Do you sometimes just feel irritable for no reason? I slept well, but I found myself surprisingly easily irritable on this lovely morning. Even small, insignificant things seemed to shake my equilibrium.

I’m dismayed at how easily non-consequential events can upset me. I was frustrated for example because my normally cute dog, did not want to go outside. When I called her. Consequently, this morning, I’m working at transforming this uncool sense of irritability within me.

It’s a beautiful morning outside, the sun is shining, and there is no rain. I have no immediate pressures on me, yet I feel irritable. I don’t understand the source of this irritability, but I know that I can redirect its energy into calmness, focus, and a deliberate mindset.

Rather than being caught up in the disturbance, I am raising myself above the situation to bring calm within myself. I do this by visualizing the situation and it’s outcome as it would play out without the irritability. By rethinking the situation and seeing the new outcome within me and the feeling of calm within me I am reprogramming my mind to react differently and more in line with my values and ethics. This visualization along with a reflection on the virtues I aspire to bring into my life, are powerful transformative techniques. I use these techniques to reframe my thinking and emotive reaction to life circumstances.

This rune IS is very appropriate for this exercise, as it assists me today to focus and put the storm to rest before it even begins.

Anger, irritability, and frustration: I abandon and reject. In exchange, I invite in peace, calm, and focus.

I bring the light of my inner consciousness to shine within me. The anger and frustration burn away and dissolve. I am calm. I am at peace.

I smile at the newfound strength of my inner being as it rises up and fills my essence and spills over into my existence. I am the power of the wild beast that stands proudly in field unperturbed by the storm clouds that gather on the horizon. This metaphor, borrowed from the rune UR, helps me to further strengthen the picture that I envision for myself of the calmness that overwrite all traces of irritability.

Are you sitting with feelings you no longer want as attachments? Take time out and reframe your experience and create new patterns of thought for your mind to venture on. With repeated use new neuropathways are developed for the impulsive mind to follow. Ultimately the pathways you no longer want, like irritability, will no longer be an option. What you do want , like the pathway of calmness, will become your default.

To change is possible.

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