On being the hero of our own story...

Zen wrote:Haha, thank you for making this thread as this is something I've been pondering currently.

It's important to note though, from personal experience...
Your HSP "super powers" easily become a crutch to rely on for a sense of control or being better than "the average human" you have encountered in your life.

Yes this is true Zen, you can think the world should revolve around this aspect of you and when it doesn't it can set your up for missing out on another level of connection...where you connect just by being you without thought of them as a stand out..
I had a rude awakening about this early on. I'd suggest using them to explore your human spirit, rather than try to defeat the not so great aspects of it we see displayed.

This is a good point, we will constantly have reality checks on being HSP and the spirit level where we are all one. I too had a rude awakening about this point you make..

Rather than one role though, I find myself playing all them in my own story.
Hero and villan are two sides of the same whole.

We are all the roles we play and act out in this reality... People will hate your guts for doing what your intuition says is the right thing, or simply being yourself sometimes, and they will not necessarily be your enemies.

Sometimes I wonder what part I play in the greater whole lol

Alethia wrote:

Zen wrote:Haha, thank you for making this thread as this is something I've been pondering currently.
Np, but it's thanks to Mel! :p Zen, Alethia and everyone else, I'm not sure how this quoting-quoties business goes, so sorry if this gets confusing :p I'll be the bluuue one!
It's important to note though, from personal experience...
Your HSP "super powers" easily become a crutch to rely on for a sense of control or being better than "the average human" you have encountered in your life.

Isn't that a bad thing, though? I mean, personally, I've been trying to get rid of that need of a "sense of control". I think I see what you're saying, but do you have an exemple of this?
And, as "being better than the average human... I don't want to see things this way. I believe HSPs are different in the way that two people can have respectively blue eyes and brown eyes, but it doesn't make them that different and/or superior/inferior one way or the other... don't you think?

Yes this is true Zen, you can think the world should revolve around this aspect of you and when it doesn't it can set your up for missing out on another level of connection...where you connect just by being you without thought of them as a stand out..
I had a rude awakening about this early on. I'd suggest using them to explore your human spirit, rather than try to defeat the not so great aspects of it we see displayed.

This is a good point, we will constantly have reality checks on being HSP and the spirit level where we are all one. I too had a rude awakening about this point you make..
Ooooh agreed!

Rather than one role though, I find myself playing all them in my own story.
Hero and villan are two sides of the same whole.

We are all the roles we play and act out in this reality... People will hate your guts for doing what your intuition says is the right thing, or simply being yourself sometimes, and they will not necessarily be your enemies.

I would argue that this isn't really being the villain More like a hero with bad publicity, or the villain in other people's eyes.
I believe that what is far more destructive is when you feel like you are you own villain, as well- creating a schism in your own mind, spirit, hopes, beliefs, ideas, with arguments on both side of the schism and a desperate confusion as to where lies the truth... if I'm making any sense :p

Sometimes I wonder what part I play in the greater whole lol

I like how you all talk about wholes... that idea crept up on me a few weeks ago, and I've been giving it a lot of thought, lately

Selmi wrote:

Alethia wrote:

Zen wrote:Haha, thank you for making this thread as this is something I've been pondering currently.
Np, but it's thanks to Mel! :p Zen, Alethia and everyone else, I'm not sure how this quoting-quoties business goes, so sorry if this gets confusing :p I'll be the bluuue one!
It's important to note though, from personal experience...
Your HSP "super powers" easily become a crutch to rely on for a sense of control or being better than "the average human" you have encountered in your life.

Isn't that a bad thing, though? I mean, personally, I've been trying to get rid of that need of a "sense of control". I think I see what you're saying, but do you have an exemple of this?
And, as "being better than the average human... I don't want to see things this way. I believe HSPs are different in the way that two people can have respectively blue eyes and brown eyes, but it doesn't make them that different and/or superior/inferior one way or the other... don't you think?

Yes this is true Zen, you can think the world should revolve around this aspect of you and when it doesn't it can set your up for missing out on another level of connection...where you connect just by being you without thought of them as a stand out..
I had a rude awakening about this early on. I'd suggest using them to explore your human spirit, rather than try to defeat the not so great aspects of it we see displayed.

This is a good point, we will constantly have reality checks on being HSP and the spirit level where we are all one. I too had a rude awakening about this point you make..
Ooooh agreed!

Rather than one role though, I find myself playing all them in my own story.
Hero and villan are two sides of the same whole.

We are all the roles we play and act out in this reality... People will hate your guts for doing what your intuition says is the right thing, or simply being yourself sometimes, and they will not necessarily be your enemies.

I would argue that this isn't really being the villain More like a hero with bad publicity, or the villain in other people's eyes.
I believe that what is far more destructive is when you feel like you are you own villain, as well- creating a schism in your own mind, spirit, hopes, beliefs, ideas, with arguments on both side of the schism and a desperate confusion as to where lies the truth... if I'm making any sense :p

Yes you are making sense...
Everything we create comes from within self, so yes Selmi, any division skewed by the external world coming into your own view of yourself, can create unnecessary feelings in the face of what you first believed yourself to be. The division I must add of course is only related to the conditioned response or emotional bind coming through that view, of what you hold to that space in any case.

Sometimes I wonder what part I play in the greater whole lol

I like how you all talk about wholes... that idea crept up on me a few weeks ago, and I've been giving it a lot of thought, lately

This is great it will open up your view greater both from within you and for the whole outside of you.