological and spiritual imprints on your soul. These dreams are profound tools we can use for mental, emotional and spiritual healing. These are those type of dreams that you may see reoccurring, where the same fear and trauma keeps happening in different settings. These dreams can sometimes be interpreted as nightmares where high levels of anxiety is felt. Their purpose is to helps resurface our fears so that we can face them by letting ourselves feel the emotions in our body (somatically) so that the emotion of fear/panic/despair can process and not be stuck in our body. What we have in our unconscious mind is what drives our impulses and our way of thinking/feeling/being. These dreams can oddly be in a underground/basement area, which represents the unconscious mind. The dreams from the nafs can also include regular random nonsense that seems meaningless.

3. Dreams from shaytan

These dreams are often mixed in with the dreams of the soul because one of the main tactics of the devil is to attack us through our fears and traumas. The shaytans tool is to hit us from places within ourselves that we are unaware of, the unconscious mind. Where him and his minions use whispers to influence us in how we understand reality and events of our life, especially those that were traumatic or that relate to our fears. These dreams can also be of lust and have succubus/incubus type of energy, where entities are attached to the light body and/or auric field, having the potential to become a full blown demonic possession starting as an entity attachment. Because the tactics of the devil is mainly through falsehood/illusions which purpose is to influence our belief - meaning what we believe to be true, these types of dreams that come from the devil is mostly mixed with the dreams of the nafs(soul). Since the nafs (soul) has different levels and aspects, the soul that is pure is the fitrah (the natural disposition) which everyone is born into. But as we grow and experience life the soul is tainted and prone to corruption. That is why the greatest jihad (war/strife) is against the nafs (soul, inner self) in order to return it to its original state. As we experience life we have an enemy in the unseen which is the devil with all his minions that through their whispers aim to influence the way we see and understand things (our perception). Ultimately, the devil has no power over us, but only calls us to falsehood/illusions using our own fears and traumas to get to us. That is why at the end of judgement day when everyone is at their final place and so many are blaming the devil for tricking them the devil replies:

وَقَالَ ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنُ لَمَّا قُضِىَ ٱلْأَمْرُ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ وَعَدَكُمْ وَعْدَ ٱلْحَقِّ وَوَعَدتُّكُمْ فَأَخْلَفْتُكُمْ ۖ وَمَا كَانَ لِىَ عَلَيْكُم مِّن سُلْطَـٰنٍ إِلَّآ أَن دَعَوْتُكُمْ فَٱسْتَجَبْتُمْ لِى ۖ فَلَا تَلُومُونِى وَلُومُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَكُم ۖ مَّآ أَنَا۠ بِمُصْرِخِكُمْ وَمَآ أَنتُم بِمُصْرِخِىَّ ۖ إِنِّى كَفَرْتُ بِمَآ أَشْرَكْتُمُونِ مِن قَبْلُ ۗ إِنَّ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌۭ

And Satan will say when the matter has been concluded, "Indeed, Allāh had promised you the promise of truth. And I promised you, but I betrayed you. But I had no authority over you except that I invited you, and you responded to me. So do not blame me; but blame yourselves. I cannot be called to your aid, nor can you be called to my aid. Indeed, I deny your association of me [with Allāh] before. Indeed, for the wrongdoers is a painful punishment." Surah Ibrahim: 22

Here shaytan says he only made دَعَوْتُكُمْ a call/invitation to us, and that is was we who responded. These are invitations that he makes through whispers, he use our own unconscious mind against us because he knows our creation better than us since he was there when we were created and throughout our whole existence. The unconscious mind is what drives our behaviour and impulses. And he absolutely does not have an upper hand at all, but it is Allahs design that must purify our inner self and guard ourselves through taqwa with the remembrance of Allah and The Quran (understanding the teachings in His Book).

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sapphicbookclub · 2 years

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Author Spotlight: Skye Von Triessen

We're very excited to bring a guest post from Skye Von Triessen, author of If It's Meant to Be. Read on to see what Skye has to say about self-love, and check out the Goodreads review page to see what our club members are thinking about this contemporary romance!

What is love? According to the Oxford dictionary, love is an intense feeling of deep affection. My definition of love is that love is a drug that drives our behaviors, which defines who we are as human beings and it is the most powerful drug known to man. Love comes in many different forms. The love a parent has for their child. The love of a partner. The love of a best friend. The love of relatives. The love of fans. But of all the kinds of love that one can experience, the most powerful to me is self-love.

According to the Behaviour Research Foundation, self-love is a state of appreciation for oneself that grows from actions that support our physical, psychological and spiritual growth. Self-love means having a high regard for your own well-being and happiness. Self-love means taking care of your own needs and not sacrificing your well-being to please others. Self-love means not settling for less than you deserve. I have no other definition because that definition sums it up perfectly. The most powerful drug is loving yourself. Loving one’s self leads to a mental state that allows you to survive in this world that can be very cruel by not allowing others to define who you are or how to make you feel. Loving yourself gives you the confidence to exist comfortably in the world without worrying about what others think of you.

