What new experience has made a profound impact on your life?

Question

The two obvious (and excellent) answers are marriage and having children. But there are many more experiences out there that have affected us (and now we have a change to share the experience with others). Experience can be positive or negative and very likely this experience made you who you are today. I'll choose a winner. Thank you all in advance.

Add from a philosophical standpoint to my question. That makes it more relevant to this forum.

Answer 1

It's kind of cliche I guess, but I had a moment 4 years ago in a family restaurant. I was sipping my coffee alone in a booth and people-watching, when I was struck by how little I was compared to the enormity of life. It was always something that I logically understood, but at that moment I really felt it. I suppose its really just part of growing up.

Answer 2

I had four major life changing experiences that stick out in my life.

The first was a near death experience that stopped my world.

The second was my son's birth (of course).

The third (this one was probably the most profound and continuous) was a teaching I learned about self healing. This involved clearing the mind of all active thought and creating a stage in the mind. Then putting each person who had done harm or for whom ill feelings were held. Each person was put on the stage and flooded with pure love, forgiven and released. At the end of this exercise, I put myself on this stage and flooded myself with that same love, forgave myself and released myself.

The forth was moving abroad and living in a foreign country for ten years.

I do not want to make this too long, so if anyone wishes to explore this further, please email me.

Answer 3

The death of my 20 year old son after I prayed for an entire year, twice a day, that there would be no suicides in the family. He did commit suicide after that year long of praying. Before then, I did think that there was a purpose in life - now I don't believe in any purpose in being alive and I've become an atheist...so has the rest of my family...once in a blue moon I hope there is a Good God but usually I don't. And the sad thing is I don't believe in Heaven no more...just look at this world - who would believe in God when He doesn't answer a WHOLE YEAR of praying, as well as seeing the suffering of the world. And then you have these idiots that believe in reincarnation...what God would have us to be born on a planet
to suffer, just to end in death and then ''reincarnate'' us back onto the planet to suffer more and to die again and again.

Answer 4

i'm not precisely specific this qualifies. You be the decide. I have been working finished time as a nurse and entirely meant to artwork until eventually i replaced into 70. In March, I had a strategies anuerism. It needless to say altered my existence and that i see the leads to many techniques. It affected my memory and my using. no person needs a medicine nurse with a detrimental memory. It became out I even have blackouts. lower back, not risk-free to force the freeways. i've got come to settle for this and characteristic developed a existence sort that doesnt require a great memory. Such is existence.

Answer 5

Me and my husband went trough a hurricane. We were stuck in the hotel room on the small Caribbean isle for whole 3 days of the pretty intense bout of mother nature's fury. It forced us to rethink our place in the universe... No matter how successful you are in your every day world, you are powerless in a face of a storm of this magnitude. It also brought us closer together and made us more accepting of other people. It is good to be brought down to earth so to speak at least once in a while... a very humbling experience, indeed...

Answer 6

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 7

Flying a 1947 Cessna under a bridge motivated me to give up an airplane and pastime I loved and quit flying.

Answer 8

Having the courage to open up to someone and taking a leap of faith and trusting that person.

Answer 9

A panic attack that has been going on since last year.

Answer 10

the only one i'm comfortable talking about is..... i was with my mother when she died. during her long fight against cancer i was one of her primary care givers. i learned from her to love life, and that i had the inner strength to carry on.