Dear psybernism,
I want to thank you so much for the thoughtfulness of your posts. I've really been comforted by your insights and understanding. I feel like you see me, even though you haven't met me...
Sounds like you had a rough time, earlier in life.... it sounds like even then you had your head screwed on, though (not up!)
In answer to one of your questions: he said he was just giving me the same antibiotics....he didn't say it was anything else... but yes, I have wondered ....
Thank you for the wonderful offer of putting me in touch with your healer friend. I can't afford any more treatment at the moment, but maybe for later when I have some more dosh...it's good to know what's out there in the local area

I, too, am as you guessed, very much up on the ancient healing arts.... I particularly like acupuncture and I am thinking of maybe training as an acupuncturist later on.
psybernism wrote:Going back to the chest infection that instigated this spiral of horror,
I had suddenly decided to subject myself to a lot of undue pressure and mental over-work,
I was trying to prove something to myself or something.
The heart chakra is said to be the seat of our consciousness; you seem pretty clued up in terms of spirituality (yoga does that) and, by the reckoning of your tutors, academically as well.
YES, you got it in one there hun.... I've been well aware for some time that the issue has to do with the Heart Chakra..... I have always been ruled by the heart, and was told a lot of times by spiritually aware people that I was heart-chakra dominant, and that I gave too much of myself from the heart without getting enough back. . . . leaking energy basically, and not using it always very wisely.... but even when I got hurt I'd go back for more... I wanted to forgive, so much, but I was just setting myself up for even more punishment. I've learnt this the hard way, too many times... I guess all this, and the feeling of being judged / condemned, all that over-work, driving myself into the ground for something I didn't even need, trying to carve a niche but instead just chipping away at my own soul. I see now how much i have been a martyr to myself, and the cause of my own downfall. This is what it takes to stop me in my tracks. Pity, really.
psybernism wrote:It seems to me that you lost faith in your own ability to see the new course through without putting in a whole lot of extra effort even though you probably will breeze through it when you do get round to doing what you set out to do.
This part confused me a bit.... were you referring to me doing the access course (I finished that already), or were you talking about the degree I was going to do, but didn't?
psybernism wrote:(Excuse me if this seems like a bit of a waffle, have been mulling this over all day and lots of thought-threads have formed that I feel I need to knock about with you!)
Are you kidding me, what you've written here is amazing and has seriously made me feel like there is some very caring, thoughtful people out there, which is so comforting. Thank you, for thinking so much about me..... I have actually felt it, these last 2 nights.... I felt people's caring thoughts reach me in my bed and I felt a tingling all over my crown chakra, like prayers being received.... i slept more soundly than before. i'm so glad I posted this now.
psybernism wrote:So, the chest infection was a sign that you were over-doing it, you know that already.
I would also hazard a guess that your apparently super-clean living has left you with a under-developed immune system because you have not exposed yourself to enough nastiness to have developed an immunity to it.
It's similar to the fact that our society has seen a huge increase in people with allergies and weakened immunity to formerly innocuous substances because they have grown up in almost completely sterile environments and have not developed defences against even everyday things.
Despite the fact that you are super-fit and very healthy, when you plunged yourself into the shit-storm that is Glastonbury Festival it was all just a bit too much, especially as you were part of the rubbish detail, getting up-close and personal with what basically amounts to a sea of other peoples crap!
SPOT ON.... You have tuned in to my situation and hit the nail right on the head.... it's so nice when people understand me! ( Doesn't happen that often, and you haven't even met me! )
psybernism wrote:(and don't rise to the bait that people might dangle in front of you here, many people don't know shit.
What other people think or say to or about you doesn't affect you unless you let it. Immunity to inbound nastiness stretches further than just being able to fight off disease and infection, it's about being able to hold true to your central core, the essence of your soul that makes you who you are, a kind of psychic self-defense.
Say whatever you like,
" Those who mind, don't matter,
and the people who matter don't mind."
You're damn right, again!!! I think that's my lesson for the day, you know..... I think that Jargon Buster (he and I are good now though, by the way, via PM) and busylizzy may have come here just to help me learn that one.... and I had a really interesting video sent to me via YouTube too, this afternoon....
Here it is....Check it out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s1em_Vf_5sTowards the end, he says something very much along the same lines as what you just said here... about not bothering about what anyone else thinks of you!!!!!