As a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, there was a point in my life when I suffered from internal homophobia, meaning that I didn’t love myself. I remember crying and praying at the age of fifteen asking God to change me because I didn’t want to go to hell as I had learned I would based on my thoughts and attraction to women. This phobia followed me for years until one day I discovered the most powerful drug known to man. Self-love. Once I started loving and appreciating myself as I was, it was the most defining moment of my life. I became powerful and started living my best life. My state of mind had never been clearer than that moment when I started to not care about the negative opinions of a society this is designed to make us hate ourselves. I know it is easier said than done because hatred is like a virus that eats away at your soul and the worst kind of hatred is hating yourself. But if you put in the work, day by day you will self-actualize and reach the state of mind that allows you to love yourself.

The reason why I believe self-love is the most powerful kind of love is that if you don’t love yourself then you won’t believe that others love you. Your parents will love you and tell you every day but if when you look in the mirror, you don’t love the person looking back at you then you won’t feel the love they have for you. The same applies to the love of your friends, partner, or other relatives. No matter how much they tell you that they love you, you won’t feel it or believe it unless you love yourself.

In your journey to self-love, I want to share a few pointers that I came to realize during my own journey.

It’s okay not to be loved by everyone. Once you love yourself, you will attract the right people to love you.

You don’t need to seek validation or acceptance from people who hate you. They don’t matter because again the people that are meant to love you, will.

It’s okay to be different. Being different doesn’t mean you are less or unworthy of love. It simply means you’re special and unique in your own amazing way.

Don’t confuse abuse for love. If it makes you feel bad about yourself then it’s not love.

You don’t need to try to fit into society’s norms. You can stand out and shine bright like the star that you are.

Once you love yourself, everything I listed above will be easy for you to achieve. So, love yourself and live your best life. No matter how you identify in this beautiful thing called life, love yourself first and everything else will fall into place. Life is meant to be lived and enjoyed by everyone, no matter their sexual orientation. So, love yourselves and live your best life possible. Don’t let anyone rob you of that by allowing them to make you hate yourself. Take care of yourself and don’t waste the gift of life. It is a rare gift that we’re all entitled to. Don’t let hatred rob you of living your best life and being truly happy. And the starting point of that happiness is self-love.

#sapphic books #wlw books #lgbt books #booklr #contemporary #diverse books #book recs #guest post

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theawakenedstate · 2 years

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I want you to know that your intuitive nature is your most powerful asset and natural gift you possess.

What most won’t understand who aren’t awakened (the masses) is that your intuition is the key to understanding your Attraction Power. It is how you Naturally Turn on your Magnetism and use it to your advantage.

your intuition is a powerhouse that goes beyond – just guessing correctly –

Did you know that when you use your intuition correctly you can tap into altered states of consciousness such as Super Flow, the state of pure channeling? This is where you can access what i like to call quantum intelligence – where you pick up information, solutions, and different perspectives like plucking them out of the air – quite similar to what you can experience in states on dmt.

Did you know that when you open up more to strengthening your intuition – you can literally use it as a guidance map system to help you Heal, Re-align your energetic body and essentially manifest?

I know what it’s like to be one of us….

I always used to think something was wrong with me – I would feel too deeply ( emotional authority hd fans) and I would have intense visions that for some probably seem a little bit…crazy – But they always guided me profoundly.

When first awakened – It took me years to process my intuitive gifts – I constantly thought I was crazy, too much, intense, emotionally overloaded, and hypersensitive to environments.

I don’t experience these things anymore.

I remember visiting savannah, georgia which is a very haunted town and I felt sooooo much energy there – my mom thought i was a little nuts as a i was showing signs of claustrophobia which and I quote “you never HAD that before, what is wrong with you?”

I had many ascension symptoms over the years before i learned how to properly understand my energy body and intuitive gifting.

It felt like a combination of thinking you’re a little crazy to believing you’re a genius because information just FLOODED to you – I mean like a faucet you never quite turn off – hence why i journal 😉

What was really going on is I had ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE – How to understand what was happening to me.

I didn’t know that i was an: Intuitive channeler Energy Reader Never learned how to emotionally regulate Raising my vibrational consciousness

All I knew is i was experiencing what i could only call ‘ascension symptoms’ and I was feeling always an intense desire to learn how to ‘control my energy’

Never heard of works like Spiritual channelers or Life coaches or even Spiritual entrepreneurs like Gabby bernstein – all i knew is that – I had an Energy problem – not a psychological one.

this went on for a few years as I started to spiritually awaken in 2011. That is until I began to understand how to Manage my Energy (you hear this process in my first program, The Energy Management Toolkit)

When First waking up – We are bombarded by intuitive stimuli but NO ONE TAUGHT US WHAT TO DO WITH IT.

I got over the ‘What is wrong with me’ storyline and started listening deeper to my intuition.

Which created a new mission – An Intention:

I will figure out how to bridge the gap between my spiritual intuitive self and my physical reality – which at the time was a full on mess –

See this goes deeper than ‘psychic abilities’ or ‘learning to cope with vertigo’ every time there’s a full moon.

It went beyond that for me –

I started to learn how to control my Ascension symptoms.

I started to give myself a crash course on how to Manage my Energy Body and Understand the messages my intuition was giving me.

Now see this is where so many get it wrong –

we Often shrug off guidance, call it crazy, a coincidence, and as a result – we are literally cutting outselves off from our natural magic – our intuitive gifts and nature.

We may have been taught to suppress this part of ourselves instead of understand it.

