Friendship Potentials! Help Yourself to the Consciousness Lifestyle of Human-Based Spirituality.
Friendship Potentials! Learn 10 ways to build a better social life in The Age of Awakening. Because great change can bring you great opportunity.
Already we’ve begun to explore “Changing Friendships in the Age of Awakening.” Now it’s time for Part Two of this series.
Friendship Potentials 1. Spiritual Evolution Is Crazy-Variable Now
Why do so many old friends leave you? How come many families stop holding together? Because now different folks often evolve at different rates.
Living in The Age of Awakening, a person can evolve far faster than pre-12/21/12. (Like you Blog-Buddies.) Or one can experiment with spiritual addiction, spiritual shutdown, etc. As summarized in our previous post.
So yes, a person’s degree of spiritual awakening could be just about anything now.
What makes that amount of personal growth soooooooo crazy-variable now? Because:
A person’s state of consciousness doesn’t show.
Although most people think it does. Showing through eating pure. Or carrying a yoga mat.
Seems to me, even yoga classes today aren’t necessarily as advertised. Maybe you’ve already read this extreme example. If not, read it now. And consider it an example of today’s crazy-making confusions.
Your potential opportunity? Don’t be fooled by appearances.
Then your pursuit of friendship can be simpler.
Not complicated by half-lies, or worse.
Friendship Potentials 2. Limiting Your Support Through the Internet
Whatever your interests, whatever your needs… there’s an app for that. Or a group on Facebook.
Consequently, your friends may feel that they need you less. And vice versa.
Sometimes the internet can bring support. Like a certain blog with the best comments. ;-)
But research has shown a direct correlation between time spent on Facebook and feeling socially inadequate, etc.
Your potential opportunity? Spend time with people.
Live people, physically present along with you.
Cherish those lines in the supermarket!
Seriously, this fulfills a basic human need: Spend face time with other live, breathing humans. Please stop confusing this with needing friends.
Your deep friendships don’t have to live in the neighborhood. You can call them or Skype them.
Maybe make a monthly appointment to do so. Rather than leaving your happiness to chance.
Friendship Potentials 3. You’re More Spiritually Awake Than Most
Exhibit A? You’re at this blog.
With your current level of consciousness, you’re probably more demanding than most about friendships.
More demanding, for instance, than Hay House Publishing! Which has the lion’s share of prestige, not to mention money. Yet my aura research suggests… Sadly, a shockingly high percentage of Hay House authors now live in extreme spiritual addiction.
So how come you’re here instead? Or you prefer other counter-culture resources within personal growth? Because you’re definitely in the minority today.
Seems to me, that makes you a leader!
But, regarding your friendships, let’s deal with an elephant in your social-gathering room:
Although you are probably willing to stay friends with people who are more sleepy-like in their awareness. Guess what? You’re probably going to make them feel uncomfortable.
Don’t blame anyone for this, please. Except the fact that auric modeling really exists. And it’s a powerful force in sorting out how we feel about people.
Your potential opportunity? Accept that it’s a time of tremendous change. And technology is the least of it.
Spiritually, birds of a feather flock together. Seek friendships with those who are living in Human-Based Spirituality, or even The New Strong. Seek and you really can find!
Friendship Potentials 4. You May Grow Disenchanted with One-Way Friendships
That doesn’t make you fickle! Blog-Buddies, you know the kind of “friendship” I mean. Where you do the giving. Acting like a lay psychotherapist. Or volunteering to do energy healing or energy reading.
I’ll admit it. During my last two “deceased” best-friendships, I fell into that trap.
Imbalanced relationships never work for long.
How come? Maybe because your “taker” friends know the truth, deep down.
- Sometimes they’ll feel guilty or unworthy. And drop the friendship.
- Alternatively, you may weary of an imbalanced friendship.
- Either way, unequal friendships really, really don’t work well since the Shift. More than five years ago, now, right?
