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How do you overcome the fear of rejection?
I am pondering the prospect of doing something big .... (well, it's big for me)....that I have read will assist me in leaping over a hurdle that has caused me a great deal of pain for over a year. I want to release some of this angst and have tried everything I know...including some things that were suggested to me.
Nothing has worked.
I am scared to try this new 'tactic.' I read about it this morning, (a sign maybe?) after struggling all weekend with 'what left is there for me to do?' I have tried to figure out why I am afraid and I keep coming back to rejection. I am afraid to take this step because I am afraid of the potential of rejection. I keep telling myself that it is only a 50% chance of rejection, whereas I still have 50% of a chance of success. Decent odds, I would say. But my feet are in concrete.
I also tell myself that if i go into this with no expectations - with only the 'goal' of releasing myself, then there can be no rejection.
Only healing.
Any advice?
Anything I'm overlooking?
Peace and gratitude,
RP
I am pondering the prospect of doing something big .... (well, it's big for me)....that I have read will assist me in leaping over a hurdle that has caused me a great deal of pain for over a year. I want to release some of this angst and have tried everything I know...including some things that were suggested to me.
Nothing has worked.
I am scared to try this new 'tactic.' I read about it this morning, (a sign maybe?) after struggling all weekend with 'what left is there for me to do?' I have tried to figure out why I am afraid and I keep coming back to rejection. I am afraid to take this step because I am afraid of the potential of rejection. I keep telling myself that it is only a 50% chance of rejection, whereas I still have 50% of a chance of success. Decent odds, I would say. But my feet are in concrete.
I also tell myself that if i go into this with no expectations - with only the 'goal' of releasing myself, then there can be no rejection.
Only healing.
Any advice?
Anything I'm overlooking?
Peace and gratitude,
RP
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Re: Rejection
Mon, July 2, 2007 - 6:44 AMHi RP
Telling yourself that you are going to go into whatever it is that you are afraid with no expectations is only playing a "mind game" with yourself because that is not your real or true response. If you truly had no expectation, you wouldn't be having the anxiety about being rejected... So stop lying to yourself and trying to cover up the real issue.
Also know that whatever it was that happened to you a year or so ago, is NOT the real problem... but only activated you into what you already were denying. I'm sure that if you look back on your life, there have been many episodes where you have felt rejected and not accepted. where you have felt heartbreak and also anger and rage at those that were rejecting you. Denial of the truth, does not change the truth, it just alters your perception of it.
There is no "quick fix" if real healing is your intent. You need to deal with your heartbreak, terror, anger and rage, not all at the same time, but as they come up step by step, layer by layer. At the heart of it all is allowing yourself true emotional response and expression and also following your intuition as it is never wrong.
As I'm writing this I'm picking up that you are very intuitive, but that you deny your intuition in favor of others, that you give them the benefit of the doubt instead of giving it to your intuition. ... ahhh! that's because you don't want to be rejected.... That is what you have been doing all your life, "trying" to be the nice, kind and loving person to others so that they will love and accept you, Giving them what they want, by sacrificing yourself. You have no acceptance for your intuition and that is self-hatred, Once you have acceptance for expressing your intuition and your emotions you will also be giving yourself... love.... and then you will no longer be searching for love and acceptance outside yourself.
If you are activated by what I have said, allow yourself to expressing everything you feel, emotionally, mentally and physically, and make it your intent to do so without harming yourself, or anyone or anything else around you. Also let go of the guild that says emotional movement and expressing your intuition is wrong, or whatever else it comes up with to try and stop you.
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Re: Rejection
Mon, July 2, 2007 - 11:38 AMThe time to break the vicious cycle is NOW.
I was able to release something last week that had coused me a lifetime of problems. I am now begining to rest and to try to find out what it is that I was doing before I forgot what it was that I wanted to do in the first place.
LOL!
Don't be fearful of doing whatever it takes to clear the problem emotion.
LOVE TO ALL
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Re: Rejection
Fri, July 6, 2007 - 10:24 PMWow...sounds like your talking about me...
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Re: Rejection
Tue, July 3, 2007 - 8:28 AMFEAR si the big stopper isnt it?
but what is it that we are really afraid of? what other people will think? doing it 'wrong'? making a 'mistake'?
the only mistake, i think, is not honoring what is inside if us, our Truth, not standing in that Truth and speaking it regardless of how it is perceived...
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Re: Rejection
Tue, July 3, 2007 - 9:00 AMHi
1) Behind the door are all the lost parts of ourselves. All the things that we have no acceptance for, that in other words, we hate and don't want to see or especially "feel" again.
2) Fear is the door.
3) Denial, guilt and shame is what keeps the door closed,
4) Love unlocks the door to see and "feel" all that we have rejected...
Once we have acceptance for the things we deny, we bring love to those parts. In bringing them love, we no longer fear them. It's so simple.. but try convincing a mind that is so programmed and imprinted that it believes the opposite is true, that it wouldn't survive if it opens the door. So it's not really fear that is the stopper.. but the mind that denies the fear (the door) and doesn't want to unlock it, doesn't want to remember what caused it pain.
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Re: Rejection
Tue, July 3, 2007 - 9:22 AMBy the way......
John, what you wrote is beautiful.
Thank you.
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Re: Rejection
Fri, July 6, 2007 - 8:12 PMWow!! I have to remember this....
Thank you John!!
Sherri
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Re: Rejection
Tue, July 3, 2007 - 9:16 AMReally afraid of?
Feeling the pain again.
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Re: Rejection
Tue, July 3, 2007 - 6:58 PMI understand that feeling for sure....you kind of get stuck in a safety net and you know you feel good right now right? Then something or someone blows that WIDE open for you...whew do I understand that ...:P
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Re: Rejection
Wed, July 4, 2007 - 9:32 PMYour past does not equal your future... if nothing else, re-member that =)
*~*Love and Light*~*
Shell
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Re: Rejection
Tue, July 3, 2007 - 7:01 PMi have a suggestion. ]
go to somewhere where the people dont know you, a public forum, a groups of friends of friends , whatever, and DELIBERATELY put yourself in the arena where you konw rejection is imminent, it will be different because you will have PLANNED this, and you will remain in control, start speaking your mind or whatever you think will work, but be aware of the impending possibility of rejection, it may, or may NOT happen but DELIBERATELY placing yourself in such circumstances will shift the control over to YOU instead of to others, and will make the POSSIBILITY of rejection, ( because you took that step knowingly instead of being surprised by it, or manuevered into it)that much more easy to bear until after a few times you will realize , on a heart level, that the only opinion that truly maters to you is that of yourself and those you care for. THEY have power over you, but you can handle those with time and practice too. -
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Re: Rejection
Wed, July 4, 2007 - 7:10 AMI agree in part to what Wanderingwolf said, in that you can work by with strangers, where you can begin experiencing "being REAL" by expressing yourself where you don't "care" what other people think or say and don't really have the fear of being rejected and if it's there, it's only a drop in the bucket compared to expressing yourself the same way with those that are closest to you. It's easy to express yourself with strangers, people that you don't really know, care for and are not close to you. The thing about this exercise is not about not feeling rejection, but about beginning to express yourself. It's also not about being "in control" but about "letting go of control" and allowing yourself to be vulnerable and to express what you fear expressing.
What I experienced and learned on my journey was that I would begin with the easiest, what I could accept at that moment and then gradually work back to what seemed impossible. I would first do what I could do with strangers, then peers, then acquaintances, then friends, then family, then my partner. AND after I had that under by belt, then the cycle would start all over again, but on a different level, and not as blatant and obvious as the previous one.
