lately i’ve been noticing that people are talking at me about things that are very intense or personal when they hardly even know me. this is a new thing, it hasn’t really ever happened before and i’m not sure how to stop it without being rude while someone is telling me something sensitive. i almost always wear my obsidian bracelets because its been such a problem but even that isn’t working much anymore. i can’t tell if people are feeding off my energy to supply their own negativity or if my energy is just welcoming enough for them to feel comfortable telling me really personal things right off the bat. why would this start happening? what can i do to stop it? it’s becoming really exhausting.

Eclipses are a very powerful manifestation portal and a sign of new beginnings. Now what will the human collective choose?

We don't know yet, but we ourselves can choose peace, love and freedom for all!
Wherever you are in the world, please take some time around 18:18 UTC tomorrow and anchor the Light on our planet so we can stabilize the most positive timeline and manifest a golden future for humanity!

You can simply sit down for a while and meditate or visualize light from source flowing through the sun and then through you into the center of the earth. Or just open your heart wide and send love to all beings on earth. Do whatever feels right for you to stay in a high vibration and uplift the collective. Every soul that is focusing on the Light is making a difference!

And if you want, you are of course welcome to join our global mass meditation live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXot1SZFdoI (starts 17:55 UTC)

Let's choose love and manifest the most positive timeline leading us into the new golden age for the liberation and ascension of all beings! 💜✨

Among the myriad ways of getting your energy stable and energized, what methods do you use to balance and energize your chakra system?

How I healed my knee pain in thirty minutes.

My right knee meniscus had been in nagging pain here and there from high momentum lack of control hard landings. Those rehab online don't work for me as I have such a large range of motion I don't feel a thing. Today I intuitively decided to heal myself. I got into this position probably only I can do and just started feeling. My right knee at first won't chirobate, then I did my left knee oh FFF feel so good, then I went back to right knee oh yes! It chirobated! Pain went away twenty percent.

Then I started self massage, talk to her and hoponopono her, while heat her up, I'm homeless don't even have a heat pack so I just used a jar of tea, as I talk to her and use massage and heat therapy, I heard her saying to me be gentle with me don't smack me to the ground like that, treat me with love, you can still do circus tricks but only with softest gentlist acrobatics, don't throw yourself up there and hope for the best, go with the flow like water.

Then my knee pain is eighty percent gone. Magical 😇

I have a question about quotes from an enlightened master that speaks about people's different individuality, likes and dislikes and so on (I have written my insights and my question down below).

It's also an advice I've seen from many teachers - transcending likes and dislikes, indifference.., not having any preferences of your own..

Just as there is beauty in the darkness and light, just as much there is beauty in our disagreements and agreements, our likes and dislikes. Just as there is beauty in pure consciousness, oneness, just as much there is beauty in our individualities. Imagine a world where everyone is indifferent about everything, not having personal affinities and everyone being the same on the surface. My insight is each and every single one of us adds a unique color to this beautiful world, making it richer and more colorful.

These are some of the quotes on the subject of indviduality, personal tastes and likes/dislikes from a spiritual master:

"When you meditate you move towards the center. In the deepest moments of meditation, all differences disappear. You are universal there, not individual. And you have to be both: individual and universal."

"No two persons are the same on the circumference, although everybody is the same at the center."

"Essentially we are made of the same stuff called God, but on the circumference God comes in every shape and size, in every color, in every form. There is much difference. And it is beautiful because if people were really the same, both at the center and on the circumference, the world would be a very boring place".

"Our souls are the same, there we meet and are one, but our bodies and minds are different, there we are separate. And no effort should be made to make us similar on the surface." 

"But why should people be worried about others? About everything the society remains alert: nobody should have his own individual way about his sex, about his love, about his clothes, about his way of talking, manners. Every society imposes a fascist rule on its members. It destroys much that is beautiful."

