Recently on a community zoom call we were given home ‘play’ (we wouldn’t call it work now, would we?) over the weekend to step into our large (higher consciousness) by working on the edges of our upsets.

Everyone has triggers; everyone experiences curved balls that depress or anger us. Careless remarks, gossip; and narratives that don’t serve us.

The home ‘play’ requested was an invitation to compost our upsets quickly so they didn’t become chronic blocks of stress that allow for knee jerk reactions and poor decisions.

Mine was easy, I got cut off in traffic. Quite naturally it frightened and angered me because I value my life. I was pissed off; then I remembered our home ‘play’ and realized this was a perfect example of an upset for me. I was not only pissed off but I was right in feeling my rage. Being right and feeling rage for a man is really quite delicious as it feeds your lower male vanity and pumps your adrenalin.

Lower male vanity is funny in that its like pissing in your pants on a freezing day. It only feels good for a little while.

So I moved into to taking a balcony view of my anger. I accomplished this as it was similar to what we do in meditation when we witness our thoughts from a point of neutrality. Neutrality is the key and the hinge point for healing and listening with the intuitive mirror.

Since the anger was still with me, I was moved to be able to perceive it as an energetic density and then to hold space for it with my neutral state while at the same time practicing self-compassion. You have doubts because how could something so simple as compassion transform something so hard and dense as anger but it works.

I did a 3 to 5 minute ‘heart lock’ in using nothing but the breath to send and surround the density with self-compassion and the density dissipated.

This practice of Compassion and self-compassion are real working tools of transformation as they compost the anger, replacing it with the frequency of coherence in ease and flow.

Wow, this was a real hinge point and a game changer for me. I was now able to process my upsets much more quickly and very differently than before.

Einstein said the imagination was more important than knowledge and with all the world changes going on, we have to up our game to be able to move through our issues more quickly, so as to be present and accountable to where we are needed most.

This simple practice was huge for me, and I began to use it for any upset. Simple, effective, and I was no longer a slave to my reactions and all you have to do is be willing to play. How cool is that! So beautiful!

with my granddaughter Anniston (Annie)

Thank you for my time in this incredible family ///// Monocle