A lot of this resounded with me. I think part of the trouble is those who seem intentionally ignorant or somehow choose not to be empathetic and so cant **possibly** understand how we are feeling and insist the way they feel, unconnected and unattuned to their environment, is the only correct way. Theres a normalization of the disconnect in such a way that insists the rest of us must be broken to experience the world the way we do and that we have to change to be seen or safe.

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

🙌well said!

Wow. Thank you KZread Algorithm. This video showed up in my feed. I am having chills and goosebumps. This spoke to me and giving me the language to understand part of my human experience and what neurodiversity can look like

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

I love it, Lynn! A big YES for chills and goosebumps, this work has been such a game changer for me and so many others, thank you for the note!

I absolutely loved watching this, thank you so much. As a late diagnosed autistic person (aged 52 when diagnosed) I've always known that I can read people. Not through body language or what they say, but by how I feel. I can read the energy of a room and the person in it as soon as I walk through the door without even looking at them. Yet people seem to underestimate me (and probably others too) for my ability to see straight through their facades. They tell lies over and over again to cover up something. Then, sometimes, the truth comes out and I was right all along. I have had two deeply profound and separate ten minute conversations with people (strangers) who connected with the real me, throughout my whole life. Not the me that everyone else sees, but the real me underneath it all, just like the girl you talk about. One of those people actually nodded at me when I asked in my head if what I was feeling (the connection) was real. It's been a lonely life. Twenty minutes of genuine connection for over fifty years. I long for that connection again. I'm off to study koshas because I need to be me. Thank you.

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

Love love love this! Not the part where you are so isolated of course, but the finding each other part :) Let me know if you find the kosha info interesting?

@maidofcornwall

Ай бұрын

@@Craig_Walker_ I did, thank you. It's a lot to take in, and will probably take a life time or two to accomplish 🙂

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

@@maidofcornwall haha well said, at least a couple lifetimes

I remember back in junior school the teacher asked us to do an exercise where we had to describe who we are. The other children said things like: a girl, a boy , a son, a daughter, a boy scout, a brownie. I was the only child who said I was a spirit. It seemed so obvious to me that all the other things were just roles and not who we are in essence.

@maidofcornwall

Ай бұрын

I often think that that's why we can't read faces. We simply don't see them. We see the spirit/soul of the person and read that, not the face they're projecting.

@truthmerchant1

Ай бұрын

@@maidofcornwall That's a really good point. I think it also explains why it's so uncomfortable to look people in the eye. We feel like we are looking into their soul.

When you said “come home” it instantly brought me to tears. As a little girl I would sleepwalk around my own home and scream and cry and repeatedly say aloud (or so I was repeatedly told) “I want to go home”, and beg to be taken there… I still would like to go home. (P.s. 🤯

Wow! Makes so much sense!!!! I have a child who when he was very young would get so upset that I couldn’t read his mind. My oldest said “Mom I think he remembers that where we came from we didn’t need words”

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

Love it!! Could he read yours? Did you sing to him silently I wonder 😊

Really cool, first time viewer! Great timing. This blows ToM out of the water! The NT researchers suggesting we lack cognitive empathy, when we spend probably 95% of our lives reading the minds of NTs, while they only spend 5% learning how to communicate with NDs. I love how they think they can just climb over in our brains and speak for us. 😅 Although for comparison, I do admit a surgeon need not experience a ruptured organ firsthand to have the skills to repair one. But yeah they can’t relate to our conundrum. We can relate to them, and that’s the deeply lonely trough of the empathy divide- notice I didn’t say double. Love the saying, “people can only meet us as deeply as they’ve met themselves.” Else they’re just gaslighting ya or serving up well-intentioned platitudes about shit they have not experienced! 😅

@Erika.D84

Ай бұрын

Well said!

I think this is something I need. I've been really stuck because I have so much trauma. My spine is herniated as well and feel so "Not Myself" because of pain. Feeling like an alien almost to where I avoid anything social because I can't handle the energy of groups or crowds.

