It must. After all, we so often choose it. We choose victimhood over peace and we make that same choice repeatedly throughout our lives.
When events transpire to leave us feeling like victims, we relish and cherish those feelings. We fan the flames of our emotions, firing up the feelings of betrayal, hurt, and pain. Our minds run amok with thoughts like "I can't believe he did that to me. He is such a jerk. I didn't deserve that! Why would he do that to me? I am always so good to him and then he turns around and does this to me!"
Or perhaps we simply run through the moment of betrayal and hurt repeatedly in our minds reliving the hurt. We indulge in these thoughts. Each time we experience it again in our minds it gets bigger and bigger, always more horrible, more hurtful, more painful.
Or maybe we harbor fantasies of revenge. Like the day we show up having lost twenty pounds and looking amazing. That will make him regret what he did. Or maybe we fantasize about hurting him just as badly as he hurt us and making him pay for what he did. Or maybe we hatch elaborate plans about how we could take back whatever it is he took from us.
Sometimes we choose to stay in victim thoughts for years at a time. Most of us have certain events in our past that are still defining us as victims, even though twenty or thirty years may have passed. We are allowing our belief in victimhood to run our minds. And when something runs our minds, it runs our lives.
Does this feel good? In some twisted way, it does. We cherish these feelings. If we didn't, we would let them go. Or perhaps we simply don't know that there is another pathway available to us.
The truth is that at any moment in time we can stop being victims. Our victimhood requires our continued belief that we have been wronged or harmed in some way. We need to buy into the game in order to be victims. However, if we choose forgiveness, we are no longer victims. We can be free of the pain. We can heal the wounds. The contents of our mind is something that we have total and utter control of. We can choose what we allow to exist in our minds.
Perhaps victimhood feels good. However, wouldn't freedom feel better? Wouldn't peace feel better? Wouldn't living in love be vastly better than this experience of fear we are creating in our lives? After all, choosing to be a victim is to choose fear over love.
Take a few moments and examine where in your mind you are allowing victimhood to rule. Is this really the choice you wish to make? If not, forgiveness is the pathway to peace in your mind. If you're not sure how to forgive, there are many easy processes outlined in "Forgiveness is the Key to Happiness". One of them will be the perfect way for you to let go and release victimhood permanently from your mind.
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