People who seek to connect are usually intuitive, observant, and deeply insightful.

They are also pretty sensitive to the ugliness in the world.  The small acts of disrespect, the attrition of personhood, the subtle owning of another person.

This is all wrong!  Why can’t anyone see what happening here??

Instead of experiencing deep connection, the sensitive end up feeling deeply alienated.  Alone.  Misunderstood.  As if the world is broken.

The thing about “plugging in” is that we have to be able to unplug.  To simply be.  To turn reconnect with our being and process our experience.  To center.  To breathe.

There’s a reason that the guys with the “truth” end up in a cave on a mountain!

As I was working my way through the ick in Tennessee, a good friend kept suggesting I go out and a place of my own.  A fort in the woods, a space my very own.

As it turns out, this suggestion was pure genius.

Many faiths have ritualized the experience of creating this space for ourselves – prayer and meditation, retreats, candle lighting, chanting – while each experience is different, the reaching is the same.

Inner connection to source.

So what happens when you are totally 100% plugged in to everything all the time?  You create resistance which buffers which is then disconnection from the experience.

So even if you can’t “unplug”, your psyche creates a negative method for disconnection.

And just as healthy connection is important, healthy disconnection is equally important.  So take a break.  Do something for yourself.

Find your fort in the woods!