Pressure

Pressure is always around us in many forms: atmospheric pressure, pressure of the mattress against our body during our sleep, peer pressures, internal pressures born from old relational patterns that make us react with age-old learned reflexes when confronted to similar pressures in the present... Pressure is part of living. Being "under" the pressure is not the only way to deal with pressure. One might decide that some kind of pressure may be dealt without connecting any kind of emotion to it, but the satisfaction of feeling serene when the pressure is handled ... without pressure. I suggest that pressure may be dealt from "above" instead of from "under": Detached assessment of the situation: What's at stake for me? for my environment? What kind of control do I have on the events? Head cool planning of the response on one's terms (no fire-fighting), Deliberate implementation of the chosen response (one can chose to play a heated infuriated action while actually acting in cold blood -…