Posted by bob on 8/26/2004, 11:12 am, in reply to "Re: coworkers and karma" I don't believe in Karma, so it's difficult for me to accept that the interactions of two people in a relationship have a connection whatsoever with a past existence. I don't percieve life in that way. In her original post Linda's use of language is interesting - she talks of 'mean', 'attack', 'unpredictable', and 'sabotage' in describing how this particular co-worker is behaving with her. She then goes on to tell us that she isn't 'internalizing this stuff' [which I was personally pleased to read], she's fighting her corner, strutting her stuff and tossong the ball back. But in doing so has made her anxious and uncomfortable about things, and in particular about 'anger' and 'judgement'. Persoanlly I'd be vary about grouping anger and judgement together. 'Judgement' I'd see as possibily an inhibiting process, but anger not necessarily so, sometimes it can be, defensive and masking of feeling, but sometimes it simply isn't. Why does she have to stop at this point? Why does she have to question things? Is it fear? Is she frightened of how she's feeling? Is she anxious about conflict? Does she wish she was somewhere else, where these feelings will go away, where she doesn't have to feel uncomfortable anymore? I don't know. She finishes with a question: I say no, but that's just my perspective. bob --Previous Message--
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We see things differently.
Vibrant language.
"But I'm wondering if working with the clearing techniques will bring more natural balance and 'instant karma' to the situation."
[Sounds like Linda's after this bloke's job:-]
: I think it's just about, from a feeling
: standpoint, opening to the experience
: in relationship to the asshole, and
: letting the response come as much as
: possible from that mind/heart space.
: #### off may well be the most useful
: response, but my instinct is that
: whatever the response, the extent to
: which it can be chosen (vs. being a
: reaction dictated by the
: unpleasantness of anger) is the
: extent to which it can be liberating.
: One can still call a spade a spade...
: Jen
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