67. Staying Centered: How to Avoid Being Dragged Into the Emotional Turmoil of Others

Spiritually Hungry

Monica Berg and Michael Berg

Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Growth, Selfimprovement, Fulfillment, Parenting, Love, Anxierty, Reincarnation, Relationships, Fear, Society & Culture, Manifest, Mental Health, Life-changing, Lifes Purpose, Well-being, Improve Life, Spirituality, Wellness, Wisdom, Inspirational, Transformation, Self-help, Education, Culture, Kabbalah, Happiness, Society

4.8 • 617 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

How do we maintain equilibrium and stay true to ourselves in the midst of an emotionally fraught situation? How do we navigate empathy without getting dragged into someone else’s emotional turmoil? Emotions are contagious and the people around us can be some of the most influential factors in determining our state of wellbeing. By reframing our challenging relationships and realizing that every person and every situation in our lives has a purpose, we can see negative interactions as an opportunity to grow. Tune in as Monica and Michael share tips and tools for staying centered and avoiding the influence of negativity around us, so we continue working towards the person we ultimately want to be.

“We are the arbiters of what is right or wrong for ourselves. Part of our spiritual development is to everyday care less and less about what strangers, as well as people in our lives, think of us. ” – Michael Berg

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0:00.0	A true spiritual person is somebody who knows that the only arbiter of whether I am okay or not okay is me.
0:16.0	Sometimes you look at people and they're like, wow, they're around this crazy personality
0:20.0	and they can navigate well.
0:21.4	Why is that? And some of these people aren't even really spiritual that I see being able to do this well.
0:25.4	I think what it comes down to is really knowing the self, appreciating themselves and saying, okay, I'm going to give it the right amount of space and energy that it requires.
0:40.3	Welcome to the spiritually hungry podcast episode 67.
0:46.3	No, I didn't know which happens are up to.
0:50.0	All right, excited, excited, excited for this episode.
0:55.0	I'm excited to spend some time with you.
0:56.8	I'm excited to actually be feeling a little bit better this week after the surgery, whatnot.
1:01.6	All right, so here is the question of the hour, or as you desire it, the half hour, but I'm never going to commit to that.
1:09.0	How do we maintain equilibrium in the midst of alarmists and emotionally fraught situations?
1:15.4	In this episode, we will share some tips on how to stay centered and avoid being dragged into someone else's emotional turmoil.
1:23.2	So, as I said, I'm excited, and I think partly because I'm really excited about this story that I'm going to lead us off with here. Okay. I know how you love. I hope they have a happy ending. So I didn't write this one. I don't write the other one either. But this is a famous story. So you probably did not read it in her childhood because I think yours was slightly different than most. It is the children's fable, chicken little,
1:46.6	and it's also more aptly, I think, known as the sky is falling. Do you know that story?
1:53.6	Yep.
1:54.2	Okay. So it goes like this for those of you who don't know or don't remember.
1:57.8	Do you think there's anybody of our listeners? I guess I wonder. My mom. Yes? Never heard the story? I don't think she, yeah, I don't know or don't remember. You think there's anybody of our listeners? My mom.
2:01.2	Never heard the story?
2:02.5	I don't think she, yeah, I don't think that she read this one today.
2:06.9	So Chicken Little is outside, an acorn falls from a tree and strikes him on the head.
2:12.6	He's startled and fearful, and he concludes that the sky is falling.
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