"It is going to be an inner equality. People will remain different, as much as possible; in fact, as far as the outside world is concerned, everybody should have his unique individuality, his own flavor, his own signature. On the outside everybody should be allowed absolute freedom to be himself. In the inner, the ego disappears, the personality disappears, there is only pure consciousness".

"Everybody has a unique personality, so I may do something which I like but you may not return it. Your taste, your personality may be different. People's tastes differ." 

Quote about likes/dislikes:
"With enlightenment there is no liking or disliking. Where will likes and dislikes be?
They will simply disappear" - Osho

"Yoga is not about doing more things in the world. It is the dropping of likes and dislikes and simply responding to every-thing." - Sadghuru

My insights (based on our tastes) :

• We form connections;
• We pursue careers (a poet likes different things compared to a mathematician, certain brain connections cause us to follow certain paths suitable only for us;
• We stay away from people who have have habits we dislike (smoking, doing drugs, drinking);
• We discover art of various forms (tv shows, magazines, books, movies - someone loves science fiction, someone prefers content based on reality: someone's more logical, someone's more dreamy and sensitive;
• We have individual way about our clothes, in what way we like wearing our hair, and so on;
• Different tastes of human beings benefit the richness and humanity, making it a colorful rainbow, a vast sky of different clouds (that form one limitless sky);
• If we decide to tattoo our bodies, we tattoo things we enjoy, things we find aesthetically pleasing (no two persons want the exact same tattoo): if you applied the transcendence of likes and dislikes into daily lives as a general rule there would be zero uniqueness to any individual and the world would be bland and boring;
• The best artists have their own unique style, a signature that you can feel and see in their artworks;
• Just imagine the world filled with people who are indifferent about everything that's accepted by their senses (their unique tastes): There would be no Shakespeare, no Elvis, no Kurt Cobain, no Mozart, no Beethoven, no rock, no pop, no rap, no jazz, no metal (based on different tastes/likes of people certain genres developed and became popular);
• All of the artists I've mentioned would hardly take on artistic path if they didn't know their likes or dislikes (if they dropped them);
• We have so many different unique sources available in the world we can choose from, that we can always find something that speaks uniquely to us, to our heart;
• As people we usually find excitement in a person who is uniquely themselves, following their heart and what they like and not caring about what other people think.
• Having likes and dislikes doesn't make me miserable in any way, if anything it helps me realize what I want/don't want in life.
• According to new studies, your genes might even play a role a big role in the foods you like and don't like.
• A born artist or a person who follows their most intense passion/passions - most of the time they leave this world with the same level of appreciation/liking towards that passion that they came in this world with and so it doesn't spontaneously disappear and change.
• Not all tastes are conditioned and brought by external factors, to some things we are naturally drawn to with wll our hearts - in a lot of spritual teachings we are told to follow our heart and become what we were meant to become, regardless of expectations of the society (whether it's a poet, a painter, etc...) - so we do have natural affinities since birth.

I can concur that likes/dislikes disappear in the consciousness, in our universal form, in our meditative states but we also exist as individuals with unique/body minds, unique individualities that no one can replace, we are an unrepeatable miracle sharing the same vastness and eternal light.

I would like to explore different/similar views on this from different people, and I'd be thankful if you shared your insight.

My question:

Spiritual masters like Sadghuru, Eckhart tolle talked about this teaching.. In the quotes i mentioned another master Osho claims we should not have any likes or dislikes and that it goes against an enlightened state yet he also says that one should be both an individual (unique, with their own preferences, their own tastes) and universal (wholeness, oneness, one with nature). My own understanding and also based on what Osho said is that as individuals we have our own preferences and it's one of the things that make us unique, and also one of the things that gives this world richness and variety. In deep meditative space we are one, there differences disappear, on the circumference we are different and we should be different. I'd like to ask if I'm on the right track / understanding and that as individuals we have our own preferences/likes/dislikes but in the universal view we are one. Is the fact that we are individually different more or less undeniable? Should we strive to accept ourselves individually as well as universally? I feel like there should be a balance between a meditative space and psychical realm. Likes and dislikes may be meaningless in an universal role but not in an individual/psychical realm.

