Original Advice
“DO: Reflect one feeling you heard, verbatim.”
Echo the Feeling, Not the Story
You bulldoze the tender parts. You think fast answers prove love. They flatten people. Today, your power is restraint. When someone speaks, steal one word from their chest and hand it back unchanged: “angry,” “scared,” “lonely,” “proud.” Do not decorate it. Do not fix it. Echo it once. Then pause. Let the air rearrange around that single, honest note.
Mirroring a feeling is friction for your ego and medicine for the room. It proves you can hold fire without burning the house. People don’t need your fix; they need their reality confirmed. One word is a bridge. It slows your charge, invites theirs. It keeps you from rewriting their script. Say the feeling. Let them know you heard.
Cosmic Context
Mars drives you to move first and hardest. Aim that heat at listening; conquest becomes connection.
Action
──────Repeat one emotion back, verbatim, then stay silent ten seconds.
✨ You are allowed to slow down and still be powerful. ✨