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Long story short I had experienced severe trauma and health issues in recent years.

Afterwards I closed down to survive.

Until two years ago I was pretty numb despite or because of being an "empath".

Emotions would spill over at the wrong times or situations.

So I went regularly to grief and gratitude ceremonies to weep in large groups.

I did lots of other inner and outer work as well.

Then emotions finally flowed cautiously.

Last year I was sick a lot (again) and I received another devastating message shortly after being more less OK again but still weak.

My emotional well-being that slowly returned back to calm got disrupted again.

Emotions went unchecked.

Some of them literally erupted in the morning already.

So I had to even come up with moving meditations to disperse the surplus energy from the body.

I had one for most heavy emotions like fear or anger after a while.

Now or ever since they subsided again.

Yet I'm asking myself and you whether it's a sign of higher consciousness or rather resistance again.

Am I more enlightened now or going numb again by pushing emotions down?

Many of you have voiced that emotions are much less dominant and are experienced from afar after enlightenment.

The only thing I know for sure is that I am.

I don't want to go back to numb again.

So I wonder how do I differentiate between closing down and being just calmer?

Did I surrender so that I am just watching emotions go by without engaging now?

Or am I rather bottling them up again?

Please share your subjective experience.

Don't give me AI answers though.

I know that in theory after enlightenment calm should prevail.

This is a little challenge.

Of course wanting to prove that you are also shows that you aren't.

So let's bend the rules a bit.

I hereby ask you to step down from your high horse of "I don't have to announce enlightenment" and help us mere mortals.

Let's have some fun beyond mostly theoretical debate.

Hey fellow vegans!

I haven't posted in a while here yet I read almost every day.

That said I witness an increased amount of venting frustration.

Some even claim that going vegan leads to mental illness.

They even use a terrible name for it and sell courses to treat it.

No, I'm not here to vent frustration.

I'm still experiencing what I'd like to call veuphoria, or the euphoria of being vegan.

After seven years which were quite difficult health wise (and it was not really vegan related) I am still enthusiastic.

I made it that far! And I practice ahimsa. And I am saving lives every single day!

Please share how you celebrate all forms of life as a vegan.

Let's inspire each other!

See, this fallen world or the world-matrix wants to repress or siphon away the light within you. And an empath, a true empath, is someone that still has a connection to that inner light of their awareness.

Empaths are those folks who feel very deeply and are genuinely concerned about the wellbeing of folks around them. They often find it hard to be inauthentic or to fake their way through life.

And since they still have access to their inner light 💡, they are often targeted by the fallen world-matrix. Why? Because that light is a hidden superpower 🦸🏾‍♀️ that scares the world-matrix.

• Section 1: Targeted by the Matrix

It starts at a very young age. Most empathetic individuals find themselves as a black sheep or truth-teller in their family. A black sheep simply means a sheep that is different from the herd and the term truth-teller is self explanatory.

So, as the black sheep of the family, an empath is immediately targeted for being different. They will be saddled with labels such as “too sensitive” or “too problematic“ simply because their authentic nature doesn’t allow them to lie or make excuses for what is going on within the family unit. See, most unawakened systems (be it a family system, political system, economic system, etc.) require individuals who are willfully blind to function. So when an empath comes along and gives off an energy of authenticity, that system will immediately seek to quiet it. And this quieting starts at a young age.

Maybe as a child, an empath sensed that one of their parents was very unhappy; but is masking the unhappiness with work or fake confidence. As soon as the child brings this up and says,“Momma what’s wrong?”…It might shock the parent that this child can see through her mask and she’ll immediately make the child feel like there’s something wrong with his or her intuition.

By making an empath feel like there’s something wrong with them at an early age, the fallen world-matrix begins to program them away from their intuition and other powers.

• Section 2: Dating and Friendship

Most empaths usually find themselves in toxic relationships where they are often taken advantage of by the other party. Because an empath is naturally attentive and aware of the feelings of those around them; they often find themselves in relationships with unhealed folks who need someone to attend to their burdens.

In fact, a lot of empaths find themselves in one-sided narcissistic relationships where their life force or light is being siphoned away by the other party. They effectively become caretakers for those who are unable or unwilling to take care of their own emotional needs.

It is no secret that narcissistic personalities usually target empaths for their loyalty, authenticity, and loving nature. Essentially, the narcissist targets an empath’s light 💡…Be it in a friendship or romantic setting. Again, this is the fallen world or world-matrix attempting to siphon away or repress the empath’s superpower

• Section 3: Workplace

The same theme from section 2 usually also plays out in a workplace setting. Empaths might either find themselves working for a manager who willfully takes advantage of their kind nature...Or find themselves in a work setting where their authenticity is subtly ostracized. For example, a work group might subtly threaten to remove the empath from the in-group if they speak up about something that is wrong within the work system.

