Kathy, I agree. The semantics part gets in the way sometimes. It can even mess me up to myself when I'm trying to concentrate, meditate, pray, set intention...then I just remind myself that it's the feeling that matters, not the perfect wording.
A cute/funny story...My daughter can sometimes get so P.O'd at something and can rub everyone the wrong way. She's a Leo
And sometimes I literally can't be near her nor want to be in the same room with her. I once had to literally tell her, "I'm sorry but I can't be around you right now, not until your energy changes. Once you get through whatever it is you're dealing with inside, then come back and we'll talk." She replied that her energy was just fine, and she was in a great mood. I told her that that's not what I was talking about. She didn't understand, and I tried to explain it but I really wasn't sure how to do that. I told her, "The energy I'm talking about is the thing that makes you feel what you're feeling, and it affects your mood, thinking, feelings, decisions, attitude, your choice of words, what you feel is most important at the moment, and it can make you feel like you always feel this way and always will. It's the thing inside that controls the state of being you're in at the moment, but the kind that you're in right now isn't your normal, basic state, it's just something you're feeling at the moment." It was the best I could do. She came back later, perkier, and announced her energy was better. I told her, "No, it's not." I could tell she really wasn't sure how to figure it out, and all I could tell her was that when her energy changes, she'll know it. She then spent a couple hours in her room, not because I sent her there but by her own choice to really just be alone with herself and think. Finally later, she came to me and said, "Mom, I know what you mean now. I felt so bad at what you were telling me because I could tell you didn't want me to be near you, but being alone the past couple hours made me change how I feel. Now I totally feel different inside. Now I can see that I didn't like who I was acting like before, but while I was acting that way I thought it was ok. But that's not who I really am. I'm sorry I was in such a bad mood and mean to everyone ealier." I could tell her whole being was different, softer, calm, and her normal baseline self. And I know, too, that we all have a range of our energy-being, but I needed my daughter to learn how to recognize when her behavior was out of line and to manage it herself.
She had finally learned what I meant by her energy state of being and how it affects everything about a person at the moment. It was the best lesson I could give her to literally teach and show her what I meant. Just making her go to her room or telling her to knock it off and be nice wouldn't have taught her anything.
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