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CTL-VIII-0054

“Jealousy flared up and I redirected it into trust instead of an interrogation.”

CTL · Pillar III, Control CTL-VIII · Redirect Immediately.

The old reflex was to dig, to question, to follow the jealous thought wherever it led. This time you felt it and turned the other way, toward trust, toward your own steadiness. Redirecting immediately kept a good thing from being poisoned by a passing feeling.

Your Practice

  1. Notice the jealous thought as a feeling, not a fact.
  2. Ask: 'Is there real evidence, or just the old reflex?'
  3. Redirect into one act of trust instead of investigation.
  4. Tend your own steadiness; that's the part that's actually yours.

The Architects

“Do the thing, and you shall have the power: but they who do not the thing have not the power.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Compensation," Essays: First Series, 1841

More under CTL-VIII

CTL-VIII-0001“I just got fired.”CTL-VIII-0002“My plan fell apart and I don't know what to do next.”CTL-VIII-0003“I redirected a bad day into a productive one.”CTL-VIII-0004“I keep reacting to things I should let pass.”CTL-VIII-0005“I'm struggling with a habit I keep returning to.”CTL-VIII-0006“I'm proud of how I handled a situation that used to derail me.”
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