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How to Dissolve Challenges
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Once we react the way they desire, our day is ruined, while they bask in all the negative energy they gleaned from us.
Yet there are alternative ways of dealing with these characters: Laugh at them - kiss them - make a joke of their attempt - ask them playfully what they want your energy for. Use imagination to call their bluff in a nonaggressive, joking way.
This totally deflates the spoil-sports' strategy. Whatever energy they spent to prime our angry reaction dissolves into nothingness without yielding results. Yet without our anger reinforcing their energy, they soon run out of power.
They'll try again, - if not now, then later - but after a few attempts usually give up trying to leech us (mostly with the feeling that we just are too stupid to even recognize how angry they are with us, and that we don't merit their precious attention).
If we stop our angry reaction at its very source within us, the very moment we feel it, we eventually remove all dormant. anger within us. This automatically eliminates each and any manifestation of anger and violence from our life.
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Yet - we need to try out this concept. Intellectual reasoning alone can never prove its validity.
