I was volunteering at a silent retreat this week. Working in the kitchen allowed for some conversation but also a lot of silence and peaceful contemplation. At brunch today the retreat ended and silence was lifted. It took less than an hour for me to become so overstimulated that I had to retreat myself! I'd been getting up at 4am to prepare breakfast & coffee and lying down for a nap at 10am after clean up was done. Brunch was served at 9 so my schedule was off as was everyone else's on the kitchen team. I'm sure that contributed. After I went back to nap a friend wanted to talk about her retreat experience. This helped me to realize once I am overstimulated by sound I cannot carry on a conversation until I have rested and reset. What makes you overstimulated the fastest? How do you overcome it and reset?

Neurotypicals have an unconscious habit of telling us to "just let it go" or "just don't think about it" 🙄 What is your favorite tool for handling this situation in your neurospicy toolbox?

I get these questions a lot. How do I know if it's my higher self or if it's my guides? How do I know who my guides are? How do I tell the difference? How do I know I'm not making it up? I feel like I have a different answer every day. At least for most of them , but that's because I'm different every day. There is nothing that isn't evolving. Not the universe, not God, not your higher self. So how do I know which is which? Through relationship. I grew up in a house with six children , and my mother had a different relationship with each of us. Talking to some of us, you might think we grew up with a different mother in a different house. My mother was the same person. She wore the same clothes, had the same interests, and did the same work. The difference is, she shared some interests with me and some with my siblings. Sometimes they were the same interest. Sometimes they weren't. She encouraged each of us to follow our purpose, to follow our dreams. So how do I know if I'm talking to my mother and not to my sister's mother? It's relationship. Your relationship with your higher self will be different than your relationship with your guides. It won't be better. It won't be worse.It will just be different. If your higher‑dimensional self wrote you a message today, what would it say?

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