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Let Them Go So
YOU CAN GROW
If you take bold steps to eliminate toxic people, places and things from your life, you’ll leave room for beautiful and better and blessed things to enter your universe.
Toxic people will drain the life out of you, but only if you allow it. Sometimes it’s hard to identify toxic people. I would encourage you to pay attention to the following characteristics and you may be surprised to find that you have a considerable amount of toxic people in your life.
People who bring up your past in an effort to hurt you. These people want to judge you on your past but want to be judged in the present. People who lift themselves up by putting others down. People who gossip and belittle the character of others. People who fail to realize the beautiful gifts they’ve been blessed with. These are all traits and habits of negative, toxic people and you must avoid them at all costs.
Toxic thoughts are just as dangerous as toxic people. Toxic thinking begins internally and will manifest itself externally. Putting yourself down and speaking negatively about yourself is toxic. There is nothing more beautiful than knowing your worth and once you learn to see the perfection in your imperfections, you disable toxicity from holding you hostage.
Toxic things such as eating poorly, mishandling money, partaking in drugs, over excess of alcohol and being in the wrong situations and environments where growth is inhibited are examples of toxic things.
We’ve all been in toxic situations knowingly or unknowingly. We must practice forgiveness and compassion for ourselves and those around us in order to move forward and grow. Most importantly, we must learn to love ourselves and that love includes not being afraid to shine bright like diamonds nor dim our shine because others cannot handle it.
Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you because you hurt me. I don’t forgive people because I’m weak, I forgive them because I’m strong.
I changed my thinking and it changed my life and here are some of my thoughts on forgiveness and how to stop playing our lives small.
For me, forgiving doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten. I’ve learned to forgive those who’ve offended me, not for them, but for me; my forgiveness doesn’t change the past, but it will my future.
Ask yourself this question: “Do I love myself?” If the answer is “Yes,” then you owe it yourself to forgive because you will once again find a peace that will surpass all understanding when you release the burden.
In traveling light, I simply have no energy to carry how a person wronged me any further.
Love yourself enough to find the courage to forgive and experience the victory that comes with extending to others what God gives us freely, even when we don’t deserve it.
Stop playing your life small. Playing down your own strengths. You can’t hide in your own shadows so others will feel better about their own lives. We all know that everyone has a story,