Groundwork

Something quite indescribable happened to our small family this week. It happened to one of the most vulnerable among us and obviously it impacted everyone as the shock wave was rolling over each of us individually. As the primary decision maker under the circumstances, everyone was looking at me and how I would handle the incident. How I would react.

In taking a breath as the incident was disclosed to me, I embraced what has been always my intuitive nature. “…and if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them”.~Dalai Lama

As the understandable initial reaction from everyone else was outrage and anger. Wanting to lash back. Mine was remaining in a place of neutrality. I wouldn’t be of any use to anyone, especially the one in most need of me, if I would have allowed myself to be swept away in the current of reactive emotions that were crashing in all around me. With that centered calm reciprocating back at the onslaught of enragement, that roque wave of anger and outrage lost its momentum . I didn’t have any intentions of allowing this incident to take us over into any endless, non-sensical suffering. As people choose to become victims to their old reactions, I choose to walk a new path of responding in such a way that will contribute to a healthier and happier world for myself and everyone in it.