When everything you believed was true suddenly became questionable? When you see EVERYTHING differently? When all of the anxieties associated with life suddenly do not matter? When you become completely emotionally numb to criticism? When nothing looks, smells, feels, tastes, or sounds the same as it did just a few weeks before the metamorphasis? When it finally becomes difficult to "give a damn" about any problem whatsoever?
I had an experience like this during the summer, and its as if I am a different person within the same body. I went to a foreign country and came back a different person. It's very hard for me to explain, but it is as if someone has taken the fears, anxieties, and frustrations completely out of my body. I don't even feel like myself. For weeks, now, I have felt a comfort and inner tranquility that is uncomparable to any other drug. So much so that, if fact, it is becoming difficult to work on anything. All I want to do is sit and think. Any thoughts?
2006-08-28 04:58:46 · 13 answers · asked by YahooAnswers 5 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I have always felt that travel to foreign countries is a very good education. No, I have never experienced this but can almost understand. I feel that I have learned a lot through travel.
2006-08-28 05:11:48 · answer #1 · answered by old_woman_84 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I've been there. I had a health scare a few years ago and thought I would need heart surgery. I had to face my own mortality for the first time in my life and it's a scary experience. I literally spend days in a fog of disbelief and when it was all over and I got a clean bill of health from a specialist it was like I was re-born. Everything was fresh and the possibility of the future was endless. I no longer stress out over little crap like I used to and I take a few minutes each day to fully enjoy whatever it is I'm doing and keep myself in the moment. It was a wonderful experience in the long run, because it taught me to appreciate all I have and make some concrete plans for the future which I had been putting off till "someday". When you face down heart disease, you get a whole new perspective on life.
2006-08-28 07:07:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i had a best friend who i told everything to. when i had a miscarriage and then a hysterectomy, guess who slept with my man while i was in the hospital. you guessed it. i used to trust people and now i really dont.
things that mattered so much before dont make a damn anymore. i changed my whole life around and it took a lot of bad things happening to be able to do that.
i learned that i am a strong person, which, i never saw myself as strong until then. i learned that i can do anything if i try hard enough.
im a different person than i was 10 years ago. i think that im more logical about things and people than i was.
sometimes it takes a good shaking up to get to your own inner strength, but it can happen.
2006-09-05 04:23:03 · answer #3 · answered by lodeemae 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Hello to you januarybaby392!
I believe I've experienced something that could be described as profound change. In fact, I'm getting recurrences every 3 or 4 years since adolescence.
I call them "epiphanies." I believe they're similar to time-release capsules which "shower" me with neurotransmitters that provide me with "awakenings." Suddenly, and with no apparent reason, I come to understandings so profound they shake me to my core.
The first "epiphany" I experienced was an encompassing understanding that I was incorrectly motivated by greed. I was able to give greed up only because I realized it's harmful mechanism on my psyche.
My second "epiphany" concerned covetousness. I, one day, awoke and suddenly realized that I did not need the same possessions and/or objects others had over my own. I felt more satisfied to acquire those that made me happier, rather than richer ... because the happier I got, the richer I felt.
Toward mid-life I awoke to realize I had been in a partnership with vanity. The "epiphany" shook my world. Overconcern for my looks, stature in my community, clothes I wore on a daily basis and people I allowed myself to associate with was carrying me beyond myself. I gave it up for normalcy. I no longer follow the dictates of most vanities.
At this particular time in my life, I've an "epiphany" from the feelings of pride. Although I now understand pride's allure, I find it the most difficult vice to ameliorate with any great degree of success. In fact, I feel it now.
It is extremely important to me to communicate well with others. I feel a dubvious pleasure in accurately describing my thoughts and feelings. Sometimes I have lost sight of my points to the platitudes of poor and hurried explanations; I feel rewards from the understandings my "epiphanies" guileless presence affords me.
I, now, live in hope of inculcating pearls into the gestalt that answers has produced for us all."
2006-09-04 05:48:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What did you eat? Were there any signs of an alien abduction? A trip to the doc may be in order... can't you walk and think or go wading in water and think? JUST to sit and think is sad, I'd say. If that's ALL you want to do. It's also great to find inner peace, but is there ways to apply that to your life as you live it? Maybe find others to share this with, and make them happy too.
2006-09-03 06:40:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the old saying is
"THE GRASS IS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE" isn't always true,we see our lives as wonderful for having all we have and grateful for thing we have and so on....
but when you come to the point that you REALLY SEE IT, the way GOD has made it for others we see it differently and that how we learn to be more grateful for what we have now.
you can't let the people bring you down and let it make you feel unhappy about life as it is with other people in a different country just look around you here in the USA,it's a sad eye opener.
2006-08-28 06:37:09 · answer #6 · answered by DENISE 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am so tot tally with you. It's sounds like to me that it's a total let down, or complete emotional relief. I want to tell you about my story, not because of empathy, but, I cannot get rid of my anger, frustration, disappointment, that controlling A Hole that I live with is , or should I say, I'm letting him ruin me. I have to let go of the thought that there is nothing I can do, except for look out for myself. I have so much learned to hate him, that, he needs so much help, seek clinical help, that he will not even attempt to do so. I really do despise this man. I am currently looking for another place to live. I can hardly wait. I wish you the best. I'm sorry I did not give you the right answers or even helped you, but thanks for listening
2006-08-28 05:28:28 · answer #7 · answered by candlemia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
definite a number of, the ideal commonly used having been 17 october 1989 while there grew to become right into a substantial earthquake in California in the time of a "international sequence" baseball game. Had it no longer occured my brother woulda been on Nightline with Ted Koppel afterwards.
2016-11-05 23:02:56 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The world is still the same , Nothing has changed . What has changed is your thinking .
Ask yourself what is the purpose of your life ? What is your desire ? what is your yearning ? Has anything you seen , experienced when you were overseas touched that part that made you changed ? Find out and go along that line to find out what you want your life to be .
2006-09-04 15:13:52 · answer #9 · answered by Blue Shadow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, i haven't. but i am waiting for it to happen to me.
i think it is a connection with a higher self that you are feeling. you have been connected spiritually to either God/ the Power or you have tapped into your own soul. thats the only thing i would describe this as, a contentment and a feeling of peace which nothing else can give. you are one lucky person. i am so glad for you.
2006-08-28 05:27:05 · answer #10 · answered by publically_private 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