Maybe we weren’t taught to regulate so we don’t even understand the emotional complexity of how our emotions direct us.

Maybe we heavily DOUBT ourselves, Doubt our natural talents and abilities because we have succumb to the feelings of not being enough, seeing the lack or feeling that we cannot trust our natural abilities.

It is in this place that we literally are tuning DOWN, like a radio dial our natural intuitive nature that is guiding us to a life built from desire.

Our Intuitive nature naturally guides us towards:

More Abundance.

More Receiving

More Awareness, clarity and healing

More Receptivity which opens up the flood gates of receiving

Our intuitive nature – is so much more than correctly guessing where your car keys are today –

Our intuition is the natural key to unlocking the codes of MAGNETISM –

Meaning –

Whatever you are desiring,

More fulfillment in relationship, career, love, self-esteem, spiritual clarity, knowledge, etc.

It all starts with Building a SOLID AF relationship to your intuition.

When you Know who you are – You now carry the ability to embrace Soul Certainty across every area of your life.

Which is why I am inviting you to ASCENSION: The Live Interactive Workshop Experience

It’s time to take your Intuition to the Next Level and Get over the ascension symptoms that are clouding you.

you know who you are – Isn’t it time to Amp Up your Attraction Power so you can Call in Fulfilling relationships, more Success, Abundance, Freedom and Allow yourself to Be MORE OPEN TO THE RECEIVING CHANNEL.

What is Ascension really?

Ascension is about Ascending your Consciousness to the Next Level Version of you – your Higher self.

It’s about learning how to work with your intuitive nature and learn the codes to create a Quantum Shift.

This is called the Quantum Shift Code – My signature process to learn how to shift any pattern in your power that is holding you back and creating misalignment in your life.

We don’t realize how much Power we truly have – We always carry the ability to Shift Energy and because of that:

Imagine what it would feel like when a negative spiral comes up, you now have the tools to shift out of it and feel good again.

Imagine what it would be like instead of having ascension symptoms controlling your life, maybe even stopping you going out in public, to reclaiming your Personal Power and knowing that YOU are the one in control.

Imagine what you would believe differently as you now know the quantum codes to TURN UP YOUR MAGNETISM and Direct it towards the way you desire your Life to Go – Where you officially STOP – focusing on what you don’t want – and you set your internal compass towards what you ultimately Desire

That is what I’m here to Teach and share.

If your future self is screaming hell yes, – then it’s time to join us.

ASCENSION: LIVE ONLINE WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE

That is why I created this workshop, this is a conversation that is overdue in the spiritual community

How do we Bridge the gap and apply Spiritual teachings back to our practical every-day lives?

Join me for a Special One Time LIVE online Event where we go deep into the depths of Energy Work and I teach you how to understand the Patterns so you can begin Shifting Energetics and Learning how to change the way you are manifesting through them.

I will teach you how to OWN your intuitive gifts and learn how to use them to your personal advantage so you get over:

overactive empathy

misalignment

end bad habits that influence sabotage

and learn to work with your higher self.

This is a HIGH VALUE – LOW COST EVENT –

Learn the Details and Sign up info here: The Ascension Workshop: June11th at 10am CST

Here’s some of the Nuts & Bolts on what we’re covering:

IN THIS WORKSHOP I WILL HELP YOU:

✨Receive a Crash Course on Energetic Awareness – How to Understand How Energy works, Energetic Attraction in relationship to Manifesting, How You can use it and How you can Heal yourself.

✨Bridge the Gap of your Spiritual Self: How to Begin Merging your Understanding of the Spiritual World of Quantum Energetics into the Physical Reality of Your Material World.

✨How to Properly Identify what your Energetic Patterns are and how they influence your Negative Patterns and/or Ascension symptoms so you can energetically heal them.

✨How to start changing them stat with my 5 step Alignment Process (secret gold sauce with cherries on top or magic sprinkles!)

✨END The Lack of Clarity or Awareness you feel about Ascension Symptoms rulling your Life and How to Stop them in their Tracks.

✨How to Cultivate a Solid Relationship to Your Higher Self/Your Connection to Soul Guidance so you embrace the Soul Certainty your mind and body has been craving.

✨How to Raise Your Vibration Naturally so you’re no longer forcing yourself to be ‘high vibe’ or ‘fake positive’ (this is cringe and it needs to end stat, there’s a better way)

✨Radical Awareness on How you can Use Kundalini Awakening as a framework for Jumpstarting Your Healing Journey so you can manifest from a cleaner energy than ever before.

✨Learn to create a Mindset detox Plan on your Mind + body to feel Aligned & create Healthy Habits: allowing you to heal, clear your subconscious, break habits and negative patterns. I will walk you through this and you will take away a valuable process for Massive Breakthroughs and shifts in your Life.

✨Tap Into Your Natural Abundance Mindset and Know How to Unlock at Will so you can anchor into more Receiving

✨Step in more Fully to Your Next Level Self By Going into Quantum Energetics, and learning how to Stay Tapped in to Your higher self for More: Ultimate Superflow, Alignment, Potent Intuition & Supreme Trust all by Reconnecting Back to Your Soul Truth.