Your potential opportunity? Ask yourself. Have been doing more than your share of giving?
If so, cut it out. Even-Steven is a far better way to maintain friendships in The Age of Awakening.
Friendship Potentials 5. Mind the Gap
Has the difference between friendship expectations and reality ever been greater? Probably not.
Consider: what were you taught about friendship when growing up?
- That you’d have great friendships with your neighbors?
- Or that friendship is supposed to be for life?
- Even this one: That you’d spend more time each day talking to real-live people… than watching TV!
How’s that working out for you?
Your potential opportunity? Please comment below: What were you, personally, taught while growing up… to expect from friendship?
Versus what do you believe now! Taught by life experience rather than expectations.
Friendship Potentials 6. Paying the Price for Friendships
More than ever, in the Age of Awakening, you pay the price for friendship. What if you want more dates, for instance? Then accept reality at this time:
- You’re going to spend lots of time. And money.
- Either you’ll join an online dating service. Or several.
- Perhaps you’ll find a church that’s compatible with your current beliefs.
- Alternatively you’ll take some classes. Or invest time in volunteer work.
But you knew about paying the price for good things in life, right?
Your potential opportunity? Budget for that.
Instead of expecting to meet the person next door and fall in love.
Or to meet in childhood and become lifelong sweethearts.
Blog-Buddies, feel free to substitute other Age of Faith romantic stories… Which don’t apply any more, either!
You see, you’re living in The Age of Awakening now.
A time with unprecedented potential for fast spiritual growth.
But not the time to incarnate in order to have a nice, stable lifetime. Strongly connected to everybody who lives in your town.
Note: Such places do still exist, of course. But don’t be surprised at what you find… If you visit and research some auras with Stage Three Energetic Literacy.
Most likely, the majority of folks there… live in spiritual shutdown.
Friendship Potentials 7. Cherish Every Bit of Human Connection
Are you used to having a special, elevated category called “Friend”?
Which would be, pardon my saying, awfully Age of Faith.
Might you think that nothing else will do, other than having a dedicated friend? Or an official best friend?
Please! You don’t live in that world any more. Maybe you’ll have some good friends, maybe not. (Depends a lot on where you live and who’s available.)
Your potential opportunity? Cherish ever human connection you get. Appreciate this for what it is!
Friend? Schmend! Enjoy every sweet exchange with another person:
In an elevator.
While waiting in line… anywhere.
That friendly receptionist you might bump into every few months at your health club.
Take every chance you get to talk to somebody human.
Go share a smile. Even a simple, surfacey exchange helps to fill you up humanly.
Friendship Potentials 8. Let the Old Expectations Go
Life is no longer tribal. At least for people who are growing rapidly.
You got a big dose of reality if you read “The New Strong.” Including comparing The Old Rules with The New Rules.
BTW, what if you haven’t read that book yet? You might be surprised.
- At all the insights that explain so much.
- Easy — but quite indispensable — dedicated Energy Spirituality Energy HEALING techniques.
- How much better that short book helps you feel! Plus all you learn about how to live better now.
What if you’re more comfortable learning without so much reading? Check out The New Strong Collection of Online Workshops. Starting with the Free Intro.
Your potential opportunity? Take an inventory.
Questions like these could be good for starters. If I know you, once you answer these four, you’ll generate plenty of extras. All of which can help you to understand better what’s happening NOW with your social life.
- How many close friends did you think you’d have by the age you are now?
- And how easy did you think it would be to maintain those friends?
- Also, did you expect that — inside — they would remain pretty much the same people as when you first met them?
- Oh yes, let’s not forget this one: What if your high school friends expected you to stay just the same? Are you sorry that you’ve changed so much?
Friendship Potentials 9. Face Reality
Early years of The Age of Awakening are going to be lonely for many of us. Unless we re-define “lonely.”
- What if you’re feeling discouraged by the reality of your social life? Might I suggest a personal session of Energy Spirituality Energy HEALING?
