How are you feeling?

[seve]

Je sais depuis un certain temps que le réseautage est essentiel, mais j'avais l'impression de n'avoir rien à apporter au forum, trouvant les discussions ici très intelligentes et hésitant à contribuer, de peur de faire du bruit.

In my opinion, networking, beyond what you can contribute, is above all a dynamic that allows your mind to connect to a creative source, in this case the forum. Because in this way you grow in your reasoning and your life choices. I participate irregularly, but what is important to me is the spontaneity and energetic exchange that fuels a true quest for truth.

 

[Wandering Star]

For several days now I've had a mixture of something like pressure sensation and accelerations in the solar plexus area.

Something like the calm before the storm.

Increased electromagnetic field due to solar activity or increased pressure from the artificial field that surrounds us (Wi-Fi and others) can perhaps explain it to them.

For some time now, there have been many people who act like zombies, but today it was very noticeable.

I have noticed people very nervous.

 

[Il Matto]

I'm generally in control of my emotions and very supportive of others but I do have a tendency to inadvertently provoke when I tell myself that I'm just trying to educate or inform others. And my tendency for self-indulgence would at times get out of control. My intuition is very strong but so has been my ability to ignore it or rationalize certain feelings away. But now whenever I'm in altered states I feel a type of anxiety that is no longer possible to ignore. It feels like a warning about wasting my time/energy when it should be being put to better use.

A recommendation was recently made, not to me directly, but I nevertheless I try to take all recommendations seriously form Forum members (thank you @Turgon!). I've just got myself copies of "Introduction to Internal Family Systems", "No Bad Parts" and "The Internal Family Systems Workbook" - all by Richard Schwartz. Having now started to seriously work with this model I can tell you that the penny has quite dramatically dropped on a number of things! The basic premise is that we are a multiplicity and the model provides a practical way of engaging with those parts of ourselves that do things like 'provoke others' and tell us to 'get at it' and stop wasting time and energy; those little 'I's', in Gurdjieff's terms, that prevent us from acting with a unified and authentic Self (of so I understand it so far).
I didn't want to overload you with suggestions, but investigating this therapeutic model for yourself could be a real boon! For my part, the Internal Family Systems model has so far highlighted to me where I've previously gone wrong when trying to work with (in my case, suppress or 'shoo away') my own little I's.

 

[Wandering Star]

For several days now I've had a mixture of something like pressure sensation and accelerations in the solar plexus area.

Something like the calm before the storm.

Increased electromagnetic field due to solar activity or increased pressure from the artificial field that surrounds us (Wi-Fi and others) can perhaps explain it to them.

For some time now, there have been many people who act like zombies, but today it was very noticeable.

I have noticed people very nervous.

And now I happen to read the following in the session I am reading:

Q: ... (Scottie) I think I know what the Disturbance in the Force is.

(L) What?

(Scottie) Remember I was telling you the other day that something was up? This seems like a pretty big disturbance in the Force, dontcha think?

(L) Yeah!

(Scottie) It was like a day or two before the Charlie Hebdo thing that I mentioned it.

(L) Oh yeah.

(Scottie) People here were feeling squirrelly, couldn't sleep, having headaches, bad dreams and all that stuff. Something was clearly "off"... And then: KABOOM!

(Andromeda) It's sickening.


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I hope not.