✨Energy Shifting 101 – Learn How to Shift Energy like a MOFO and Get realigned with what you’re calling into the physical

✨Potent Mindset Deep Dive Energetic Work to Create you into an Energetic Match for whatever you desire and Prompts to Dive into, Plus whatever Questions come through DURING our Interactive Workshop – Bring your pen 😉

I am seriously SOO excited for what we are covering!

This workshop is high value – low cost

Save your Seat and Join us on June 11th 2022 by grabbing your front row seat today! Let’s make this a party 💃🎉

Full Details and Sign up Information is Located below:

https://theawakenedstate.net/ascension-interactive-workshop

Any Questions about the live workshop, just reach out.

Enrollment closes the day of the workshop. Save yo Seat 😉

This is going to be magical

Enrollment closes in 5 DAYS

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SOUL UNLEASHED: Your Intuitive Nature Is the Key to Unlocking your ATTRACTION POWER

I want you to know that your intuitive nature is your most powerful asset and natural gift you possess. What most won’t understand who aren’t awakened (the masses) is that your intuition is the key to understanding your Attraction Power. It is how you Naturally Turn on your Magnetism and use it to your advantage. your intuition is a powerhouse […]

#Ascension #ascension symptoms #growth mindset #intuition #intuitive abilities #intuitive abiltiies #Kundalini Awakening #law of attraction #strengthening your intuition

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medicinedreamer · 2 months

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Decided to look up my Quincunxes... Having a quincunx or multiple quincunxes in your natal chart is like holding two incompatible truths at the same time and having to find that point where both fit or balance with each other. In fact, it may feel like key parts of your personality are contradictions. I have hindsight now as an elder, and I wholeheartedly agree with these assessments. I can say I never really looked up astrological Quincunxes as an astrologer and when I was in my teens and twenties I used to say "what I think, was not necessarily what I felt" and that really sparked something in me when I realized that.

In my 30s I bowed down to the serious practices of Zen to make sure that the Aquarian side was under control first. Many good things in perception and perspectives balanced out more, which led me to heal the Moon (Pisces) side of me in my 40s.

Sun Quincunx Pluto This makes for a most complex and complicated personality. Every choice you make, and every personal encounter has a deeper meaning and more profound ramifications than other people's experience. Conscious awareness of this psychological cause and effect makes you earnest and mature. You have a deeper understanding of spiritual or karmic laws than most. Knowing how vital each turning point in life is, you try to affect outcomes using your considerable power and influence.

Others can find this threatening and label you as strange for your beliefs from experiences. You are, in fact, only trying to make your life and the lives of your loved ones better. What others see as interfering or obsessive behavior is your way of ensuring the best or safest outcome. As the intensity of neurotic energy increases exponentially to a crisis point, an event will usually intervene. An evolutionary leap occurs at this point as the threat of extinction nears. The more one experiences these, the deeper the outcome of wisdom.

Mercury Quincunx Uranus This aspect is an opportunity to become more conscious, of pushing your ideas beyond and past limits. As you realize that you can control your thoughts, this Mercury-Uranus aspect helps to free your mind to think past normal or rational. Keywords are: redirecting, challenging, requiring adjustments, and diverting.

An aspect of Mercury Quincunx Uranus in the natal chart indicates a person who has an open and accepting worldview, holds unconventional ideas and belief systems, and is forward-looking mentally, exploring and ushering new discoveries or very ancient ones.

Art: I used the tea bag art as a metaphor that the longer these Quincunxes steeped the stronger they got, and in turn the stronger I became with a signature of my 7 celestial (planets/nodes) all in a T-Square which has always been very challenging with that many squares.

#astrology #quincunx #astrological #transits astrology

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I’ll admit human suffering , or suffering of any kind can deeply upset me. I can’t just put on blinders. I wanted to go to a pharmacy in BC and grab naloxone kits but my family insisted I just relax. I honestly don’t relax enough. It’s typically only been achievable through the use of psychoactive substances that I can wholly detach from humanity and just be myself. I am always immersed in psychology and transformation. I found myself overwhelmed trying to get to YVR and then back to Yeg and ultimately home to my little spiritual oasis. On the flight I sat next to a handsome man with a tattoo of a snake coiled around a staff. The staff represents Asklepios- the mythical god of medicine. I wanted to ask if he was a medic but I didn’t have the energy to really engage. My mind was racing with guilt and also wondering if I should educate myself to be a paramedic, a psych nurse or addiction counsellor. Perhaps I could design a peer led initiative to foster connection within the community and teach people about the language of emotions. Am I even qualified to teach ? It can be tiring inside this mind of mine. On top of that my back is on fire and my nerves in my feet are setting off little fireworks of pain. I forgot to take dexedrine and my adhd brain is doing the most.

As we turned off into my little neighborhood I saw a man I had called 911 for awhile ago. He had a severe infection in a leg which had been amputated and was disoriented and in pain. I’d connected with him after his hospital release and he thanked me and kept smiling in such a way that it made me smile. He was quiet and boyish despite being older than me. Today I saw that he looked healthy and had a new prosthetic and he wasn’t hanging around the inner city. It made me happy , it gave me hope. I smiled at him though he didn’t see me. On the next block I saw my friends graffiti tag on a dumpster. I miss him. We were both sarcastic, shy jerk faces that wanted to secretly be artists but we were both pretty scared that no one would appreciate our self expression. We had talked about fusing our very different styles together to make a cool street inspired art show someday. Maybe in another lifetime. Sometimes I think those littles moments are signs from something greater. While it’s hard for me to comfortably say the word god, I definitely feel that life is a strange set of experiences which lead us to our purpose. Everything happens for a reason.