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Re: Rejection
Wed, July 4, 2007 - 9:57 PMexactly, you put it better than i John. thank you.
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Re: Rejection
Wed, July 4, 2007 - 5:20 PMif it in any way depends upon another person to succeed, you've already failed. rejection is not something you get from others, it's the feeling you give yourself when they are not what you wanted them to be.
thus the only true way to overcome it, or the fear of it, is to work not on finding some way to have another not do it, but to shift your own perspective and understanding to the place where you can realize the transitory nature of all relationships with all people and both understand and accept that there is no reason to feel rejected when they fade or pass. -
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Re: Rejection and attachments
Wed, July 4, 2007 - 7:11 PMAssociated with the feeling of rejection is an attachment or what people have come to call "love" but it's anything but love. If you really go beneath this illusion of "love" by attachment, you will find a desperate twisted "need" or belief that this person, place ot thing is the "source" of your power and happiness. With people, attachments are always two way, you to them and they to you.
If you can do a meditation and are able to visualize your body, you will see the attachments. They are usually seen as cords, chains or ropes or even as shackles or weights. They are usually attached to one or more Chakras but they can also be attached to any part of your body. Attachments are usually to people that we have are or have been close with and thus, are the hardest to remove as that is part and parcel of the issue of being rejected. That's why expressing yourself to strangers is easier as you have no "attachment" to them.
When you have thoughts and feelings of another person and you can feel a pain or pressure in your body, or emotions begin to surface, that can also be a sign of an attachment. You may even feel or hear the voice of the other person directing you to do such and such. Other body pains and issues, such as allergies, asthma, chronic fatigue, etc. etc. can also be associated with attachments. Addictions and habits are also a form of an attachment.
We need to have a connection with people, not an attachment, a rope or dead weight that we have to drag around for the rest of our lives and call it love. Removing these attachments is one of the first things that we need to do if healing is our intent, because as long as we are attached to people, places and things, we can never be free because we are either being controlled by others, or we are controlling others and there is no unconditional love in either one.
JR
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Re: Rejection
Tue, November 11, 2008 - 9:43 PM" if it in any way depends upon another person to succeed, you've already failed. rejection is not something you get from others, it's the feeling you give yourself when they are not what you wanted them to be. "
ohhhh! that was well put!
Letting go of control! going with the flow.
blessings
sf
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Re: Rejection
Wed, July 4, 2007 - 9:27 PMWhat you focus on is what you get more of... so the more you are focussing on rejection, and the more you believe "this can't work", "i'm scared" or whatever you are telling yourself, well that is the reality you are creating for yourself. Our consciousness always needs something to chew on, so whatever you put in front of it, it will create. Be mindful of this!
So wouldn't it be more beneficial to you and how you feel by focussing on the Successful outcome of the situation and imaginging how awesome it feels once you have done that thing?!
Whenever there is fear around something like rejection, I would ask you what the fear behind the fear is... id it really about rejection, or is it about something else? Like feeling "not good enough"? What do you really fear in being rejected?
Nothing has meaning except the meaning we attach to it, so what meaning are you choosing to attach to the outcome of this situation? i.e. by being "rejected"? And what are you attaching to success?
I suggest you create yourself some new meanings around the situation.... like instead of rejection meaning that you are not good enough, wouldn't a more empowering way to look at the situation be that rejection means that the universe has something much better for you out there that you have not yet dis-covered, that when you DO dis-cover it, you will have found yourself what you are Truly looking for!
Sometimes things don't work out for a reason - all is in Divine and perfect timing, and all has its place. Rejection is not a dirty word... it is an opportunity to find that which has not yet been found.
RisingPhoenix, I hope you can take some learning from this, and that you can gain greater clarity in finding that which you are looking for.
*~*In Light, Love and Unity All-ways*~*
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Re: Rejection
Thu, July 5, 2007 - 4:45 AMHaving a so-called "positive" attitude is one way of solving the problem... for a while... But...
"Denial of the truth, does not change the truth, it just alters your perception of it...."
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Re: Rejection
Thu, July 5, 2007 - 3:45 PMthis assumes there is an objective truth. but as the matter in question is of how one feels and how not to feel rejection or fear it, it would seem the truest change would not lay without, but within. perspective is the foundation upon which one's sense of truth is built. so it stands to reason that finding a different truth would demand creating the perspective from which it might be found.
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Re: Rejection
Fri, July 6, 2007 - 6:42 AMWhen two people are in a dialogue (a form of relationship) there are only two sides to the truth, yours and mine and nothing else is relative. Tom and Harry Dick are not involved in our conversation as we are not talking with or about any third party, because if we were, then we would also have to have their version of the truth. I'm not talking about what someone has written in a book that you have memorized, but person to person.
Your truth is based on your imprints, programs and beliefs, on what you have been taught and have personally experienced, and mine are based on mine. Your point-of-view and truth is relative to you and mine is relative to me. Now we come to the point of where we separate the closed mind from the open mind. Like the fable about the six blind men and the elephant www.noogenesis.com/pineappl...hant.html each blind man has their own point-of-view and personal truth, and while each has a certain air of being a part-truth, they are also all wrong.
A person that has an open mind and heart, not only has the ability to see, but also to feel other peoples point-of-view and personal truth, and to also have experienced it, "been there done that." They now "know" life from two points-of-view and they can also see where that truth is flawed and is only a part-truth at best.
You can't find the truth in a book... you have to experience it to know if it is your truth or just someone else's belief and truth that you have blindly adopted as your personal truth. Trying to defend another persons version of the truth is like you being throughly convinced and trying to tell the world that an Elephant is a Snake. Religion and politics are prime examples of this sort of Belief System (BS) that society calls truth, need I say more?
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Re: Rejection
Fri, July 6, 2007 - 3:17 PMI'm not sure what your reply has to do with what I said except as an indirect statement in relation to objective truth (there really isn't one when it comes to interpersonal relationships).
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Re: Rejection
Fri, July 6, 2007 - 4:25 PMYep, we are on different pages. and I'm not interested in mental word games.
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Re: Rejection
Sat, July 7, 2007 - 4:57 AMAh, well that would explain it, wouldn't it? Words on the screen are just letters. What you infer, imply, interpret, or project tell others more about what's inside you than what they may or may not mean. I see what seems to me to be a profound misunderstanding of what was written. You see what seems to you to be a mental word game.
One is a statement in relation to the words and the other is a statement in relation to the intent and motivation of the person posting the words.
My only question to you (and admittedly, it is rhetorical) is -- what makes you so sure you actually understood what was being said well enough to judge what it is or what it means?
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Sat, July 7, 2007 - 6:08 AMYour question was... "what makes you so sure you actually understood what was being said well enough to judge what it is or what it means?"
The words are important in your linear mind as to definition and meaning but the words definition come fourth in importance. First comes the feeling tone, the vibration of the words. Second comes the feeling tone and vibration of what is not being said. Third comes your intuition, your response from your heart, that first response feeling. So in actuality, words are not really important. You do not need words, or to understand words to communicate. For example, take little children that have not yet learned words, or children who have different languages that are brought together. They play, express themselves in ways other than words.
You can call my feelings and knowing judgmental or whatever, I just know that my intuition is never wrong even if my mind is confused and saying the opposite. Words give an outline, feelings give true understanding. Of course, if you can't feel or have shut down your feelings and intuition... then you will doubt what I say is the truth only because you have never experienced it to know it.
