When we get into a fight or argument, or in any way feel scared or less-than the other person, we tend to imbue them with qualities that somehow lift them above what we’re experiencing internally. Changing how you see that makes a massive difference to how you relate to and see people, and how scary they come across to you.
Whether or not you like it, your children will most likely be exposed to drugs at some point in their lives.
What do you do when your child does try drugs and has a bad trip, and what can you expect to face?
Right now the world is in chaos. People are being laid off, others are dying and it feels a bit like we’re constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop.
How do you deal with shock and trauma when you’ve had a traumatic or scary event take place in your life?
With so much shock, trauma and grief going on in the world around us right now, what can you do to help your friends, family and colleagues cope if they have been personally affected?
Maybe it’s a result of the greed and ego focus of the world we live in, but many of us are, or have been in relationship with narcissists and psychopaths.
How do narcissists and psychopaths break down your self-esteem in abusive relationships?
The worst thing about being in an abusive relationship with a bully, abuser or narcissist is the long-term damage it does to your self-esteem – the way it changes how you feel about, see and interact with the world.
The Ego or spiritual journey has as one of its goals that you accept death, the transience of life.
This is one of the more vague pieces of the puzzle that doesn't readily make sense.
Shifting too much and too fast
When you do vigorous shifts like we're doing right now, you run the risk of going into shifting overload.
What is shifting overload or shifting crisis?
Basically you've been processing through emotion and thoughts so much that it puts enormous strain on your system.
You land up sick, fatigued, having a breakdown or even potentially having a mental breakdown.
The really crappy thing about being an empath is that when people are feeling stuff, you are too. The thing about us though is that we are stronger than most - and we stay determined to be good positive people.
Yes we're taking strain right now, but others are feeling it worse than we are because they have ZERO coping skills at all.
Fight, Flight, Freeze or Fawn - The Trauma Response, with Positive Alternatives
Understand the Trauma Responses of Fight, Flight, Freeze or Fawn, as well as other subtle layers of trauma response that might help you understand, and be able to apply, the knowledge better.
In addition, the infographic contains a range of alternative behaviors and responses you could consciously choose to go with, instead of the instinctual responses.