to be or who you do not want to be, you will attract people who mirror those
traits right back at you.
This is why, when you’re dealing with a backstabbing “friend” or some sort
of toxic person that you need to stand up to or kick out of your life, you get
caught in this self-inflicted trap of not wanting to hurt the other person or
latching on to their finer qualities or fearing the worst if you don’t put up with
their crap. I don’t care how long you’ve been friends with someone or how
sorry you feel for them or how they really helped you those eight million times
or how hilarious, successful, hot, inspiring, desperate, scary, connected,
brilliant, or helpless they are, because the reason you’re having trouble
standing up to them isn’t about any of that.
What’s really going on is you’re being faced with rewiring your limited
beliefs about
yourself. And you’re using these excuses for these other people
to avoid facing your own issues—your own issues around sticking up for
yourself.
At the end of the day, it’s not about them, it’s about
you believing you’re worthy of being loved and
seen for who you really are.
When we agree to let ourselves down in favor of supporting the bad
behavior of others, it often stems from the same impulse:
We’re unwilling to
make other people more uncomfortable than they just made us. Not terribly
studly in the old self-love department, is it? By making them uncomfortable I
mean
declining to participate in their drama, by the way, not by being equally
abusive back. This isn’t about getting an eye for an eye and sinking to a lower
level, it’s about standing up for your highest self no matter if the person you’re
dealing with should choose to have the experience of:
•
Feeling disappointed
•
Feeling hurt
•
Feeling inconvenienced
•
Seeing you as a crazy person
It’s about respecting yourself, instead of catering to
your insecure need to be liked.
This is incredibly powerful, because
when you love yourself enough to stand
in your truth no matter what the cost, everyone benefits. You start attracting
the kinds of things, people, and opportunities, that are in alignment with who
you truly are, which is way more fun than hanging out with a bunch of
irritating energy suckers. And by declining to participate in other people’s
drama, (i.e. refusing to rip people to shreds, to complain about how unfair the
world is, etc.) you not only raise your own frequency, but you offer the drama
queens the chance to rise up too, instead of everyone continuing to play a low,
lame game.
Never apologize for who you are. It lets the whole
world down.
We all know someone who does not take shit from anyone. Ever. We look
upon these types of people with wide-eyed reverence, and would never dream
of being stupid enough to present them with any of our BS or try to make them
wrong. Why? Because we respect them and, um, are usually kind of terrified
of them (in a healthy way). And why do we respect them?
Because they
respect themselves.
So how can you get rid of your lame-o projections and judgments and grace
the
world with your highest, most unapologetic self?
Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: