Revenge is an act of wanting to conflict hurt or harm on someone for an
injury or wrong suffered at their hands. You want to even the score by one-up-man-ship.
Retribution in the form of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is the
focus of revenge.
The worse thing about revenge is that it gets inside your head and
hijacks your focus. Once revenge occupies the space within your head fighting
it is like fighting yourself. Be careful
with what you let occupy your mind; it will occupy you.
It has been said that “revenge is sweet.” The problem with revenge is
that it can falsely make us feel good and powerful. It stimulates an area of
the brain called the dorsal striatum which gets excited when we anticipate
pleasure and reward. But studies have shown that with revenge the feeling of
pleasure and reward is overshadowed by the focus on punishment. Punishment
usurps our ability to focus on reward. Revenge does not make us feel better.
The desire to get revenge is mighty powerful force. If you take that same
energy and redirect it towards improving your life you get the greatest revenge
of all; you prosper.
To master the Troublesome Four requires balance, strength and
flexibility, as well as the ability to be content and at peace with your life
just as it is. Circumstances happen. You cannot un-happen them. Accept what
happens. Learn from it and focus on using what you have learned to prosper. Let’s
get started -
Once you know who you are (the infinite capacity to be) and why you
are here (to discover this infinite capacity) envy, jealousy, resentment and
revenge become irrelevant. To master the
troublesome four, be content, trustworthy, generous and objective, and remember
the world is real. It is your perception (how you see things) that is the
illusion. Remove the maya (the illusion),
detach and observe without judgement, and you will see the world and all its
events as opportunities to learn, know and master your life. Change the way you see things and the way
you see things changes.
Namaste ~ I celebrate the place
where our souls meet
Doctor Lynn
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