I thought about how enmeshed I am with sexual/ physical/ mental abuse, substance use, sickness, death , gang wars , politics, and even weird art and it reminded me of the Scorpio in my chart. I have a Scorpio mc which makes me a pretty fucking intense bitch. I just wish it didn’t overwhelm me to be this dark , maybe I just need to be better at transforming.

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rippleon-blog · 10 months

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Connecting, Storytelling and Mythology with Ben Dennis

The most amazing connections come from some of the least expected opportunities we experience in life. Just like the unlikely heroes we read about in stories and mythology, the impossible becomes possible.

Such was the random comment I made one day to my friend Ted Rubin (Season 8, Episode 5), as he shared some of his musings about a ski vacation he was having with a friend he met by chance some thirty years earlier on Instagram. These two friends were clearly having a blast and I was enjoying the snippets of check-ins being posted by Ted about their ski trip together.

One of these posts caught my attention, specifically when Ted recorded a video coming down into the lodge to find his friend. He said something like, "There's Ben, snuggled away in the corner, thinking and writing again."

There was something about the intensity of his friend sitting there in the corner in that video that really caught my attention. It was as if he spoke to me at that moment. So, of course, I asked what he was writing to which Ted replied, "Who knows but with Ben, it's sure to be interesting. You'd like Ben, he's a deep thinker."

Ted was right. I not only like Ben Dennis, but I have become fascinated with how this man thinks, tells a story and looks at the world and his place in it. He has a calming, almost meditative spirit about him that washes over you. I found myself wishing our conversation could go on forever because he just has a way that inspires me. I know if you listen to this whole podcast, he will do the same for you as well.

A little more about Ben:

Ben is a mythologist and writer cultivating an ongoing life-long love of story, myth, and psychology. He is passionately involved in ritual, rites of passage, psychodrama, and storytelling. His mythic interests include Greek mythology, Native American story, European Fairy tales, and Hindu epic literature. He has a wide variety of experience having worked in diverse fields such as commercial fishing, construction, and Investment Banking, and a veteran of the U. S. Air Force. Ben is a retired 28-year veteran Fire Fighter in Seattle where he served as a member of the Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) team. Ben has been adjunct faculty at Antioch University Seattle and holds his PhD in Mythological Studies with an Emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Ben has participated in and led a variety of workshops and conferences. He has assisted and taught at the Minnesota Men’s Conference as a featured Storyteller since 2013. He has also been a featured storyteller and teacher with Veteran’s groups dedicated to addressing “the emotional, moral, and spiritual wounds of veterans, their families and communities.” Over the past 20-years Ben has facilitated rites of passage events for young men, mentored in the workplace and in his community, and offers storytelling and drum making classes.

“With a life-long fascination in literature, myth, and story I recognize that teaching is a vital part of individual growth, community support, resiliency, and understanding the community we live in. I believe it is crucial to engage the imagination in startling and fresh ways. We each have survived and thrived countless generations through oral tradition, self-reliance, dedication to community, and the archetypal desire to share what we have learned with future generations. My intention is to learn and teach in whatever way I am able.”

Ready to get your Ripple On? Check out the latest episode of The Ripple Effect Podcast with Steve Harper!

#relationships #connecting #network #personal development #professional development #entrepreneur #speaker #author #connectbetter

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konmarkimageswords · 1 year

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Taking Back My Mind details Gerardo Urias' journey overcoming severe clinical depression with the use of psilocybin mushrooms, commonly known as "magic mushrooms." His story begins in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, where divorce, his dad's death, and several major health issues plunged him down the dark rabbit hole of depression. After ten months of intense suffering and falling victim to pharmaceutical drugs, Gerardo reached the brink of suicide. Then, on December 22, 2017, he ate a handful of psilocybin mushrooms and took a walk on the beach with his brother. This experience jolted him out of the deadly downward spiral he was on, literally overnight, sparking his rapid, magical, and transformative two year journey that eventually led him to the majestic mountains of southern Oaxaca in Mexico to film a documentary about his journey and his experience with the local indigenous Mazatec who continue to use these plant medicines and fungi for their own mental, emotional, and spiritual well being, like they have done for thousands of years. This adventure turned into the most important, educational, and enlightening trip of his life, learning things about Mexico and about his own family even that he could have never imagined.

By sharing his story, Gerardo hopes to raise awareness for these life saving plant medicines, practices, and philosophies that keep him thriving every day. Depression is the leading cause of disability in the world. Over 3,000 people commit suicide every day worldwide. The mental health care industry has been stagnant for decades, unable to reverse this growing global epidemic, mainly because its approach to this deeply misunderstood condition is all wrong. Depression is not a disease, like most people think. It is a symptom of very complex and multifaceted biological, psychological, nutritional, environmental, and societal factors, among many others, and taking harmful, addictive pharmaceutical drugs to try to suppress natural and necessary human emotions is not the answer.