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

I'm sorry to hear of your pain, Emily. I'll be starting some public Energetic Attunement calls soon, just send me an email if you'd like to know about them. tribeofempaths@gmail.com

I can’t wait to watch more of your videos!!! You completely nailed what it feels like to be an HSP in this world. Thank you for your work

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

Awesome, I love that it’s hitting home, Matt!

I came across your channel today. Wow, you may be the first person who understands me. Just turned 54 and have been super depressed and sad. Have felt like an alien my whole life. I have never been diagnosed but am neurodivergent, highly sensitive, and suffer from Complex PTSD. I had a spiritual awakening on Groundhog Day of all days back in 2011 while in 10 days of silence at Vipassana. Light beings visited me and I started having supernatural experiences on a regular basis. Portals would open in my room, animals walked up to me in the park, and started seeing light ships, and was facilitating some interesting sessions on people. I was sober too. In 2016 I had flashbacks to the day I was born while my dad was in the middle of a medical emergency. At that point 46 years of repressed pain and memories surfaced. Much of it from childhood. Sent me into psychosis, disassociation, was shaking all the time, and went 7.5 years until recently with insomnia. I still clench my teeth and shake sometimes, but am not freezing up as much. I am interested in connecting with you and/or someone in Toronto, Canada. Thank you for sharing this video. I have feeling suicidal a lot. This gives me some hope.

@Craig_Walker_

29 күн бұрын

Wow, what a story. Thank you for sharing it here. People will read this and immediately feel less alone. I'm happy to connect with you: tribeofempaths@gmail.com.

What a great explanation, deeply appreciate having found this video.

This makes me want to cry and jump out of my seat at the same time. This is the first explination of what I experience with the outside world and internal world that just hits the nail on the head. I've never heard this before and I've been through over 15 years of therapy of various kinds and different diagnoncenses...all of which hit parts but not the whole. This feels revolutionary! And gives me so much hope..thank You!

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

Awe Susan I'm so happy it's hitting the spot! It seems an important topic to get right :)

This is so helpful. My friend sent me your video. I am 54 and relate to what you are sharing. Thank you for putting these healing concepts on the interwebs. Hugs!🙂

Yes. I get this all so much. :) Lovely. to meet you. :) I too am "in the field" (well, we all are)...have "heard" light and sound and harmonies in ALL the spaces between my whole life - and now I've come to a beautiful peace and acceptance of who I am and I know we ALL belong here as we are.

I'm an employer with NT employees who are side-lined by unknowns (and it's the first time I've seen this and am trying hard to help them be productive, but am struggling with how to help them). This was helpful. I am also empathetic and relate to this. Thank you. This was super helpful for context of how/what is happening for folks.

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you for the note.

This was fascinating and definitely resonates! Thank you!!

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

Awesome, Lauren, thanks for saying so!

Wow, I can't tell you how much I'm loving your videos. I just discovered you a couple days ago, and subscribed immediately. I'm finishing school to be a counsellor right now, and am leaning heavily into the CPTSD realm (big surprise, as that's my personal history, as well as being an HSP and on the specturm) and wanting to focus on somatic and ecotherapeutic interventions in my practice. Your perspective is wonderful, and you articulate all of this so well. Also, I immediately went to download that spinal nerve function sheet. Very cool stuff. I look forward to watching more of your videos!

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

Thanks and congratulations on the career move! I'm psyched for you, where are you located?

@ShadeCandle

Ай бұрын

@@Craig_Walker_ Thank you, Craig! I'm on Vancouver Island, in Canada.

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

@@ShadeCandle sweet! I'll be up there in July, I hear it's beautiful

GOSH I'm smiling so dang big right now!!!! YAY!

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

Love the smile, Sooz!

