A. Yes Divine One, Other's play a part in one's movie, but only a part. They instigate, initiate, and catalyze one's field of energy as they pass through —or confront— one's sphere of being; pushing buttons and revealing hidden things of the Self obscured by the personality, judgment and fear.

As you know, things don't happen "to us," they happen with our participation, response and reaction. As energy resonators (receivers and transmitters), we draw experience to us like a magnet and we are subjected to experience by being in a certain "flow" of our choosing (not always consciously so). This is combined with one's own energy state and thus we "seed" each experience with potential outcome.

This combination, of one's energy state impacted by another's energy transmission creates episodes, instances, opportunities of impact to one's consciousness like rippling waves in a pond. These energy waves travel out in search of another to react with. Each wave is an opportunity, and a choice (hopefully a conscious one) of response to its impact with appropriate interaction.

When waves of energy impact us they invoke an emotional response that corresponds to one's inner condition. This condition is either "grounded," mature, and integrated or fractured, unstable, or immature regarding the particular energy being received. Reception of the wave is an opportunity to transmute the energy —turning un-serving into serving, unhealthy into healthy, shadow (unconscious) into light (conscious). After reception of such energy waves, one's choice is also present in what is transmitted.

Emotion is both a first sign of energy impact and a secondary reaction/response. After this initial feeling one attaches meaning to the energy being felt which produces a much stronger response/reaction. Ordinarily, one may go along their merry way spreading waves of love and appreciation. However, when something impacts us and produces a reaction/response within us, emotion wells up and wants to be released, processed or transmuted. What is energetically "transmitted" is then effected by the emotion's impact on one's energy state.

What one transmits can be clean and void of "baggage" (without personal issue/challenge vis-a-vis the energy impacting us) by transmuting the energy —seeing clearly or more deeply one's part in the exchange; letting go negative judgment, releasing blame or shame and finding the higher possibility of the circumstance and consciously getting to a neutral or witness perspective.

If one is attaching their angst or fear to the impacting energy then transmittion contains a perpetuation of the same which shows up as blame, judgment, or fear projected, transferred, and attached to another. Its hard to maintain mutually respectful, supportive, valuing relationships when a cycle, or feedback loop, of negative energy waves are perpetuated between two people. Each of us can do our part, with deep introspection and compassion, to receive what others transmit with wisdom and consciousness and transmit our own energy waves cleanly and clearly without our personal baggage attached.

The primary focus for me is on the "receiving" part of the exchange and transmuting my judgments, fear, or shame feelings because that helps me "transmit" much cleaner w/o baggage. I know I'm clear when I can own all that I can see of my contribution to my emotion response and don't try to blame the other.

Love and Light,
Sunyata