Before your tense meeting.
Take a moment to settle.
Sitting or lying down.
Feel into your body and find where the tension sits.
Where is it in your body?
What is that pressure like in your body?
Does it have a temperature,
Texture,
Color?
Is it fear?
Are you afraid of being attacked?
Misunderstood?
Or treated in a way you can't control.
Notice how you are armoring up.
Getting ready to defend yourself.
But defense doesn't always protect you.
Sometimes it provokes the very attack you fear.
Do this instead.
Let the worst thing someone might say to you rise up.
Let it come.
No need to design a counterpunch.
Just see the fear as it is.
Now,
Silently say this.
I have no defence.
Have no defence.
I have no defense.
Have no defense.
Imagine.
Walking in ready to be called anything.
Accused of anything.
As you stop defending against it?
You become the calmest person in the room,
The clearest,
The most assured.
Imagine when the difficult thing is said.
You just let it land.
Not deflecting,
Nor explaining,
Nor justifying.
It falls to the floor with a soft thud.
And you're still here.
Still home.
Imagine speaking your truth into this space.
Giving up the need to be proven right.
You have become far more persuasive,
More welcomed.
This is your moment.
Breathe into the place in your body where that tension was.
Whatever is there now is your fuel.
Imagine using this moment,
This space,
This energy to speak your vision.
You