Yep that actually makes a lot of sense something I kinda knew already about myself yet how to stay in my own lane an keep others in theirs I’ve not learned but definitely said so many times to myself how nice it would be to figure out how to do that! So interested in checking out your other videos ! ❤

... this comment presumes the last 9 years of our on-again-off-again conversations: this is a remarkably word-coherent presentation of many of the ideas you were feeling the initial stages of/ first trying to find a way to communicate in (new/ reclaimed) words back in 2019ish I think even word-grumpy people (like m) could track this ;), and you called out the specific ways you were defining often-otherwise-understood words well

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

I’ll take that with gratitude, Kirsten. I’m happy to hear word-coherence happens and this time it was caught on tape! 😏🤓

Perfect timing universe!

Ctpsd , OCD , picking, hair and skin ... Also I was researching about cptsd because it was recently diagnosed among OCD tendencies... A throat clearing thing, I've had for maybe 7 years or so. I knew it had not always been happening. But it's definitely known as tic having something they call fits into ticks. . I'm not sure exactly if I'm spelling correctly , you get the gist hopefully. Being sensitive , is kinda this echoes of "your TOO sensitive Nadia" since I was little . If not being told to my face but hearing this being the thing said when talking about it And obviously this has overtime been pushed into myself ,and I really was aware but not always having the dialogue within my mind along with it but basically it's that part you mentioned about the field that I find helps me to describe ,if that's what most people would respond easily I'm definitely sure I'd be getting same Old tone of voice of energy overall with words usually telling me I make no sense and therefore I might have another response then be all over spectrum because of its actually so very freaking much to continuously be rejected but WTF am I supposed to be.? So eventually I understood it as "COULD YOU BE ANYONE ELSE EXCEPT YOURSELF NADIA, YOUR THINKING TOO DEAP INTO IT ,ETC"!... ALL CONTINUE REJECTION. Now I'm at least aware of even how my birth chart has referred to my emotions AND my mind basically inseparable or the same where as most would be separate from what I'm told. I was shocked it would be something that was pinpointed on a birth chart , but VERY helpful regulardless of what brings this relief , comfort, some connection for which is feeling like Finally , this is where my language or languages , the language I speak and there being Many to feel a sliver of hope has this severe desperate wits end overwhelming whoosh over me and just adds to the rest but then I also find some renewal aswell. . Does that make sense ? Actually , I know that it does to me, and I ask because I rather know if it's perceived enough or maybe I simply take that same particular pause interactive introspection with everything , with myself shit I don't know what words just yet when I have no idea what neurodivirgent is but I been hearing the word now at least for a year give or take. Which is probably now perhaps making a bit more sense as I seem to catch on to signs that would be the very first reason I clicked this video instead of dismissed it simply because I didn't feel I was qualified because I only knew about one for sure diagnosis or just I guess I eventually decided to click instead of instant dismissal because of details I wasn't maybe familiar with , unknowingly rejecting which would then come to be clear eventually at some point too. . Plus you obviously speak my language when you're explaining reaction of WTF I'm talking about if not changing my natural answers. Which is sometimes foreign and anyways yeah I will shut up now for finish learning and soaking up the relief comfort of moments like-minded but beyond just surface. 🦋✨✨

No wonder why I feel I'm in burnout! 15 years of trauma and addiction and narcissistic abuse I'm just exhausted 😩

When I can feel the porch light as I enter the house on my right cheek; I’m thinking I’m HSP for sure

I am an eternal being who delights in being an earthling. Every time!

This video was useful to me. If you know, you know. Thank you

@Craig_Walker_

18 күн бұрын

You're welcome!

amazing!! very interested!!!

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

I'm happy to chat with you if you'd like, Janet.

thanks for the video. jup makes sense, feels familiar. thank you for reminding :)

I just stumbled across u... And going to look into all your videos u have described me in many ways!! Thank u

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

You're welcome, thank you for the note!

Wow great information ❤

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

Thank you 🙌

This is awesome. Thanks. I need this for me but also my kid w nonverbal ASD.

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

Thanks, Violet. If you'd like to chat about working with you and/or your little one I'm happy to chat with you. Feel free to send an email: tribeofempaths@gmail.com

@violetstorm8451

Ай бұрын

@@sefirunyan9838 I’m not going into specifics here. My kid has autism and other challenges and is nonverbal. Don’t be a stickler for verbiage, please.

