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Of all the laws of metaphysics, perhaps the most basic and important is that the external world is a reflection of your interior realm. Hence, because there are inevitably aspects of your own psyche working against you at an unconscious level, from time to time, people will manifest in your life to give you aggravation. From the metaphysical viewpoint, they do this in order to show you what you’ve been doing to yourself without realizing. Realizing it, you can stop doing it if you choose and so progress in your self-healing process in the greater sense of the word (healing means literally, making whole).

And the key to dispelling any potential harm arising from the other person’s or persons’ actions towards you and to resolving the situation, according to the Taoist way of wu wei (effortless manifesting), is to speak to the 'background presence', the Tao of the situation, with a sincere heart and tell it you wish for the situation to resolve itself now. Then thank it for manifesting in the shape of the person or persons currently perceived to be giving you grief and (in your heart) thank that person or persons for playing their role so well, thereby showing you what you’ve been doing to yourself all the while without realising.

Then tell yourself, ‘I agree to stop generating this internal self-aggravation as of now.’ Finally shake hands with yourself and use this comforting gesture of closing your energy circuit as confirmation that your subconscious mind is already flushing out the self-harming pattern in question.

The discipline is then to repeat this every time you think about, hear from or in any way interact with whoever it is that’s been causing you grief and to eschew taking their actions personally, to keep seeing them with gratitude as a manifestation of the Tao come to show you what you’ve been doing to yourself and so heal it, rather than seeing them as your nemesis.

Like that, within but the shortest while, the situation will indeed resolve itself in the most unexpected and miraculous way.

This theme is lovingly expanded in the Monday Special Members’ DocBox.

Wish: everything in your life now resolves in the most miraculous way, starting immediately, leaving you smiling with astonishment and the deepest existential glee from all the way down in your pelvis to the tops of your ears and beyond.

Love, Doc