"There’s a difference between feeling sorry for yourself and feeling self-empathy. Only you know what you really go through. It’s important to acknowledge the down side when it begs to be heard ~ after all, pain leads us to great insights. Much better to occasionally indulge in a little bad feeling, than to try to force yourself into a faux mentality. You shouldn’t bottle up your true feelings. You are too enlightened to stay in the dark forever. Don’t worry about paying a visit every now and again."
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I agree with this quote, but I have a few thoughts… I find that there is power in recognizing how your perspective on a situation could cause unnecessary suffering. Great insights can be gained when you are cognizant of the difference between how you are perceiving a situation and how perhaps your comfort in self-empathy might skew the way you interpret reality. Sometimes a healthy dose of introspection, or shifting your perspective (in an authentic way, obviously not “faux mentality”) helps you reframe, and reduce the pain under a new understanding. One that recognizes what part hurts, but doesn’t default to self-empathy or feeling sorry for yourself in an effort to comfort the hurt and lick your wounds.
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URL: http://www.awesomeification.com/post/240691505/theres-a-difference-between-feeling-sorry-for
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