World View Perspective: The immobility of resentments
When we hold onto resentments in our personal self, we keep those negative feelings in. We end up carry the weight of those heavy and unnecessary burdens. Those negative feelings become an illness in our system; affecting our minds, our emotions and our physical bodies. Yes, our personal self never gets all it wants in life. Yes, we can be side-railed by others, even trampled, undercut, and demeaned. We can resent our roles in life, our place in life, all the suffering we have had to endure and yet freeing up that space is important and valuable for our inherent well being. We may not be aware we are carrying old, worn out resentments. We may think and feel we are fine, healthy, happy and well and yet going deeper, it can become apparent to us we have a deeper anger hidden within us. With mass shootings on the rise in the US, it seems those who carry such anger and resentments are hitting their own tipping point. The deeply held resentments ...