Slavery in the mind.
Today I am writing to you because I believe that there are people who think that I go through life smiling and singing all the time because I am happy or at least I feel that I am.
No, I am a common woman of those that you see every day in the streets, but when I speak you can tell the difference, because wherever I go without knowing anyone, I say good morning, and I smile at them. Because if I need something from somewhere I ask for permission and when they give me something or I am the one who gives it I always have a thank you to give with my smile.
Because even if my day is not very good and I have pain in my heart my courtesies with others do not leave me bad. I also have problems like everyone else.
My heart is sometimes sad because it observes the injustices of man. Because I empathize with my patients when I treat them because when they tell me about their health misfortunes I am moved and feel deep sorrow for them. I like to treat my patients as I like to be treated myself.
I feel and have always felt, empathy for the pain of others. I fight for these feelings to be released because I like to give them to God so that He can see for all those who need Him.
When I speak of forgiveness, I speak from my heart. We must fight fiercely against our irrational emotion of hating those who hurt us and bless the good. Try to drive away as quickly as possible from our being the vile feeling of hating. No one else but ourselves is hurt so much by that feeling.
That I never hated strongly? Of course, I did... I hated with all my strength and I wished for evil too. When I learned to forgive, I first had to ask God for forgiveness for myself, I had to start forgiving myself first and then I had to tear that low feeling out of my heart. I can say today that I do not hate anyone, I forgive. I can't forget the offenses; I remember them because that is teaching but I no longer have a corner in my being that tells me to hate someone because they act like an evil being.
Don't think that I am lying to you, I went through the petty feelings of hate, rage, envy, and lying, just like many people have gone through but the best thing in my life, and I thank God is that I learned to leave them behind.
My heart today is not tormented by those vile feelings. From time to time as every human being wants to surface a bad feeling... yes, sometimes it happens but sooner rather than later comes to my mind the positive thought, the gratitude to God for filling my heart with peace, and I calm down.
Believe me, there is no better feeling than to live in peace without resentment, envy, or hatred. The slavery of thought is in you and you will only be able to free yourself from everything when you set your mind to it.
I invite anyone who does not believe that this can be achieved to practice it, not only in your mind but in your heart and you will see that soon you will be writing the same as I write, from my heart for all my readers.
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I am @gertu13 from Venezuela to the world
It's nice to have a positive person like you around. We have all gone through negative emotions, but the truth is that in the end all that negative remains only with us. That's why we should strive for a peaceful life without negative emotions that make us feel bad and cause us to suffer the most.