Cool down

Catching the rage as it storms through us. Biting our tongue. Retreating from spewing our confused, triggered, unreconciled thoughts and feelings onto another. 

Step back. Step farther back.

Exhale.

Breathe in deeply.

Take a few days. A week. A month. Speak to a friend or two, a wise listener who can hold the space for a jumble to weave its way out in speaking.

Write it out, run it out, sing it out.

Only when our own inner peace prevails might we step back into the conversion that triggered the rage.

Often beneath the rage is a whole host of entangled history, trauma, assumptions. Our shit, stirred by words or actions of others. This we can heal if we give it our loving and committed attention.

To return to the triggering incident healed we carry two indicators. We are at peace, no remnant charge left. And we do not seek to change the other.

Photo taken March 18th 2022