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Hoagies' Blog Hop: Philosophical / Spiritual Anxiety
 Philosophical/Spiritual
Anxiety. Asynchronous development means many gifted kids
understand the finality of death and the afterlife before they're
emotionally ready to handle it. It means the news is devastating
because our kids (and us, as adults!) are understanding too much and
struggling with the weight of the world. Gifted kids are often
unwilling to believe in mythical creatures - Santa Claus, the tooth
fairy, the Easter Bunny, and others. As adults, Philosophical or
Spiritual Anxiety may lead us to spiritual quests, seeking spiritual
communities, and suffering / enjoying spiritual sensitivity. What
does Philosophical and/or Spiritual Anxiety mean to you?
Don't miss our previous Blog Hops on related topics,
including (regular)
Anxiety and
Emotional
Intelligence.
To read all our past Blog Hops or join our next Blog Hop, visit
Blog Hops for all our past and future topics.
Special thanks to Pamela S. Ryan for our striking Blog Hop graphics!
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 It's Not that
Simple! - Big Emotions and Major Life Events by
Heather in WonderSchooling
- He feels things so deeply that things which would, for others, be
joyful, end up being excruciatingly overstimulating...
Our kids are built this way. They're not broken. They're intensely feeling,
hyper aware, amazing people who get crazy amounts of joy out of little
things...
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Finding Sanctuary by
Joy Navan, ongiftedelders
- Sanctuary most often connotes a sheltered, protected place. In my mind it
is not necessarily a physical place, rather it is the placid inner space in
which we rearrange the furniture of our mind in such a way that we create
harmony and quietude...
Where do I find sanctuary as a gifted elder? First and foremost...
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 See You After the
Big Bounce by
Jessie in
CounterNarration
- It's not just gifted children who grapple with spiritual anxiety. As
long as those waves of intellectual and emotional overexcitability keep
crashing into each other, our mortal existence will give us plenty to get
anxious about. But the same mental processes that fuel that anxiety can also
give rise to creative sources of spiritual optimism...
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The Contradictions of Giftedness by Paula Prober,
Your Rainforest Mind
- "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. I am
large. I contain multitudes."
It appears that Walt Whitman knew something about rainforest minds.
You are large. You contain multitudes.
But how do you live with your multitudinous-ness when other humans find you
overwhelming. And when you find you overwhelming...
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 Anxious about the Future? Explorations into the past may help.. by
Gift-Ed Connections
- Every era is rife with challenges and this point in history is no
different. If we are not anxious about whether we can do better, knowing
what we now know, then perhaps we don't understand that who we are and how
we respond to the world around us matters. Embracing that anxiety as part of
the challenge of finding our life purpose and making meaning is important.
While the future may judge us harshly as we fumble with trying to make the
right or best decision...
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 Young Minds, Grown-Up Worries: 5 Resources for Parents and Educators by
The Fissure
- Because of these differences, children can also surprise adults with
early worries about big-picture, life-and-death concepts. In some cases,
this can be the first sign of high-ability needs. How do you cope with a
two-year-old’s concerns about death, heaven, and an infinite universe? How
can you handle a student so concerned with social justice that she argues
with her peers, or an emotionally sensitive child who cannot sleep because
of stress over homelessness and foreign wars?
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Falling on My Head and Finding Jesus, Or something like that by
Kathleen Casper in One World
Gifted
- As a deep-thinking, gifted adult, I question a lot of things about the
world and about the people
in it. And I certainly question the issues of spirituality. I am not quick
to believe anyone's
theories about the unknown without some scientific proof. However...
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Anxiety and gifted adulting and aw hell get me off this rock by Jen Merrill,
Laughing at Chaos
- We talk so much about over-excitabilities with our gifted kids. But you
know? Just like our kids don’t quit being gifted when they graduate, they don’t
hand over the over-excitabilities in exchange for that diploma. Giftedness is
wiring, it is lifelong, and it tiptoes through the generations. The OEs they
have when they are four years old...
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Embracing the Dark Night of the Soul by Heather, The Fringy
Bit
- Spiritual anxiety is not, in and of itself, bad. It is essential. We
rarely have the foresight to know what will bring us to the dark night. For
me, it was holding my beliefs under the close scrutiny and microscope of
college. Two decades later, it was a series of family tragedies. Two decades
from now it might be something else. For those of us thoughtful, reflective,
questioning, sensitive souls, we often find it at one or more times in our
lives. And when we’re in it, it is difficult...
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Spiritual Intelligence and Anxiety by Linda Wallin,
Living with Geniuses
- I was privileged to see Dorothy Sisk present at a gifted conference in
Louisville, Kentucky on Spiritual Giftedness. She had begun studying
spiritual intelligence many decades ago. I had kept one of her articles and
found it after I got back from the conference...
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| To read all our past Blog Hops or join our next Blog Hop, visit
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Special thanks to Pamela S. Ryan for our striking Blog Hop graphics!
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Updated
December 01, 2020
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