So good

Hi. I'm Koustav, am a neurodivergent who paints thoughts and visions to get relief for sometime. But it sometime horrifies my and stuff about what am perceiving, the heightened states and also the sweet little pot of bliss you were talking about! I've had childhood traumas still hooked onto present day behaviour and it has elements of adhd of sorts, and I feel like this field centric person you just talked about. How do I start with this? I feel like am equipped to start, its getting hard to hold onto the changes. How can I take this to a long term relief? Thank you. Love from India.

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

Hi Koustav, Gentle yoga is a good way to move some of the glimpses you have into a longer term, more enduring relief. Nothing beats attunement with a professional who can help your system learn quickly to shift from temporary to longer term neuro-perceptual shifts. Finding a teacher/mentor/attunement pro in addition to your personal practice is the fastest way. I offer this, and others do as well. Just find someone you trust, and make sure you feel the changes immediately upon starting with someone, you shouldn't have to wait to see results. Feel free to email me if you'd like to chat about it.

Wow, not only has it been impossible to make sense to anyone else, but it feels like theres always someone trespassing and tapping in against my will, and i sound crazy. Until im so exhausted and can't even take appreciate steps to find a doctor who wouldn't also think im crazy. I actually don't think everyone else is oblivious, because i see many cycles of seeding and harvest with playing dumb. I don't know what to do.

@tracyschnabel141

Ай бұрын

Looking for a John Barnes Myofascial release therapist in your area will help 🙏

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

Self attunement practices, and finding a highly sensitive, subtle energy trained practitioner

This actually makes sense

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

Phew 😅

😊 Facinating information thank you. I wonder if when i was submerged in water (my bath)today and asking how i could help my mum with pain, it came to me to use my tuning fork on her spine.

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏

I am interested in your program. I am in a mind body coaching program now and learning somatic techniques. I have complex ptsd and I am hsp. I would really like more information. Thank you!!!

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

Hi Holly. I'm happy to have a chat if you'd like. Just email me at tribeofempaths@gmail.com. Looking forward to it!

Feeling them more so than even they are. Which you know I've always had really great connection to people and honestly I never really could see it in terms where I knew why because of questioning myself seeming to be better instead of assuming there be any reason more than that that I might qualify for. I guess and but it's like what what causes me to have it's like compels me to find and and seek out to fix this to because it helps me to help get relief because it's being felt and I never considered that but why would I and even if I had I feel this is sort of ease which there's no pressure to be questioning of myself and to feel like so desperate and like not normal and not part of and and where do I fit and and I do go through this but just so so so so so so so differently but still learning as I go because it's not like I want to end up rejecting that connection because it's possible to put it in that less emotional perspective so that being said it could be taken all in and out of context if I were to put it in those terms because it's basically to help myself because I haven't to feel thatof someone else's stuff and them and yet it's not because of that that I would put myself in another little box to be only this or that and I don't I don't resonate with that restriction it's suffocates me

19:18 yes all of those things apply...

I know im HSP i can only tolerate certain ppl for so long i walk past ppl and read them and ppl say "your wrong" and guess wht its found out I'M RIGHT MONTHS LATER i stay to myself because ppl vomit their emotions on me

