YOUR RIGHTS WHILE IN MY PRESENCE

Whenever we interact, I intend to provide you the following rights:

1. The right to feel exactly as you feel, without trying to fix or change you

2. The right to have the exact worldview and belief structure that you currently have

3. The right to express so-called “bad” emotions and give them a voice- fear, anger, rage, panic, sadness, depression, anxiety

4. The right to not prefer whatever is non-preferable to you 5. The right to fucking hate what is currently alive within you

6. The right to blame, project, and displace responsibility as often as you feel is appropriate

7. The right to have your opinion of me, be it positive or negative

8. The right to speak openly and honestly without fear of criticism or correction 9. The right to attack who you believe me to be without me attacking you back, intellectually, verbally, emotionally, or otherwise

10. The right to be exactly, precisely, where you are at, whether that’s on Cloud 9 or the depths of Hell

If I have ever not provided you those rights in the past, I am sorry. I was not in the wisdom of my heart, I was trapped in the limitations of my mind.

From this moment forward, may my intention to uphold these rights be even more sincerely and unabashedly committed to than I have ever dared to commit to them before.

The medicine that will get us through this is not more information from our minds. It is raw, sincere willingness to face what is alive within us, whether we prefer to or not, together as one.

May I be the example of the change I wish to see in the world. May we all live in a world where open-hearted relating reigns.