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Re: Rejection
Sat, July 7, 2007 - 8:02 PMthe meaning of a word determines whether or not it is used, as the purpose of communication is to be understood. not intuited, understood. there quite a difference between empathy and omniscience. well, for those of us who believe words are important and realize that communication requires both ability to parse language and will to understand it.
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Re: Rejection
Sun, July 8, 2007 - 7:37 AMI'm not posting this for your benefit, but for others that are reading this thread as I leave you to your mentaloid world. I've been there done that, and I don't like it, but if you do, that is your choice. ... John
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Just because someone says a word or a phrase, doesn't mean that they are sincere and mean it. You can have ten people of the opposite sex standing in front of you and all have the opportunity to say three words to you.... "I love you." And if you ask them a question, all that they can say is to repeat the same three words. Now your challenge is to pick out the one that really means it. If the word "love" is too ambiguous - (Def.- open to more than one interpretation) for you, then how about the same scenario but this time they all have a gun and they all say, "I'm going to kill you." And again you have to choose which one is telling the truth.
You can parse -(Def. - To break (a sentence) down into its component parts of speech with an explanation of the form, function, and syntactical relationship of each part) that sentence all you want, but it ain't gonna give your mental mind the omniscience -( the state of being omniscient; having infinite knowledge) to find the person that is going to kill you unless of course, you use your power of empathy - ( Def - Identification with and understanding of another's situation, feelings, and motives.) which isn't separate from, but a part of being omniscient (Def, - One having total knowledge.) The mind that thinks that it knows everything by denying his Will (Def. - Intuition and feelings) it's power of empathy is not omniscient, but a despot (Def,- A person who wields power oppressively; a tyrant.) sitting on his shit-house throne.
Words are only words and if you get caught up on trying to understand what everyone means by their words or rather... what everyone says they mean, you'll be constantly going in circles. Even when you remember their words exactly or they are written down or recorded, they will deny that they said it or that it was a mis-interpreted or that you don't understand and the list goes on and on. If you give these people the benefit of the doubt, you are giving them your power and playing their game by their rules that are constantly changing.
The only place that words have a place in the linear mind is with technical data, but even then, that is corrupted by human intent. Numbers are about the only thing that can't be mis-interpreted by the mental linear mind.
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Re: Rejection
Sun, July 8, 2007 - 9:15 AMthis will be my last post to you on this matter. i am sincerely saddened to see how cynical and jaded you are, particularly because you seem so much to want to find belonging and understanding but your every effort is rooted in poking at and challenging the sincerity of others -- hardly a practice to bring what you seem to want. this is, by far, the saddest thing i have ever seen a human write:
"Even when you remember their words exactly or they are written down or recorded, they will deny that they said it or that it was a mis-interpreted or that you don't understand and the list goes on and on. If you give these people the benefit of the doubt, you are giving them your power and playing their game by their rules that are constantly changing."
if your conviction rests in thinking that people are constantly being insincere and constantly lying, if you're so afraid of putting yourself out there and actually being wrong now and again, then it is likely best for you to insure you're safely aloof so it never happens... which, of course, explains quite nicely why you spend this much time on pedantic efforts rather than those things that engender understanding, closeness, and connection.
succinctly, you play a narcissists game and the first time you accused someone else of 'playing', you were admitting it. your need to feel superior is not binding upon me, and your willingness to proclaim your own perspective and opinion as some infallible, objective conclusion is nothing more than a scream of necessity in the face of something or someone who refuses to play your game, your way.
the pitiful part is -- you wonder why you're rejected and misunderstood. which is, of course, why this topic called you so strongly. the only thing worse than the manner in which you've pulled this person's call for help so far afield is that you seem to think your need to pontificate your opinion is more important than their search for understanding.
my fault in this was thinking you capable of looking beyond your own ego and its needs. rest assured, it is not a mistake i'll make twice.
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Re: Rejection
Sun, July 8, 2007 - 12:20 PMYou obviously feel angry and inferior or you wouldn't be attacking me, trying to justify your beliefs. Like I said before, we are on two different pages. I know your point-of-view page as I've been there, done that. I doubt that you are even capable of "feeling" my page, my point-of-view and that's OK. I have acceptance for you having your beliefs and that they are different than mine. You asked me a question and I replied. Because I don't agree with your point-of-view doesn't make me wrong anymore than you not agreeing with my point-of-view makes you wrong... Different... but not right or wrong.
As far as the EGO goes, the EGO defines who we are, it separates me from you. If we were all ego-less, we would be like machines, computer like clones with the same programs, thoughts and ideas. It might be your idea of the perfect world, but it sure ain't mine and I love who I am becoming... even if it dosn't please other people who would like to see me be anything but who and what I am.
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Tue, November 11, 2008 - 9:56 PMwow-
this conversation between you two has been a fascinating example of the oneness of us all. i hope you two are able to see your likeness in one another.
thanks for the reminder as i look into my own heart.
in love and light
sf
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Re: Rejection
Sun, July 8, 2007 - 1:50 PM"Even when you remember their words exactly or they are written down or recorded, they will deny that they said it or that it was a mis-interpreted or that you don't understand and the list goes on and on. If you give these people the benefit of the doubt, you are giving them your power and playing their game by their rules that are constantly changing."
Hi John !
I've had a great deal of experience with people who do just exactly what you describe above. Also I experience how words carry not only their own meaning but also the energy print of the one who wrote them.
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Re: Rejection - Feeling the energy of others
Sun, July 8, 2007 - 2:47 PMHi Jazmin,
I agree; some writings are so emotionally charged with the writers energy that you can't help but feel what they were feeling. This is especially true when it comes from a real life experience rather than from a fictional novel unless of course, there's a part of the authors personal experience mixed in with the fiction.
I was never a reader of novels, only technical books containing data and facts that I could then quote like a parrot. It wasn't until a friend of mine gave me the book, Bridges of Madison County, www.imdb.com/title/tt0112579/ that I read my first novel. It moved me emotionally like nothing I had ever experienced and I was in awe that a book could do that. It was later made into a movie, but it never moved me like the book did.
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Re: Rejection - Feeling the energy of others
Sun, July 8, 2007 - 4:36 PMYep, saw 'Bridges of Madison County' John, but haven't read the book. I was touched by the movie and now that you mention it in this emotional imprint context, I'll get hold of the book. Thanks.
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Re: Rejection
Sun, July 8, 2007 - 3:05 PMUm, John, I'm definitely going where angels fear to tread here....but, I think you would stop sounding like you're speaking for everyone, rather than sharing your own experience, if you threw in the odd " I have learned.." or " In my experience..." or " I think..."
I've been real unpopular with some for bringing up using owning language before, which just goes to show I'm a devil for punishment I suppose! But I think in general people are more receptive when they aren't being told that one's experience is everyones...
I'm not suggesting this would have prevented you and Fenix disagreeing, but it may have contributed to the tone of the disagreement.
