watcha doin' about it

I see what I am hearing as distracting.This reminds me of something that happened to me years ago where I felt ganged up on. I decided to stay as still as possible and sort of listen, focus I suppose on my breathing and I would say that it also an acknowledgement that I am not the moment...but bigger...not the body...but something bigger. That is the only way to describe it...in that moment, I saw as though in meditation, that these people had gathered together for my benefit. I remember seeing in my minds eye a chessboard and myself and them people on different sides. I am not seeing a chessboard here,but I do not need to in this case. I have decided that this experience is a teaching one for me. In fact I have found this year that that is my general attitude to everything I have been going through. I find it very helpful. Instead of focusing on personalities, I get quiet and listen and when I do that I don't feel that I take on to any great extent the bad energy that is being sent my way.