Hello, my loves. This is with love, Danielle. I want to talk about conflict today. I want to talk about

not taking the bait. I want to talk about the opposite of conflict, which is peace, and how unfamiliar and unsettling and foreign peace can feel

when you're in the middle of chaos and arguing and attack and opposition.

We're in a relationship.

Any kind of relationship.

It can be business to business, peer to peer, it could be a romantic relationship,

it could be with a member of your family, a friendship.

There's a conflict.

There's a conflict that might be so severe that you're deciding you need to argue over

different parts of who owns what, who was right, who was wrong, who's going to get what going

forward, all that kind of stuff. The conflict itself, the dance of the fight, the anatomy of the argument is really just an opportunity

for the ego to off gas. It's how our shadow selves have a field day. It's how our

woundedness gets its attention. And the training, the opportunity to really

become a master of love and to think more clearly and to really grow upward is to learn how to be calm in that storm, to learn how to not take the bait.

It's the ultimate test.

Exactly when you want to lash out or in a really dignified and spiritually buttoned up way,

with so much love and consideration,

lay out very succinctly all the reasons that you are right and more evolved than they are,

which is really just the ego in disguise, totally understandable.

Instead of doing all that stuff, instead of dancing, you just step out of the dance.

And that's the move that will reconfigure every cell in your being.

That's the move that's going to change the course of your life for the better.

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