I hope you won't take offense to my suggestions, because that's all they are, suggestions. :-)
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Sun, July 8, 2007 - 3:40 PMactually, all he had to do to avoid disagreeing with me was avoid the error of trying to tell me what i'm thinking, feeling, or what's motivating me. he's so far in left field about any of it that he could be president. but to hear him talk, he knows all, feels all, sees all. (shrug) whatever.
but, this is not entirely new in my experience. he projected his own fears and issues into the matter and, when presented with them, denied all knowledge. which is ironic considering the purported commitment to avoiding denial.
my grandmother had a saying, 'the guilty dog barks first'. it means whenever someone is yelling about what they think they know about you, what they're really doing is telling you what they know and fear most in themselves.
as such, it's always interesting to see... albeit sad.
maybe someone needs to point him to the etymology of 'empathy' -- which rises from identifying and understanding -- neither of which happen when you're too busy telling someone what they think, mean, or intend to let them tell you themselves.
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Re: Rejection
Sun, July 8, 2007 - 4:07 PM"my grandmother had a saying, 'the guilty dog barks first'. it means whenever someone is yelling about what they think they know about you, what they're really doing is telling you what they know and fear most in themselves"
Hi Fenix,
I'm very wary of hard and fast rules. Too often I've found opposites to both be true.
The other thing I've discovered, and which has taught me some humility, is that when a thing is outside my experience it can seem like absolute rubbish to me. Then I've had a taste of it.....and suddenly got what the other was trying to explain.
Although I can't say I enjoy not being at peace with others, I can say the time of turmoil is always one hell of a learning time for me ! :-) Soo....I'm not really trying to play peacekeeper here, just sharing what I think.
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Re: Rejection
Sun, July 8, 2007 - 4:27 PMRising Phoenix, hi.
I just wanted to share with you that the fear of rejection is often with me, and I'm a grandmother now :-)
You've been given some really good pointers on this thread, I think, and even seen someone get rejected and deal with it in their way.
For me, it's only when my passion for doing or saying a thing outweighs my fear of rejection, that I can go ahead. My passion feeds my courage and determination.
You're talking about doing something you read will assist you in leaping over a hurdle that's caused you pain for over a year. Is it possible you really don't feel that enthused about the author's suggestion ? Maybe you're a bit like me and need to feel really passionate about it first :-) ?
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Re: Rejection
Sun, July 8, 2007 - 5:09 PMHi Jazmin,
I see that there has been some other posts, but I'm going to resond to your second post to me... To make this perfectly clear to everyone and anyone reading this.. I am talking specifically to Jazmin.... and I am NOT speaking for anyone esle or everyone... just ME.
Fenix and I weren't talking about music... so when you say "but it may have contributed to the tone of the disagreement." I take it that you are actually referring to the "feeling tone" of my posts. Fenix was never activated by the feeling tone of my posts as she goes by words and not by "feeling" and I quote Fenix's post...
"the meaning of a word determines whether or not it is used, as the purpose of communication is to be understood. not intuited, understood. there quite a difference between empathy and omniscience. well, for those of us who believe words are important and realize that communication requires both ability to parse language and will to understand it."
Neither was Fenix activated into what you state "but, I think you would stop sounding like you're speaking for everyone, rather than sharing your own experience," Fenix knew I was speaking for myself when she said. "but i admit, it is a fascinating universe you've fabricated. neatly self-referential and self-enforced. i'll leave you to its enjoyment."
So this has nothing to do with what you try to make out is the problem. The real issue here is with what you felt about the "tone" of my responses to Fenix's posts.... But.. instead of being real... you try to make it appear that it is something else, that is MY fault, or my doing, or that I am the CAUSE of what you are denying.... I HAVE LEARNED in MY EXPERIENCES that when people are activated and in DENIAL... that they do one of two things:
A) They deny the real issue and get angry and attack.
2) They deny the real issue and also their anger... and attack with niceness.
It's like the good cop - bad cop routine and they try to present themselves as being nice, kind and loving and are only "trying" to help.. Keyword TRYING... but it's phoney... I KNOW that you have an issue with confrontation and anger and rage, that's why you play the coy "good cop" routine. Try to ""soften" me up with a post agreeing with me and then coming at me with this unloving energy.
I have a SUGGESTION for YOU and I hope that you don't take offence :) .... Get REAL!!!!.. If YOU have an issue with ME and my "tone" and are activated.... spit it out.. but don't try to make it about someone or something else. I'm sure you can "feel" the energy "tone" in my words as I am leaving nothing to the imagination because your last post is bullshit.
Yes, I'm angry at being attacked and I'm not in denial of my anger as I will not roll over and take it just because YOU are "trying" to be "nice".. I'm not attacking you, but it will feel like that you to as I KNOW that you will be activated by this post. I have acceptance for REAL.. but not "nice" BS. If you think I'm full of BS then I invite you to read a post on my blog my.opera.com/saysame/blo...n-the-moment and one of my experiences with a guy that was playing "bad" cop...
John
PS; Thanks for the activation. This is a difficult issue to heal as it is so twisted and convoluted. I feel I have expressed everything that I was feeling, so now I will submit this post...Ahhh! This is part and parcel of being "rejected" and also of being different and being accused of being egotistical and a know it all... OK.. Lets see what else happens? -
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Sun, July 8, 2007 - 6:48 PMThis post is directed to Fenix.
The name of this tribe is "Empaths Alike"
---- ARE YOU AN EMPATH OR TELEPATH ??
Paul then gives nine qualities of being an empath...that I'm not going to repeat and then he finishes with ...
"If this sounds like you... welcome. You're among friends. Here is a place where you can discuss the many challenges and rewards of your innate sensitivity."
My question to you is, what are you doing here if you deny that you are an empath or that feelings are important. Either you are not as smart as you make yourself out to be, or you are very clever and are here to belittle and suppress the truth when it is expressed.
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Re: Rejection
Sun, July 8, 2007 - 7:00 PMPheew, I knew I was going where angels fear to tread with that post John. There was a time not long ago when I did feel REALLY really angry about people speaking and writing in a way that speaks for everyone else. I posted the topic here on Empaths Alike about it called "Why don't or won't people speak for themselves?" I felt so activated, as you say, about it. It wasn't long ago either...But posting about it and the thread that grew from that post, helped me work through how I felt about it. I don't get so fired up about it now. Just say my bit when I feel it's appropriate, because I feel that's being true to myself, and move on.
I thought maybe Fenix would have taken less offense if you'd qualified your posts with "in my opinion" and "my sense of what you feel is...." and the like. I thought the "tone" of the disagreement might have been gentler, but I didn't state it as a fact, only a possibility. I wasn't challenging whether you were reading Fenix correctly or not, nor was it my intention to place blame.
You said:
** I HAVE LEARNED in MY EXPERIENCES that when people are activated and in DENIAL... that they do one of two things:
A) They deny the real issue and get angry and attack.
2) They deny the real issue and also their anger... and attack with niceness**
This is something I've learned too. About myself and others. But I've also learned: 3) Having woken up to doing A) and 2) I now carefully examine my motives before I do or say things.
I don't feel I have an issue with confrontation, anger and rage. As a girl I sure did! I slammed doors and bellowed and was so frustrated and enraged I didn't know what to do with myself. I've understood why I felt that way for a long time now.
I don't feel whole and well if I don't allow myself to feel all that I feel, so I'm big on doing it. I don't feel anger and rage towards you John, and I'm surprised I don't, because you've accused me of doing and being things I have no respect for.
My first post to you came first, just because it was what I most wanted to say at the time. A little later I decided to risk giving you my suggestions about qualifying what one says. My post began with 'um' to signal my tentativeness.
I feel I'm being as real as I can possibly be John. I'm sure I'm only gonna get more real as I uncover more of myself as my life continues.
