Healthier Directions
If you have some negative judgment
aimed directly at me,
I prefer,
in fact require,
expect,
demand you verbally
and directly confront me
and only me
with that distancing blame,
assaulting my ignorance
and failures of compassion,
too active dispassion,
furthering Earth's emerging win/lose dissonance,
violence,
toxic climates
and egocentric narcissism;
Or, informed more fully by nonviolent communication
I am feeling sad,
disappointed in our relationship,
shut down,
angry
because I want our mutual compassion,
my vulnerability to you,
and yours to me,
our cooperatively-held trust,
to invite your directly communicated curiosity,
your hypothetical questions,
your transparency
honesty
integrity
when you observe some message from me
that feels like it carries negative energy,
lack of compassion,
too assertive
past a tipping point of aggression,
a potential trigger for past win/lose stress,
traumatic experience,
miseries of unfortunate events,
dissociation,
cognitive/affective dissonance,
the momentary despair
of not being fully listened to
with compassionate appreciation,
as we each deserve
within this interdependent web
of win/win polypathic
polyphonic
polyculturing
ego/eco-political life.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2020
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