Because social cohesion is so important to us at a primal level, most of us have at least some measure of resistance to conflict. But some of us are debilitated by it. We spend our lives trying to keep everyone happy, trying to be nice, trying to conform and fit in, trying to pacify everyone and trying not to rock the boat. The result is, we are secretly deeply unhappy. We spend our lives trying to avoid what we don’t want to have happen, instead of living according to our own sense of what we do want and the individual values we do hold. We lose our integrity in the name of trying to keep other people happy. The result of losing integrity is that our self worth plummets. In this episode, Teal offers us awareness about why we fear conflict and how to move beyond the fear of conflict so we can live more fulfilling lives.

Kuan Yin's Mantra (c) 2002 Lisa Thiel - used by permission http://www.sacreddream.com