There are a number of alternatives if we don’t pursue personal peace; that is, if we continue to let all the negative things we dwell on go unchecked.
Rumination on negative things inevitably lead to a number of increasingly serious issues.
- Depression – Contrary to popular therapy practice, we can’t think our way out of depression according to experts.
- Stress – Time magazine called it an epidemic
- Decision to escape
- Planning our escape
- Acting out our escape. This may lead to addictions, alternative forms of pain, separation, and worse.
- Guilt and shame
- Resolve to stop
- Declaration of normality
Think about your situation or think hypothetically for a moment.
Doesn't it seem that virtually all negative emotions and negative or destructive actions are triggered by thinking again and again on a painful event or experience.
The sad thing is that the painful event very often happened in the past, often many years in the past. Yet it keeps us trapped on the descending staircase or emotional pain.
So if you choose to continue denying yourself personal peace, the alternatives are bleak.
There is hope. I found a way out of some pretty intense anger using a technique that I document in Finding Personal Peace.
God bless,
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