Tag: anger

Other person’s shoes

Posted on by philipdodson

When someone is angry, or rude, or frustrated or she/he behaves in a way that is not their normal way of behaving, instead of reacting the same towards them, perhaps we we could choose to seek to understand.

What is happening in the other person’s mind that is causing them to lash out, to react?

We always want to judge first, to see how that person’s behaviour affects our little story, our ego always wants to personalise it, to see it in terms of how does this affect me?

If we all choose to empathise, understand and be compassionate first, then we could all suffer less.

We could all learn to walk in the other person’s shoes and show kindness.

Enough

Posted on by philipdodson

When we’ve had a long day, and we are physically and mentally tired, we can allow things to start to frustrate, irritate and even get us angry.

We then fight on and carry on and got more frustrated with the fact that we are annoyed.

Just follow our feelings and say enough…time to stop, time to take a break.

When we fight on we create negative energy inside and that only makes us feel worse. When we let go, when we say ‘fuck it!!’ we let release the tension, we accept and we automatically feel more positive.

Some days we just have to say ‘enough’.