We often feel shame about the bad things that happen in our lives. It could be something common like being deceived by a fast-talking salesman, or something heartbreaking, like being betrayed by someone we thought we could trust. When these things happen, we can feel weak or foolish. It shouldn’t have happened to me. I should have known better.
Aside from repeated patterns of behavior which can be indicators of energetic obstruction in the body, sometimes life just happens and we are simply blindsided in the moment, or we chose to give someone the benefit of the doubt and we were wrong. It doesn’t mean that we’re not intuitive, not wise enough to know better, or that we somehow created the situation for ourselves.
If we constantly berate ourselves or become defensive for these singular instances when things just happened, we pile on unnecessary stress to an already unpleasant experience. Instead, why don’t we find different ways to respond? We could recognize that it was an unfortunate situation and learn to forgive ourselves. We can acknowledge that we made choices that we thought were for our best interest at the time. Whatever has happened has already passed, so what else is there to do except move forward? We can learn something new from our experiences and can eventually respond to life from a place of power rather than defiance.
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