In truth, others do not have the power to negatively affect your day to day experience; it is usually your negative thought and feeling about another person or situation that causes you to feel hurt.  As you ponder it, this leads to more negative thoughts and the typical ‘downward spiral’.

If you currently feel bad about your life, you have probably internalised a comment (psychological attack on you) and/or another person’s behaviour. If you feel bad about an external event, for example losing your job, it’s still your thought that creates the disempowerment, not the situation itself.  You can always find a new, and better, job!

Take a moment to check in with yourself.  What ‘negativity’ are you carrying inside of yourself?

Cut that energy right now simply by choosing not to entertain it any longer.

If there is an actual situation where you need to take action to prevent physical (and mental) harm to yourself, you must act to safeguard yourself because they can harm you and negatively affect you.  Most spiritual truths are not black and white, they are usually dichotomous – an apparent ‘contradiction’ exists within them.

On social media, people who have not done much reflection and grown spiritually will take high metaphysical truths and immediately apply them to the most drastic situation that somehow ‘proves’ they are ‘wrong’.  This is the hallmark of an untrained mind, and leads to the typical ego reaction.

Another ‘trending’ social media tendency is to verbally ‘attack’ any truth that sits outside the person’s framework of understanding – mainly when their beliefs about life are challenged.

It’s common for many people to feel the need to attack another person or organisation if they see a post questioning the safety of a vaccine, even if there are many cases of actual harm. Those who do any sort of critical thinking are judged and condemned as ‘anti-vaxxers’, even when they are lucid, clear, established leaders in the field of medicine.

The topic of vaccinations is just one example of a polarised, overreactive world where the collective ego butts heads with itself on daily basis.

How to stay sane in an insane world

Remind yourself of the following truths and come to these understandings on a daily basis, particularly when triggered!

You cannot feel judged unless you also judge yourself. You cannot feel rejected unless you reject yourself. You cannot feel criticised, or diminished, unless you criticise or diminish yourself.  There must be a vibrational match within you at some level of consciousness for you to feel that pain.

If you foster the false belief that another person’s behaviour or the circumstances of your life are the reasons for your happiness or unhappiness, then you will always feel the need to control everything and everyone around you — an impossible task!

Remember to come back to your truth on every subject that is important to you – and act from a place of self-love. If there is something or someone you disagree with, see if you can hold both points of view in your consciousness without needing to attack them or defend yourself.

A Course in Miracles reminds us, “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.”

When you understand and apply this powerful truth to every circumstance of your life, you will first see improvement in your own thoughts and feelings, and then outer conditions will change to match your new vibration.

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