Hi Open, Thank you for your guidance with this. I was a meat-eater for a good part of my life with periods of being a vegetarian. For practical reasons (I took the easy way out), I returned to eating meat with family members. I'm aware how eating meat contributes to the suffering of animals especially since recently watching the documentary, "Ghosts in the Machine" about the horrific conditions of animal factory farms. I decided to eliminate meat from my diet last year and to embrace a vegan, gluten-free diet. Since then I've eaten meat on a few occasions. However, after becoming aware of how animal factory farms operate, I will not eat meat again. But I have continued to eat eggs, fish and seafood occasionally. Just prior to the recent Toronto workshop, I chose to eat prawns when out for dinner with family. Each time I occasionally eat seafood, a rash breaks out on my face. I see this as being "faced" with the guilt of lack of respect for all sentient life. I can see how this is power over other life -- not power with other life. Recently, I've become aware of consuming products that don't serve the highest good of all sentient beings. Your "Healing The Wounded Dragon" meditation has expanded my awareness about this. I've been sensing that the cosmetics and body care products I buy and use may involve animal testing. When I use these products a rash appears on my skin signalling to me that my actions are not aligned with respect for all life. Also, I have used pain medication recently for the increase in neck and back pain. I'm aware of the prevalence of animal testing in the pharmaceutical industry, so I may be contributing to the suffering of animals when I ingest these. So it is time for me to consciously choose to consume products that support the highest good of all sentient beings. So what you are saying is that I need to fully feel the emotional impact of how the pattern of "power over" from past lives is playing out today in this lifetime -- in order to break free of recreating this repetitive karmic pattern. When I fully feel and accept this emotional impact without judgment, I create an opening to breathe higher consciousness into the blockage and release it.