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14/02/2026

This pretty much says it all. Does this resonate for you?

5 Things You Must Give Up To Vibrate Higher | Alan Watts"You are the universe experiencing itself." — Alan WattsWelcome to Alan Watts Daily Wisdom, a channel...

10/02/2026

This was such an interesting podcast episode that I'm sharing it. I know many women who are experiencing endometriosis so wanted to put this out there!

The Intuitive Health Podcast: The Power of Intuition in Navigating Endometriosis, With Cathy McCarthy

Episode webpage:

Join Dr Anthony Rafferty to go on a journey of holistic healing that explores the science of the physical body, combined with mental and emotional wellbeing, energetic and spiritual health.

09/02/2026

Absolutely

Why You Feel Unsettled After Talking to Certain People.

You walk away from the conversation
and something feels off.

Not angry.
Not upset.

Just… unsettled.

Your thoughts feel fuzzy.
Your confidence dips.
You replay what you said, how you said it, what you meant.

Did I explain that badly?
Did I overreact?
Did I miss something?

Nothing dramatic happened.
No shouting.
No obvious conflict.

And yet your nervous system feels shaken.

Here’s the part no one ever explained to you:

Some people don’t communicate to understand.
They communicate in a way that destabilises.

Not always on purpose.
Not always maliciously.

But consistently.

They interrupt your sense of reality without ever saying anything you can point to.

They contradict themselves, then deny it.
They shift tone mid conversation.
They agree just enough to seem reasonable, then quietly undermine what you just said.

They ask questions that aren’t really questions.
They “clarify” in ways that distort.
They respond to something adjacent to your point, never the actual point.

So you leave the conversation holding confusion instead of resolution.

That confusion isn’t an accident.

It’s the result of asymmetrical communication.

You’re trying to be clear.
They’re trying to avoid responsibility, control the narrative, or protect an image.

Those goals don’t meet.

And your body knows it before your mind does.

That’s why you feel disoriented.

Your nervous system is reacting to contradiction.
To incongruence.
To the gap between what’s being said and what’s actually happening.

This hits especially hard if you’re perceptive.

You sense the mismatch but can’t immediately explain it.
So your mind turns inward.

What did I miss?
Why doesn’t this add up?
Is this a me problem?

That’s the trap.

People who communicate this way rarely feel unsettled afterward.

They feel calmer.
More settled.
Relieved.

Because the confusion didn’t stay with them.
It landed with you.
That’s the detail most people miss.

Healthy conversations leave both people clearer.
Dysregulating conversations leave one person foggy and the other fine.

If you consistently feel disoriented after talking to someone
while they seem unaffected
that’s not anxiety.

That’s information.

Your system is registering that reality was bent and never repaired.

This is why explaining yourself more doesn’t help.
Why replaying the conversation doesn’t resolve it.
Why “maybe I’m just too sensitive” becomes the default.

You weren’t too sensitive.

You were interacting with someone who offloads confusion instead of holding it.

Once you see this, something shifts.

You stop analysing the conversation
and start trusting how your body felt afterward.

Clarity isn’t how calm they are.
Clarity is how regulated you feel when it’s over.

And here’s the line that gives your power back:

If talking to someone consistently makes you doubt your reality
while they walk away untouched
the issue isn’t your perception.

It’s how reality is being handled in the room.

You don’t need to diagnose them.
You don’t need to prove anything.

You just need to notice the pattern
and stop treating disorientation as self failure.

The moment you do that, the fog lifts.

Not because the conversation changed
but because you stopped letting confusion count as truth.

And that’s when you realise something grounding:

You were never unstable
You were the only one trying to stay honest
in a conversation that wasn’t.

26/01/2026

For anyone interested in the work of The Monroe Institute, they have a new course on Gaia TV... Anyone can access the Gateway of Consciousness Guided Meditation free of charge on the link below.

This is what Gaia TV says about it...

Enter the gateway of expanded consciousness.

This guided meditation builds upon the Gateway of Consciousness lecture and leads you into Focus 10 — the state where the mind remains awake while the body enters deep physical rest.
Using sound-guided techniques developed by the Monroe Institute, you’ll quiet sensory input, release physical tension, and open the doorway to intuition, inner guidance, and expanded awareness.

