How do you handle things when you feel you’ve been unfairly treated? Or you feel that you have received a raw deal? What happens when you feel like an injustice has occurred in your life?

Can we always Forgive and Forget?

Do you try to maintain a healthy, detached stance? Do you try to forgive and forget? Do you release your resentment and bitterness? Or do you say: “If I forgive and forget, I won’t get justice?”

Is this the way you feel? Do you ever feel that the only way to handle the injustice is to hang onto the bitterness and resentment so you can defend yourself? Personally, I’ve been known to do that. I’m not proud of that, but it was part of my coping strategy. I have experienced many situations in my life where I thought, “this isn’t fair – I’ve been wronged.” I’m sure you have too. It would be difficult not to have had these experiences at some point in your life. What the situations taught me was that if I hold onto resentments or spend my energy trying to figure out my “next move,” it ends up hurting me more than anything.

I’ve come to a place where I believe that “justice” is really based on the Law of Love. The more I tune myself into a state of loving, being, and allowing…the more I feel like my life is purposeful, and things are not random. I don’t feel like things are being done “to me,” which allows me to remove resistance and the negative emotions that are typically stirred up when I think of an injustice. An injustice implies that we need to get or create justice, or things are out of balance.

I consciously work to release any bitterness or resentment that creep in when something feels unjust. I have the power and ability to send out love and forgiveness into the Universe, knowing that what I send out will return to me tenfold. I feel a greater sense of freedom, more in touch with my own great inner power.

Resentment Lowers Our Vibrational Frequency

When we hold onto resentment, we stifle ourselves. It breeds contempt and other negative emotions. Our energy levels remain low, as does our vibrational frequency. I truly desire happiness, peace of mind, and freedom from worry and fear. So when something happens that seems unjust, I choose to release it, and accept it as it is. I can only control my responses to any given situation or experience. If I am successful in detaching and feeling tranquility, I don’t have to be held hostage by negative emotions.

That’s not the same thing as ignoring an injustice. But it is the practice of putting my best spiritual and emotional interest first. I cannot control others or outcomes, but I can choose how I choose to in my own life. Detaching from the injustice allows me to feel less emotional disharmony, and focus on positive thoughts and emotions.

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