| Once I asked someone who’s wise why things in my life weren’t working. I said that I practiced gratitude every morning and night. The reply I received was what was I doing the rest of the day? |
Gratitude, continuous gratitude, will change your life!
That can seem easier said than done at times, until we realize…
we’re rarely angry for the reason we think we’re angry. How dare they!
That feeling is not necessarily about the other person or situation being wrong. The emotion triggered may be from a similar, emotional memory or our perception that may or may not be accurate.
The reason we have charged emotions is because those challenging feelings surface (and then we get bugged about things) when it’s time for them to be released.
Have you noticed how sometimes people can jump to the wrong conclusion and then become upset by their interpretation, even if it’s false?
Regardless if the other was right or actually the wrongdoer, holding on to a lack of forgiveness or a one-sided, limiting perspective might feel empowering. It might feel validating, proof that you’re right and the other is wrong.
However, there might be another side of the story that’s not being considered because of being locked into a particular viewpoint.
The ego loves feeling right.
But your Essence knows the trap of self-righteousness and sees things differently.
A mother copped an attitude about perceived activity regarding her senior-aged daughter. Things she never did. Not even close. In fact, her accusations were ludicrous.
The whole issue could have been easily dismissed, but not even going to mediation altered her mother’s foolish perspective.
Rather than talking about it or seeing proof to the contrary, she set a court date!
She had her daughter evicted from her house through a court order the day before Thanksgiving. Her daughter had nowhere to go.
By the way, she had invited her daughter, who was down on her luck, to live with her. To do that, she had to sell her car and belongings and move over a thousand miles away.
Replacing her anger, frustration, hurt and fear of what her own mother was doing to her, the daughter began to send her mother love, disregarding any of her mother’s unforgiving attitudes.
The mother began to soften and question her hardline approach.
Empowerment through shifting your perspective to love and gratitude are more truly empowering than feeling justification through a lack of forgiveness or holding onto the feeling of what bugs you. Maybe there’s another angle you’re overlooking.
Perhaps, given an opportunity, you can clear the energy on whatever might be bugging you through discussion or seeing things from a different viewpoint. It doesn’t matter if that does or doesn’t work, love is the greatest healer.
Even if others are convinced you’re wrong, you can be emotionally free.
So if you get annoyed at your world and whatever bugs you about it, consider that there might be another perspective so that you can send love and give thanks, instead.
With gratitude,
Virginia
Edited from an excerpt of a November 19, 2018 Soulgoals’ Blog Post
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