Sorry to the Manipulator

I got played this morning by a friend. She wanted me to do something that I really would have had to go out of my way to get done. I wasn’t feeling in the mood to go out of my way; it was a public holiday and I wanted to simply write my blog, see if I can finish a painting I had started but seemed to be going nowhere fast, and tend to my garden. (a storm had recently passed and with the rain it brought, a lot of weeds had grown up between my plants. These needed to be removed before the next storm.)
So you can imagine my consternation when it dawned on me that I agreed to meet a request that was not going to fit into my plan for the day! This person has been playing me for a long time and I seem to get caught every time.

I sighed, mentally shifted my schedule, and settled down to getting my blog started.

There is a part of us that is a practiced manipulator. It has been with us as long as we have been around and being quicker, sharper, and brighter, it knows us better than we know ourselves and unfortunately, it tricks us almost every time. It’s large and in charge, takes no prisoners and does whatever it has to do to win. I am talking about the Ego Mind. It coerces us to modify our plans so that its desires can be met.
We sigh, mentally shift our schedules and settle down for the drama to emerge.

It helps when we see the manipulator’s game before it’s played so that we can prepare ourselves beforehand. This we achieve by prayer and meditation, by connecting to our Divine Source and Guidance, and having our, ‘sorrys I will not do it” ready to hand out.

And so we say:
Sorry I will not be unhappy,
Sorry I will not harbour negative energy, vibrations,
Sorry, I will not re-awakening my traumatized inner child,
Sorry, I will hold no grudge for my neighbour,
Sorry, I will not betray my friend or lover,
Sorry, I will not be less than my best self,

Sorry.