Unfeeling

[Peregrinus]

admire them. You could say, for instance, "I'm glad you're here, Mr./Ms. Feeling, at this time of trouble, because I admire your compassionate quality you bring with your vivid feelings, more than I experience."

I cannot admire. This is a feeling.

Second, consider how you can be of service with your more factual, less emotionally swayed approach than the average person.

This is all I can consider, on an intellectual basis. I understand what brings others happiness and joy, and thus I provide service in such ways as to provide that.

For example, if you have any interest in disaster preparedness, you could think things through without being distracted by emotions. If that clutter is not removed from the stairway, it could lead people to not have a clear evacuation path. When people leave in a crisis, they should keep in mind that to see their loved ones again, they might need to leave behind their personal pictures so that they personal selves can escape. Someone who can remain calm when facing these kinds of facts can be of tremendous practical help to everyone else.

I crushed a vertebrae and had to learn to breath upright and walk again. Therefore there is no work of the physical nature that I am eligible for, even though I made a 100% and full recovery in that the doctors couldn't tell my vertebrae had been crushed a mere six months after the accident.

In another example, if you like music, you could be a pragmatic and ethical manager with the only dry eye in the house; and therefore, a clear-headed guide to safely get the talent paid and onto the tour bus!

Too many of the music industry are of the service to self type for my personal taste, but if you know of anyone looking to hire Mr. Logical, then I am your man lol!

Third, you can meditate and pray, asking your Higher Self to help you experience a healthy balance in this lifetime of feeling and thought, and to help you understand why you have felt imbalanced in this way in this lifetime. Perhaps you already learned the lessons of very deep emotions, and decided to have a change of pace? Perhaps you feel deeper than you realize, and have been trained to disregard the signs of your own emotions? Perhaps you have a greater connection to spiritual truth because your thoughts patterns are so logical? When you quiet your thoughts, what does "the still small voice" have to say?

In meditation, when I get to the gap in thought, it is a blank for me. I go into the state, and then come out of it. There is absolutely nothing in between. I am gone elsewhere, but I know not where. Prayer... I only ask for others. I have all I require, logically, and as thus, ask for naught for myself.

Remember also that the phrase is service to others, based on helping as asked, not feeling for others. If compassion involves taking action to reduce the hurts of others, perhaps you can do that as well as anyone without having to feel all those hurts yourself. Ra strikes me as pretty much dispassionate throughout the series of books.

I can do this, but I just wish I could feel compassion for others suffering. To give an small example. A couple years back, myself and a large group of friends were rafting down a river. On the day, there were many such groups. Another group indicated it was in distress and asked if anyone had medical training, so I swam over and found one of the young ladies had a rather large gash to the bone just below the knee cap. I got her from going into shock, the combination of cold water and the wound, and I stayed with her until evac was able to rescue her. I then swam back to my group. When they asked me what had happened, I said dispassionately "It was nothing. She just had a small boo boo". Well, this apparently reduced the tension everyone felt, because they all laughed at my response, and the day of happiness resumed.

Even when my small daughter cries, I feel no compassion, but do immediately comfort her so that she feels better. Happiness is my goal for her, so I simply act in such fashion as to provide that for her.

The discussion here reminded me of this passage that I enjoy pondering from the LOO:

To the truly balanced entity no situation would be emotionally charged.

Though this is true, I know I am weaker in red, orange, and yellow ray. I am currently working on orange according to the Hindu method of balancing chakras. So far, it is working, but rather than an increase emotions, which is what I expected, it appears to be decreasing them further again.

Thanks for that quote. I gather that as so far as I am providing STOSs, all is well. I shall question this no further.