GIFTED

A page from the diary of a psychiatrist:

Jessy always had this special ability to feel things more like a strong gut feeling. The night this incident occurred, shortly after dinner she became overwhelmed with anxiety. Her husband helped getting her kids cleaned up from dinner and shortly after she felt like she was choking a bit. She was taking normal breaths, but still felt choked. Next thing she knew there was a lot of yelling outside so she went to the balcony just in time for an ambulance to come flying in, followed by many police. It felt very rude to gawk and decided to go back in.

My patient sitting in front of me was narrating this strangest experience.

"All of a sudden I was hit with extreme choking and anxiety. I was almost panicking and then sadness. I just wanted to cry. Looking outside my window, I saw paramedics coming out with a body on a stretcher completely wrapped in a sheet. It was no doubt someone had passed. The police was there most of the night." Jessy stooped covering her face into her palms.

" My question is have you ever been in any accident or abuse of some sort that could trigger this abnormality?"

"No. Though I was always sensitive. Sort of an empath. But this is something extreme.I am still not able to shake the anxiety, the feeling of complete sadness and panic ... do you have any suggestions for me? This is my first time I have been so affected."

"Was the deceased close to you? Maybe that spiralled your intuition."

" I did not know these people at all! They just moved in a couple of weeks ago so I have no ties. I don’t understand why I’m so affected. It’s been two weeks now. I have difficulty sleeping and I’m a ball of anxiety."

A deep breath inadvertently escaped me.We met the same time next day at my clinic Ms. Jessy.

"From what I've read and experienced through my practices, I think there's a good possibility, that the energy from the deceased, is affecting you."

Jessy's eyes widened;she was shocked I could clearly decipher from her countenance.

"Let me explain myself. We all are nothing, but energy bundles. Though difficult to prove, any energy is susceptible to be affected by energies more powerful than itself."

"You are not speaking like a psychiatrist!" Jessy remarked checking me.

" I know. Not like the regular one as expected. But then, it's not usually that I have patients with such abilities. Your problem lies in managing your talent which you are ill-equipped at. You are catching the extreme emotional turmoil of the departed person. While the body is long buried his emotions and feelings remain suspended as invisible cloud. No one is affected, except you; because no one is as sensitive, or rather gifted as you."

She seemed to be gathering what I said with rapt attention. "Is there anything you can do to help it pass and me normalize?"

" First you need to understand this very well.All that negativity is not yours. This anxiety does not belong to you. It belonged to the person that passed." I noticed she was gulping down glasses of water. It was rather recommended, drinking lots of water, to recuperate from the toll this may have taken on her body. "Doing a meditation should also help the anxiety. Light lavender aromatic candles around you. Concentrate on love & everything that you love dearly, to lift your thoughts. You can also visualize a beautiful green light coming from your heart and healing you."

"Could I join a meditation course so that I start practicing over restraining those extreme emotional clouds that are not for me. Which do not belong to me."

I smiled encouraging her in her intentions. "Great....and for now I just want you to write here 'this is not for me'."

She obeyed.

" repeat"

".. It is done."

"three times please.

It’s very overwhelming, but it will heal you instantly."

Later the same day, my patient walked out tall and healthy. Her thankful eyes told me that I had changed her life.

SOMETIMES YOU HAVE A CHOICE: In going beyond the road connecting your profession to something that is more expensive or not.