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\"\"<\/a>Caidin takes his guitar lesson after school and yesterday, I got there early so that I could attend a meeting about an event I\u2019m chairing for the school.<\/p>\n

After the meeting, I was sitting in the common area, flipping through emails and taking advantage of the few minutes I had to catch up on things before Caidin\u2019s lesson ended.<\/p>\n

The weather yesterday was particularly bad. We had high winds and heavy rains and all day long the weather reports had switched back and forth from Tornado warnings, to watches, to warnings. As I sat there focused on my phone, I didn\u2019t notice the shift in light, but I did hear the shift in sound. I looked up and the power had gone out in the school and the generator had come on.<\/p>\n

Soon after, Caidin and his guitar teacher emerged from his lesson room. Caidin ran over and gave me a hug while his teacher and a few other school staff members discussed who should be called.<\/p>\n

I could tell by Caidin\u2019s energy and how he was talking that he was nervous.<\/p>\n

I reassured him and sent him back to finish he lesson in the hallway with his teacher.<\/p>\n

This morning I was thinking about his reaction to the lights going out. I\u2019ve seen it before when the lights go out at our house, or even threaten to go out. I decided to ask him what he experiences.<\/p>\n

I said \u2018Caidin when the lights went out yesterday, what were you feeling?\u2019 He said, \u2018I was afraid.\u2019 \u2018Why, I asked?\u2019 He went on to explain to me that he gets afraid of the dark because he sees figures walking around. Not surprising. I often saw figures when I was little too. If he follows suit, he will start to know future events in about a year or two, as that\u2019s when my precognition kicked in.<\/p>\n

As he talked about being afraid, I was reminded of a great book I read once. Unfortunately I can\u2019t remember the author. I dug through all my books this morning and couldn\u2019t find it either. In any event, it was written by a chiropractor who was talking about emotions and how every emotion always has the \u2018other side\u2019. So the other side of anger might be joy, or the other side of sadness might be happiness. After reading this book, I started using this idea with Caidin. He was really young, I think two years old or so and just starting to connect his words to things. Instead of telling him what the other side of something he was feeling was, I\u2019d ask him, \u2018what\u2019s the other side of what you are feeling?\u2019 He would tell me and it was always interesting and usually different each time I asked. If he was frustrated, the other side might be \u2018quiet\u2019 or \u2018free\u2019 or if he was mad the other side might be \u2018sorry\u2019 or \u2018breathe\u2019.<\/p>\n

But in the opportunity to consider that there was an \u2018other side\u2019 to what he was feeling, that he didn\u2019t have to sit where he was, it was liberating and life changing for him. It gave him the power to shift, in as much time as it took him to think about what the other side might be, what he was experiencing.<\/p>\n

When Caidin said he felt afraid, I asked him \u2018what\u2019s the other side of fear?\u2019 and he said \u2018strength\u2019. I could see his energy shift as we talked. He went on to talk about what \u2018strength\u2019 looks like to him and how it shows up when puts himself in a fearful position and shifts to strength.<\/p>\n

All and all it was a good conversation and a good reminder to myself that I don\u2019t have sit in an emotional experience, I can always look for \u2018the other side\u2019.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2012 Christine Agro<\/p>\n

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