Kiya, I do relate to so much that you say, also.
* i am reflecting the mood of unrest and am the voice of change *gulp* - for you and me... no pressure, eh?! @_@
my teacher of 17 years says that she has never met anyone who sees the light in people...... and of course the dark, as much as I. I pick up on embalances. and yes, the plan is that I am supposed to help shift it. The thing I worry about is that I am pretty stuck in the 3rd dimension. My heart just breaks. Sounds like your teacher is awesome. How fortunate you are !!!

*Yessss.... skin on fire, can't barely stand touch or wear clothes, noise is like a scalpel on the mind, light burns thru the eyes turning migraines into fire, food becomes inedible (but those are just the REALLY bad days).
that sounds really hard. I am sensitive to pain. But I do not have what you have. Although someone I love very deeply, as a mommy of the heart has some of that stuff. And yes they are DID. They burn when someone touches them. The mirgaines, in addition to the normal switching pain (cranials) which is constant. They are very hsp. And awesomely wonderful. And i am not biased as a mommy. They really are that wonderful !!

*used to heal other others... was in class...
Yep, I do healing work as well as a healer. Just kinda comes naturally. But I did study it a bit. Was at the naturopath a few days ago. She was a bit thrown off balance. So I helped her clear out her office. And then at the end of the apt I did a little healing for her. She felt better. Until recently I volunteered once a week at a free healing clinic. Free healings. I loved doing it. Recently things fell apart. So i am taking a break from being a healer. I work with angels and other helpers. I just must learn to remember to protect myself and clear myself out often of other peoples energies etc that I take on.
*I would know where a person's pain was in their body because i would feel it in mine. yes!!!!!! After each healing we give a bit of feedback to whomever we did the healing for. Sometimes I would hear or see. But more often, I would feel. Sometimes I would not know what my healing master and psychic surgeon did until I was telling the person. I would feel in my body what they did and then I would give the info to the person. Makes me laugh. But really its painful. Especially because I do help people in general. And I just take it all on. Eventually my body burned out by the way. Has your teacher suggested to you that we really take on in others what we already carry someplace in ourselves???
* I do work with bubbles of safety - making them unbreakable and nothing can get through. And with light when I am really scared. Or stuffies to protect =) or stones because I find them grounding.
I used to have a big handbag that I would put my stuffies in when I needed to bring them someplace. My stuffed family. (smiles) I like the idea of the stones. In the dicipline that I studied, they suggested that if we can be in the center of our head, we will be grounded. They taught how to do that. In the UK they suggest that people grow roots from the bottoms of their feet and secure them to rocks inside the earth.The do that in addition to the bubble. I dont live in the UK.

One of the best things I have found for bringing in more light is to imagine myself in a beautiful good loving crystal. with all the colors of the spectrum. I breathe in the colors through all my body. Even the cells.

Also another thing I thought up is to imagine myself surroudned by a rose. literally inside of it. breathing in its seent, its vibration. Same can work for a tree in a different way. Another awesome thing i discovered is to put the image of a rose, or other flower on my computer. in windows picture viewer. then keep zooming in until i can feel a shift of being inside the flower. I also do it with trees. The shift is amazing. I can feel it strongly. ahhhhhhhh

Thank you for this thread. its great. My hope is that I will really do what I came to do. For myself as a soul as well as for humankind. I hope I will be able to. Doing for others is secondary. Healing the self is the real gift we can give to humankind. or thats what I think anyway.

Deb et al * For me I often project my fears or insecurity onto another. I do that also. but I allow others to always be the authority over me. How they define me is how I am. This is a big minefield for me. Unlike you and Kiya, I take everything personally. Bad trait.

I think i said that while i am not DID, I have lived with DD. I am going to have to heal the splitting off I did as a very young child. Cuz it has made life way too wacky for me. Being an adult who goes into the terror of a wounded terrified child has made life impossible to live. Especially when i am a singleton Blessings