It’s been about 18 months since my heart chakra opened and there have been unexpected changes in my life, not least of which was the opening of my heart chakra in the first place.
One of the things that happened to me is that increasingly I find people are sharing their life stories with me; sometimes those stories are horrifying. I mentioned them to my wife the psychotherapist, who tells me she hears stuff like that (and worse) all the time. I have trouble hearing it without being deeply affected. I was advised to keep a plexiglass shield up, to listen with empathy and compassion, and to remember that they are different people than me, that their pain is not mine. Compassion and identification are two different things.
My operating theory for a long time was that people were talking to me in ways they hadn’t before. My daughters of suggested that perhaps they were talking to me in ways they always had, but now I was listening.
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