Quite frankly the most recent concern for me is the fact that well okay so I have four sons they are all absolutely capable of fitting into the sensitive arena however that's me knowing that I do not just give myself full permission to give a diagnosis for lack of better or different way to describe it without there being the consideration of which is of their own and it doesn't belong to me and and I'm okay with that but I do know enough I carried each of them you can't really get much closer than that so there is really no way I couldn't have at least enough to go on and have no hesitation without it being well for this being allowance of someone to be having their own and not giving it by anybody else even if I'm you know well attuned to the surroundings enough I hope that makes sense but it's my youngest son that has the most noticeable that actually is closer to myself but the the part that terrifies me is because things have been within our lives that also came along and happened to be part of that derailment of being able to be myself and not carrying out like being somebody else's life and then finding my own self like matching my own specific family members that being so vulnerable to my surroundings I've played out you know like I I was them instead of me and and more and letting that be okay because I was taking my own self out because it was too much for everybody to have to feel and always so therefore I just did that and it was easy it was actually really easy didn't really come difficult at all but I had no clue that it was something that I would end up having to be doing something to get away from and to and to stop that madness because I just didn't. Now I am enough aware of it because I've had to distance myself to the point where that's helped me and I'm learning how to work with that and not be dismissive about things that I know it's the unawareness that they just haven't gotten to yet and even if they don't it doesn't change that I have and and learning how to manage that is another thing that just sometimes I wish I could just be allowed to not have to know and the pressure of it but then again I onlyactually have that briefly and then I vent about it and it's like well not really because looking back in hindsight now I don't really feel like that's possible to not have that awareness cuz it's felt somehow even if it's like oh you just can't put your finger on it and then you get reminded of it oh that's why. But it's the fact that I was told he started a medication because of his dad took him to the doctor which I'm glad you know but at the same time the circumstances have created this separation between not only myself but my family and the people that basically ended end up it's something I know that they don't even grasp their themselves to see what they have chosen to or or or or just allowed themselves to be zombified and into aiming their ish towards me because they know energetically something enough to do it but it's caused an alienation of me and then of themselves from anything having to feel plus having a significant effect on my children and and like that I'm help I've been helpless and it's like there's this effect of me right over here and this whole group of people that I thought we knew who we were being you know relatives that had known me since I was born relatives treating me a coordinates to other family members had become inside this mental madness of how to deny their own inner you know themselves and sensitivity and and like hardened in like just so they're going to choose to be whatever way and because they're feeling it enough to be uncomfortable from it to say oh you're too sensitive Nadia you got to do something about that but it'll come out in all kinds of different ways and it's like people don't know how to handle themselves because they just find their their like at ease around me but they also feel this towards me because there's something that causes them to feel like they need to like like brother pitchforks and say you know and get her for having caused that that cord to be struck that they weren't trying to feel. No I understand that however the influence with my children has has caused traumatic all the way around and and finally thank goodness I've found refuge in in certain things oh my goodness I cannot say how unbelievably no idea did I believe after a certain point that anything was going to be ever at all anything but doom and and just like a nightmare of this not being like you know like everything up Is down and down is up and maybe it is me maybe something's wrong with me that there is something going to be wrong with me and and I am just not knowing it well okay fine if it's me then let it be me because at least if it was then it wouldn't have to hurt my feelings so bad. But it concerns me from my son because you know the typical way of how medication is so force-fed and so for the reasons why that it's not meant for healthcare it's not even meant for that at all it's it's a whole different reason and and that's where the places are that they reside and and he in you know rejects himself so he rejects me easier from a conditioning or like you know having that you know unbalanced and or alienated situation forced by people that are only are only on the surface because you know and well I'm not saying I'm mad about that not I'm not at all feeling that same way but I'm more freaking the f*** out because of the fact it's come up that he's now on medication and oh my gosh they you know that freaks me out I don't know how to stop it.I used to sit you know not be really fun at the park because I would be I'd be like crying because I'm having all this visions of what might be happening as they're playing and and unable to get away from that it would carry me away and I'd be crying because I'd be like oh be careful and you know and and of course freakshow sensitive I find that more easy for me to handle saying and it comes from being worried about how people handle it when I say stuff or just when I'm being myself

I thought of a real question (for here or some future time): Here and in some other videos (yT, IG), you mostly say the wiggly gets "stretched" (sometimes "kinked") My *most obvious) issue is rather, though, compression -- in my neck and I presume also at the base of my spine. Trying to keep all of that stretched is #LifeGoals for me, lol One time with the chiropractor I went to after you we managed full, balanced extension, me standing and just bending back (at least one arm extended as I recall), and it felt AMAZING (and of course I locked up my spine again [eyeroll], but not as badly as it used to be!). Anyhow at some point interested to hear why you gravitate toward or have chosen the "stretched" idea.