This practice is the first foundational step toward accessing consciousness beyond the ordinary.

It is recommended that you:
✓ Watch the Gateway of Consciousness lecture beforehand
✓ Use headphones for a deeper experience
✓ Take time to journal or reflect on your journey afterward
✓ Return often to strengthen your ability to access this state

For more info about The Monroe Institute: https://www.monroeinstitute.org/

If you do it, I would love to hear about your experience in the comments!

Stream Gateway of Consciousness Guided Meditation free with 7 day trial - This guided meditation builds upon the Gateway of Consciousness lecture and leads you into state where the mind is awake while the body is asleep.

26/01/2026

Things are getting interesting!

Neptune re-enters Aries on January 26, 2026, beginning a 14-year transit that shifts collective and personal consciousness into new territory around identity, intuition, and spiritual embodiment.

We briefly sampled these energies in 2025 and now this long-term ingress initiates a deep rebirth of the self, dissolving outdated identities and awakening psychic, creative, and intuitive capacities.

Individually, Neptune in Aries can bring questioning, energetic inconsistency, and a loss of interest in what no longer aligns, while collectively it influences competition, conflict, pharmaceuticals, sports, weather patterns, sexuality, hormones, and the spirit of personal agency.

Paired with Saturn entering Aries soon after, the tone is slow, non-linear, and not conducive to instant gratification—calling for patience, trust, and inner listening. This transit may change how we use our energy, relate to our bodies, disengage from overstimulation, and seek more authenticity.

More to share here:
https://youtu.be/wXnvqYtJiMw

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26/01/2026

Why Your Mind Keeps Returning to the Person Who Hurt You.

You tell yourself you should be past it by now.
You understand what happened.
You’ve named the pattern.
You’ve cut contact or created distance.

And still, your mind keeps circling back.

Replaying conversations.
Rewriting endings.
Searching for the sentence that would finally make it make sense.

This is the part most people misunderstand about rumination.

You are not stuck because you miss them.
You are stuck because your nervous system never received completion.

When someone hurts you and refuses to acknowledge it, something fractures at a very specific level.
Not emotional.
Not intellectual.

Relational.

Your system is wired for reciprocity.
For cause and effect.
For repair after rupture.

When harm occurs and is denied, minimised, or inverted, the loop stays open.
The body keeps returning not to punish you but to resolve the unresolved.

This is why telling yourself to move on never works.

Your mind is not obsessing.
It is attempting to restore coherence.

You keep revisiting the moment because somewhere inside you is still waiting for recognition.
For accountability.
For the signal that says, I see what happened and I will not do it again.

But that signal never came.

So your system tries again.
And again.
And again.

From the outside it looks like fixation.
From the inside it feels like being unable to put something down.

That is not weakness.
It is an incomplete relational circuit.

Here is the part most people never hear.

You do not stop ruminating by finding better explanations.
You stop ruminating when your body accepts one devastating truth.

The repair you were waiting for is not coming from them.

Once that lands, the loop begins to loosen.

Not because it feels good.
But because it becomes accurate.

Your system realises it is searching in the wrong place.

Moving on is not about distraction or forgiveness or reframing.
It is about relocating the need for resolution.

You give your nervous system what it was waiting for.

You name the harm clearly.
You stop negotiating with memory.
You stop leaving the door open in your mind for an ending that requires their participation.

And then something subtle shifts.

The thoughts come less often.
They hold less charge.
They no longer demand your attention.

Not because you forced them away.
But because the loop finally closed.

Here is the reframe that restores agency.

You were not unable to move on.
You were loyal to reality.

And the moment you stop asking your mind to forget
and start allowing it to complete without permission
the past loses its grip.

Not because it didn’t matter.
But because it no longer needs to be revisited to be believed.

That is when your energy returns.

Not dramatically.
Quietly.

You realise you are no longer chasing understanding.

You already have it.

And now your nervous system is free
to turn its attention back to the life that exists
beyond the wound.