February 2018 MY Authentic Life Magazine

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THE SECRET THAT PEACEFUL PEOPLE KNOW by Kerri Hummingbird

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n my life, before I found my spiritual path, I could spin up a drama better than anyone else. Before you could blink an eye, I could turn a molehill into a mountain with the stories I told and the emotions I let rise like a torrential rainstorm within 70 | MY Magazine

me. I would perceive a nuance, attribute negative meaning to it, get myself worked up over that assessment, and then the tale would take on a life of its own. Pretty soon I would feel completely righteous about furiously firing off an email,

certain I was educating the other person about fairness and where they went wrong. As a matter of fact, anything I perceived as not ‘fair’ easily became the fodder for my frustration and angst. I would


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