- Concerning fast learning about new friendships? Book a session of Energy Spirituality Energy READING. Send photos of those new candidates for your affection.
And know that one of the very best ways to learn about reality now… Is for you to get yourself Energetic Literacy (already).
You’ve been able to read this article on your own, haven’t you? Can you imagine how slowed down you’d be in life, not being able to do word literacy?
At a time when everybody is evolving at different rates, please give yourself this gift. Along with knowing more about The Age of Awakening. Discover how Stage Three Energetic Literacy will transform your life. Especially your social life.
Your potential opportunity? Understand and accept that you’re living in The Age of Awakening.
Even if others aren’t talking about it. Or our 24/7 media. (Weird, I know. Nonetheless, true.)
Media silence notwithstanding, friendship is different now. You’re different now. Your speed of evolution can be way faster now.
So learn what’s what!
Friendship Potentials 10. Set New Friendship Goals. Then Follow Through!
It can help you to assess what you’ve got going now socially. How many close friends? How many casual relationships?
Your potential opportunity?
To improve things, what are you willing to do? Can be this simple:
- Make a plan, like 5 minutes daily researching: Where can I go, physically go, to meet other people?
- Once or twice a week, get out and go.
- Making new friends is a numbers game. Keep at it, again and again. Don’t give up, and you will find your new friends.
Remember, be prepared to pay that price.
Otherwise you do have a very different choice: Revise your expectations. Right-size them to fit your personal priorities now, as a leader of The Age of Awakening.
Outdated items? Cocktails. Booze.
Isn’t it common to associate alcohol with making friends? Sloshed as the great way to gain social confidence?
Only you may know that even craft beers and exquisite wines can spell trouble now, in The Age of Awakening.
On the other hand, living in The Age of Awakening means that you’ve got a new, huge, vibrational freedom.
You don’t need liquor for loosening up any more. Without drinking, your consciousness flows quite freely.
Same with cannabis, BTW. So outdated!
So many good ideas here Rose.
Personally, I’m used to my life being fairly unexplainable to innocent third parties while growing up, so I’ve actually figured out a similar way of going about things as outlined here.
When you can’t take certain things for granted, there are a whole bunch of social skills you can develop.
The main thing has been to appreciate what a particular person can bring to you, within a certain context, and appreciate that for what it is.
And not build up more expectations that are unrealistic.
A newer thing is: “Because now different folks often evolve at different rates.”
This is something I have to consciously factor in nowadays… and it’s difficult to act on this, but it’s worse to force things that just don’t work anymore…
I love this blog post and the one before it–for me learning the lessons in this post has been a major focus of the past several years.
Letting go of friendships that weren’t working, and letting go of the hurt when people have not been interested in friendship with me. Learning to discern who is a person I can have true friendships with.
I have definitely found this to be true: “Although you are probably willing to stay friends with people who are more sleepy-like in their awareness. Guess what? Youre probably going to make them feel uncomfortable.”
Strengthening my deeper perception has helped me to recognize quickly who is a “bird of the same feather” and not to waste my time trying to develop a connection with people who do not want or are not able to connect.
I also prioritized moving to an area where I knew I could have good friends, and I am so glad I did that.
Having good friends makes all other troubles in life easier.
Having friends who are interested in emotional and spiritual growth accelerates my own growth.
I also love what you say about enjoying every sweet exchange that you do have.
I have come to notice those kind of interactions more and more.
I also think it is really important to actively seek out and develop connections.
In college, it is easy to make friends.
As an adult, if you want friends you have to actively go after them. Especially if you don’t have skills of deeper perception–it really is a numbers game. How many new people do you meet through your job? And if you don’t meet them there, where are you going to meet them?
I’ve met nice people my age but I find it so hard to get the relationship past the texting or social media level and into phone calls or face-to-face contact.
So while I’m in this middle place it’s nice to read a perspective like this blog post.
