Have you ever had a massage where the practitioner touched you in some normally comfortable spot but this time you nearly jumped out the window in pain? Trigger points are all over our body especially if our back is a little out of alignment.
Well there are trigger points all over our life and work too, especially when our thinking is a little out of alignment. Those trigger points can become radio active points if we don't deal with them sooner than later.
I thought I'd list a few of my trigger points. Maybe you can use these and more for your early warning signals too.
The competitive spirit is alive and well in every human being on earth. Even the most spiritual are competing, usually with themselves for higher levels of aspiration.
Some people's competitive spirit needs an enemy. It's the most primal form of competitive spirit and if you become that enemy you become a vital ingredient of that individual's tick list for daily happiness.
Becoming someone's enemy is inevitable. It may be a work colleague, a friend, an ex-partner or current one. It may be a sibling, a parent or a whole community... You don't get to choose who chooses you as their arch rival in life. Just know, however, there's nothing you can do to fix it. It was never about you in the first place.
A big mistake in life is to try to placate a person who has chosen you as their enemy. What you must realise is that they are receiving enormous value out of their disdain for you, and even if you remove all the barriers to being their absolute perfect friend, they need to find more....more reasons to hold you up as an enemy.
Human's can't stay alive without an enemy of some sort... thing it through.. the peaceful green people who want to love everyone, hate the whalers, the tree choppers, the genetic food modifiers or capitalism. The soft talking new age guy hates his former self and all it currently represents.
Everything in life depends on relationships. Our relationships at home and at work determine our success. And, our relationship with ourselves determines our happiness.. our innerwealth.
For many years I searched for the keys to this inner relationship. I went from University to Ashram, learning theory, observing and experiencing and yet, I came away befuddled. What most people defined as a healthy relationship was to me, boring, predictable and mundane. I knew it went deeper, but there were no teachers. At least none who walked their talk.
In the end, I sat on a mountain top searching. There was little more information on the mountain than at the bottom: just colder and better view. I needed to go deeper.
And I did.
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