{"id":409,"date":"2015-01-16T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/inspiration\/?p=409"},"modified":"2015-03-13T20:29:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T02:29:40","slug":"five-techniques-for-getting-past-resentment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/inspiration\/2015\/01\/five-techniques-for-getting-past-resentment\/","title":{"rendered":"Five techniques for getting past resentment"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>What has your resentment done for you lately? What positive thing has it ever done for you? Probably absolutely nothing. The sooner you can let it go, the sooner you can move on to more productive and fulfilling things. Here are five methods for doing that.<\/p>\n<p>1. Realize the folly of your resentment. It\u2019s wasting your time. It\u2019s using your energy. It\u2019s casting a negative light on your relationships. It\u2019s bringing unneeded negativity to your life and your world. And in return, it is not bringing you anything of value. Why would you want to hold on to it? There\u2019s really not a good reason.<\/p>\n<p>2. Challenge your resentment. Is it even true? Are you absolutely positive that the assumptions supporting your resentment are even still true in this moment? Can you prove it? And even if you can prove that your resentment is based on truth, so what? What does being right about it really get you? It\u2019s certainly not worth all the negativity that your resentment brings into your life.<\/p>\n<p>3. Experience it fully. Okay, go ahead and get it out of your system. Immerse yourself in the resentment. Feel it in all its glory. Once you\u2019ve had your fill (and it shouldn\u2019t take too long if you\u2019re really feeling it intensely), then you can know that you\u2019ve already gotten everything you could have possibly expected from it, and you can easily let it go.<\/p>\n<p>4. Find a way to be truly thankful for whatever it is you resent. That may sound strange, but think about it. Let\u2019s say you resent that some company you do business with is giving you lousy customer service or charging prices that are too high. How could you possibly be thankful for that? Look at it as a great opportunity to find an alternative\u2014either buying from someone else or using some alternative product or service or doing without it completely. Your resentment brings to the surface the incongruities that exist between what you expect and what you are experiencing. That\u2019s very valuable knowledge to have and to act upon.<\/p>\n<p>5. Put whatever you resent into perspective. Compare it to the overall abundance in your life and see how truly trivial it is. Visualize it in your mind as a physical object, and then visualize it getting smaller and smaller as you move far beyond it. Then see it simply disappear completely. Realize how truly easy it is to let go of your resentment, and with that realization, just go ahead and really do let go.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What has your resentment done for you lately? What positive thing has it ever done for you? Probably absolutely nothing. The sooner you can let it go, the sooner you can move on to more productive and fulfilling things. Here are five methods for doing that. 1. Realize the folly of your resentment. 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