Get Peaced Off - Practice Kindness of Perception

If you want to see more peace you have to create a context in which peace can shine through. Use the following ideas to jump start your peace. 

• View others and world situations though the lens of compassion. 
• Make a list of your 10 greatest hotspots. You may be a political junkie who puts down others who hold an opposite point of view. You might feel fear and panic when you think about climate change and how it will affect the future. You might go off on what you think is an oppressive government or believe there are lazy bums sucking off the government. You may be an elitist about food and put people down who eat junk food. You might frequently feel abandoned. 

 These hotspots are made up stuff (MUS). You made up the hotspots as a way to make yourself feel safe or superior, or to feed your addiction to emotional drama. You don’t actually make up the events; you make up the drama. When one of your hotspots comes up, repeat this, “I chose to no longer be under the tyranny of this thought or feeling. It is not worth my peace.” When your encounter ignorance, intolerance, prejudice, or unkindness, don’t use these as fuel for angry righteousness or one-upmanship. Don’t get pissed off; get peaced off. Living though hotspots creates emotional prisons, stress, and ultimately destroys the body through illness. Live life from your softspot, not your hotspot.