What else do I want to be outraged about?

About America's future government? About absurd ideas and plans? About what is happening in German politics right now? The escalation of wars and human rights violations?

News every day that shocks me because it doesn't correspond with my value system and my ideas of a world worth living in.

And I say STOP!

I no longer want to be outraged by the news that comes my way. The waves of indignation have a tendency to make me passive and direct my attention outwards.

They reduce my differentiated perception, which I need in order to process the information and deal with it proactively.

Acting out of indignation is not effective because the emotions are simply passed on like a hot potato. ‘Have you already read/heard...’ or acting too quickly without reflecting carefully on the consequences.

Going to the intellectual side is just as ineffective because the hidden feelings behind them are powerful and lead to cynicism or ineffective criticism.

Transactional analysis offers an effective way of self-awareness and empowerment.

The first step is to feel what the indignation is doing in my emotional world and in my body. Anger, fear, energy, increased blood pressure or rigidity, breathlessness, etc.

Through this self-awareness, I learn what I can do for myself. Breathe consciously, move or use other ways of self-regulation.

The next step would be to ask myself what significance I want to assign to the various events. I am the one who decides what I consider to be significant.

This then leads to the question of what I can and want to do in concrete terms. I regain my own freedom of choice and my decision-making power, my autonomy.

And I regain my creativity by looking for different solutions and deciding in favour of the one that empowers me and brings me into the best possible relationship with myself and with the people I want to support.

This is my path: from being a victim of events to becoming an active creator.