You may feel vulnerable and sensitive today, which could cause you to overreact to minor conflicts in your relationships. While you may feel comforted by your ability to express what you feel, your reactive tendency could end up making matters worse. If you instead spend some time detaching from your emotional responses, you should find that you are able to stay balanced in the midst of changes and upheavals. Simply imagine your feelings as cords that connect you to people and situations in your life. As events shift and change around you, they exert pressure on your cords, which causes you to feel pain, fear, resistance, and anger. If you make a conscious decision to lengthen these cords today, you will have more slack that allows some distance between you and your emotional responses.

Detaching from our emotional responses encourages an objective perspective about our challenges. Our oversensitivity to difficulties is usually caused by our emotional investment in a particular outcome. By choosing instead to step back from our emotions, we give ourselves the ability to remain impartial to the unsettling events in our lives. While we may still feel concerned, interested, and connected to our life circumstances, we are no longer controlled by them. This new, objective perspective gives us the freedom and courage to embrace a peace-oriented state of mind that cannot help but have a positive effect in every aspect of our lives. Stepping back from your emotional attachments today can give you the objectivity to make wiser choices.