I was taught nary a thing about friendships as a child, but I learned a lot on my own through curious observation.
Id like to think that, over the years, I learned to put in to my relationships, to nurture them. Then I learned about putting in too much!
Now Im learning to trust what is right for me, even when relationships are dwindling. Takes discernment and not staying too long in less-than scenarios.
Not easy. Downright frightening, sometimes, especially while navigating through other major transitions.
But, you know? This post is validating and so encouraging. So much here!
This really landed: Spend face time with other live, breathing humans. Please stop confusing this with needing friends.
Amen.
Been hard on myself when the best I could do was get to the store or do errands. But, once I stopped expecting to be terrorized by the world, and put some effort back into dressing nicely for the day, my mood lifted.
I met lovely people in short windows of time. It was fun!
Just now recalling my granddaughter telling the group that I make friends everywhere we go. Rolling her eyes, with a grin on her face.
Means a lot to realize Im teaching her something and, in many ways, the buck really has stopped here.
As an aside, I am a young grandmother with a youthful spirit. Been wanting to say this to those of you who are interested in knowing each other better here.
Trying to balance participation and growth with not saying too much. ?
As always, thank you all for these conversations.
(Sorry, Rose.) PS, it helps that my grief is lifting now but I would still love to hear ideas.
How do you all press through wanting to isolate because you don’t think you’ll be good company? Yet, needing to be with others.
Great post!
So helpful to see options for connecting with like minded others.
Setting appointments to chat is one thing that works for me :)
“You see, you’re living in The Age of Awakening now.
A time with unprecedented potential for fast spiritual growth.
But not the time to incarnate in order to have a nice, stable lifetime. Strongly connected to everybody who lives in your town.”
Important for me to keep the above concept… plugged in.
“Although you are probably willing to stay friends with people who are more
sleepy-like in their awareness. Guess what? You’re probably going to make them
feel uncomfortable.”
Yasss.
Rose, thank you so much for this blog post.
So many points resonated with me- including, “Spend face time with other live, breathing humans. Please stop confusing this with needing friends.”.
Thank you for clarifying expectations versus reality, as well as providing clear suggestions for how to fulfill a basic human need of being with other live humans! I will be re-reading this post many times.
I just watched a really interesting TED talk about how to live to 100 (perish the thought!).
Very interestingly, the top factor was NOT close relationships (though that was also very important), but rather, ‘social interaction,’ as in, the extent to which a person interacted with people throughout their day -with the postman, the person walking their dog, the sales assistant etc. I thought that chimed pretty well with this post!
GILLIAN, I agree. Excellent chiming! Thanks so much for sharing here.
You know, at Earth School we’re animals and have some needs that have more to do with being in animal bodies than some of the other considerations. Seems to me, the need to be in the physical presence of other humans helps to satisfy this kind of need.
While deeper needs for friendship are altogether different, and related to our spiritual evolution.
Yes! Also interestingly, the same TED talk referred to some neuroscience research where they compared the value of being in the physical presence of someone as opposed to simply contacting them virtually. And the brain scans revealed very clearly that being physically present with someone had huge benefits compared to texting, email etc.
You got there before them, Rose :-), but it’s interesting that neuroscience is finding the same thing.
I just saw this article in the New York Times from 4/16/18 about how people who are friends seem to have brain activity more alike – and it made me think of the influence of auric modeling.
I wonder if there is a connection between what they are measuring and other auric similarities.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/science/friendship-brain-health.html
What a great share, CAROLINE. Thank you.
Brain activity is one way to assess friendship. Listening to how friends converse is another. Aura reading is yet another.
Amazing Earth School offers us innumerable ways to gain perspective on human behavior, fleshing out the saying, “Birds of a feather flock together.”
Thank you for this article!
In regards to taking some inventory.
When I was a teenager, thinking about my 40th birthday party I imagined a room full of my friends dressed like different Elvises. This year I am forty and I have five friends.
