Hi amd1953
What if certain non empathetic non feeling highly competitive self serving people are doing it all wrong and everyone else is feeling the consequences. Sounds plausible. Actually, sounds more than plausible. Btw, such people will tell us we just need to be tougher, more aggressive, less feeling, less caring etc. Ahh, lessons in how to be unfeeling and careless. Hmmm🤔
Sometimes I find the hardest question to answer is 'How do I manage feeling/sensing so much of what's wrong in this world?'. How do we manage sensing what's heartless, what's way too stressful, what's depressing at times, what's agitating or enraging etc. What to do about being a 'sensitive' (someone who can sense what's wrong and what's right)? Of course, what's right and wrong is subjective. All depends on our beliefs, attitudes and more. But it kind of makes sense that what's 'right' would lead most of us to feel joy, peace, a sense of community (as opposed to separation) and so on.
Human nature is definitely a fascinating thing, that's for sure. How insane is it that we're taught not to automatically trust people. Just think if everyone was trustworthy, there wouldn't be a problem. But not everyone is trustworthy and it's the trusting people who often get slammed for being 'foolish'. How messed up is that, that the trusting people are degraded. Sometimes it feels like the world (in general) has it all backwards and we're living in a kind of backwards world. I think this is what draws me to the more soulful side of life.
Whether it involves books, podcasts, documentaries and stuff along those lines, for myself it's about researching and finding what makes all the difference while living in a backwards world. When to feel and when to not feel, how to feel in constructive ways, how to shift perception in ways that work, how to open the mind in order to be able to imagine or visualise what works etc etc. While I fully respect elements of psychology and even seriously considered studying psychology at some point in my life, I've found psychology does not cover certain elements of human nature. 'How to manage like a pro in a somewhat backwards world, from a deeply soulful perspective', isn't a huge topic in psychology. While the concept of spirituality is not everyone's cup of tea, in the world of spirituality (which can include elements of psychology, biology etc) 'How to manage sensing or being sensitive' is an enormous topic which offers a myriad of ways to manage. I much prefer to imagine and believe there are so many ways to master our ability to sense, as opposed to being led to imagine and believe our sensitivity is our greatest fault. I've found that without ways to master it, sensitivity doesn't just feel like a fault, it can also feel like a curse. We can be left feeling like we are destined to suffer forever through our ability to sense so much.
PS. Regarding certain hihghly insensitive people, we may say 'I can easily sense your serious lack of compassion. The lack just screams at me'. While some feel the whispers of what's lacking, others feel far more intensely.