As such, to keep their jobs, most empaths repress their natural authenticity and fake the funk to be a part of the herd.

• Section 4: The qualities of an empath is a superpower 🦸🏽‍♂️

The fallen world doesn’t want an empath to know that their empathy or connection to the inner light of awareness is actually a superpower. Here are a brief rundown of some of those powers:

Power 1:

An empath is super intuitive and sensitive to their surrounding. That superpower not only allows them to detect when something is wrong with folks around them but also detect when someone is lying 🤥 or being inauthentic.

Power 2:

An empath’s genuine nature allows him or her to access their true calling in life. One’s purpose or calling in life can only be accessed by those who are willing to be themselves and not what the programmed crowd wants them to be. And an empath’s genuine nature allows them to find their genuine path. That is, an empath still has a connection to what they are and not what society thinks they should be.

Power 3:

An empath’s ability to feel deeply and empathize broadly are great leadership qualities. Empathy is of the heart and moving from the heart allows one to reach a variety of people across the lines of race, sex, gender, age group, etc. A leader must be able to speak to a variety of people and understand them and an empath’s ability to move from the heart allows him or her to speak to and understand the core of others.

I know the fallen world only advertises the concept of the heartless, aggressive, and machiavellian leader who only seeks to preserve power for himself/herself, or the status quo. That’s false leadership. Real leaders are empathetic.

Now there are a ton of other powers available to an empath but I just wanted to list a few to counteract the world-matrix’s subtle narrative that being an empath is not beneficial. We don’t have to buy into the matrix’s shaming tactics anymore.

• Section 5: Integrate your Shadow + Boundaries

Now that we have listed the superpowers of the empath…I wanted to make the point that for these powers to be properly used in the world, the empath must heal and integrate their shadow.

That is what Jesus Christ was. He was a healed empath, a heyoka empath. Fully integrated and whole (holy). Jesus was kind, gentle, meek and mild 🐑 with some folks who came to him to learn…And firm and unyielding 🦁 to those who came to hurt others. Remember the story of how he kicked out the money lenders that were abusing the temple. So, a healed empath is one who isn’t afraid to show some teeth. And how does an empath show some teeth?

By not being afraid to set boundaries. See, an empathetic nature is an immense gift 🎁 and must only be shared with those who have earned it. The fallen world labels this empathetic gift as “too soft”, “too sensitive“, “too different“, etc...So that it can keep siphoning away the gifts for its purposes. Fuck that noise. You must have boundaries as an empath.

A temple allows anyone who is genuine to come by and visit but as soon as the temple is disrespected; the high priest or priestess kicks the disrespectful party out. So, for an empath to truly utilize their superpower, they must be willing to walk away from any people, place, or thing that seeks to take advantage or disrespect them.

Now does setting boundaries automatically equal being a mean person? No, not at all. You can still be kind yet firm 💪🏾. As a matter of fact, an empath’s kindness when coming from a position of self-love and respect is like a sword that cuts through the ignorance of the fallen world. I’ll probably cover this topic more in-depth in a future post.

To summarize, I hope you can now see how the matrix seeks to siphon the light of an empath...Why that light is actually a superpower and why it must be protected. Wishing you a beautiful day. Namaste.

It seems most of the posts in this sub deal with enlightenment theory.

Enlightenment is this, not that, or maybe it's more like this etc.

Given the wide spread use of AI we also get many perfect summaries of what it is in general.

This is a bit like sending a postcard from Mount Everest and saying something like it's wonderful here, it's like this, not that.

Also you get plenty of people explaining that's not worth it, there is no peak etc.

Regardless of what your position on the theory is I'd like to ask more about the practice.

How do you actually support the process as for most of us it's a gradual unveiling.

Apparently meditation is common advice and I sat daily for a decade which helped along the way.

Yet nowadays I can't really sit and meditate anymore (for health reasons).

I use some other techniques, including mantras or movement. Also tried breathwork etc.

What did help along the path?

I'm not looking for generalized advice AI could write.

Please share some actual experience.

Lately I've been watching some videos of Osho followers claiming that they got enlightened.

Yet the dynamic meditations he proposes I know look rather like exercise or venting to me.

Jay Shetty: "There is no perfect person."

You are perfect the way you are.

Only conditioning makes you believe you are not (good) enough and need to fix yourself.

On the flip-side the person is made up.

Person/a means mask originally.

It's just a story you tell yourself based on what parents, schools, media etc. told you.