More friends of lesser quality for you, versus five real friends.
How lovely!
To this Enlightenment Coach, the meaning is clear. Spending time with a real friend nurtures you, thrills your soul, and helps you to engage humanly in your society.
You get to give and to receive. Yes, how lovely! And all those friends need not be 10s (on a scale from 1-10 — the Energy Spirituality Continuum of Closeness.)
Incidentally, I teach about the Energy Spirituality Continuum of Closeness for Friendships in a personal session.
One personal session is all it usually takes. For you to learn this properly, this must be a personal session. I never plan to teach this in a book or blogpost or online workshop. A personal session of Energy Spirituality is the very best way to learn . . . and it’s so personally informative.
Technically, this would mean booking one Enlightenment Coaching session.
Many, many session centerpieces come under this heading: Energy Spirituality ENERGY HEALING.The most complete list I’ve made so far is at the link just provided. Years ago, I stopped adding more examples. Was getting ridiculously long! Just book a session and let me help you!
Rose. I found this series of articles on friendships really validating and comforting.
Several lines in this article really resonated with me.
Yes, I am definitely more demanding about my friendships, more than I ever expected.
For example, this week I spent time with a potential friend.
She took the time to make us a seafood soup and carved a goofy stamp with my face on it.
As I listened to her talk sadly, it seemed that living in Human-Based Spirituality is not a priority for her right now.
When she left, I realized that I didn’t want to pursue a friendship with her.
This saddened and surprised me.
Ten years ago, this would not have happened. I would have stuck around, flattered by her time and company.
Me? Say no to a nice artistic person that can cook?!
And yet, this is the price of discernment and the price of good quality friendships.
You’ve come a long way, seems to me, ADRIAN, regarding your self-respect. Spending time who isn’t friend material — that does YOU no favors.
Besides that, it would do HER no favors. To go into a bit of detail, I’ll call this artistic-and-sweet person “Gladys.”
There are many reasons to act as a sort-a friend to other people.
* Some folks might treat Gladys like a placeholder, a cardboard cutout.
* Others might become friends with Gladys because they have a horror of being “alone.”
* Others — perhaps you in the past — might become friends with Gladys because you felt guilty that somebody who was trying to be your friend . . . just wasn’t for you. As though it were your job to keep her social calendar full.
Kinds of friendship like these are, deep down, like an act of charity.
Well, have you ever been befriended by somebody for whom YOU are the act of charity? If so, can’t you feel it? How great does that feel?
So I applaud you here, ADRIAN, and I’m so glad you have shared this Teaching Tale. (Since a Teaching Tale is what this was.)
Now I want to weigh in just a bit as a teacher, as is my job to do. No biggie, just a small teachable moment. Related to this:
Sadly, it seemed that living in Human-Based Spirituality is not a priority for her right now.
Look, there’s quite a lot of technical language in Energy Spirituality, language you won’t hear too many other people using yet, which can make it a little tricky to tell certain things apart.
#1. What is “Human-Based Spirituality“? This is a consciousness lifestyle.
You might have learned about this as long ago as 2013, the year after the Shift into the Age of Awakening.
Distinct consciousness lifestyles were beginning to emerge. This one, Human-Based Spirituality, is wonderful. It’s still on our list of different consciousness lifestyles, as in the annual survey I published nearly one year ago.
Blog-Buddies, consciousness lifestyles are not a preference, never consciously made as a choice.
Rather, the result of many choices we make each day will add up to a consciousness lifestyle.
#2. Seems to me, ADRIAN, you were referring to something you noticed about Gladys.
From now on, please make your life less confusing by understanding this practical fact. This Founder of Energy Spirituality does not recommend that you guess about anybody’s consciousness lifestyle. I sure don’t. Because it’s too easy to get the answer wrong. And guessing about this is none of our business.
Researching consciousness lifestyles is the responsibility of an Energy Spirituality Practitioner.
