04-10-2011, 12:00 AM
Ninth:
My petty tyrant comes in the form of people who overly indulge in idle
talk and constantly feel the need to express their opinion. I used to
think it was an unfeminine trait not to be able to engage in this style
of expression. I would find myself in these situations not feeling
inadequate for such expression....
I like your description of a petty tyrant here. Given this view of looking at the "petty tyrant", one of my petty tyrants would be "mood". Moods fog and confuse and create illusion. For quite a few years, I would use the Tarot for discernment. When I first recognized that moods were in control of me, I would do a reading on the situation at hand, any situation. The cards would consistently "read" the situation without mood! At first, I thought I'd read the cards "wrong" but then I realized that they were reading the situation without the influence of the mood. To recognize this was very liberating.
I now removed myself mentally from all forms of petty
conversation....
While I think I understand your sentiment here, I wonder how you determine which conversations are petty and which ones are not petty? Sometimes if I determine that a situation is such and so then I close off anything else that might take place. Because I don't like "chit chat" conversations I've often removed myself from a conversation too soon, not allowing for anything to take place because I'm "outta there". I don't always give the situation an opportunity to unfold because I've determined prematurely that it's not my deal. When I don't label the conversation, I can open up to the possibility that timing is at work, or that it will lead to something I've yet to see.
My petty tyrant comes in the form of people who overly indulge in idle
talk and constantly feel the need to express their opinion. I used to
think it was an unfeminine trait not to be able to engage in this style
of expression. I would find myself in these situations not feeling
inadequate for such expression....
I like your description of a petty tyrant here. Given this view of looking at the "petty tyrant", one of my petty tyrants would be "mood". Moods fog and confuse and create illusion. For quite a few years, I would use the Tarot for discernment. When I first recognized that moods were in control of me, I would do a reading on the situation at hand, any situation. The cards would consistently "read" the situation without mood! At first, I thought I'd read the cards "wrong" but then I realized that they were reading the situation without the influence of the mood. To recognize this was very liberating.
I now removed myself mentally from all forms of petty
conversation....
While I think I understand your sentiment here, I wonder how you determine which conversations are petty and which ones are not petty? Sometimes if I determine that a situation is such and so then I close off anything else that might take place. Because I don't like "chit chat" conversations I've often removed myself from a conversation too soon, not allowing for anything to take place because I'm "outta there". I don't always give the situation an opportunity to unfold because I've determined prematurely that it's not my deal. When I don't label the conversation, I can open up to the possibility that timing is at work, or that it will lead to something I've yet to see.