i'm gonna share a story. i don't really know where it is going, maybe it's more of a "venting" but here goes..... so last night my friend Ali arrived in town from NYC. we used to compete in figure skating when we were kids...i literally hadn't seen her in almost 20 years. anyway, her mom's friend picked her up at the airport and so i met them out for a drink. i was in a good mood when i pulled up to the restaurant (jamie can attest to that...i was on the phone with her right before i got out of the car :)) and i spotted Ali right away. it was great to see her. it's funny how our minds will age people so that we still recognize them even after so much time and change. I digress... anyway, when we got to the table and Ali introduced me to her mom's friend, Sherri, I felt a powerful shift of energy. that's a fancy way of saying, i didn't get a good vibe from her. isn't that funny? intuition i mean. it is so very real but most of the time i find that i push it aside as some kind of woo-woo new-agey thing. i couldn't put my finger on it but i just got the feeling that for whatever reason, this woman decided she didn't like me. the whole conversation she didn't make eye contact with me, and if we did engage in any sort of dialogue, I found her to be very defensive and competitive. AND, i was letting all of this feed right into all my insecurities. by the time i left, i was in a horrible mood. i felt unattractive, uncharismatic, stupid, and uninteresting. Whoa. What a shift. And all b/c of this woman whom i have never met and whom i will probably never cross paths with again. i began to become aware of all of these things on my drive home but even though i was aware that i was reacting to HER unpleasantness, shaking the feel that had taken over me was easier said than done. I guess my point is - "energy vampires" - watch out for them! They are in all of our lives and the feed on sucking away our positive energy.
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i'm gonna share a story. i don't really know where it is going, maybe it's more of a "venting" but here goes.....
so last night my friend Ali arrived in town from NYC. we used to compete in figure skating when we were kids...i literally hadn't seen her in almost 20 years. anyway, her mom's friend picked her up at the airport and so i met them out for a drink. i was in a good mood when i pulled up to the restaurant (jamie can attest to that...i was on the phone with her right before i got out of the car :)) and i spotted Ali right away. it was great to see her. it's funny how our minds will age people so that we still recognize them even after so much time and change. I digress...
anyway, when we got to the table and Ali introduced me to her mom's friend, Sherri, I felt a powerful shift of energy. that's a fancy way of saying, i didn't get a good vibe from her. isn't that funny? intuition i mean. it is so very real but most of the time i find that i push it aside as some kind of woo-woo new-agey thing. i couldn't put my finger on it but i just got the feeling that for whatever reason, this woman decided she didn't like me. the whole conversation she didn't make eye contact with me, and if we did engage in any sort of dialogue, I found her to be very defensive and competitive. AND, i was letting all of this feed right into all my insecurities. by the time i left, i was in a horrible mood. i felt unattractive, uncharismatic, stupid, and uninteresting. Whoa. What a shift. And all b/c of this woman whom i have never met and whom i will probably never cross paths with again. i began to become aware of all of these things on my drive home but even though i was aware that i was reacting to HER unpleasantness, shaking the feel that had taken over me was easier said than done. I guess my point is - "energy vampires" - watch out for them! They are in all of our lives and the feed on sucking away our positive energy.
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