I feel hurt rather than angry. Especially that you think my last, or any of my posts to you were bullshit. This shows me I am healing because it has been my way to feel my anger so's not to feel the hurt underneath.
I think some people are "know it alls" and some know much and present it in a way that can make them look like "know it alls". I didn't get the sense you were a "know it all" John. I still don't.
I respect your honesty.
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Sun, July 8, 2007 - 8:04 PMHi Jazmin,
I felt a breath of fresh air come from your post as I "felt" your words and your new intent. Although I still don't agree with all that you said, I felt that you were opening up to what really is going on.
Now, as you suggested... this one time only.. :) lol It has been through a series of personal experiences that I now no longer accept abuse of any kind.... from any man, woman, child, cripple or animal that attacks me (period) Mincing my words and putting it in a "nice" way when I don't feel like being nice because I just got bitten, is the denial game and I don't play that game.. at least consciously anyway.
I feel it and I express it.. If there is no issue on the receiving end, then there is no emotional charge and no problem.. If there is a denied issue on the other end, then there is also a denied emotional charge that will surface and that is not my problem, but theirs... If they don't want me to be open and honest and not innocently activate them into their denied secrets, then it is their responsibility to tell me everything (in writing) that they are hiding and denying, that they don't want to be reminded of and I will do my best not to say anything that is on their list... I'm not a mind reader and I'm not going to walk around on egg shells just because some person may be in denial and is afraid of the truth.
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Sun, July 8, 2007 - 9:56 PMJohn, my intent hadn't and hasn't changed.
What changed in my last reply to you is that I went from being stoic to feeling very hurt by the time I finished answering your accusations about my behaviour.
I didn't intend to abuse you in any way with my suggestions for stopping your posts from sounding as though you're speaking for everyone. I get it that you feel strongly that I was. I wouldn't question the fact that you felt abused or attacked by what I said. Because I respect that you feel what you feel, and that was abused and attacked. But, I will stand firmly by my awareness of my own intent. Which was not to attack or abuse in any way, or play games etc. My earlier posts to you were made with the intention of connection and sharing.
When I'm pissed off by what someone says or does and I feel the need to express my feelings to them about it, I tell them how I feel about what they have said or done. I avoid accusing them of doing things to me and stick with how I feel . This, because I want to avoid causing another unnecessary pain while letting them know clearly how I feel.
I do have an issue with being accused of things I haven't done. Or I wouldn't have felt the hurt I told you I felt in response to you expressing your anger to me the way you did. I'm not blaming you for how I felt. Just telling you that I would not have felt hurt if you had stuck with voicing your feelings and opinions rather than direct accusations about my behaviour.
I think it's possible to express anger, or any emotion to another genuinely, while doing one's best not to hurt them unnecessarily in the process. I don't think this has to involve "mincing words".
I think it's altogether possible we won't come to any kind of agreement about how to express one's feelings to another without unnecessarily causing them pain, because, well, I just think we see this very differently to one another.
Once again, I do respect your honesty.
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Re: Rejection
Mon, July 9, 2007 - 7:59 AM-John-
Understand I am not responding to your post necessarily, however, I do want to state that (and this is for EVERYONE) we are either in Fear or Love!! Anything with fear attached, such as anger, and all those emotions we would rather deny are an expression for love. So we are either being Love or crying out for Love!! My perception has changed so much in the past two years...I don't see things in Black and White any more. There is no good or bad, right or wrong, life is what it is....experiences!! We can either deal with life from a stance of Love or Fear!! It is hard to come from a place of love when we see ourselves as 'being attacked'!! People don't attack me, they just have chosen to come from a place of fear!! Nothing is ever done to me....it is just life acting in accordance with life and I have made the decision to come from a place of Love!!
I adhere to "The Course In Miracles" philosophy in that life is just that...Life!! And it is how we deal with it that matters. I was sexually abused by many men and I have come a long with with that healing. If I continue to blame those who have wronged me then I remain a victim to life!! I am not a victim...I am just dealing with situations and circumstances that have landed on my path!! Fear is an Illusion and once we give it to God/The Great Spirit the better we will feel!!
So much anger and fear has been flying around this post!! I lift all those people who view themselves as 'being attacked' - To The Light!!
~peace~
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Sun, July 8, 2007 - 9:44 PMJazmin, he feels attacked. That isn't the same as others actually attacking him. But it is a clever way of making everyone else responsible for how he feels (or trying to). It's obvious you weren't attacking him, just as I wasn't, but because the only dynamic he can relate to/in is one in which he is 'being attacked', that's how it all gets framed by him.
It is ironic, really... denying being a victim by portraying all things as victimizing him. Ultimate denial knotted upon itself. But the choice to indulge it or be affected by it remains with us... and your words have been well intended and kind. You really shouldn't let him undermine your intent with his need to be right and 'superior'. That's his need... his baggage... and like anyone else, he has to deal with it (or continue denying it) on his own.
As you can see, any response that isn't rolling over to his needs is only going to result in more and more strident attempts by him to 'prove' how right he is, and how wrong everyone else is. Why bother indulging it? It's only distraction and ultimately, divisive.
I'm fine with "Mr. Omniscient" thinking he knows what's happening, because he so clearly shows how entirely off in the weeds he is... and it's humorous to have someone telling you how angry you are when you're not. 'Ooooh, I'm so angry that I'm chuckling. Fear the mighty wrath of my humor!' Heh. -
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Mon, July 9, 2007 - 4:23 PMHi Jazmin, This is kind of a long post, but there is a lot in it.
For quite some time I have understood why the unloving opposite polarity and Spirit Polarity people were attacking and rejecting me but I could never figure out why the Will Polarity, the people that also feel and empath, were also attacking and rejecting me and why they sided with the unloving ones? But now, thanks to this thread, I understand the subtle dynamics and the reasons behind the shift.
Will Polarity (Feeling People) have been imprinted and programmed by both the Spirit polarity and by themselves, to be the “savers” and “peace keepers” because any sign of conflict, of anger and rage means trouble for the Will Polarity because of unresolved and denied issues around the expression of anger and rage both in themselves and others. To avoid conflict and especially anger and rage, Will Polarity people step in to try to resolve the conflict, because they have been activated into their imprints and programs.
The ironic twist is that all this is only made possible because of the issues and denials present in the Will Polarity people. When I first posted in this thread, I wasn’t feeling attacked by Fenix, but as the posts became more aggressive, and in denial, and I could feel a cool aloft blue and what I call “mental word games” and a presence and pressure (a push or feeling of being rejected)
The twist here is that Jazmin couldn’t “feel” Fenix like I could and she isn’t aware of things like I am. She believed that because she felt nothing from Fenix, that there was no problem. BUT what she didn’t realize is that the feeling of “nothing” is the problem. In my experiences, the only reason that one doesn’t feel another’s feelings or emotions is because there are none to feel.
Because Jazmin couldn’t “feel” fenix, she had to go on what her programs told her and that was the “mental word game” which just so happens to also be an issue that Jazmin has. Jazmin wants people to be “nice” and to say things in a nice and correct way so as to avoid any conflict and possible anger and rage being expressed.
While Jazmin couldn’t feel Fenix, she could definitely feel me and what she felt from me was my anger and rage at being attacked by Fenix. Jazmin became activated into her old imprints and programs and her belief that the person who she is feeling… and is expressing their anger, is the problem and that the person that she couldn’t feel anything from and was “just talking” was not the problem. While people like Fenix may ACT like they have feelings, there is nothing there except the cool blue aloftness that I mentioned, except of course, when they show their true colours and then it’s a “blue streak” that leaves no doubt what and who they are.
