So, right about now I’m wishing that I’d mastered all the shielding and grounding and centering techniques I’ve been taught over the years, because I find that I’m needing them very badly in my job. In working with people who are emotionally and mentally unbalanced an awful lot, and with coworkers who are very stressed, I’m finding that yep, I can be just as sensitive as I was afraid I could be. There’s so much stuff flying around I feel like I’m being bombarded with ick almost all the time. There’s no other word for it. Since that’s going on, well, I wish I’d gotten used to using all those skills I have at one point or another been able to do. You never know when you’ll want to be able to build a brick wall between you and a client, or be able to block out everyone else around you, or be able to tell just how someone is doing right now. It would especially come in handy with my profession, but I think these things could be arguably useful to pretty much everyone.
So, let this be a lesson to you. If you can, learn to use that stuff. Don’t make all the excuses I did and regret it later when you have trouble making it through a day because your soul is being sucked out because someone next to you is so out of touch with reality, or got up on the wrong side of the bed or whatever else it is that is stressing them and causing you to feel it. Right now, instead of being able to sort through feelings flying at me and filter what I want out, I’ve put up what amounts to a castle around me. Sometimes that’s not effective enough either, and things get through. It’s hard to sort through everything. It was incredibly frustrating for me, and now I wish I could go back and use all those skills regularly when I had access to my teacher. Vent over.
