Mindfulness & Wisdom

Remember that true intimacy is only achieved when you can allow the other person to be exactly as they are. The more your mind is preoccupied with how things should be, the more tension you will feel, and the more distance you create between you.

Gifted people are global and sophisticated thinkers, who have a unique psychological structure. They possess a greater capacity and thirst for knowledge and discovery, experience enhanced sensual stimuli, and feel a full range of emotions to an immensely deep level.

To avoid the bad feelings, the child slowly learns to identify only with what he thinks of as “good” and to deny anything “bad” as part of who he is. He actually starts limiting his identity to only include what he has come to believe is “acceptable” in the eyes of his parents. Yet another child may despair altogether of getting any good strokes fr

While the image of the event may not return visually, as it often would if you had post traumatic stress disorder, your emotional flashback may show up in other ways such as negative self-talk, a knot in your stomach, tightness in the chest, or a flood of fear, shame and powerlessness.

The existentially gifted are idealists as they consider the limitless possibilities of how things could be. They are on a constant quest to connect with something larger than themselves and seek answers about the obligations, opportunities and mysteries of human life. It pains them to see how the world is falling short.

Uncovering what lies underneath your past can seem threatening, but false tranquillity upheld by a facade of ‘okay-ness’ is fragile and short-lived. In the end, self-deception is toxic; unmourned pains and unspoken words can only lie dormant for so long.