View any situation or person that upsets or triggers you as a gift and an opportunity for self-examination, as life reveals where you are not free and can become more powerful.
When triggered by someone, shift your focus from what they did or said to what is being triggered within you, examining the perceived threat or fear that is causing your reaction.
Understand that nobody truly upsets you; rather, an external event triggers an upset that was already within you, allowing you to take 100% responsibility for your relationship to life instead of being a victim.
Cultivate true peace by allowing everything and everybody to be exactly the way they are, recognizing that trying to control others’ behavior for your contentment is a hopeless and exhausting proposition.
Apply the understanding that if you were another person, with their conditioning and life experiences, you would behave in exactly the same way, which fosters compassion, love, and understanding in any situation.
Address the greatest barrier to peace by forgiving yourself for your own reactions of fear or upset, fostering a deeper level of self-love and compassion.
Understand the disservice of making another human being wrong, as letting go of this judgment opens up a new world of compassion, love, and acceptance, and provides personal relief from needing others to be a certain way.
Become aware of your deep-seated subconscious patterns, tendencies, and conditioned responses to external stimuli, which are often primal survival mechanisms, to gain freedom from them.
Adopt a different approach to freedom by engaging in a process of dissolution rather than constantly seeking solutions to problems, which often reinforces the belief that you have a problem in the first place.
Recognize that nothing is inherently good or bad, but rather it is entirely your own interpretation and narrative superimposed on an event or person that creates that perception.
Stop reinforcing beliefs of inadequacy, insecurity, or scarcity by arguing for your limitations (e.g., “I’ll screw this up,” “too good to be true”), and instead embrace immense human possibility.
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