It’s all beginning to make sense to me. Now another twist in all this is that Jazmin was activated, and so she posts her conflict resolution technique suggesting that I alter my behavior and be nicer.. like Fenix.. I now felt attacked by Jazmins unloving energy, unloving because she is in denial of her real issues as to why she tries to avoid conflict and tries to be a peace maker.. I also felt attacked because she never wrote Fenix, suggesting to her, that she do what she was suggesting I do. Again, Jazmain didn’t think or believe that Fenix was a problem because she felt nothing from her that activated her. Since Jazxmin is now attacking me, Fenix jumps in and supports Jazmin and also continues her verbal attack on me.. not directly, but through Jazmin.
Fenix, you will notice hasn’t responded to my question that I posted about 5 or 6 posts back as to what she is doing in this tribe if she denies that she is an empath or that feelings are important.
And Jazmin, if you still doubt what I say is true, I have a challenge for you. I don’t need Fenix’s response to know the truth, but this is for your experience. You don’t have to do this, but what I’m asking you to do, is to read, but more importantly, “feel” not only what I said in that post, but also what Paul wrote in the “Empath Alike” statement. Then I’d like you to pose the same question that I originally posted, to Fenix. All it takes from Fenix is a simple “yes” and “no” to each of the two questions.
I’d be pleasantly surprised if I was wrong, but Fenix can’t or wouldn’t answer the questions directly because in replying, she would be admitting that she was either lying in her posts to me, or she would be exposing her true intent, her true colours. Of course she will reply that now I’m the one that is controlling and manipulating you and twisting words around to suit my hidden agenda, or whatever she can up with that will take the focus off of her and put it on me, but that is something that you will have to feel for yourself.
Anyway, thank you Jazmin and Fenix for this activation, experience and the insights. I couldn’t have done it without you. It’s yet, another piece of the puzzle that I’ve discovered on my journey.
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Re: Rejection - Another insight - Two-points-of-view
Mon, July 9, 2007 - 4:26 PMAnother insight I got is that you have to have the experience. You have to literally be in the box and then work your way out of it to be able to know what it is like, both on the inside and then on the outside of the box. Unless you are “outside” the box, you are still caught up with the mind games that are being carried out inside the box. Once you are out of the box, you can still talk to people inside the box, but now it’s from a different point-of-view, one that has compassion and understanding, with an, “I know what you are going through, what you’re thinking and feeling” that can only come from a “been there done that” that isn’t false or fake, but the truth.
To use an analogy, suppose you and ten other people are living in a house and none of you have ever been outside the house. Now the house has windows to look out and see the outside world, but they don’t open. There is also a door, but none knows what it’s for and they are afraid to open it.
Now suppose that you are the one that does what others are afraid to do. When they are all running and hiding, like Chicken Little, you open the door and go outside. You explore the outside of the house and the neighborhood and then you see someone looking out the window and you go to talk to them to tell them what you have found on the outside, but they can’t hear or see you.
You go back into the house and you begin to tell them what you found outside and that they too can get out of the house. They all look at you as if you are someone or something foreign, or that you have lost your mind.
They loudly exclaim. ”It’s impossible to get out and that where you say you where is not real.” They proclaim, “You have no idea what’s it’s like out there, you have never been outside a house before!”
You know that they are frightened and confused and you know that what they are saying isn’t the truth… but it’s their truth in that moment. You know that because you have experienced both being in the house, “Been there done that” and you also have experienced what it feels like on the outside, “Been there done that too.” You can now see things from two points-of-view- while the others in the house are limited to their one point-of-view.
“We can’t get out, we can’t be free.” They lament. “There are windows that we can look out of, but they are all locked and we can’t break the glass.”
You tell them and show them the door and you also tell them how to open it. You explain that it’s the same door that you used to get out of the house. They are afraid to open it because they are afraid of what is behind the door. You tell them that you weren’t harmed by opening the door and going outside, but they don’t believe that “they” wouldn’t be harmed. You tell them that you are going to open the door and you ask if anyone wants to go with you, but just the mere mentioning of “opening the door” sends them all running in a panic.
You leave the house and the door swings closed. With blank expressionless stares, they turn to each other, scratching their heads, and then they stare out the window, silently pondering,” How can I get out of this house? How can I get to experience the outside?”
Now the house isn’t a physical house or enclosure but represents a “closed mind,” closed by its imprints, programs and beliefs. The question for me now is; what can I do, how I can help loving “feeling” people open and free their minds from the twisted beliefs that keep them closed and ignorant? How can I get them to trust them selves enough to open the door and see and feel the outside for themselves, to experience what real freedom it is like? How can I make them aware of the unseen role of denial and how it’s created a cage that they call life? More questions, no answers… Yet!
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Re: Rejection - Another insight - Two-points-of-view
Mon, July 9, 2007 - 5:05 PMJohn,
It's been interesting, and thanks for your time. I'm glad you've gained insights from our connecting here. I have too.
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Tue, July 10, 2007 - 6:45 AMI did what I set out to do.
I placed Fear, and it's 1st cousin Expectation, next to me at the table. Told them to sit quietly. Then, I closed my eyes and breathed out my feelings from a deep place within me.
It didn't come out the way I had expected, or planned, for that matter. But once I started, I didn't even have to think. I just let my Spirit and my Heart speak. And the waves did roll......
I spoke my peace.
Thank you to all of you that offered your insight, suggestions and encouragement. I deeply appreciate you taking the time and effort to bring Light to my experience.
Have a beautiful Tuesday.
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Re: Rejection - It's not the person... but the message.
Tue, July 10, 2007 - 7:27 AMRejection… It interesting the insights that I’m getting in all this.
This morning I was thinking of this thread and how it started off being about “rejection” and then how it got a little side-tracked, but in the end.. it’s fully back to being about rejection… but with a clearer understanding that I can now feel to the core of my being.
In my earlier post I said that for quite some time I have understood why the unloving opposite polarity and Spirit Polarity people were attacking and rejecting me but I could never figure out why the Will Polarity, the people that also feel and empath, were also attacking and rejecting me and why they sided with the unloving ones
Later I was getting insights to the subtle dynamics at play but I was also missing the bigger picture. When I stepped back and had another look at the puzzle pieces that I had put together, I realized that they were not rejecting “me”, per-say, but what I represented…
I realized that the opposite polarity and Spirit Polarity people didn’t reject “ME” but they rejected what I represented… I also realized that Loving and feeling essence (IN DENIAL) rejected, not “ME” but also what I represented because whenever Loving essence is in denial, they have also reverse their polarity and are now just like the opposite unloving polarity and Spirit polarity people.
Unloving essence of the Opposite Polarity and Spirit Polarity and loving essence (in denial) all reject what is opposite to them and their polarity. What is opposite to the unloving polarity is the polarity of unconditional LOVE.
Earlier I felt that these people were rejecting ME, but in reality… they were NOT rejecting ME… but what I represented… LOVE… I’m the messenger, the truth-sayer and they don’t like the message… I don’t know why I didn’t see or feel that before, but now I see things in a totally different light.
