People Can Represent an Issue for You

Have you ever found yourself always feeling frustrated when you’re around someone? It doesn’t matter what they say or do, it upsets you just the same.

I found myself there this last week with someone close to me. It was frustrating because I had lots of emotion, but it wasn’t necessarily directed to them, but it only happened when I was around them. I started to think that maybe it’s not them that’s frustrating to me, but what they represent to me that is bothersome.

On a bike ride today, I realized that person represented many different situations I found myself in while I was working in large companies. The issue isn’t relevant, but the fact that a person could embody a type of experience that was fairly common for me was what I found interesting.

When I got home from my bicycle ride, I began to think about the work I did with myself several years ago when I began my ‘closet cleaning’, which was the work I started when I realized how important my thinking was to the life I was leading.

I really paid attention to my feelings when I thought about my past experiences. It was then that I realized the person I was experiencing frustration with (for no apparent reason) represented all this past history. I then thought about what tools I had learned to help me work through the frustration. Tapping or EFT was the tool I used to work through my feelings.

Recognizing my feelings when I was in similar situations was key to beginning to understand the root of my challenges. It was only then that I began to figure out why I was feeling what I was feeling.

I am now back on track and this challenge should be in my rearview mirror soon!