One of the symptoms of an inadequate mental health care system is an opioid crisis, as people will use anything that is legally available to try to relieve their pain, many times with devastating results. It is time to change this paradigm and put science and human lives above politics. It's time to change the antiquated laws surrounding psychedelics. It's time to reawaken our incredible inner power and reconnect with nature. It's time to evolve. During this difficult time we find ourselves in, it is more important than ever to remain as healthy as possible, to cultivate a calm and resilient mind, to cultivate presence, expand our awareness, and elevate our individual and collective consciousness, so that we may overcome, learn from, and transcend this current crisis of consciousness threatening our very existence. In this book, Gerardo shares the tools, routines, and practices that he uses to achieve this goal.

https://takingbackmymind.com/

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lucidhope333 · 1 year

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Trust, Love, Forgiveness

If the Creator, Source, God, Allah, Yahweh, or the Universe came to you and asked you to focus on only love, trust, and forgiveness, what would you say in response? Would it be a Holy Hell Yes!, or a less than enthusiastic "sure"? Or would it be neither but a nod of the head? Would you answer the call? Or Would you run? Or would you do both? The younger me and still parts of the older me would do both. Say yes to the first in the name of a challenge, then think about running once I started to see what I was in for exactly. Thankfully, the beautiful and one of the most remarkable parts of a healing journey is, from oneself to the other, from lower self to higher self, the growth we all seek to obtain is rather yet in the awareness of having any feeling of it at all and knowing what that feeling is so we may begin to unpack how it got there.

I know for me, I don't know where I'd be if not for the grace of meditation. The practice of quieting the mind so we can discern our spiritual messages is our greatest asset. This practice makes it so we may get our spiritual heading and get to doing our spiritual work, trusting, loving, and forgiving. As you can probably tell, I'm a spiritualist. I don't consider myself a guru or sensei of any sort. I, like you, am doing this life thing as it comes at me, while "stepping in the place with style and grace." Words of wisdom from beloved Notorious B.I.G. :)

I thought I already knew what love and forgiveness were and I only need to work on the trust factor. That was until I went deeper in terms of self and realized that for how much love, trust, and forgiveness I gave out, I had none left over for myself. Then would be stuck, confused as to why I was getting hurt. Well, because at the time I didn't include my inner self while giving all of that other stuff out. Then reconciling that was even harder because had I only trusted myself when I felt that feeling and had that first thought, I might have avoided so unnecessarily bad situations and people. But once I learned how to apply all that I was putting out, what needed to be poured back in, it was at that moment we had our heading!

Everything comes down to math if you look at it. If the math isn't mathing then what are we conditioned to do? Solve for X so the math can live to math another day. But that solving for X can be a mother can't it? Here's where the forgiveness comes in... forgive them sure, but forgive you for not knowing any better beforehand. I like to think that, as a collective, we all have had these instances and questions at one point in our lives. Not to say that every being roaming this beautiful planet is not of course unique because we all are. However, the strife of life is what gives us our similarities amongst the differences most of mainstream society likes to focus on.

So what was I given as my assignment? You should grab snacks.

December 28th, 2022, I resigned from my position at a Fortune 500 corporation in the healthcare finance sector and voluntarily submitted myself for professional psychological and psychiatric evaluation. I had been having suicidal thoughts and ideations on a mental level but on a spiritual level, I was struggling to make the connection with my practices. I spent 1 week in intense therapy and evaluation and 1 week reacclimating myself. The experience was chaotic, to say the least, but like every other challenge, I pushed through and dug deep for the strength and faith I'd been known to have in situations prior. The more I went to group therapy the more I realized that what I was doing was already what I had been assigned to do. The love, trust, and forgiveness I wasn't seeing were right in front of me and I had been pouring it back into myself for a long time to that point, I just couldn't see it to believe it. I don't know what I was expecting it to look like but once I had that epiphany, I was ready to blow that popsicle stand and apply my newfound sense of self. So I did.

The stress of the realization that I just quit my job without having another lined up hit me like a ton of bricks. As it should have in the world we live in today. I'd even started to second-guess my decision to resign in the first place and not just work with my employer at the time. But after spending 2 weeks in a hospital I couldn't let myself be defeated by something so minuscule as that 1 thought of defeat, could I? Oh, I think not! So I didn't. If it meant I picked up gig work here and there, so be it. Door Dash came in handy let me tell you. I eventually landed another position with a new company completely separate from what I was previously skilled in doing. Scared much? a little. Excited about the new beginning? Absolutely! How you ask? I loved myself so much, that in my awareness of self, reached out for the help I almost desperately needed at the time, I trusted that resigning from my previous position was the right decision, and I forgave myself for ever having doubted I had made the right decision.

1 month later I am here, alive and well to write about it. I hope this message finds who it is meant to find and helps all who it is meant to help.

Please feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] or leave a comment below if there are any questions, feedback, and/or suggestions.

This is a safe space for all and to be safe means one can be their most authentic self without retribution.

Love and Light

Lucid Hope

#love #trust #forgiveness #healing #spiritualhealing #spiritualgrowth #spiritualawakening #journey #peace #balance #harmony #angelguidance #hope #loveandlight #lucidhope

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ceyhanmedya · 1 year

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Earthquake phobia: Seismophobia

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Earthquake phobia: Seismophobia

Regardless of its severity and location, every earthquake news is enough to renew our pain, our fears relapse. However, for some, the earthquake is more than just a fear, it is a phobia that turns life into a nightmare… The world is shaking and the number of victims of earthquake phobia ‘seismophobia’ is increasing.

