Remember: you already have what others lack. You are gifted with perception and your potential is high. You’ve got years and years of creativity left inside you - unlock it, express it 🌲
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Being a gifted kid meant always getting rewarded for intellectualizing problems. Noticing potential as an adult often feels like I'm battling against my instinct to intellectualize and handicapping my ability to actually realize that potential. Double edged sword but I am thankful, even though it feels like an uphill battle to actually work out how to use it appropriately. I've been looking into your recent recommendation From Intellect to Intuition, the title sounds pretty spot on
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I think there is absolute truth in the saying "Ignorance is bliss." I am not trying to deliver even the slightist nanoscopic -iest sliver of narcissism when i say that i have been insanely jealous of ignorance many many a time. I have lived with severe severe depression my entire life, and if one knows about depression they know that it's not a switch that can be turned on and off. Its like you are drowning in slow motion while you can see everyone around you breathing. I am so overly bombarded with feeling emotions and sensing emotions that I often cry over the pain of this world, but sometimes cry because things are too beautiful. I know that it is all a process and a journey and that one can become the happiest by experiencing the most tragedy. Over the years I have attempted to manage my brain with things like art, creative writing, exercise and stretching, knitting, breathwork, meditation, dream journaling, daily journaling, making lists of lists, reading, tarot, therapy, self hypnosis, hemi-sync, medications, supplements, singing, yodeling, extreme temperature, sensory deprivation, light therapy, tens, neurogenic tremors....mylanta I could continue on forever. My point in this ramble is that I think that life is definitely many times much happier not knowing. Remember when you were a child and you learned the truth about the tooth fairy? That all those yummy hamburgers you've been eating were once alive? Or the moment that you came to the realization that this life you are living is not permanent and that everyone will die? Your pets, your family, your teachers and friends...and even yourself? I for one wish I never saw how hotdogs are made....curiosity fulfillment can be one hell of a debbie downer.
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Thank you for the reminder. Even at a seemingly humble level, there is always a deep gratitude to be aware of that heals and eases the tension I feel when in troubled judgement of my own smallness in a world which often feels too fast or large to keep pace with.
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Love a life of curiousity & learning even tho I have thought , at times , ignorance may indeed be bliss , but actually I prefer to dig deeper & be more searching & honest w myself.
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I see a strong identity wrapping up this questionnare to cover a deeper layer of shame and unworthiness. its ok to feel the shame beneath it. You will feel more grounded and humble after and no your brilliance will not disappear and will have more room to breathe.
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I feel like my intelligence and OCD are 2 sides of the same coin. Yes my intelligence had been helpful when projected outward but self destructive if allowed to fester inwards. I’ve found more progress when I stop analysing and instead listen to myself. For the last shadows I had to expunge I was searching so deep when they were right on the surface. My thinking was, surely it can’t be this easy.
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You are also good looking, sexy and still young.There’s something to be said for that. Lol
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Jordan Thornton - Inner Work
Are you thankful for being smart & intelligent?
- It’s a gift, please don’t waste your power.
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