Our world is in our hands. We are the ones that get to choose what kind of world we create. If we are happy, we create a happy world. If we are angry or resentful, we live in an angry resentful world.
ANGER is an expression of FEAR. When we respond to anger with anger, or resentment we are responding from a place of fear.
When we feel anger rising up in us, we can ask ourselves, what are we afraid of.
Resentment is related to anger, because we are not getting what we want. Some of the thoughts that might be going through are head that trigger fear are:
I don’t feel heard.
They don’t care about me.
How could they do that?
I have no control over this.
How could they think that?
I feel trapped.
Why can’t they just…….
I can’t believe this is happening to me.
How did I possibly end up here?
These are reactive thoughts from our past beliefs and experiences that we have attached meanings to. When we practice proactive responses as opposed to reactive responses we can see the world in a whole new light.
We allways have choices.
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR. In reading his book many years ago, I was forever impacted by the courage and fortitude that he found within himself in such unimaginable, horrific circumstances.
We change OUR WORLD, whenever we stand in a place of LOVE, showing grace and compassion.
blessings & love,
