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The good thing about unpleasant situations

Your personality is likely to quickly label something that does not meet his standards and values as wrong, unpleasant, unwanted or likewise. Thus he attempts to make it somebody else's' responsibility. Someone (or you yourself) has done something that he does not appreciate, and is therefore to blame for your unpleasant feelings. Preferably this is solved by the person who caused this in the first place, by taking away the source, apologizing, offer compensation for harm done (even if it is only a bunch of flowers) etc.

And yet, it is neither wrong nor faulty what has happened. Also, there is nothing wrong with you. You were mistaken in the way you looked at this situation, that's all. You have used the old, worn-out yet familiar thought patterns of your personality and judged, interpreted and came up with "appropriate feelings". Whereas the proper response would have been to perceive that the situation in itself is neutral. Your inner Self can help you to remember this, once you make mental space available for it.  

An excellent opportunity to experience neutrality is by applying it to a situation in which you can be certain that your personality definitely will not label it as such. So for example during an argument, when everything goes wrong, when someone does something you do not like, etc. In those situations the difference will stand out very clear to you. Since your personality will insist this situation has to end in order to find peace, you will find that your inner Self does not mind whether or not it ends, because you can find inner Peace in any situation, these included.



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