🤳🏻 Shake off that anger!

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• ☔️ Daily Motivation: Forgiveness is not for the other person...

• 💪🏼 Self-Care: How to Shake Off Anger

• 🧘🏽 Daily Meditation

• ❓Reader Survey: What would you do with 4 hours?

• 😂 Meme of the Day

☔️ Daily Motivation: Forgiveness is not for the other person... ☔️

If you are hurt. Forgive.

💪🏼 Self-Care: How to shake off that anger 💪🏼  

We're often influenced into buying products that promise a short cut to happiness or emotional wellbeing... But do they actually work?

You can't get rid of anger by distracting yourself by aimlessly shopping on the internet or burying yourself in work. Anger is something YOU choose, therefore only YOU can choose to get rid of it. But it's not as easy as you might think.We've said this before, but we'll say it again here: The root of most human suffering comes from people not living up to the expectations you have for them. And here are a few examples:

1. You're friend misses your kids birthday

2. Your brother forgets to call you

3. Someone cuts you off in traffic

4. Your business partners screws you out of a bunch of money

5. Someone lied and it ruined your relationship

6. Someone didn't do what they said they were going to do

The list goes on. There are millions of ways for us to get angry. But there's just one way to make it all go away.

Forgiveness.

But how do we do this Forgiveness thing?

Well, to be honest. We're still figuring this out too. But here are a few suggestions we've found that works for us:

1. Remind yourself that the person who hurt you is not perfect. Give the person the benefit of the doubt and think of reasons why they did what they did. We're all human and imperfect after all.

2. Tell the person who hurt you that they hurt you. And then tell them you forgive them (even if they don't apologize for it). Recognize and acknowledge they are not a bad person and that you don't believe it was their intentions to hurt them.

3. Serve them. Did your neighbor throw a rager last night that kept you up all night? Try going over and helping to pick up their yard with them. Love and kindness will dissolve any contention.

🧘🏽 DAILY MEDITATION 🧘🏽

"We want to look our past in the face, see it for what it really was, and release it so we can live today."For many of us, the past is like a bad dream. Our lives aren't the same any more, but we still have fleeting, highly charged emotional memories of a really uncomfortable past. The guilt, fear, and anger that once dominated us may spill into our new life, complicating our efforts to change and grow. The Twelve Steps are the formula that helps us learn to put the past in its place. Through the Fourth and Fifth Steps, we become aware that our old behavior didn't work. We ask a Higher Power to relieve us of our shortcomings in the Sixth and Seventh Steps, and we begin to be relieved of the guilt and fear that plagued us for so many years. In the Eighth and Ninth Steps, by making amends, we demonstrate to others that our lives are changing. We are no longer controlled by the past. Once the past loses its control over us, we are free to find new ways to live, ways that reflect who we truly are.Just for Today: I don't have to be controlled by my past. I will live this new day as the new person I am becoming.

😂 MEME OF THE DAY 😂