I have also had many experiences of people I either didn’t know well or not at all telling me their life story or asking me for advice and then saying, ‘I feel so comfortable around you.’ There have even been many strangers who stop me and tell me that I have a beautiful smile or a warm glow about me.

This article has finally explained a lifetime of questions and feelings of being too sensitive or too much of a deep thinker. :)

Your father is a sick man and I am sure with his health problems he knows this. I would suggest looking for an AA meeting nearby and if you want to, give the number to your Dad or call the AA place and see if a couple members would like to come to your home and talk with your father.

Maybe your father is under the impression he is hopeless. He is NOT. he *can* get better. Let him know that he can get better!

Find an AA meeting near where you live

I wish you luck and blessings and I wish your father hope.

Self-sabotage? Me too. In fact, THIS relationship I am in now. Even after a few years of being together I still make statements, “If you don’t like it then, break up with me.” [Although it would break my heart.] So why do I do it? Do I have abandonment issues? [Probably. My real dad and mom divorced when I was 4 turning 5.] Do I have unresolved issues in which therapy could be beneficial? probably. :) But do I believe therapy should be a substitute for life experience? Nah.

I would suggest affirmations. I would also suggest “You Can Heal your Life” because I learned in this book my first affirmations that began healing me. Because we ARE [HSP's] prone to subliminal messaging, I believe it’s the best antidote to the negative messages our childhood received!

When I practiced the “I Accept Myself” affirmation as the book suggested, for example, I was able to quit mouth biting [self-inflicted pain] after 15 years of it! As a result, I am a HUGE believer in affirmations ESPECIALLY for HSP’s. [I also, as a matter of metaphysical interest, think WE are more prone to altering our world more easily than the "logicians" of the world.]

I look at us as God’s chosen sons and daughters; we ARE creators [as in the image of our "Father"] and we _CAN_ “Ask and it will be given.”

For example…read my post script here [Manifesting Reality] for what happened AFTER I made the image in that post. THIS is what happens to me [ta all HSP's I believe] when we begin the path we’re we’re supposed to be on. It’s like the universe is letting us know through synchronicity that we’re on the right path and to keep going.

The secret is that it only means TO US what it means. Do not expect anyone else to get it or to feel the “thrill” in your heart or brain for getting the validation. It’s only SUPPOSED to be a message for you. And how do you know it’s a validation? When that’s the first thing your spirit feels.

This is my experience and I hope it somehow helps you.

Love,
Samsara

Hahaha! I have had those strange happenings too. I think the first time I heard music, though, I was 17. Maybe my experience can offer you some ideas where and what it was. [Ghosts...I use this term when explaining to "earth" people but often I think it could just be displaced energy or something similar.]

My sister and I were listening to a certain cassette tape…over and over again. We loved this tape. At night when we went to sleep I could *conjure[?]* the artist singing the song…complete with the instruments [guitar, drums, etc.]

Now…what this “conjure” means, I do not know. I was able to “re-play” it precisely in my brain so that I could hear it with my ears? Or was I able to astral project my hearing back into the past to actual hearing it? I still do not know but wanted to share the story in case it offers some insight to you. :)

HSP’s/Indigos/Lightworkers… There is definitely something different with us and I am confident in 500 years [if we survive 2012] there will be explanations.

i intelectually know i should not worry about what people think of me but emotionally its not that easy.

thank you for sharing