Do I Need Your Permission To Feel Good?
A person can love another person with all the love in their heart. They can wish another person well, want to pour all their affection, care, concern, passion, energy, finances and time into that person. They can love them with a love that goes beyond this life, a love without limits…a love that protects, that always believes the best, that is unconditional and uninhibited, a love that covers a multitude of wrongs, a love stronger than death…
However, because people are free…that other person for reasons of their own may not want to, or be able to, receive that love. In this case, they stop the flow of love. Perhaps because of fear, insecurities or a belief they are not worthy, their heart remains closed to that love. Perhaps they believe a love like that will ask too much of them… so the love never works its healing in their soul, never softens and opens them, never makes them stronger, more courageous and bold. They have made a choice and it is theirs to make.
The same person will post on social media and receive a negative comment or feedback from someone they hardly know or don’t know and they will open their heart to that poison and allow it to dwell in their mind and heart. They have the power to make that choice and it’s theirs to make.
We have more power than we know. Our words create and our words destroy because they flow from our heart to and from the hearts of others. But the power of our words lies in whether we believe them and agree with them.
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent” Eleanor Roosevelt.
And I would add to Eleanor’s words “No one can make you feel validated, secure, beautiful or loved without your consent”.
This then is where the work begins.
You have more power than you know.