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

Hey Kirsten, The stretch isn't so much an idea as the action that happens when a nerve is compressed. This was noticed by Dr. Alf Brieg, neurosurgeon who noticed during spinal surgeries that the organs downstream of any stretched spinal cord section were exhibiting compromised function. "Traumatically compressed medullary tissue is invariably attenu­ ated and weakened. On application of skull traction, the weakened section of the compressed cervical cord is the part that is most overstretched. This inevitably results in increased neurological def­ icit. On scrutiny of the clinical records of 100 tetraplegic patients treated by skull traction at the National Spinal Injuries Centre at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, England, from 1971 to 1982, we found that therapeutic skull traction had been followed by an immediate increase in neurological deficit in 12% of the patients - a relatively high figure for the type of case in which beneficial effects oftraction were habitually anticipated. Moreover, in studies on cadavers, artificial defects in fresh human cervical cord in situ showed typical deformation following application of traction, confirming the basic deleterious effects of therapeutic skull traction on the injured cervical cord." All that to say, stretching the spinal cord or nerves seems to be the best way to negatively influence their function.

@kirstenrayhawk6868

Ай бұрын

@@Craig_Walker_ Ok interesting. So what I see here "Traumatically compressed medullary tissue is invariably attenu­ ated and weakened." is that the places where one (I in this case) experience or experienced compression, are f*cked up in ways that when they are (therapeutically -- was the theory implied in "beneficial effects oftraction were habitually anticipated") THEN stretched (eg., massage, or various flexibility training or exercises), these spots that were previously weakened by compression injuries are therefore (very predictably, apparently) prone to further damage. ... there is a potential assertion here for the kundalini etc. reopening communication channels that hopefully the spine is ALSO hearing itself and sending curative biomechanics and chemicals its own way like newly re-opened channels of communication can encourage in the rest of the body ... I wonder whether the lack of pain sensors in the blob part of the brain extends to the inside of the spinal cord (generally both the skull and the spinal cord register pressure as pain, but as I recall the neurons themselves don't usually?) ... "100 tetraplegic patients" is useful data but maybe not entirely generalizable, as the immune system communication is presumably extra-impacted in thes cases even before this damaged-areas-are--then-stretched issue ... Anyhow thank you for clarifying why you consistently use "stretched." I suspect, from this and lots of other things, that there are several possible communication-breaks, including directly-stretched (eg., whiplash), compressed (eg., my sciatica seemed to be basically just compression, frequently aggravated by inflammation, as probably are my migraines and my Meniere's

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

@@kirstenrayhawk6868 Just to clarify. Compression equals stretch. It's not usually an actual compression injury. When you press the skin on your arm you aren't compressing the skin as much as you are forcing it to stretch around the pressing finger. You're requiring the tissue to lengthen to get around your finger. Hence compression is actually stretching.

Did I suddenly find my way home? So, I am a PhD trained scientist, but I can sometimes see past the veil and I can sometimes feel when my kids are happy or proud of themselves even from many miles away… also the weather gets bad when I’m upset. Our cat has been missing since the 19th and the only clue to how he got out is that the front door open/close sensor data appears to have been deleted from the cloud (smart home logs) before 10pm the night he disappeared.

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

🙌🙋‍♂️

@solvated_photon

Ай бұрын

I’m glad it seems like many of us hsp are finding each other now. The way you explain energy flows just feels so spot on, and I understand so many of us are working through a lot recently. I feel more hopeful now than I did before coming across your channel. Keep up the good work

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

Always good to connect with another doctor. Super interesting about the weather change you mentioned. Fill me in on the missing sensor data? I didn’t track that.

Can you attune two ND individuals? So they can communicate?

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

Yes, one of my favorite games. Helping couples, or parents/kids to "find" each other in the energetic collective space. Great question.

@kellhalla5301

29 күн бұрын

​@@Craig_Walker_unfortunately i tried several times to reach bbq out via email but have had no reply.

Go vegan and free Palestine, then we can talk....

@Craig_Walker_

Ай бұрын

Sure. I'll wait.