“I can’t stand dealing with this neighbor! Every time I see them, I get so annoyed! I wish they’d just move away so I could relax.”
Okay, sometimes people are just annoying af. Or super triggering with their ignorance, rudeness or bad behavior. I, too, get very frustrated with people at times.
But here’s a truth that will set you free (even if it first pisses you off):
The enemy of your peace is whatever pulls you away from yourself.
When you are connected to your inner self and listening to that voice within, you are in the seat of power. You have options and can take mindful action.
So it’s also up to you to build the skill of not letting external things pull you OUT of yourself.
I recorded a couple quick thoughts on this, which you can watch by clicking below.
Let’s step away from the binary in this moment. The enemy is not outside of you. AND the enemy is not YOU.
The enemy is this impulse to pull away from yourself. It’s the trigger that makes you reactive and keeps you from your centeredness and your calm.
So if your enemy isn’t a person and it’s also not you being defective, can you start to look at the pattern of reactivity itself?
Then we start to ask interesting questions, like “how can I pause when I’m getting triggered?
How can I stop falling into this pattern? How can I move a little more cautiously and keep thinking critically when taking in new information?”
These are the questions to LIVE.