A friend of mine starts screaming when the fringe of the curtain in the living room shakes, his heart is beating like it will burst, he is sweating coldly, trembling; when the birds start to sing a little more than usual, he takes his breath under the table. I am wondering what to do. Another one does not even go near very large structures because of the fear of being under the majestic clock in case of an earthquake.

I became worried that one day something would happen to my friends I mentioned, not from an earthquake, but from earthquake paranoia, that they would lose their lives not because the building collapsed, but because they jumped out of the window. They are just a few of the growing numbers of people with ‘seismophobia’, or earthquake phobia.

What can we do to be prepared for an earthquake?

The Greek word ‘seismo’ means earthquake. ‘Seismophobia’, which we can translate into Turkish as ‘earthquake phobia’, is not an issue where the person himself is in danger, unlike many other phobias; It is triggered by disaster scenarios involving his family, close environment and even the world. It’s actually a kind of death and loss phobia.

So in reality, we are terrified not by the earthquake itself but by its potential consequences, by the possibility of dying and losing loved ones. ‘Seismophobia’ is most often triggered by uncertainty. Because we cannot predict when, where and how severe an earthquake will occur, and its consequences are inevitable.

Losing everything materially and spiritually in a few seconds and the impossibility of being under control keeps the phobia alive if it is not dealt with. Because these people are aware that they cannot escape danger by living in an earthquake-proof house, because they can be caught in disaster at work, in the grocery store or even while walking on the road.

Even if the earthquake is on the other side of the world, they are exposed to a lot of earthquake news, even if they don’t watch the news, they are exposed to the scenarios on social media, and they get confused with the earthquake. In fact, experts say that even aftershocks can be enough to create a feeling of intense fear and helplessness on their own.

The symptoms and severity of ‘seismophobia’ may vary, depending on the strength of the person’s psychological defense system, the age of the person, where he or she caught the earthquake, and whether or not he lost a loved one during the earthquake.

However, the most common ones are irrational startle, frightened by sounds, resisting sleep, being cut off from eating, inability to focus on issues other than earthquakes, having constant nightmares about earthquakes, refusal to socialize, and crying spells.

There are also those who do not enter the house for days after the earthquake news, refuse to be indoors, cannot approach high-rise buildings, and feel ill in the ground and basement floors.

How to overcome earthquake phobia in 7 steps?

There are also medicated methods applied to those who are severely affected by ‘seismophobia’, but according to experts, you can control it yourself with a few simple methods before it’s too late.

1. Psychiatrist Jason Eric Schiffman warns that no matter how severe an earthquake phobia you are, you should force yourself to stay in a routine: “Don’t consider smoking your friend to relax.”

2. Don’t suppress your fear, don’t dwell on your experiences with the fear that you won’t be understood. Because ’emotionally unresponsive’ people experience the trauma more severely. Trying to deal with these feelings by ignoring them has more serious consequences than you can imagine.

3. Avoidance behaviors are not as innocent as you think. For example, give up behaviors such as sleeping with your child, not closing the door, not locking it, and avoiding sleeping in the dark room. But go over your fears slowly, don’t try to stop all avoidance behaviors all at once. Remember that your child is imitating you, do not show him your mood.

4. Prepare mentally. Make a plan to stay calm and cool. Knowing that your child is prepared for an earthquake gives you mental relief.

5. With cognitive-behavioral psychotherapies, you can begin to test your realistic beliefs and thoughts about a possible earthquake and instead begin to think more realistically. In this way, the emotional, physical and mental symptoms of earthquake fear will disappear, and avoidance behaviors will decrease or even end over time.

6. You may have an earthquake bag, but do not place it in a way that reminds you of the danger, for example, in the corner of your room.

7. Judith Kolberg, who drew attention with her book “Organize for Disaster”, which is a guide to preparing for disasters, said, “Write down 10 things you need to take with you in case of an emergency beforehand. Then reduce the list to 5, then to 3. Play Video

What should be in the earthquake bag?

For the safest place in the world…

Janis Ericson, who administers earthquake phobia therapies to her clients in the state of California, USA, which is often shaken by earthquakes, says that the best thing you can do for yourself is to stay calm.

Losing that earthquake anxiety invites the biggest danger, Ericson said, “You can create the safest place in the world when you manage to stay calm against the possibility of an earthquake. He uses the expression “not by panicking and freezing where you are”. Nicholas Pollak, a hypnotherapist who also works on earthquakes in California, says, “The events that we cannot understand or understand are the most terrifying to us, which is the case with the earthquake.” For example, while sitting on a chair, close your eyes and visualize the earthquake moment in your mind.

First terrified, trembling, watch you beating heart, moving uncontrollably. Stay frozen where you are. Then, in the second scenario, watch you, who manages to use the best escape method for himself, regardless of the circumstances, and you decide which one should be.”

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WHAT’S A SPIRITUALLY TRANSFORMATIVE EXPERIENCE?

Have you ever left your body, encountered an extraordinary luminosity, or entered a heavenly realm, where you felt completely at home?

Did you experience the most indescribable feelings of wellness, rapture, or love?

Did you want to stay in this magical place forever?

