Do you have pet peeves? Really! Who doesn’t? I should know something about dealing with these sorts of annoyances, but, sadly, I don’t always live out of my wisdom, you know, my higher self. What I know is that if something gets under my skin it’s usually a thing that I’m ‘guilty’ of doing myself. Here’s how it goes: I get irritated when my husband (poor Daniel) says he’s going to do a thing and then he doesn’t. More often than not, he’ll get there in his own sweet time, but not in my time frame. It doesn’t work in reverse. Daniel doesn’t make many requests of me, and he probably wouldn’t remember to check up on me if he did. So, he doesn’t end up getting piqued in the way I do. However, I do have plenty of things that I am planning on doing but I end up procrastinating ad infinitum. Since I haven’t necessarily told anyone that I was going to do the things, I’ve left myself off the hook. Or, have I? There’s an exercise that I’ve done which is called ‘calling back your judgments’. You just stop to see to think whether you’re getting miffed because the thing that you’re noticing in another person is what you do. Pausing instead of reacting buys you enough time to see if you’re just projecting onto someone. Today’s Sutra II-36 is particularly apt. The beautiful yogi Vyn Bailey says:

Wholehearted devotion to the truth, over a period of time establishes a relationship between the yoga and reality. All he says scrupulously conforms with what is and with what actually happens. He then develops, as it were, a sixth sense regarding reality and its laws; how it operates, how causes produce results.* Satya-pratisthayam kriya-phala-asrayatvam

With the establishing of truthfulness comes dependence of results on one’s actions.* *Patanjali’s Meditation Yoga, translation and commentary by Vyn Bailey.