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I'm an intuitive healer and certified Akashik Records reader and teacher,

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Victor Frankel was an Austrian neurologist, philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor. In his

famous memoir, Man's Search for Meaning, Frankel says that,

between stimulus and response, there is a space.

In that space is our power to choose our response.

In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

I was recently reminded of this quote, and I wanted to use it to open the third episode of this

triggered series because the quote concisely distills it really gets at why I set out to create

these episodes in the first place. Frankel mentions that between stimulus and response, there is a space.

This means that there's a space, there's a pause between our triggers and our reactions to

those triggers, even if sometimes that pause is half a second. There is still a pause.

So there's a space between someone cutting you off in traffic

and you cursing them out, honking your horn, and working yourself up into a stressful frenzy.

There's a space between your mother-in-law criticizing your cooking or clothing or how you parent your children

and the response that you choose to give her. There's a response between someone leaving a nasty

or just irrelevant comment on your social media post and the words that you choose to write back.

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