The neighbors of two houses further down have been playing ‘bonkebonk’ music regularly lately. So loud, that it thunders inside me. With my current stimulus sensitivity and sensitive nervous system, that is very stressful.
I had already been to the door to ask if they could turn it down a little but that hadn’t mattered much. And so I went there again a few days later. The woman was full of her ego. She did say that she would tell her son, but also that it was up to me. I was the one to blame and I got some untruths thrown at me. When I walked away completely overwhelmed and shocked by her reaction (ego reaction), she called out to me that they were going to turn up the music even louder and that was done for a while.
I felt angry, sad, powerless. By reacting to ego with ego, I could not solve this. Then it would only get more out of hand. Step out the story in this case was that I had to step out of the ego, not respond with ego to ego but with the soul. I put a postcard through the mailbox saying ‘Thank you for your understanding!’ Also, instead of sending angry hate thoughts and energies towards them, I sent love and light.
It was quiet for the rest of the evening. Has this also definitively solved the noise pollution? I don’t know yet. But perhaps most of all this is a choice of how I want to be in life. If we are all part of the same collective energetic field, then evil thoughts of hate harm not only the other, but also myself.
Autonomy in this is that you are not always reactive and let your reactions depend on others, but that you react from your own values and norms. In other words: ‘That which you do not want to be done to you, do not do that to another’
