Hey, Gary. Welcome to the forums! Feel free to share your discoveries here. We don't take kindly to people being ridiculed!
I see you're in a tough situation, wanting to share your new discoveries with your wife and being a little let down at her less than excited reaction. In these situations, my best advice is to go along doing what you are doing without trying to bring anyone with you. I think it's great that you are finding out new things and working with ideas that energize you. Keep at it! If you are in a state where you are doing what you feel is right for you, feeling happy, feeling energetic, it's only a matter of time before someone (hopefully your wife!) will notice and ask what's gotten into you. Then you have a little opening to say, "I've been practicing meditation (or whatever it may be that you are looking into). It really helps me feel calmer and more energetic. If you want to hear more about it, I'd be happy to talk with you." And then you leave it at that. She may slowly, or quickly, join you on your spiritual journey...or she may not. You might think about what that would mean to you. If you can accept her exactly as she is and exactly as she is not, then I think the situation will be ok. Sometimes people's resistance is due to the fact that they feel like they will have to change. Sometimes they've been resisting their own inner voice telling them there's more out there and don't want to be reminded of it!
Take full responsibility for yourself and don't try to force the issue. I would have a discussion with her along the lines that this is very important to you and it would mean a lot to you if she would stop with the name calling and ridicule.
Good luck with this.
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