Thanks for your time.

I am quite new to energy work, but I have heard that grounding during the solar eclipse can bring you a lot of good energy. I do have bare bones basic knowledge of how grounding works, and I feel like failing to take advantage of this unique situation would be doing myself a great disservice.

I am asking for your best tools/tricks when it comes to taking advantage of this type of event, and also things thqt are not going to work well, and most importantly things that you would NEVER do in this situation.

I would love to find someone to mentor me through this process, as I am eager to learn, and don't have very much trust that I would be getting good advice from most random sources on the internet.

Preface: I believe that in order to get any form of meaningful response, I have to paint a picture of what is going on in it's entirely, so please bare with me, however I will try to keep my words as concise, and articulate as possible, and I would really appreciate peoples insight. (Note: I am a 22 Y/O male)

Story: For years now, I have been unable to feel and or experience any form of sexual stimulation/anything regarding to sexual "energy". I have zero libido, I cannot get aroused, I have the capacity to ejaculate, but I cannot orgasm (there is a distinction, and far as I understand, I am currently experiencing Sexual anhedonia, here's a link that may be insightful: https://getmegiddy.com/orgasmic-thrill-is-gone). Throughout sexual stimulation/intercourse, it feels as though there is a giant lump/cloud of energy filling up in my brain (not enjoyable at all), the best way I can describe it as something somewhat analogous to a tension headache, I feel tension/restriction and no flow of energy in my brain (around where my neck is, and where my spine meets the cranium), once I "release" my entire groined/pelvic floor typically hurts/feels "locked".

To be candid, I have never had a pleasant or what I would deem "average" sexual experience. When I was a young teen, I could "orgasm", however that feeling and capacity (well perhaps there in some innate, unrecognized capacity deep within) has long since left me, and I was never able to achieve that feeling with another individual.

Context: Obviously, based off this, it would be natural to assume that there is something physiologically wrong with me (which is still possible, however I do not believe that is the case.

Story: Anyways, I suppose it would be prudent to add that I have always "suffered" (doesn't really seem like the right word), perhaps, "experienced" is more fitting, high levels of anxiety and fear throughout my life. On top of that, numerous extraordinary bizarre muscle/joint/body issues. At one point in my teenage years, I started to develop tendonitis like pain in my wrist. This, then progressed to practically all joints/areas of my body, and I began to feel pain and numbness, coupled with acute awareness and ability to activate my muscles, and again, since then, I still struggle with it to this day. Again, I did the round with "western medicine"... MRI's/ultrasounds, rheumatologist, surgeons, the lot of them. Each telling me, everything looks fine, you are healthy, and everything is OK - alas, I didnt feel that way.

Context: Further, and again, I think this is important to add, I have incredible parents (all be it full of anxiety and fear) and friends, I have always eaton and been fed high quality/real and healthy foods, tons of sports and physical activity. Which is all to say, no abuse, and all in all, an extremely privileged and whole, upbringing. On top of that, I have suffered numerous acute traumas/falls and concussions from sports over the years, and constantly wonder if this was a catalyst.(<---solely to provide context that is)

Anyways, I suppose long story short, according to modern medicine, everything is functioning as it should be, and I am "OK", but it doesn't feel as such, and I do not feel OK (obviously this entire story/process is much more multifaceted and filled with more nuanced).

Story: It was not until I was introduced and had a session with a "indigenous healer", that my entire outlook and perception on life, and the body, completely shifted... and since then I have been on a journey of I guess healing?? Anyways, I had a session with her, and the deep tension/fascial restriction that plagued my existence 24/7 was lifted off of me. I could breathe, I could see, I could think, I could feel - and I pondered on this for a long time, is this what it feels like to be a normal human? No intense pain/tension/restriction, not constantly battling the body in efforts to try and be in control ( I felt "on" and present.) After awhile though, the old "holding" patterns returned.

