Cutting Cords of Attachment — Can That End an Addiction?

The idea hadn’t occurred to me until I learned about some startling research in my trusty Washington Post. On September 5, 2010, Ellen McCarthy reported on a study that appeared in the Journal of Neurophysiology. It didn’t have to do with cutting cords of attachment, but keep reading and I’m sure you’ll be able to connect some mighty interesting dots.

The research team was headed by psychologist Art Aron (the husband of another psychologist, Elaine Aron, who has written about Highly Sensitive Persons and pioneered this field). Aron, anthropologist Helen Fisher, and others studied romantic rejection.

If you have been through that icky terrain, be sure to keep reading. If you have friends who are stuck there now, in the pain swamp, please send them a link to the post. Okay, back to the research….

All subjects recounted heart-wrenching tales of woe, such as one who told an interviewer, “I can’t sleep. I just lie there, wondering what happened and what could have been.”

What Aron and his four fellow researchers did was to study activity in their brains. Their finding?

The romantically rejected don’t just have obsessive thinking and craving for emotional union. They think about the person who rejected them 85% of their waking hours. Also they may cry a lot, beg to be taken back, call and email a lot, and drink too much. Neurologically, this pattern is similar to what cocaine addicts suffer during withdrawal. Read More »

How the Meek Shall Inherit the Earth

“The meek shall inherit the earth.” Surely you’ve heard these words since you were young.

Who are the meek, exactly?

The poor? Not necessarily. For starters, “the meek” can be the humble-hearted,  as in, “I may know better than others sometimes but gawrsh, I’d better hide that and not make waves.” 

Meekness can be felt or expressed in very different ways — just like arrogance, actually.

In case there’s any doubt in your mind about yourself, and whether such a smart, nice, talented person as you might possibly count as meek, hello! Let me break it to you.  At Earth School, nobody wears proper signs. At Earth School, anyone with even one of the following attributes does count as meek:

1. Highly sensitive persons (HSPs)
2. Empaths
3. Smart people who go in hiding much of the time to avoid seeming “arrogant”
4. People who use a small “i” when they write, in order to stand out as exceptionally smart or cool or ironic
5. Loving people who are not using their power
6. Inspired, spiritually questing people who are not using their power
7. People whose childhoods involved abuse or marriages
8. People meekly hiding out while smoking pot (a.k.a. marijuana, weed)
9. People who use that popular depressant, alcohol, to stay meekly hidden.
10. People who can’t lose weight, because the weight is used as a form of social humility (“I won’t look better than others, don’t worry.
11. People with failed marriages, disappointing children, people who have been humbled by life one way or another
12. People who refuse to blame others as much as they blame themselves
13. People who don’t get much respect and, unlike Rodney Dangerfield, aren’t not paid for the privilege
14. People who don’t earn as much money as they deserve
15. The older your soul age, the more likely you are to have a humble heart and act meek.

The list goes on. Any attribute like these would earn a person “meek” status. So if you have suffered due to being meek and humble, now you can admit it. Officially, yes, you are meek.

Let’s consider that “who” question settled and go on to ask the one that not only matters more but is very, very timely. How, exactly, can the meek inherit the earth? Read More »

Five Specialties, You, and Aura Reading

Deeper Perception Made Practical is a blog community for those of you with an interest in Aura Reading, Empath Empowerment, Face Reading, developing skill so that you can permanently Cut Cords of Attachment, etc. There are myriad ways that you can use your built-in gifts as a person to make life better, and I support them all.

Personally, I find the Regression Therapy sessions that I do in metro D.C. (Northern Virginia) are an especially enjoyable application of reading people deeper. Phone sessions of Energy Spirituality are another. And hosting this blog community is yet another.

I’m curious about what YOU do with Deeper Perception. How do YOU make it practical? Read More »

Dangerous Advice for an Empath

Recently, I came across two very different empaths. 

 EMPATH #1, “Fran” had me read her aura, and it was a delight. Besides being well trained as a healer, she clearly had strong skills as an empath.

Her empath circuits were strong and wonderfully unencumbered by other people’s stuff. Moreover, Fran’s aura showed clearly that she had learned how to keep her empath gifts OFF most of the time, turning them on only when desired and doing this in ways that kept her safe.

EMPATH #2, Freya, gives empaths advice at her blog. I applaud her intent to help people get in control of their abilities. “It’s not always an easy process, but it is an achievable one, provided you make the effort.”

Then Freya goes on to advise empaths to project their emotions outward in order to change other people: Read More »

True Empath Empowerment Vs. Strong Boundaries

All kinds of empaths talk with me:

• Skilled empaths
• Questing empaths trying to find out “Who am I?”
• Scared empaths, fleeing energy vampires and narcissists
• Despairing empaths who believe they are damaged forever
• Empaths who (mistakenly) think they know everything about how to be skilled because they now “pay attention to boundaries.”

Here I’d like to give some much-needed clarification to the whole empath-boundaries-protection issue.

WHAT IS AN EMPATH?

Most beginners believe that an empath feels other people’s feelings.

Well, that’s a piece of the puzzle. Maybe.

At best, this definition is incomplete and misleading. But at worst, this definition is completely inaccurate.

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