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Timidity: emotional and spiritual meaning

The emotional and spiritual meaning of timidity: the fear of being judged, a retreat into routine, and the things and people you walk past in order to stay unhurt.
Also known as: Shyness, Being timid, Holding back

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In short
Timidity is often read as a fear of being judged. You avoid what is new, stay inside a routine where you will not be hurt or rejected, and keep communication to the people who feel safe.
Fear of judgementAvoiding what is newRoutine as safetyLow self-trustA retreat that also protects

What timidity is

Timidity makes you pass by wonderful things. You avoid people you do not know. Fearing judgement, you renounce what is new, on the pretext that it is not for you. A quiet temperament is not the same thing. Timidity, in this reading, is the retreat that shrinks a life.

The entry does not tie it to one part of the body.

The emotional meaning of timidity

You drop your arms. You refuse to fight. You tend to make yourself safe in routine. You love yourself little. A low esteem and a thin trust incite you to stay inside a well-established frame, where you feel neither hurt, nor rejected, nor misunderstood.

This flight keeps you in the background. The source is fair about the advantage. Somewhere, it may suit you, because you protect yourself from situations or people who could hurt you. You keep communication to a minimum, with the people from whom you feel no threat.

A gentler way to hold it

The aim is not to turn you into someone loud. The emotional perspective invites you to see the protection, and then to let one new thing in.

  • Name what you are walking past. The cost of the retreat is part of the reading.
  • Catch the pretext. "It is not for me" may be the fear of being judged.
  • Thank the shelter, then leave it by one step. Routine is keeping you unhurt. It is also keeping you small.
  • Speak to one person who is not already safe. Calm action is the habit the source asks you to take up.

Questions to ask yourself

Take your time with these. There are no right answers; simply notice what comes up.

  • What wonderful thing am I walking past because I might be judged?
  • Do I refuse what is new by telling myself it is not for me?
  • Is the routine a shelter from being hurt, rejected or misunderstood?
  • Do I love myself little, and is that why the frame has to stay small?
  • Who do I still speak to, and is it only the people who feel like no threat?
Affirmation
“I can act with calm. Each day I give myself the chance to meet something new, and someone new.”
Anxiety
Anxiety is often read as a fear of the unknown. It can grip the throat, speed the heart and fill the head, while attention stays fixed on a danger that has no clear name.
Fear
Fear is often read as a power you have handed away. The heart races, the kidneys are called its seat, and what you dread can start to organise your life.

Sources and inspiration

  • Jacques Martel, Le Grand Dictionnaire des Malaises et des Maladies.

This page is an original interpretation written by Body Hemi-Sync. It is inspired by these sources and does not reproduce them.