Michael: The best way to practice awareness of triggers would be in relationship, where the buttons are pushed, where we are most reactive, perhaps judging another’s actions severely.

Ommara: It is one of those human ironies, that which we most avoid is that which we need to be free.  It is another tool to the path to freedom, to acknowledge the importance of one’s relationships.

Doing this next little practice, you will see immediately how the igniting of freedom happens.  When the day begins in the morning, sit on the side of the bed, before the clothes are changed, and take a little time to list your primary relationships and the value of each of them.  It will transform your day.  Even at work, at the office, the person who is a problem, who makes your life miserable, thinking of them and asking, “where is the value of this relationship?”  This transforms consciousness and the life at work, when one acknowledges the value of those relationships.  It could happen like magic that the situation will change, like that person may transfer out or change their behavior, or you will be offered an opportunity elsewhere.

Daphne: So our gratitude itself frees the situation to change.

Michael: This is a direct relationship between that path to freedom and the path to peace.  No longer begrudging our relationships in the world frees us up emotionally and brings peace when there is no longer opposition.

Ommara: Yes …