The best way I can put it, is it kind of feels like my "soul" or my deep, true "consciousness", the true me, is trapped in a sort of energetic fetal position? Idk if that made sense... but it feels like the energy surrounded my body is constantly trying to clench up, and at times it literally forces me into a fetal position... these are all much more feelings, and ways of "being", which I find almost impossible to fully encompass the true meaning through words alone.

Lastly, I have dabbled a bit in mushrooms, and when I take them, this "weight" and "pressure" typically vanishes, and I remember how to feel. How my body holds itself in space changes, it feels alive, connected, it works well and fluidly. Then, by the end of the day, or days after, I feel shifts and locking in my body again, and it returns to its "normal" albeit a little dull, state. This is all to say, I believe my issues are far more energetically/somatically related, and I don't really have anyone to talk to about this stuff.

Conclusion: Anyways, I know I went on numerous tangents, I recognize that this post is long and drawn out, but if you took the time to read through what I have to say, thank you for listening to my story. I don't know what I want out of this post, there is a lot to unpack and work on, but like I said in the beginning, insights/thoughts are very welcome and appreciated. :)

I had Asperger type symptoms before with inability to socialize and connect/communicate with others, despite what I learned from others.

Recently I corrected my brain through electromagnetic energy therapy, and I’ve been able to connect with others and can intuitively understand what they are thinking.

This leads me to believe by correcting my brain, leading to normalized brainwave patterns, I was able to access “another dimension” where it’s possible to communicate with others normally.

I don’t know the term for this “dimension” , are there theories somewhere about this?

I’m a Aries sun Aries moon and Sagittarius rising if it matters

Since retrograde my glasses have broken, I’ve fell off of my diet, I’ve had no energy, I haven’t been able to work out, ive been breaking out, I started my period, I’ve been going to bed super late and waking up late, I’m constantly having to change clothes from something spilling on me, the sink keeps clogging, for the first time my PMS made me not be able to breathe so much so that my fitness watch told me my oxygen saturation went down 4% and nearly went into the dangerous zone for the whole week before my period and the first night after my period started it went back to normal, my hands have been non stop cracking and bleeding and so much more but I’d rather not make this post a 20,000 word essay

If anyone has advice on what I can do I’d really appreciate it

6/4/24

We love you all. We care for you all so dearly. If only you knew how much support and care you have for you in these realms. We want to see you all grow and expand, we want the absolute best for you. You may not feel good enough or loved, but if only you could see all beings around you, caring and loving you. You can connect, you can hear us if you so wish.

The matrix is really two worlds. The seemingly physical world and the astral. The astral is where you find ghosts, negative entities, and the energy of objects and places. Most places have bad energy. Places that have very bad energy are considered cursed.

There are two ways that the energy of a place can go downhill causing it to become cursed. The first is bad things happening causing the people there to generate a lot of negative energy. A battle field or an active war zone is going to have very bad energy because the people there are generating very negative energy.

But it doesn't have to be that extreme. A place can become cursed by the people there generating a lot of fear energy. Think covid and how afraid people were during the pandemic. That generated a lot of fear energy. This kind of energy can become very dense and feel like it's actually weighing the place down. And will effectively curse the area.

I had an experience recently that caused me to feel afraid. Which is unusual for me because I try to avoid fear. Because I know it is what negative entities feed off of. I could actually feel the fear energy go into the environment and start weighing things down because it's so dense and heavy.

Another way a place can become cursed is by negative entities dumping negative energy into an area. What they will do is harvest negative energy from one area and then dump it somewhere else. If it's an area with a lot of positive energy like a beach it will actually neutralize the negative energy. If it's a negative area the situation will actually get worse because there is so much negative energy.

There are planetary and small scale energy attacks all the time. Where negative entities dump different types of negative energy on the planet. In positively charged areas the negative energy gets neutralized. In negatively charged areas it just adds to the already existing negative energy.

