For your reading pleasure from Stepping Into the New Reality:

"Staying In Alignment With Not Taking Things Personally

There are two ways that I have found helpful to stay connected to
the higher realms or vibrations when we encounter a situation that
stirs an unpleasant reaction in us.

1. Suppose someone arrives in your reality that is embodying
an energy that you find annoying or unpleasant. They seem to become
a bur under your saddle, so to speak, and you find that you would
prefer to avoid them. In this case, it can be helpful to do this:
Ask yourself what it is about their energy that defines what is
bothering you. What is it about? Then identify that energy within
yourself. This is no new news here, and no new process.

After you identify what it is that their particularly bothersome
energy is about, then you have the opportunity to adjust that energy
within yourself. When particular individuals enter our spaces with
bothersome energy, it is almost always because it is now time for a
particular adjustment within ourselves to occur. This is why it is
coming to our attention.

If you cannot identify that particular energy within yourself
(and remember, it may be an energy that you could embody under
certain circumstances, or an energy that you do embody, but in a
different way and in a different arena, so it may be hard to recognize),
then know that it is then an energy that you may have a strong reaction
to or judgment about, so you would never consciously want to embody it.
In this case, you are being asked to be more of that energy, but probably
in a more healthy and balanced way. This particular energy is just
being shown to you in an exaggerated way so that you will not miss it.

We may think that no-one should ever embody this energy, and certainly
then, not us! We have strong reactions to certain energies because we
think they are very wrong and not of the highest order, but when this
is the case, what is really occurring is that we are not right and the
other is not wrong. In time, if we are open and willing, we always find
that we were overly exaggerated in our judgment, and these seemingly
horrible energies are actually OK if they are used appropriately
(in other words, not to such a strong and exaggerated degree.) For
some reason specific to us, we believe that these unpleasant energies
are absolutely not acceptable, and so we would never embody them ourselves!
So then, we need to embody them ourselves, and find their gifts and
benefits, in order to diffuse and neutralize these reactions we are having.
We need to acknowledge their gifts and benefits, and embrace them and
become them in order to become whole. Thus, we need not take this
personally, as energy is simply doing what energy does.

As we evolve higher and higher, we begin to experience less of number 1,
and more of number 2.

2. We eventually come to a space of being, where we are aware
that a specific energy is in our space, but we have no reaction to it,
except that it is unpleasant and it feels as though it belongs somewhere
other than where we are. It can almost feel repulsive. We can easily see
what it is about, and intuitively we know that we have already been there
ourselves, understand this energy, and know we no longer embody it. It may
even feel as though it lives in a land far away...a land where we have not
lived for a very long time. In this case, we are then able to give love
and understanding to the individual who is embodying this energy, and thus,
we do not take it personally.

Even though we have now evolved out of many lower vibrating energy patterns,
they can still feel fairly uncomfortable to be around. When we encounter
them, we have a strong desire to be somewhere else. This is because higher
vibrating energies cannot exist in the same space as lower vibrating
energies. Knowing who we are at the highest levels, staying in that space,
and shining our lights while being connected to Source while not taking
things personally, is a good way to spend the limited amount of time we
may find ourselves residing in the lower vibrating realities. Things are
only about us if we choose to take them personally."