Today’s Words of Wisdom

“If you dislike someone, wish blessings on them”.

Taking this advice and addressing conflict this way gives you peace and makes resentment impossible. Sometimes the name of someone that has wronged you, or spoken unkindly towards you or about you, can stick with you for years. Maybe the reason it hasn’t left your mind is because you aren’t finished yet, by wishing good things on those you don’t necessarily like, you start to develop a positive association with their name. Start saying it out loud when they come to mind “I wish them and their family nothing but good things and happiness”. If they come up in a conversation “I wish them the best”. I promise you that over a short time period of doing this, you will be able to think of them and have no negative feelings come up. There’s a common saying, “if you say something enough you will start to believe it”, this is definitely something to live by.

Sometimes forgiveness isn’t about the other person, it’s about you and developing your character.