(00:00): Sometimes I suddenly feel like I want to pull
away from everyone and everything.
Like, I don't wanna talk to or see anyone.
I don't know what to do when this happens.
(00:17): Okay.
So when it comes to, to this type of energy, when you feel like you want to pull away from
every, from everyone and everything, there could be a couple of things going on and there
are two very different things.
So it's important.
I don't know the full specifics of this person's situation.
So I'm gonna, I'm gonna throw out these two scenarios and see where you may fit on this.
Okay.
So sometimes we may feel like pulling away from everything and everyone, and just being
in our own space and that's called hermitting.
So it's, it's very common, actually.
It's, it's, what's known as the hermit phase of, of an awakening.
So hermitting is when just, you just wanna be in your own place, in your own company
and your own energy, and you just wanna pull away from everything and every, and everyone
else from the world, literally a lot of times hermits, uh, this kind of phase people will
actually go into the hermit phase where they will actually move.
(01:10): They'll actually move from where they live
and they'll go live in the middle of a forest or in the middle of nature.
And they'll be alone for a significant amount of time.
This happened to me.
I was in the hermit phase for four years of my, of my spiritual awakening.
So it was significant.
It was a long time I was in this solitude energy.
Okay.
So that could be happening.
You could be, um, you could be feeling this pull to hermit, and there's nothing wrong
with that.
Cuz in this question, I feel like there's, um, I feel like the person is judging themselves
when they do, when they do feel this pull.
So there's no need to judge you're you're not doing anything wrong.
So if you genuinely feel like you have a pull to hermit and, and a lot of times we have
a pull to go into this hermit phase.
(01:52): When we just wanna be in our own energy, maybe
we have a lot to heal.
Maybe there's stuff that's coming up to the surface that we need to work with.
And when these wounds come up to the surface, when these things come up to the surface to,
to heal, a lot of times we, we, we intelligently do want to pull away because then we don't
get all of our stuff mixed up with other people.
So it's actually a really intelligent sign from your, from your body and from your system
saying, Hey, let's pull away because we have things to heal and we just need to be in our
own energy.
Okay.
So that's one scenario is you could be going through a hermit phase when this happens.
Okay.
And that's fine.
And that's wonderful to respect that.
And another situation that could be happening is you could be isolating yourself.
(02:36): Okay.
So this is different from hermiting.
I isolate myself is more, um, me isolation is when I shut my energy down.
Okay.
So this is different from being in hermit, um, energy, because when I'm in the hermit
energy, I'm not shut down.
I'm just pulling my energy towards myself and I'm being in my own company, but I can
still be totally open in my energy.
And I remember how this felt when I was going through it.
I would spend many hours in the forest in nature and I felt super, super open.
I was open to communication with animals and trees and I was connected to all things.
I wasn't shut down at all, but I've also had phases in my life where I shut down.
I isolated myself.
And so that's where you need to decipher what, what is what, when you isolate yourself, the
feeling is very different.
(03:25): So when I'm shutting down, meaning I just
don't wanna engage with others.
I don't want to connect with others.
I don't wanna connect with anyone.
So I'm just gonna shut down my energy.
That's a very different feeling.
Whereas hermitting, my energy is still open.
I just wanna be alone.
Very different in, in this specific scenario, I'm isolating myself, meaning my, my en my
entire energy shuts down.
And I just feel like pulling a blanket over my head and just, and just being in this wallowing
in this, okay, I'm shut down.
And this feeling, you're gonna feel this a little bit differently in your body.
So when I'm shut down, I don't feel open.
I don't feel joy.
I don't feel sensitivity.
I just feel numb.
Sometimes I may actually feel angry or, or just total numbness.
I may not feel anything at all.
I just shut down my energy.
(04:14): And in that situation, then that in this situation
now it's great to be conscious that this is what you're doing.
Maybe you're isolating yourself or maybe you're shutting down because there's a part of you
that doesn't wanna go into the emotions that you may be feeling or the triggers that you
may be having, or the trauma that you may need to heal, or the past pain that's coming
up to the surface and you don't really wanna deal with it.
And so you're just shutting down instinctively.
Okay.
And so it's important for you to decipher, which is which there's nothing to do about
the hermiting because when you're, when you're called to go into a hermit phase, you're called
to go into a hermit phase.
Please do respect, respect that your energy, um, that your energy is sending you in that
direction.
So there's nothing to do really there, except respect the call to hermit and be on your
own.
(04:59): That's okay.
That's acceptable.
If you're isolating, there's a little bit more to do there because if you're isolating,
you have to be conscious that you are shutting down your energy system and you are disconnecting
from others, disconnecting from healthy connection, but you're doing it from a place of woundedness.
And so here you have to have a little bit more awareness and you have to say to yourself,
wow, I'm isolating.
I'm shutting myself down.
Why am I doing that?
And this is where then, then things start to open up.
Why am I shut down?
Why am I isolating?
Why am I pulling away from other people?
And if you start to ask these questions, maybe have a journal out, start to ask these questions
of yourself.
Why am I doing this?
Why am I isolating?
Why am I pulling back from others and see what you write?
(05:45): See what the answers are.
It may be I'm pulling back because there's just, I have so much emotions coming to the
surface and other people are triggering them all over the place.
And when I'm with other people, I get more triggered and I get more emotions and I just
can't handle it.
So I'm just gonna shut down.
That may be one of the answers or the answer may be that, you know, I have a heartbreak
from the past that I'm just not ready to deal with.
And I shut down my energy and I'm just gonna stay like that.
It could be that too.
The, the answers are gonna be different from, for different people.
But the point here is, is that if you feel you are isolating and you're shutting down
versus hermitting, then you're gonna need to go into that and ask some really important
questions.
Why am I doing this?
What's coming up for me.
Is it because I don't wanna deal with emotions or I'm not healing, or I don't want to heal.
And then you're gonna go into that energy and just have the conscious awareness of opening
your energy up as you're doing this exploration, this inner, uh, this exploration of your inner
world, go into that energy and, and figure out why you are isolating.
The more answers you have, the more understanding you have, the more you're energy is gonna
open up.