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Re: Rejection - Another insight - Two-points-of-view
Tue, July 10, 2007 - 7:36 AMI'm sorry your initial request seemed ot have gotten lost in the banter Rising Phoenix, but it seems to have done others much good. In response to your request I would like to mention EFT to you (emofree.com) - it's a safe, subtle, easy tapping technique. you can do it yourself, but your problems sound like common complicated issues and these are never things we need to do alone. The practictioners are really affordable - over the phone sessions usually being cheaper than in person. Know that these processes take awhile, but now that you've set the intention YOU WILL GET THERE. That's you listening to your intuition! Congrats and Bless you! (these words come from my experiences which were guided by many on the same path)
... I wrote a long babbling response to John, Jazmin and Fenix, but then felt I was taking away their power by stepping in without asking to help bring understanding rather than let them fight it out themselves and so deleted it. All I can say is that we are all here because we care, and cannot ask each other to be on any other part of our journey than where we are right now. So bless all of you for being you.
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Tue, July 10, 2007 - 9:36 AMBullshit and Smarties...
I used the analogy of bullshit and smarties in a post on Wolfcreek Fairies, Wolfcreek Fairies wolfcreekfaeries.tribe.net/thre...e0505 I loved it...so I expanded on it... It's also related to this topic...Hey I love being challenged and activated and you can see.. I'm on a roll.. :)
People spew verbal diarrhea from their mouths onto a plate and then mix in a few smarties (part-truths) so as to entice you to eat it. Then they offer it to you telling you that what they give you is good for you... and tell you to eat the whole thing.
Unloving people say things that may have part-truths to them, and if you don't totally agree or support them they reject you.. But like i mentioned in my previous post... it’s not that they are rejecting YOU... it's that they reject what you are saying and or doing and the fact that you are not in agreement or alignment with them and doing or saying what "they" want you to...
Shit can't and wouldn't stick to smarties, the (TRUTH) so if we vibrate and shake the plate of shit/smarties hard and long enough, we will vibrate the smarties.. the (truth) to the surface. Unloving people and people in denial are also unloving people... and “they” don't want us to vibrate or shake the pile of shit to expose the smarties, they just want us to eat the shit/smarties. Eating smarties is OK, but, eating shit is not good for us and will make us sick. But when we tell that to the people that gave us the plate of shit/smarties, they will play dumb, or say that it's the smarties or something else that made us sick. Denial is their game and the only way that we are going to find and expose the smarties the (truth) that is buried in all the shit is to shake the shit out of it...
If, instead of accepting their word for it that shit/smarties are good for us, we object and challenge their truth, we are seen as trouble makers and .. Hey I just got it!!! SHIT DISTRUBERS.... I never thought of that phrase in this context but I have always been called a shit disturber… That's so funny. (I had a good laugh over that and I'm still smiling) I like that. I am a SHIT disturber, and I will never stop vibrating love until all the smarties (Truth) has been uncovered from under the mountains of shit that has been piled on top of it...
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Tue, July 10, 2007 - 8:58 PMJOHN,
LMAO at the shit/smarties thing!
Thanks for sharing!
I totally get what you mean! It actually makes a few things about life clearer.
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Re: Rejection - Another insight - Two-points-of-view
Tue, July 10, 2007 - 2:25 PMRisingPhoenix,
Congratulations !!
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Tue, July 10, 2007 - 4:20 PMvery happy to know it unfolds well for you. (smile)
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Wed, July 11, 2007 - 5:03 AMI'm writing this short note as an explanation to those that are following this thread, so that they can apply what you learn here to your personal experiences. If you don't feel what I am feeling, that doesn't negate what I am feeling and felt. When I read Fenix's post last night and saw her (smile) I felt and unloving icky feeling, like a sweet smelling, noxious pile of shit that was being sent at me. I (denied) responding and sending it back to her and it's been hanging around in my energy field and "nigging" at me ever since.
So now I am going to respond to Fenix.
Fenix, I do not accept your unloving energy, I didn't like it before and I don't like it now. I send back to you all that you sent at me, and I make it my intent that everything that you send at me in the future is also sent back to you.... you unloving little reptilian.
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Wed, July 11, 2007 - 7:46 AMAlright, now it's my turn to say something, John. It stirred up that which is so important in me and I am compelled to speak.
Fenix's response was obviously a reaction to Rising Phoenix's turn of events, not your post. It feels to me that the reaction you had was yours and not hers. And as much as I have I agreed with so much of what you have said, though perhaps not your style but that's difference of individual and so fine, but I see much hypocriticism if you say you are a loving being and only love certain people. The true response of love if Fenix had in fact meant her posting in a sarcastic and hurtful manner would be to send love to her anyway.
I don't know your educational or experiential background on love, but I'd continue to feel that you know nothing (as I believe you posted in another posting) and see where it takes you. Good luck in your journeys.
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Wed, July 11, 2007 - 9:34 AMI have a request...
Can this stop please?
I never in a million past lives would have posted my post if I had known that it would cause this.
I know I know......... let everything unfold as it will and let nature take it's course and obviousy this needed to happen and blah blah blah.
But everytime I read what's going down on this post, I cry.
Please stop.
Let it go.
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Wed, July 11, 2007 - 9:52 AMHi Rising : )
Maybe other people have somethng to learn from this and you can remove yourself from it entirely because it doesn't even seem as if this topic is about you as much as others have made it about theirselves. You've taken what you could of advice and experience and after reading your last post about setting free what was on your mind, I percieve you to have let things flow as you said. Anything left here seems to be a waste of your precious energy : ) Don't let anyone suck it out of you... including others whom can't see past their own nose.
Much love to ya sista!
Katrina
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Wed, July 11, 2007 - 10:05 AMfriend, don't let the impediments of others become your own. we choose. always. the best gift you can ever give someone lost in negativity, self-deception, and anger is not to add to their struggles... silence is thus, always best. we all have struggles, some have a need to spread them on the table for everyone to 'enjoy'... but most are wise enough to know it is a personal journey. when they do not, simply make the choice not to accept them from others. things as they are and even what so often looks ugly serves its purpose for the one lost in it... realize that the only burdens you ever carry are those you accept.
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Wed, July 11, 2007 - 10:38 AMhehe don't take their tangent personally just cos it's in the same thread as your post -- it's not 'your fault' -- they don't like each other's discussion styles or something. i don't read the posts... those two (i think?) sorting things out... :)
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Re: Rejection
Wed, July 11, 2007 - 1:23 PMHi Rising Phoenix,
I think you already answered your own question. When you enter a relationship without expectation, then you end up with the best results. However, a large percent of the people in the world do not like rejection. I don't like it either, who wants to get their heart hurt?? But then we could look at it another way. if we are rejected by someone, it is God's way of weeding out the ones we don't need. I believe nothing is a mistake...it all works out with our best interest at heart!! As long as we are not forcing anything and allowing the Universe/Spirit to guide us, then we are doing the best we can with what we have!! We all already have the answers within our being!! Other people's theories are just that, their theories, you have your own as you are an individual on this planet with your own purpose.
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Re: Rejection
Wed, July 11, 2007 - 2:37 PMHi Lynn,
I'm glad you are finally speaking up and expressing yourself, but you and I differ on your first comment. "Fenix's response was obviously a reaction to Rising Phoenix's turn of events, not your post.
What may seem obvious to you is not obvious to me..
1) There was no reference in Fenix's post as to who she was referring to by name.
2) It was I... and not (RP) that was having all the "unfolding" the insights that Fenix mentions.
3) Here are (13) posts beginning with the last one of mine that you question me on. Between Fenex's comment (#3 and RP's post (#9) I had posted two insights (#6 and #8) and just before RP's post, I had also posted two insights (#11 and #12). if you consider that Fenix's post was an "obvious" response to RP's post... then I would hate to see you as a witness in court.
