I'm sensitive, I'm happy!
Times can be really tough when you are so open skinned, so torn between just about everything that falls into your lap.. It can seem as if you have no skin at all. If you are a sensitive you probably get sick of hearing what people say 'the lines' and watching them fall ever so neatly into place every time you feel something that someone else does not understand. People say:
“Stop being so touchy”
“Why are you so serious all the time?”
“How are you ever going to survive in the real world?”
Lines like this are all very well to those that are stuck in the outer worlds of practicality. But what about the inner world? What is wrong with it exactly? And why can’t we just stick there for a bit? I’ve been in situations, places and uncomfortable circumstances where I feel as if I am an odd part of the furniture. It’s like the conflict in energies is surprisingly overwhelming and even humiliating to a point because you’re vulnerabilities just sort of leak out without permission and you feel as if you are being highlighted in bright pink.
Practical minded, money-making business people? Forget it! We need to find acceptance amongst each other. Step back and appreciate that our minds are all programmed into different things and it is something that we can not help.
I’ve been reading a book recently from The White Eagle Lodge library. It’s called “Find and use your inner power” Emmet Fox. There is a chapter about being sensitive but happy:
'To be sensitive is good, because sensitive people are aware of a thousand interesting or beautiful things where the obtuse person gets nothing. If our thick-skinned friends avoid a lot of suffering they also miss the finest things in life. To do any creative work you have to be sensitive because the creative worker is the “receiving set” for Divine Mind. The sensitiveness of the artist is proverbial. The writer talks about a client who broke down in their office expressing that “God must be so cruel for making me so sensitive” . The writer replied: “If you had the hide of a rhinoceros you might be a happier man, but you would not be at the Metropolitan”.'
Lots of people of course are too sensitive and see, hear and feel things they don’t wish to. Unpleasant vibrations that capture us off guard.. we can train ourselves to reduce these if we try.
As Fox expresses in the following:
We should try and shut ourselves off to negative things leaving room for the Good, the Beautiful and the True, such as art, music, spirituality. Everything needs to be channelled in the right way. We can do this by intelligently using positive affirmations: “ I am positive to everything” If you believe in God you can also say: “I am positive to everything but the action of God”.
Here is how Fox explains the thought process: 'In an electric circuit any given point is said to be positive to any point below it, and negative to any point above it. Current passes always from the positive to the negative, and never the other way. Now, if you are positive in this sense to everything but the action of God no negative things can come back at you. On the other hand, if you are receptive (or “negative” in the purely electrical sense of this ambiguous word) to all good - the direct inspiration of God, the prayers of other people and all the beautiful and interesting vibrations in the universe come to you.
Sometimes, when you meet people (without asking for it they leave you feeling depressed) whether it is something they said or whether you just picked up their energy and vibration. Therefore the above affirmation can help us all as we often leave ourselves open to mental conflicts without even realising. If you are spiritual or take part in spiritual work then this can be very important for you.'