It’s remarkable what being in the energy field of some people can do to you.
I was on the phone with an acquaintance, who called out of the blue and they wanted to vent. They’re going through a stressful time (like many of us are), and in the 50 minutes I was on the phone with them, I began to feel many of the physical symptoms they were complaining of and my own respiratory condition worsened.
I showered after and I kept repeating in my mind that what I had absorbed was not mine to carry. It was not mine to feel. I slowly began relaxing and began breathing better. The neck pain also began to wane.
I am going to have to kindly but firmly decline listening to people vent until I heal. There is a relationship between the decline in my immune response and hyperactivity to other conditions and my ability to hold firm limits with others to not feel like my spiritual, emotional and physical wellbeing isn’t being affected.