So that is how places become cursed. The more negative energy there is in an area the easier it is for ghosts and negative entities to manifest. So haunted places usually have a lot of dense negative energy that the entities there use to manifest themselves.

Negative energy especially when there is a lot of it actually makes an area more dense. Because all that negative energy is heavy and weighs things down. It may even seep into the physical world making it more dense. So it's best to try to avoid places with a lot of negative energy.

To clear yourself of negative energy I recommend going to the beach and getting into the ocean. If your not near a beach go out in nature. Nature and beaches and oceans have a lot of positive energy. It would take an absurd amount of negative energy to curse a beach. So the positive energy out in nature or on a beach will actually neutralize any negative energy around you. So that is how places become cursed. As usual let me know what you think in the comments.

Do some have some experience with this?

I've been doing the exercises in Robert Bruce's NEW book for 2 months or so.

The prep exercises I can do OK. Brushing, wrapping, and stirring myself. But the energy raising part I don't know if I'm doing right - or doing at all.

I do the sponging motion up my leg, and then towards the point below the navel and two inches inside like he says. And I imagine the energy centre sucking in the energy.

But nothing happens. I don't feel anything distinct in that area before or after that I could say, "That is my energy centre."

Sometimes I find it hard to do the sponging motion past the hips. I can sponge up to and including the hips perfectly well, but sometimes I find it hard to sponge past that.

With the arms I don't have that problem and I can sponge up my arm through my shoulder and down my torso, but again, don't feel any indication that there's energy being moved or stored. It just feels like vipassanna, like I'm moving my awareness through my body.

Any thoughts or advice?

Is what I'm doing here ineffectual? Is it possible to be raising energy, without any tactile feedback that you are doing so?

Thank you for any help you can offer.

so first off, im looking for a chat group.

Groups of knowledgable and grounded energy workers are so hard to find. literally any social media platform i will accept for a good group. i do prefer telegram if possible.

im hoping to compare my experiences, learn from other peoples experiences, and pick up what ever mentorship, knowledge, and direction i can get.

heres where i am at. i can feel and control some kind of energy. i have been able to since meditating as a kid. over the years my skill has only gotten better and more complex. but the one time in my life, where i really found someone else who seemed to experience the same thing as me, i listened to what they were willing to share, learned a few things, and as i attempted them they almost all turned out to be true. it expanded my capabilities twice fold.

at this point what i can do is, i can feel different types of energy. i can charge it, i can store it, i can move it around inside or outside my body. i can change how the energy feels which in turn changes the emotions/mind state it resonates with. i can feel other peoples energy and emotional state. i can make them feel my energy, and they will feel the emotional impact of what ever type or frequency of energy im channeling. i can enter a very spiritual zen mind state when i meditate through my 7 chakras, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually/ with my energy and this increases my capacity, range, accuracy and focus with any kind of energy work. i can channel energy into explosions or cast massive waves that can leave my chest feeling winded, and jarred. i can also channel the frequency of energy that resonates with my crown chakra to alleviate these feelings or clear blockages that different parts of my body occasionally develop.

heres what i dont know. i dont know much about cultures and spiritual followings that have learned about what ever this is generations before i was alive. i struggle separating what i do find about them from modern western bastardizations of it. i dont know how common this experience is among other people, so far it seems extremely rare compared to the number of people who are always talking about it. i dont know the limits of it, or the extent of its influence. and i dont really know what to define it as. im seeing alot of “life energy” going around. some fairly credible play into the idea of tapping into universal consciousness or something associated with that. but ive yet to find a developed understanding that 100% makes sense, is relatable, and is provably able to really define what this is.

so just to recap. if anyone has a chat group ANYWHERE full of people who experience this, are at least grounded scientific communicators as much as they are spiritual explores, and have deeper background knowledge into this, than please please add me. i really need people i can actually relate to on this.

thanks for reading, best wishes!

