The thing that helped me to really get that point is when I realized that life isn’t fair. Life is Life. The only thing that I could do is to treat myself fairly and that meant not penalizing myself by being resentful.

Remember Abraham Lincoln’s insightful words: “People are about as happy (or unhappy) as they make up their minds to be.”

Here’s a question for you: How can someone feel less resentment? Here’s one possible answer:  Somehow learn to be more okay with the idea that people are not perfect – only perfectly human. That realization certainly helped me to be less trapped by resentment.

One way to apply the above idea, is to hypnotically program yourself to say the following when someone/something disappoints you:  “I really did want them to do this or that but they couldn’t and that’s just the way it is.”

The critical idea here is to focus on your new truth that you are gradually freeing yourself from a chronic, poisonous emotion that is robbing you of your ability to enjoy your life more.

Important Point To Remember: Resentment is that emotion that masquerades as a friend when, in fact, it is not.

Think of resentment as a thief who is stealing your peace of mind. Resentment is a thief that we invite in to steal our personal power.

Resentment is a thief because the more we resent, the more we feel victimized and powerless.

Eventually, resentment can kill because a loss of inner power can lead to habits that are used to mask the pain that resentment always leaves behind.

And, though in some ways it feels like it is doing something for us, resentment never, ever changes the problem situation for the better.

So how can hypnosis help you with releasing resentment? And, what can you do on your own?

First of all, let’s review two essential concepts: (1) All hypnosis is actually self-hypnosis and (2) Hypnosis is your ability to convince yourself of anything.

With the preceding ideas in mind doesn’t it make sense that we somehow accidentally hypnotized ourselves into feelings of resentment?  Sure.  And that means we can
un-hypnotize ourselves from harmful thoughts and feelings.

A crucial tool in combating resentment is to challenge its actual importance. You see, every time we assign emotional importance to an idea, it has much greater power over us.
Then, when we passionately repeat our belief in an idea, it becomes more strongly rooted in our minds, hearts and bodies.

Continued in Part 3

Source: Devin Hastings

The purpose of the article is to help you free yourself to some degree, from the poison of resentment. This is a significant challenge for many because resentment is a strong emotion that becomes addictive and for some people, resentment may be a big cause of their depression.

By successfully reducing resentment you can experience some or all of the following benefits:

1) You can experience a wonderful increase in positive emotional energy. The more positive emotional energy you have available, the easier it is for you to make other changes in your life that may have previously seemed impossible.

2) Some people who experience resentment also experience a real sense of tiredness. If this is the case with you, you will notice that as you begin to release yourself from the burden of resentment, you will begin to experience a noticeable reduction in feelings of fatigue.

3) By getting rid of some or all of your resentments, you will definitely notice an increase in self-esteem and self-respect. Your self-esteem is going up because you are less judgmental of others and therefore less judgmental of yourself.

Your self-respect is going up as you reduce resentment because just as you can begin to appreciate others in spite of their faults so, you are also beginning to appreciate yourself in spite of your faults.

4) Often, those who suffer from addictions of one sort or another begin to notice a spontaneous reduction in their addictive tendencies and behaviors as their levels of resentment are decreasing.

5) As you begin to really notice a decrease in resentment levels, you will also notice in small and perhaps large ways, an increase in the quality of your relationships.

6) Another benefit to reducing resentment in your life is that you will definitely experience a greater sense of control in your life. A greater sense of control includes, but is not limited to, having greatly improved Problem Solving Abilities.

The first part of this article covers important information that every resentment sufferer needs to know and then the final part covers how hypnosis can help you to free yourself.
Also covered is how you can save money by making your own hypnosis audio sessions.

Now let’s discuss two questions you may be interested in answering. The first question is perhaps the most important of all: Are you sure you want to give up your feelings of resentment?
If you are willing to give up even a small part of the resentment that is running and ruining your life, then please say to yourself right now: “Yes, I am willing to give up whatever resentment I can.”

And this is question #2: How could resentment be keeping you safe from past or future pain? You know that it is not keeping you safe from present pain because resentment hurts now.

Now let’s look at one idea as to where the word resentment originated: The French word ‘sentir’ means to feel or perceive. “Re” is from Old French and means back or again.

Now when you see someone ‘resenting’ what they are actually doing is “re-feeling” or sensing again, the pain that was previously caused by the offending person or situation.

Again ask yourself, how could resentment be keeping you safe from past or future pain?
But, before answering that, let’s take a deeper look at what resentment really is.

Continued in Part 2

Source: Devin Hastings