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Self-Soothing and Comfort
How to deal with hurt and rejection mindfully
Most people face rejection in their lives. There is even a recognised thing called rejection dysphoria, when people are super sensitive to being rejected. It can leave them devastated.
I went from acute rejection dysphoria, that felt like knives cutting through me, to letting it go completely. It’s an irrelevance. If someone wants to reject me or some organisation wants to reject me, that is their loss. There are many more who want to accept me and welcome me with open arms. Only if my beloved ones rejected me would it hurt nowadays, and they are not like that. They would talk about it if they were upset with me about anything and I would listen. Since I changed my internal energy of expecting rejection, I don’t attract people who are likely to reject others. And I wouldn’t give them a reason. We’re all connected because we choose to be. I go into all this in more depth later on so do read on.
So how do we cope using the best approaches for our own mental and physical health?
Prepare Yourself
You know there will be times in life you will face rejection. It happens to us all. Some rejections are more painful than others of course. Being rejected by your family can be one of the most painful scenarios anyone faces…