A lot of people have told me that they focus and. think better when they're around me.

Even in studies, someone was working on a maths problem for so long but couldn't solve it. I came up, they asked me for help, I just sat there and observed, and they instantly got an idea how to solve it.

Someone has told me that they're don't get bored around me even if we don't do anything and just sit. The person was morbidly addicted to their phone, btw. Sitting and doing nothing was usually unsettling for them.

Am I just seeing coincidental patterns and trying to derive a meaning from it, or does this mean something for my aura?

5/4/24

Go out and live life. I understand these times are hard, life doesn’t feel like living anymore. But there is still living to do, connections to be made, a purpose to strive for. Don’t give up, keep pushing forward. There is still and always will be, a light at the end of the tunnel.

For years, and the more I am healing from past religious trauma and embracing deeper, healthier spiritual practices, there are people or places I am around can put off negative or positive energy. If I stay focused on my meditations, teaching of true spiritually and staying vigilant, I am more aware. I come in contact with a lot of new people everyday and some I feel a deep connection with that other people don’t understand and other people or places put of negative energy or bad vibes. I just want to make sure that I keep this in a healthy place and not get lazy with it or overthink it. Am I cultivating this correctly? I don’t know how else to describe it.

This happened 2 or 3 times last year. I was just normally going to bed and all of this sudden my chest started to feel really good. I wasn't doing anything different than I'd normally do. Didn't meditate before, nothing spiritual, didn't have any new funky foods or vitamins. My chest felt like it was having an orgasm?? I thought maybe I was gonna have a heart attack but it felt good and warm and very intense. I closed my eyes and I started seeing the color green. GREEN! I have aphantasia. I can't see anything but blackness!! Also maybe TMI but I got extremely horny. Like I felt sexual energy down by my genital. I wasn't horny at all before this would happen. It was all so random and it's only happened 2 or 3x in 2023. I felt like I was in bliss. After a minute it went away completely and yeah... lol wtf??? So random. Was it Kundalini?! I don't think I've awakened it. I don't feel energy or attuned to any of it (yet) so when I felt it, I FELT IT! Any ideas? Thanks

So I know that I’m an energy healer but I know that I need to heal myself before I can heal other people how do I start without being overwhelmed I want to start small I just don’t know where to start

I took eclectic energy test and this was my result. I think I do intellectualise too much.

Root: open (19%)

Sacral: open (12%)

Navel: open (12%)

Heart: open (38%)

Throat: open (44%)

Third Eye: open (50%)

Crown: under-active (-6%)

Does anyone else have an intense feeling in their solar plexus region mostly around the navel area whenever money issues come up? -- Or just a throbbing, hole kind of feeling that is a little more pronounced than just 'butterflies in the stomach' that easily makes you startled when someone sneaks up on you or when there's an intense scene playing you want to block the view between you and the screen?

This feeling around navel region varies depending on the situation.

How does one fix this?

Monday is the day of the eclipse here, are there any like energy significances during that time?

Today I just completely layed down on the grass (cause I was stressed I was treated badly by family and also bad and anxiety energy dumped on me) so I stayed there watching the blue sky without any clouds I had a bit of sun on my fave and I did put on some music I like and after I felt very good but then my called me on the phone to talk me about her anxieties. Do you know easy meditations or like cleansing/grounding like that I can do everywhere? I prefer to do this way..and do you have any tips of how not to absorb other people energies and emotions ? I seem to always be the mediator or the person people emotional dump on that's why I am very isolated but I feel the need to socialize and have friends.

I’m still new to energy work and all this but I’ve had a problem with low energy for a long time. It’s started fairly bad this past year I had a lot happen and I had to be really really busy pretty much everyday for the whole past year, and lately for the past several months I’m fatigued, burnt out, and don’t wanna do anything, it feel like I’m hitting a depressive episode (which I do have depression). Now things are slowing down, I’m home a bit more, and besides work I have more down time to spend with my family and pets and friends but I don’t have the energy to do any of it. Do yall know any ways to raise my energy up? I don’t wanna be like super hype or anything but even just enough to get me out of bed to play outside with my dogs or go to the store with my husband or clean my house even. What can I do?

