Everyone Is Truly Annoying: 10 Spiritual Hacks To Stay Sane When People Test You

You did your whole morning routine. You were aligned. You were good. And then that one person opened their mouth and suddenly you were not a spiritually evolved person on a growth journey; you were a fifth grader who just got cut from the line.This episode is about the actual hardest spiritual assignment, the one the brochures don't warn you about when you decide to become a better person: other people.Jamie Roddy breaks down 10 practical, in-the-moment spiritual tools for staying connected to love, God, and your higher self when someone specific is making that extremely difficult. Each one is backed by what the sages across Buddhism, Stoicism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism have said about this exact problem... because it turns out every spiritual tradition that has ever existed has been dealing with difficult people since the beginning of civilization. You are not the first person whose mother-in-law has been a lot.Hacks covered: the Two Weeks Hack, the Five-Year Room, Pain Translation, setting an Intention Before You Walk In, Mirror Neurons, Get Curious, Limits Are Love, the Long Game, the Reset Button, and They're Also God (which is really just Namaste in a hat).The episode closes with a guided meditation to practice compassion for the specific difficult person in your life right now.The goal isn't to get so spiritually advanced that difficult people stop existing. The goal is to develop such an outstanding capacity for love that difficult people can't knock you out of it.More free resources at stayingaligned.org: guided meditations, courses, community, and more.Chapters:0:00 The hardest spiritual assignment2:30 Hack 1: The Two Weeks Hack4:15 Hack 2: The Five-Year Room5:45 Hack 3: Pain Translation7:10 Hack 4: Intention Before You Walk In8:30 Hack 5: Mirror Neurons10:00 Hack 6: Get Curious11:20 Hack 7: Limits Are Love12:45 Hack 8: The Long Game14:15 Hack 9: The Reset Button16:00 Hack 10: They're Also God18:30 Guided Meditation