|| This summary re-written on Monday 29th July 2024
I wonder if being a sensitive person means there’s a greater need for reassurance in everything I do?
It has always been one of my traits, if you can call it that. I’m no psychiatrist, but I wonder if it stems from a childhood where my parents often suppressed my opinions. My father’s daily mantra was ‘children should be seen and not heard’. According to that, my opinion and my views didn’t have value.
So, I spent more time seeking reassurance in many of the chores I had to do. My parents were harsh critics. If, for example, I painted an entire fence as a chore my dad asked me to do, after completing it, he would always find one run somewhere in the job to complain about.
Perhaps reassurance was lacking in my younger life. Perhaps this is why, even today, I seek reassurance from anyone that what I do is ok for them. Of course, the opposite of reassurance can be a lack of tolerance for criticism.
My work on the internet has often felt like a thankless task. Who cares about the words I write? Who even reads them? This way of thinking haunts me every day of my life. I am, however, lucky to have a caring and loving partner who makes no judgements. Without saying so in words, she constantly reassures me.
In today’s session, I must have been seeking reassurance again from my higher spirit and those working with me in the spirit world. The speaker’s words are compassionate and reassuring.
POST SCRIPT
Although this transcription was taken almost a year before this website was constructed, I find reviewing it renews my hopes.
THE WFSIW SESSION
You asked for our reassurance. Trust is all you need. We are with you, and were, as soon as you set your intent. I want to ask you a question? What is it you want to hear from us when you sit? Don't worry, I'm not testing you like you do with us, all the time. It's just a question for you to establish the answer to, in your mind. We won't answer it. Just you. Write down what you hope to hear from us please.
[I WROTE] Reassurance and guidance, peace of mind for my turbulent thoughts.
Good. That was easy wasn't it? These are truths that everyone seeks, even us over this side. Every life form seeks reassurance from the moment they are born to the earth.
From the touch of a mother's hand, from the scent of the parent, from the impressions surrounding them. Reassurance, usually wrapped in love, comfort, and peace of knowing that somebody or something is there caring by their side during the journey ahead.
Guidance is a two edged sword though. Seeking guidance alone is not enough. To be guided needs an interaction to be available. To acquire such guidance also requires a trust and a knowing.
Do you my friend, feel reassured that we are working with you? Do you therefore accept that any guidance we might offer needs to first be heard, and second, be acted upon. Otherwise there would be no point, would there?
You describe your thoughts as turbulent. What do you mean by that? Because whatever your belief is about turbulent thoughts, let me assure you here and now with complete clarity, your mind is far from turbulent. Your mind is active, and surely you'd prefer that, to the complete opposite state?
Let a step back for a moment. Look at how far you have come. Here you are writing our direct words to you. Would you have ever thought this all possible a few years ago?
You've come a long way. You've listened, been reassured and become trusting. Should you not be proud of that? Does that alone not offer you any reassurance?
Your thoughts aren't so much as turbulent, more scatty at times. Learn to focus ahead better than you do. Look where you intend to go and don't take your eyes off it. Up hills, down dales, over rocks and boulders, rough seas and through fire, just keep focused on straight ahead.
If you're off course by any large degree, we will tell you. Be reassured. Take a few minutes to think on my words now.
Goodbye dear friend.
BONUS: AI PODCAST VERSION
MY AFTERTHOUGHTS TODAY
written on Monday 29th July 2024
317 days after the session was transcribed
Reading this session once more, in the process of adding it to this archive, has made me realise that the words of the speaker are timeless. As meaningful today as when they were transcribed.
My preamble notes above show how much I have grown to understand my condition. I suspect that, until I pass to the next life, I will seek reassurance more than I need to. Perhaps that reflects a loss of belief in myself.
It’s interesting that in this session, the speaker suggests that I believe my thoughts are ‘scatty’ at times. Yet, in a previous session, the speaker told me it was so.
I’ve found so much value in re-reading these words to create this updated session. Perhaps, as I grow older, my wisdom will lessen the need for constant reassurance.
"Guidance is a two edged sword though. Seeking guidance alone is not enough. To be guided needs an interaction to be available. To acquire such guidance also requires a trust and a knowing."