1- Me- ****Return to sender***
2 -Brock
3 -**** Fenix's comment**** [very happy to know it unfolds well for you. (smile)]
4 -jazmin --- [ Congratulations !! ]
5 -cupofzen - LMNO
6 -Me - (INSIGHT) Bullshit and smarties
7 -Lynn
8 -ME - (INSIGHT) Not the person - but the message
9 -**** RP's post ***
10 -Jazmin
11 -Me - (INSIGHT) Another insight
12 -Me - (INSIGHT) My post rejection.(the long post)
13- Fenix - to Jazmin
But there is more.. Now you twist it around and contradict yourself saying that....
"The true response of love if Fenix had in fact meant her posting in a sarcastic and hurtful manner would be to send love to her anyway."
Well if you are not implying that Fenix was indeed referring to me, then you are implying that I am in need of a course in "Love Management." So if that is the case, then I have this comment regarding that statement...
REAL LOVE. Unconditional Love... is not accepting a plate of psychic shit/smarties anymore that "love" is accepting getting beaten and raped repeatedly by your husband or boyfriend and also watching him molest your daughter. There is no difference between Physical, Mental, Emotional and Psychic abuse, but in your "old school" of learned "love" mentality, there is.
You also said.. "I don't know your educational or experiential background on love"
This also relates to the what I just said... Love is a "feeling" and not some mental concept or idea you learn in church or school and then try to shove down someone's throat as being the Gospel truth. That mental concept is one of conditional love. If being nice, kind, caring, sharing, self-sacrificing, co-operative, compromising, and all the other loving cliches is what you consider love, then why are you not not "walking your talk" and being all those so-called loving things to "me"... You say one thing and do another... Talk to me.. but also show me by example and I will consider what you are saying..... and what I am "feeling" when you are expressing yourself... as that is the ONLY way that I can tell if someone is loving and being REAL or just trying to hand me a plate full of shit/smarties...
I'm not at all angry, in fact, I think this is great, as it is bringing out all the false mis-conceptions we have about what love is and is not.... and I thank you RP for posting this topic...
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Re: Rejection
Wed, July 11, 2007 - 3:28 PMJohn's definition of "shit/smarties " <Insert Definition Here>
My definiton of John
"Phil-i-swine"
Defined as an idiosyncratic disposition commonly displayed in
persons who have attempted to gain a level of higher understanding in the
fields of self indulgent empathy and amoral disquisition.
The term Phil-i-swine was coined by a
visitor to the social networking website "tribe.net" who witnesses
the lengthy, self serving, sanctimonious dissertations served up as
sage advise from supposed learned and enlightened empath's.
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Re: Rejection
Wed, July 11, 2007 - 3:52 PMI think I understand how you feel. And of course you are right to your feelings. Many of us have hard times finding a balance where we can express our feelings without taking them out on others. Simply, it seems there is commonness in not adequately expressing how one feels.
My feelings were one of sadness acting as frustration upon seeing perceived hate retaliated with more hate, and thought I could quell my own feelings by offering my outside opinion in hopes to shed some openness or light on some unseen things. I allow myself to hurt when I see unneccessary hurts (as most of us empaths do) due to misunderstandings and misconceptions, but that has caused me to deplete myself of more energy as all I can control is how I feel.
"...you are implying that I am in need of a course in "Love Management." - I simply feel as we are in human form, that we all always have more to learn about love, life, others and self... and everything!
Peace and thanks to you all,
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Re: Rejection
Wed, July 11, 2007 - 4:04 PMMud-Slinging and denial. So what else is new... Same pattern, different form..
You are not telling or showing me anything that I don't know. While I can't perdict what you will say, I do know that it will either be an attack or denial...and where is your so-called love in that ... SSDD
JR
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Re: Rejection
Wed, July 11, 2007 - 5:21 PMwow, both of you are acting like children, let it go. the arguements, and mud slinging is silly, both of you disagree, okay, now move on. -
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Re: Rejection
Wed, July 11, 2007 - 11:58 PMWand. .
We're big kids, we can handle it : ) Things should work theirselves out, but thank you for attepting to be Switzerland. Swizterland left a while back in this thread.
K
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Re: Rejection
Wed, July 11, 2007 - 11:57 PMand where is your so-called love in that ... SSDD
"So called"... Where did I claim for there to be in that dialogue? Just honesty my muddy friend.
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Re: Rejection
Wed, July 11, 2007 - 6:36 PMRejection..........I believe that to possibly be the single most hurtful experience in the world. No amount of acceptance from all the rest of the world can make up for the rejection from that one person who MATTERS , really matters to you. I know, I know so much about that.
That rejecting person, in my case, was my mother, who was a very troubled woman.. As an adult, I can look back, and KNOW the reasons for her rejection, but it does not make it any easier to bear, for she was the one person in this world who was supposed to accept me, if no-one else ever did.
As an Adult, I fight daily with this fear of rejection... and it isn't getting any easier. I fear rejection from nearly every source possible..... My way of coping with this fear is to never put myself into a position of possibly being rejected. It's a lonely world, here inside this world I've made, but rejection does not enter here. I am working on over-coming this fear of rejection, but it's a very very slow process... and therapy does not help much.
The best anaolgy I can think of is.... a child is told that he can have a cookie off the plate on the table. He reaches out, and gets one. but is slapped backwards by his mother.
She tells him never, never to ask for anything from anyone's house, or he will get slapped
(rejected). He sees nothing wrong, because he has been given permission by the owner of the cookies, but his mother sees it as him disobeying her by taking the cookie. He is confused, and stays confused, and decideds that risking the punishment of rejection is just too painful a risk for the possible pleasure of the cookie. As the Bible says" Teach them in the way that they should go and they will not soon depart from it" If a child is taught rejection,, he continues rejecting and being rejected . My, my, I have rambled on. This is a touchy subject for me, in case you can not tell!!!
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Re: Rejection
Thu, July 12, 2007 - 5:37 AMMarie,
Thank you so much for this post. This is exactly where I am coming from. I think my fear of rejection stems from interactions as a child with my mother too. I was not the daughter she wanted me to be. It is just now that she is accepting me (probably from exhaustion of not being able to change me!), but the deep wounds are still there.
But we're here to heal those wounds, so I have my work cut out for me. Thankfully, I'm not angry at her anymore. I'm too busy being my Self!
Thank you for showing your heart. Have a beautiful day.
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Re: Rejection
Thu, July 12, 2007 - 6:16 PMme too, me too. maternal rejection (see posts around here and in heart centre tribe)...
awful stuff.
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Re: Rejection
Mon, November 17, 2008 - 12:26 AM> it means whenever someone is yelling about what they think they know about you, what they're really doing is telling you what they know and fear most in themselves.<
This is interesting. I have found in re-reading emails I've sent while angry, that almost everything applies about as equally to ME as to the other person. I get SO upset if someone ignores me, yet I know I can retreat and be aloof when I feel insecure. It makes me feel like a hypocrite...I'm trying to remember to see it next time I want to say something hurtful. -
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Re: Rejection
Mon, November 17, 2008 - 1:55 PM**** it means whenever someone is yelling about what they think they know about you, what they're really doing is telling you what they know and fear most in themselves.****
In my experience it can also mean they are desperate to keep their own impression of who you are intact, whether it's accurate or not. Because, their impression of you is informed by the needs they have of you.
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