Stress Is An Argument With Reality

(Clip from a Live Overview Experience)

Whatever pisses me off about anyone or anything,
whatever I am triggered by,
whatever causes me ANY suffering

when I look carefully with my “Overview” Lens,

100 times out of 100,

it’s because I’m arguing with reality,
projecting a “should” or a “fantasy” on what already IS.

Over the past couple of years when the world went crazy,
I found myself doing that again and again:

Fantasy: “People should be able to understand other people’s opinions and let them be.” (When in fact not too many people did)

Fantasy: “People should respect what I do with my own body”
(When in fact people were simply reacting to feeling unsafe based on the information they were watching)

Whenever reality didn’t match my “should,” I would find myself getting reactive.

It was a very important time for me to go deeper with my practice,
using a cognitive and somatic based tool to help release the stress built up in my system so that I could go through that global crisis and come through on the other side stronger, more on fire with purpose, and…