And I can assure you, we do this for reasons other than gossip. (Not that I’m really accusing you of that.)
Seems to me, ADRIAN, based on you wrote, something you noticed about Gladys put you off. Now that you’ve been advised that judging people’s consciousness lifestyles is not going to be a solution, where else can we look?
One possibility is that Gladys did not seem to be very interested in objective reality. Good old human objective reality.
* Instead, she might have done a lot of Energy Talk.
* Or Psychology Talk.
* Or Religion Talk.
In which case, might it have worked for you, saying that “Talking about objective reality is not a priority for her right now”?
That would have meant you didn’t have much in common as potential friends, not at this time.
Maybe something else bothered you. The language you used was so indirect, it was akin to bending over backwards:
“Whatever . . . is not a priority for her right now.”
If you wish to come back onto this thread and say the dreaded thing, go for it.
For most of the visit, Gladys was carrying around a dead fish. And she called it “Cuddles.” ;-)
Otherwise, you can simply know that you made the right choice.
In retrospect, the two of you had a pleasant visit and a creative meal, and learned some things about each other. After she left you felt satisfied. As for whether or not Gladys felt satisfied, that’s not your prob. You did nothing wrong. Nothing wrong.
Thank you for the clarification. Yes, talking about objective reality was not a priority for her.
That makes a lot more sense as to why, we didn’t have as much in common as potential friends.
You’re so welcome, ADRIAN. Sometimes newbies don’t realize how Energy Spirituality helps us to grow emotionally and spiritually . . . and also to upgrade our common sense, our effectiveness in this human world.
Thank you for the Teaching Tale, Adrian, and your responses, Rose.
I learned a lot from reading this.
FRANCINE, yay team! Here’s to our growing empowerment, an empowerment that is fully compatible with kindness and compassion and having many-many friends who are worthy of the name.
Thanks for commenting on this article, Adrian, so I could find it so many years later!
I always meant this blog to be an online locations where we could have comment conversations across time. Finally it’s happening. Hooray!
This is so relevant and helpful to me now, especially around Christmas.
The distinction that you brought up in Comment #26 is really helpful for me, Rose. Being in the physical presence of other people satisfies a more animal body type of need that many humans have, while having real friendships is more about spiritual evolution.
I’m nodding my head as I think about this idea; it’s so helpful.
Personally, I am in school full-time and work remotely part time. Quite often I will go all day just working in my room.
By the end of the day, if I haven’t had something else in my schedule where I’ve been around people, I will sometimes run and errand or two just to get that need met.
Wise you, NOAH. Any live bodies — other than those carrying weapons like guns — will do. It is an animal need, and maybe a spiritual need, to physically be in the presence of some other humans every day.
I’ve noticed that if I don’t do this, I go to bed feeling a bit of, weird, and yucky, like something is wrong.
An unpleasant loneliness.
Thank goodness I live in a city where this need is easy to meet.
When I lived in a rural area the only options were biological family or random animals, which brought it’s own problems!
Ooh, back when your “only options were biological family or random animals,” I can well imagine how that brought its own problems. Hahaha.
Thanks for all you’ve just contributed here, NOAH.
Wow who would have thought that having a healthy Consciousness Lifestyle can add to the challenge of finding true friends.
This makes so much sense to me.
Thanks, GARY. This makes sense now, when it’s still early years yet since the Shift into the Age of Awakening.
May a time come during our lifetimes when the vast majority of human beings do have a self-actualizing consciousness lifestyle!
Incidentally, in my role as Enlightenment Coach, here’s a small distinction that may be of interest to many of you readers.
GARY, you just referred to a healthy consciousness lifestyle. I have never used this terminology and don’t encourage any of you to use it either. Why not?
Judging that inner experiences of people are either HEALTHY or NORMAL is the sign of psychological work. Whereas in Energy Spirituality, our goal is not to be healthy or normal, aligned with the median or stunningly mediocre.
