Many times when we begin a spiritual journey (or even if we’ve been committed to one for awhile), we feel moved by beautiful messages of peace, love and oneness. In those moments, we feel ready to take on the world with this deeper peace that we’ve momentarily accessed within ourselves.

But then we leave our sacred space and enter a circumstance that triggers us. Maybe it’s an existing frustration with a particular person or maybe it’s a traffic jam; whatever it is, the brief connection to peace is lost.

Where did it go? How have we lost sight of it so easily? How can we access that space in the midst of anger or frustration? Better yet, how can we live in that space of peace, such that anger and frustration no longer hit our radar?

In those brief moments where we’ve accessed a deeper level of peace, we temporarily by-passed our reactive self (or ego)…something that’s not too difficult to do when we’re in our sacred space, since we’re invoking a higher-energy through our particular devotion.

This higher-energy acts as a “snake-charmer”, if you will. It calms the reactive …

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