When you returned to your body, and to regular life, did you feel overwhelmed by it all?

If you have answered yes to even one of my questions, you are not alone in what you have experienced – and you are definitely not crazy. You are perfectly sane. Lots of people have had these kinds of experiences or something like it.

There are many terms given to these experiences by different experts, however, there is one that really sums up the phenomenon and it is Spiritually Transformative Experience, or STE for short.

A Spiritually Transformative Experience is a natural, and often spontaneous occurrence of heightened consciousness by which a person experiences an ultra-reality that comparably makes their ordinary, material-based reality appear less real or illusory.

They can be catalysts for a major change in the life of the experiencer, affecting their daily life, family, community, and the world they live in.

STEs have been around for as long as there have been people walking the earth – that’s a long time!

However, with advancements in medical procedures – more people coming back from the brink of death, the added curiosity of Hollywood and the media, and bestsellers describing the phenomenon, there has been an increase in the reporting of STEs.

Who has a Spiritually Transformative Experience?

The most important thing to know about a Spiritually Transformative Experience is that the phenomenon can happen to anyone – anywhere – at any age. This means it can happen to you, or your partner, child, or friend – if it hasn’t already. It is likely to happen to someone you know.

If you are an experiencer, it could happen to you again. Some experiencers have had multiple experiences. You or a loved one could have one or more of these experiences at any time, and be transformed by them. Of course, death is the ultimate STE and we will all experience it, someday.

Causes of a Spiritually Transformative Experience

There is no known cause of a Spiritually Transformative Experience, though there are many theories. Being close to death in the physical, emotional, or psychological sense may contribute to its likelihood. Significantly, an STE occurs in diverse circumstances:

Trauma – or a series of traumatic events

Serious accident or injury

Illness, coma, cardiac arrest, dying

Childbirth

Grief, depression, despair

Wellness, happiness, peace, love-making

Meditation, yoga, fasting, chanting, contemplation

Sleeping, waking, walking, driving

Ordinary daily activities

Features of a Spiritually Transformative Experience

There are many circumstances that can result in a person having a Spiritually Transformative Experience, however, the same trigger may not result in another person having an STE.

Some STEs like near-death experiences (NDEs), near-death-like experiences (NDLEs), out-of-body experiences (OBEs), awakenings, kundalini experiences, past life experiences, and after-death communications (and others) share similar features:

A sense of transcendence – of having partially or substantially vacated the body, and the material world – perhaps even having a vision of departing planet earth and being in outer space and beyond.

An extraordinarily bright, pure white or golden light, with consciousness and feeling, emanating intense love and acceptance.

A feeling of spiritual homecoming – bliss.

A melding in with universal power – having the feeling of oneness, wholeness, completion, perfection, eternity, God.

Expansion of wisdom – gaining an instantaneous knowing of spiritual truth – of being able to understand complex universal truths easily, naturally, intuitively.

A panoramic, holographic life review or preview.

Entering a heavenly, otherworldly, universal, or expansive state or realm – ultra-colourful environment; landscape; music, and scents.

Encountering a divine presence, angels, spirit beings, light beings, religious figures, or deceased loved ones – communicating with them telepathically.

Spiritually Transformative Experience account: ‘Julienne’

The following extract is from an interview I conducted with an Australian lady in her early 60s from Port Macquarie, New South Wales. Julienne had a Spiritually Transformative Experience when she was a young woman, aged seventeen:

“I had glandular fever. I was in the hospital and the doctor and nurses were concerned mainly because it appeared I had fitted and lost consciousness.

The nurses seemed to be reviving me – I was watching this from out of my body. I felt light. I could move easily – wherever I wanted. My senses were heightened and I was able to feel many different emotions simultaneously.

Suddenly, I was then looking down at the beautiful blue ball of earth. I was in space, looking back towards the earth. I felt a great love towards the earth, and was aware somehow, of all the emotions that exist here. It was overwhelming.

There was a silver thread of light connecting me to the earth. I was only dimly aware of this thread, which was like a thin silver thread-light similar to an umbilical cord. That was the only time I was aware of it.

There was a very bright light moving towards me from the right. I turned to face it, and moved towards it, as it felt so lovely. I wanted to walk into it.

A large human-like shape emerged from the light … I would have to say it was God. I was the being of light myself! I seemed to belong to the light as if we were the same substance.

I was aware of people sitting at a long table and that they were spirit beings who had lived on earth as humans. I recognised some and noticed a man, who I later found out was my mother’s uncle.

I felt they were a family group and that I belonged to them. They recognised me, spoke to me, and reassured me. I could see a place reserved at the table for my Grandma, aunty, and me, but it wasn’t our time yet.

After seeing this, I returned to the hospital. I was willing the doctor away from my body with my thoughts, so I could re-enter it. I didn’t realise I’d had a near-death experience until ten years later when I read a book about other people’s similar experiences.

Sometimes I wanted to be back there and knew that someday I would. I feel happier about dying now, but I never really minded the thought of death anyway, as I felt like I would be going to a good place.”

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My book Where The Light Lives: A True Story about Death, Grief and Transformation is about my spiritually transformative experiences and healing from personal and intergenerational grief. My STEs arose from different circumstances and not from the dying experience.

CONTACT

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 207-200-8217

Portland, Maine USA

Website: https://deepbeing.org/

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