My TAO Challenge
Day 1
Challenge
1.) Identify a personal annoyance or irritant.
My decision: Double Standards
Within the workplace, financial market place, employment opportunities and housing provisions
TAO instructions: turn my attention to become open minded and allow permissiveness to befriend the mystery within me. As I allow ‘Double Standards’ to enter within myself it manifests as: anger, a feeling of less than, injustice, inequality, sub-standard, being slighted, suppression and oppression.
TAO instructions: allow the feelings to be, while giving non-judgmental attention
- Anger-only effects me
- Less than-destroys my passion
- Being slighted-fuels the anger
- Oppression-destroys hope
- Suppression-steals creativity
- Injustice-places myself in the Judge’s chair
- Inequality-fuels division
- Sub-standard-destroys possibilities
- Rejection-lowers self-esteem
(My first admission – this may take awhile!)
TAO instructions: Monitor each feeling with compassion. Accept whatever comes. No labels. No defending. Only I can take responsibility for the labels.
Review:
Looks like I created an existence of two worlds. One world I created with my choice of labels, and the second world I created is my response to my labels.
The two worlds I created offered no avenue for creativity, passion, hope or opportunities.
Action plan:
- Identify the situation. Is it ‘chatter’, news reports, gossip, social media? Am I personally affected by the situation?
- Turn off the ‘chatter’. Limit my exposure to news related information to 15 min/day. When gossip enters the conversation, remove myself.
- Assist others in the area of overcoming double standard situations.
What would you have chosen as a personal annoyance or irritant? This is a question all of us could face but if you are someone struggling with grief, I believe the annoyances are magnified as we learn to walk with our grief.
Join me in the TAO Challenge, what is your action plan?
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