Because we are all doing our best in a chaotic world, we can also all react to situations that frighten us and to life events in general in a variety of ways, including with aggression and violence and by repeating behaviors that others did to us. These patterns may later feel like mistakes that we've made, times when we were not mature or skillful or gentle — or our true selves. Yet, we can learn to understand how these aggressive parts of us came to be, offering compassion to ourselves. In time, this kind of self-understanding can help us soften the ways that these parts of us engage with the world, uplifting their true messages of protection and self-defense. What is a strong reaction that you've had recently that you can notice now, with a little distance, was trying to help you?
[image description: A tit bird sits on a mossy branch and fervently chirps, while also having the anthropomorphic thought, "You must learn to rest in your aggressive defenses." Nearby a heart hangs by one hand from a branch and with a quizzical facial expression looks up at the tit bird. Text reads: "Tit Meditation."]
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