A lot of things get to me. If you’ve read past posts on this blog you’ll know a handful of those things. Did someone say bugs? Being “rubbed the wrong way” is a common human experience. Someone says or does something that really gets you angry, or brings up past pain. Then there are the smaller annoyances that easily damper our mood. A few examples spring to mind: traffic, cleaning up after people, being ignored.
One of the most prominent downers for me is tone of voice. When someone speaks to me in, what I perceive to be, a negative tone of voice I easily feel hurt or offended. Michael Singer, author of The Seat of the Soul, calls these our “thorns.” What, if any, is the purpose of these thorns? How do you get rid of them?
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This was very interesting, never quite thought of it that way before, thanks for sharing.