I live in the US and my parents live in Europe, where I’m from. We tend to talk on the phone once or twice a week. Yesterday I told my parents that I was experiencing pains on the lower part of my right thumb but not to worry because I thought it was a good thing. Since I haven’t noticed injuring it lately I figured I was unlocking old memories that have been stuck there for around 20 years, and these memories were provoking these sensations. When I was a kid I remember experiencing lots of pains on my in that area. Their reaction was similar as if I had told them that I could make myself invisible and teleport. “Don’t tell us this. You know we don’t believe in these things”.
I was a bit miffed, but not much, for two reasons. Firstly we all know each other by know, so their response didn’t come as a surprise. But secondly and most importantly, which was actually a bit of a surprise for me, is that my need for external approval is plummeting. I am going in the right direction. That’s nice.
I told them that it had happened the same with my right knee a few months ago but quickly dropped it I when my mom said “You are business man now, let’s be a bit more serious”.
Not that I need to tell everybody or need anybody to believe me but it would be nice to be able to share the biggest accomplishment of my life with people I love. Seems like an irony that the more fascinating the things that one accomplishes, the less people are open to believe them.
The really fascinating thing here is how close-minded people become and how people soon start not believing or being open to anything that doesn’t conform to what they already know.
For this reason, it was an easy choice not to tell them about the short and sharp pains I have been experiencing in my chest lately, which feel like an arrhythmia, and my hypothesis behind them, that my heart is opening up. I am not 100% sure that there is a causal relationship between both –only 97%- but I’m a 100% sure that both things are happening.
How closed is your mind? Are you opening up your heart?
If you are not opening, you are closing.