It’s so easy to keep playing a story over and over in our minds, an endless loop of suffering...”I can’t believe she said that!...If only I would have...If you just stop doing that...blah, blah, blah” It’s exhausting! From our human point of view, we do our very best to try to control the situation by trying to get others and ourselves to do something different, making sure we don’t get hurt again. We are also experts in doing all sorts of things to numb and distract ourselves from the situation. What is not apparent from our human viewpoint is that if we try to use human methods to work things out, we will be LIMITED by our human abilities and logic. There is a far better way of being. We can operate from our LIMITLESS nature. What does this look like? I can begin by taking the seat of the AWARENESS that I AM and take a deep breath, allowing my spacious essence to hold my human self and notice what is HERE NOW. The POSSIBILITIES of whatever it is I was anxious about in the future and the events of the past, AKA the “story”, are not here now. My FEAR and ANXIETY about the future and the past are here now. That’s who I AM working with. The story doesn’t matter! The reason the story is not important is because my soul, my Highest Self, has CREATED this situation so that I can find out what IN ME wants my love and attention. What is here now? Fear? Anxiety? Sadness? Anger? This is what matters! I can hold my fears in compassionate, nonjudgmental, loving presence by listening to what they have to say, then offering it encouragement: “I AM so sorry, Fear. You have suffered so much, trying to protect me and help me survive. You have worked so hard. I want you to know I love and accept you exactly as you are, Fear. You are welcome to stay as long as you wish, and I will hold you in my loving embrace. You are safe now. You can rest now. I AM here, and I will never leave you. I will take it from here. Trust me. I got this.” When we hold nonjudgmental presence for our fear and offer love and acceptance to it, it morphs back into the love that it is. This is how we heal and harmonize with ourselves and with the entire collective because we are One.