Find a comfortable seat.
Take a moment to adjust your posture to settle in.
Sitting upright with your spine long.
Your shoulders relaxing back and down.
Neck long,
Chin parallel to the ground.
Hands resting on your knees or in your lap.
Eyes gently closed.
Bring your full awareness to your breath.
Observe your breath without changing or controlling it in any way.
Observe the way the air takes as you inhale and as you exhale.
One breath after the other.
Find a connection with your breath.
Thereby find a connection with yourself.
Feel grounded within yourself.
Knowing that no matter what happens everything is okay.
You are okay.
Throughout our lifetime we will encounter people that we find difficult to be around.
Sometimes we can just avoid them or cut them out of our lives.
Sometimes it's not that easy and we are bound to meet them over and over again.
Difficult people trigger us.
Dealing with difficult people is challenging.
It challenges us to grow and to be steadfast in our commitment to love.
Dealing with difficult people can either bring you down or guide you towards a deeper understanding and experiencing of unconditional love.
Keep your eyes closed.
And now visualize a difficult person.
Visualize someone with whom you are having a difficult time.
Maybe you are having a difficult time with them right now or you remember a situation in the past.
Visualize a difficult person now.
Picture them sitting in front of you.
Let the mental image become more clear,
More detailed.
As you draw up the picture notice what kind of reaction is coming up.
Maybe you can notice a certain reaction manifesting within your being.
Maybe you can feel this on a physical level as tightness around the jaw,
The neck and the throat.
A heavy feeling on the chest or uneasiness in your stomach.
Maybe you can notice this on a mental and emotional level as agitated thoughts cloud your mind or unsettling feelings surface.
Allow whatever comes up in relation to this difficult person to be there.
It's okay to feel this way.
Use your breath to guide you through this.
Use your breath.
Breathing in fresh energy and light.
Breathing out any irritation and tightness.
Continue breathing in and out.
Feel the heaviness and tension leaving you.
Feel the softness and peace permeating through your whole being.
Feel grounded within yourself.
Everything is okay.
You are okay.
Anything can happen to you.
At your innermost center there is this unchangeable,
Indestructible quality of eternal love and light.
This energy runs through all of us.
No matter if you like or dislike someone,
On our deepest level we are all the same.
We are all love and we are all looking for love.
We all are the same in our need for love.
All that we do is either because we want to be loved or because we want to avoid not being loved.
Bring your awareness back to your difficult person now.
Still visualizing them sitting in front of you.
Look at your difficult person.
See your difficult person as someone that equally to you is just looking for love.
That equally to you is trying to avoid getting hurt.
Him or her,
Same as everyone else,
Just has the need to be loved.
Whatever he or she does is motivated either by trying to avoid getting hurt or by the need to be loved.
You too have this in common.
In fact,
We all have this in common.
Keep your heart open,
Especially when dealing with a difficult person.
Know that deep within this person is looking for love.
Send your love out to this difficult person.
See the light that we all share in your difficult person.
Feel love and compassion towards them.
Compassion even in situations where you feel triggered.
Compassion especially then.
Critical compassion.
Feel your breath.
Feel grounded within yourself,
Within your eternal love and compassion.
Bring your hands together at your heart now.
Simply bow your head forward into the chest.
Remember whoever is challenging you,
Whoever you encounter in your life that is difficult,
See the light in them.
Keep your heart open and meet them with love and compassion.
