It sounds like you're having a really powerful exploration of how to balance different energies of catalysis and empathy inside yourself.

To add some extra detail to my article (above), I've found the most powerful catalyst is one that can blend empathy too. Because if you can meet the other in their challenges and their pain, but then show them how you emerge out, well then you're giving them a reason to do the same. You're blazing a trail that they can also connect with and feel.

But the challenge of this is where we get too wrapped up in the other's pain - we have to be careful of the boundary, where we slip into identifying with their journey.

This is very illuminating: you said...

I took up travelling in Africa during the lockdown which stirred up quite a lot in people around me and made me feel like a bit of a 'badass'. There was a slight feeling of guilt involved in these situations.

Why should one feel guilty about expressing your own truth? Especially where you've dug so deeply and honestly for it? Especially as you realised the lockdown was a lie.

Is it because of the impact you're perceiving you have on the other - that you shake their reality up?

It's important to remember this: that by the Law of Attraction, each of us attracts the people into our lives that we most need to experience. If I have the commitment to being my highest self, then I'm giving the greatest gift to the other that I possibly can. Even if, especially if, that shakes their lower ego up. I come to realise their higher self has chosen for me to be my highest self. They're wanting to also move beyond the fears and limitations of their lower self. But their ego will fight this because it means them having to confront uncomfortable truths - stepping out from the norm, for example. But that's not a reason not to trigger their limitations - that's what they, at their highest level, are asking for. And to respond authentically, without limitation, is the greatest gift you can give. I would say this is the true gift of a "healer".

And so the guilt can dissolve. And then I find the field is less like treacle. It flows more smoothly!

Well wishes

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