Yesterday as I was walking my 8 year old daughter to school, she was talking about how mad the other kids in her music class made her. She said that they talk to each other and are rude to the teacher, who is one of her favorite teachers. It is not uncommon to pick her up from other activities where groups of kids her age make her frustrated and upset in similar ways for the same reasons. I just let her talk and get her frustration out, then try to help her. I tell her that she can't change the kids around her, but she can work really hard on making sure she is 100% focused on her teacher. Then I also make sure she has her essential oils on before she heads out to school. She loves them.
The sad thing is I can totally relate. I can't tell you how many times I have walked into a group of people and within a few minutes wanted to turn around and run. There have been a few times I have even felt like I was starting to have a panic attack. I have never really thought about it much until working through it with my daughter. I always thought it was me developing a fear of groups or something like that. As I look more and more into it, I realize that I am hypersensitive to the emotions of other people. With this awareness, I am able to understand what is going on, and why I feel this way. That makes all the difference somehow!
As I am writing this post, I have taken a few opportunities for deep thought. As I sit quietly and think, it allows me to connect with my Father in Heaven. Here is what has come to me:
Thoughts create emotions. These emotions give us the drive and the will-power to act, whether for good or bad. There is a special kind of energy that is created by these emotions that we feel. As I study this subject from many different sources, I have new understanding from the scriptures. In the Book of Mormon, it says "But behold, that which is of God inviteth and enticeth to do good continually; wherefore, everything which inviteth and enticeth to do good and to love God and to serve him, is inspired of God...For behold, the Spirit of Christ is given to every man, that he may know good from evil; wherefore, I show unto you the way to judge; for everything which inviteth to do good , and to persuade to believe in Christ, is sent forth by the power and gift of Christ; wherefore ye may know with a perfect knowledge it is of God. But whatsoever thing persuadeth men to do evil, and believe not in Christ, and deny him, and serve not God, then ye may know with a perfect knowledge it is of the devil; for after this manner doth the devil work, for he persuadeth no man to do good, no, not one; neither do his angels; neither do they who subject themselves unto him....Wherefore I beseech of you brethren (and sisters!) that ye should search diligently in the light of Christ that ye may know good from evil; and if ye will lay hold upon every good thing, and condemn it not, ye certainly will be a child of Christ. (Moroni 7:13, 16, 17, 19)" How powerful is that!!
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