Let’s spare ourselves, please.
I think that I had the unquestioned idea in my head that the better my Consciousness Lifestyle I was living the more people I would naturally attract to myself.
I am certainly better off without that mistaken idea.
Agreed.
Besides, now that the New Age Years are over, we might choose to ditch the idea of ATTRACTING friends. Social skills and persistence make us more successful in our relationships. Why wait passively for our Attraction Mojo to do its magic?
Thanks, Rose, for your addition to the blog of Ongoing Comment Updates. That’s how I found this recent set of comments on this article.
I would highly recommend to Blog-Buddies to have a session where you teach the Energy Spirituality Continuum of Closeness for Friendships.
I have had a few sessions to help me with making friends and discerning how close I want to be with different people I know and meet. These sessions were really helpful for me.
Wonderful series of comments from you, VIOLET.
I’m going to leap in here to thank you for bringing up the topic of one particular kind of session, as well as other session centerpieces that you’all might have in order to help with your friendships.
First, you referred to the “Energy Spirituality Continuum of Closeness for Friendships.” That’s pretty close to what I usually call it.
If any of you Blog-Buddies would like to bring this up as an idea for a session, I’d appreciate if you would say you’d like to learn about the “Energy Spirituality Continuum of Closeness for Relationships.”
This is a one-session project, some Enlightenment Coaching. I don’t think I’ve ever blogged about this before, nor have I included this in any Energy Spirituality books or online workshops.
It’s just a one-session project. Where a client like you, VIOLET, shares personal reactions and questions at various points. That makes all the difference for learning this set of concepts effectively . . . and personally.
Also, to weigh in as a teacher, regarding Comment #79, you’re right, VIOLET. You had other sessions to help you with particular relationships as well.
How can you prepare for sessions like this?
Ideally, on the day of your session, you will have a photo of one particular person that you email me on the day of the session. A front-facing photo, including shoulders. Please click on this next link to prepare for how to select photos for a session of Energy Spirituality.
You see, every photo IS an aura photo. However, depending on the particular photo, I may only be able to research chakra databanks at the Third Eye Chakra, or maybe the Throat Chakra.
By contrast, if you follow the instructions in the previous comment, your photo can be aura-researchable all the way through to Root Chakra Databanks.
When you name a particular person, like Sam, you’ll tell me the first name and have that photo available.
Since it’s an Energy Spirituality session, please do not expect you are going to have the chance to tell me stories, or vent, or have me tell you that I “can relate” to your feelings about different incidents. That might be life coaching or psychotherapy, but it isn’t Energy Spirituality.
Another practical tip is to prioritize relationships that are part of your life right now.
Many a client, influenced by pop psychology etc., thinks it is important to go all the way back to childhood relationships in order to benefit. Not usually.
Before getting back to your excellent comments here, VIOLET, I’ll add for all you readers that the centerpiece selected for cocreating your session with the Divine might involve Energy Spirituality Energy READING OR Energy Spirituality Energy HEALING, Face Reading Secrets®, Enlightenment Coaching or even Empath Coaching.
I’ll make that choice having set an official intention for your session and then, having facilitated a Skilled Empath Merge with you.
I understand better my own need to be around other humans on a regular basis and that it can be a chat about the weather with someone I am standing in line at the checkout with.
That can be enough but it’s better for me to spend some time with people who have a common interest, some kind of activity we do together.
I enjoy the people I do these activities with but I would not consider most of them friends.
Exactly, VIOLET. I agree.
Most of the relationships we have are likely acquaintences, but these relationships can be valuable on that basis.
I can really notice a difference in my own level of enjoyment when I spent time with people I consider friends.
It’s so much more fulfilling! It makes so much sense to me that real friendships are about spiritual evolution.
VIOLET, thank you. Much food for thought here!
I was feeling pretty lonely today…this helped. Thanks Rose.
Good!