I have very little conscious understanding of energy. I have experienced a chaotic awakening triggered by a former connection. I have done a lot to heal, as it brought forward extreme emotional distress and past trauma. I have been doing well and focusing on myself. Trying to remember what it is I enjoy doing and learning who I am as a new self emerges.

It took me a very long time to turn away from the connection that exposed me to this experience. I finally did it and I had not felt energy moving through me for close to two years.

Now all of a sudden, a raging fire of energy has been flowing through me at the front of my body. It goes from what I believe they call sacral chakra up to the face and head. It began as a gentle experience. Then as the energy was originally associated with a person, my mind keeps kicking them up into conscious awareness. It’s like I can’t be alone and move on. Not an uncommon story for many people that develop emotional connections and attachments, except I have extreme energetic experiences associated with someone, which I have never in my life consciously experienced nor believed real.

I am working to allow the experience to exist and not feed into it or show resistance, but allow it to flow and move through, so I can move forward in my life. I end up getting angry though, as the energy is so distracting and I want to focus on myself and work. The anger then causes the energy to become very hot and intense.

Does anyone have any advice? Is my energy flowing improperly? Is it supposed to run up the front of the body? I don’t know what to do. I have a psychologist but this type of discussion is viewed as psychosis in mainstream society.

Thank you.

My kundalini awakened months back flash forward to today and I maxed out my solar plexus, I felt so confident and disciplined and even went for a 4 hour run in -20 c.

Well I knew it was time to go into the heart chakra or else I’d start to get unhealthy

And it completely destroyed me, I stay in bed for hours sad and my heart hurts as in it’s sore, my breathing got shallower, I end up sleeping more but in bursts, I actually keep waking up at 5 or 6 am.

When I think of loving thoughts I get tingles all over in and outside my body, like electricity.

Honestly I’m depressed, sad, lots of old feelings and emotions and old ways resurfaced.

What am I supposed to do?

Any ideas or suggestions?

Hello all, I’m not sure if this post belongs on this page but I’m just wondering if anyone has similar experiences.

Basically I have mild social anxiety, I’m also an introvert. For the most part I don’t have problems speaking with people, and being able to hold conversations. I feel like there are people that I can be myself around and feel mostly relaxed and not have any flare ups of social anxiety but then there are certain people I just never feel relaxed around, I can barely make eye contact, dry mouth, hoarse voice, my voice changes, I jumble up words, say weird things and the little voice in my head is screaming of agony to escape lol.

I’ve been wondering if this is an energy or vibe that they’re giving off, that I subconsciously feel. Also, I’m not intimidated by these people in the least. It’s weird bc I can be done speaking with that person, anxiety ridden, and then go speak with someone else where I feel “normal” again. I really hate it bc it makes me feel like I’m really awkward but that’s not the real me.

Hey Reddit! The past two nights our dog has been acting really strangely when it’s time for bed. The first night I thought it might’ve been that they had an upset stomach or something but this phenomenon has happened two nights in a row now. Through the day, the dog eats, drinks, plays and acts totally normal. At bedtime, we go into the bedroom and the dog is UPSET. He’s searching for something he can’t sniff out, wining, and when he does finally lay down it’s on top of me (he’s 100lbs and not normally that snuggly).

I pulled everything out from under the bed, opened all the drawers and let him sniff everything but there isn’t a specific source I can find of what’s bothering him. We slept in the guest room last night which seemed to be better.

I’m going to buy some sage and smudge the whole house tomorrow to see if that helps. Any other advice or thoughts? The only new thing was a friend brought her dog over a few days ago. The dogs played in the yard and seemed fine. It’s the only thing I can think of.

Thank you!