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How To Find Your Center Instead of Defending

How To Find Your Center Instead of Defending
Media type:

Practice Exercise


Time Investment:

5 - 8 minutes


Date Published:

09/14/2022

Notice when you start to defend. Is your body tensing up? Feeling desperate for the other to understand you or your intentions? Find yourself explaining your behavior, giving all the good reasons why you did what you did? Trying to convince the other of your good intentions? If so, ask yourself: “Is this what I want to be doing right now? Is this really helping?” then practice one of these eight options.

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