World View Perspective: We are not our disappointments
As much as they continue to hurt us, haunt us, affect us or create and generate negative feelings within us, we are not our collected disappointments. We are taught to hide our disappointments from others so we won't appear weak or fragile. We are taught to swallow them not wallow in them. Yet, if we ignore them over time, they can sink us like a ship. They can become a whole 'voice' unto themselves that drown us in pain, over and over again. When our disappointments rise up in us we need to tell them to 'stop' and then consciously 'drop' them. Treat them like children continuing to 'tattle' on another child. When they start, just say, 'stop and drop' so the focus and emphasis ends. There are aspects within us that act like a living sabotaging agent. The old thoughts and feelings we carry can carry on disturbing and disrupting our true sense of self and our efforts to heal and feel whole again. Consider them our 'shadow self...