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While appearing as a guest on a Blog Talk Radio show last night we received what I label a "troll call". This was a person who calls in with the intent to try and discredit the guest or the host or just generally be a jerk. In the case of last night's caller when they were unmuted one female caller started talking to another female caller in the background, talking about me as a reader and specifically calling me a "KEEN" reader, referring to a website I used to read on. They then proceeded to say that I "sucked" before the host of the show finally caught on and dropped their call.

What is interesting about this is a couple of things. The first is that I haven't been an active reader on KEEN for well over a year, and closer to two years. The second is that one of the reasons I left Blog Talk Radio in the first place over a year ago was because of the negative energy people who seem to stalk the site and who find pleasure in trying to discredit intuitives. The very sad thing about this is that the majority of the people who are guilty of this are actually readers or hosts of shows themselves.

Being an empath this negative type of energy is something that I can be especially sensitive to and it can throw off my concentration and enthusiasm. A friend of mine who was in the show chatroom sent me a private message, telling me to shake it off and ignore the trolls. Very good advice and one that I will be specifically working on with deliberate intention.

Immediately following the call another caller was welcomed onto the show with us and a brief discussion ensued about the troll that had just called. It is my belief that there are a lot of people out there who call themselves psychics, spiritual, lightworkers, or what have you that aren't on a truly spiritual path. The caller was a great example of this. This type of behavior only hurts the metaphysical world and the work that many of us dedicate our lives to.

I'm sure that you have heard this rant before from others, but I would like to introduce a new twist to this. When someone behaves in the manner that the troll caller did, its easy for everyone, including myself, to say that they must not be very spiritually advanced. Well, I propose that we maybe look at this in another way. Perhaps they are even more "advanced" along their path that any of us are. Perhaps they chose to come back into this life to be a bad example of how to behave and they made that choice knowing that this life wouldn't be as easy for them. They would always be filled with anger, resentment, and a bitter heart that would lead them to attack others. Through their actions however they provide others with the opportunity to evaluate how they behave and to solidify what they believe to be behavior that is honorable to them.

So, although trolls aren't any fun, we can turn this around and choose to thank their higher selves for providing us with a good example of what a bad example of behavior is!