When they don’t follow up with a promise, when they are late, when they spread rumors, when they don’t do what you expect, or perform to your standards. When they criticize, when they reprimand, when they judge, when they reject you. All of the things that get your hackles up, that hurt your feelings, that leave you feeling disappointed, they are not personal. Everyone is operating to the best of their ability based on their current awareness. Sometimes we are pulled or pushed or happen into circumstances that leave us feeling deflated. Or hurt, disappointed, angry. It’s hard work to pull yourself up and out of the place where you are reacting.
Life will continue to bring you opportunities to learn the lessons you need to learn. The lessons can be tough, they can be painful, they can send us into that place where our chest hurts as old wounds get triggered. Old wounds like “I’m not good enough” or “She loves him more” or “I’m a failure”. But if you can remind yourself that ALL of us are working from the highest place we can, based on our current awareness, and that what people do or say “to you” is not personal. They are also just reacting to their own wounds, and the lesson for you is to be loving, to let the arrows bounce off of you, to see in them the same struggles that you have yourself. This is another step in becoming more self aware. Seeing your reactions for what they are, and letting go. It will continue to show up, but if you continue to let go each time the wounds begin to heal.