What happens when others don’t take your optimistic viewpoint, when they insist on the “hell in a handbasket” view of what’s playing out? Or, at the subtler level, when family members or close friends go into their own blue funk, even if it's all just down to too much tiredness and so many work pressures that they can't see the wood for the trees? These little play-offs happen all the time in family, office or community life. When you learn to hold that special place that you’ve learned how to feel out for yourself, you help them to defuse and to meet you where your higher vibe is always waiting for them; and it's a well-accepted reality that a lower vibration will always acquiesce to the highest one available when there’s a play-off. “So why do I always get brought down by other people’s moods?” you might ask; because, at some level, you go back to meet them there - whether out of kindness, duty or the long-established expectation that their downturned viewpoint is an inevitable return or "more real" than your higher version. I've stopped doing that and here's how and why... (read more)