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\"rejection1\"<\/a>Why does rejection\u00a0hurt so much?\u00a0 Why do people reject one another?<\/p>\n

Yesterday I had someone I wanted to stay connected with unfriend me on Facebook and it was painful.\u00a0 Intellectually I recognize that this person did this to protect himself; he was afraid of how he might react to what I might say to him.\u00a0 He is or was a Muslim and had told me that his father was an abusive man, particularly to women and he did not want to be like his father.\u00a0 From what I have seen of this guy he has been taught to be very afraid of HIMSELF and his own reactions to what life offers.<\/p>\n

Simply put, he is hurting.<\/p>\n

If I get sunburn I avoid the sun.\u00a0 I am not really rejecting the sun (some could call me a sun worshipper); I am just avoiding the sun for a while until I can handle it better.<\/p>\n

I recognize that guy is avoiding me for now because he cannot handle me and what I might offer to him.\u00a0 He has low self esteem and just being around me shows him just how little he understands himself and how he has been conditioned to harm himself.<\/p>\n

This does not take away from the fact that I hurt.<\/p>\n

In my stupidity I blame this guy for my hurting thinking that “he caused my hurt.”\u00a0 That is stupid.\u00a0 He really did nothing more than disconnect from me in Facebook.\u00a0 It was my reaction to that that causes me to hurt.\u00a0 In my heart I am glad that he did what he had to do to take care of himself.<\/p>\n

Years ago I would have done the same thing for I, too, did not know how to love myself any better than to disconnect from others.\u00a0 In those days I was so ‘disconnected’ that my only dream was to avoid humanity at all cost, hopefully to live in the mountains in a small cabin far away from any others.<\/p>\n

Eventually I realized that what I was running from was myself, not others.\u00a0 Once I had learned how to love myself, to take care of myself and to stop my emotional (and physical) self abusive behavior, I no longer felt any need to get away from others.\u00a0 In fact, I really enjoy other people, the more diverse the better.<\/p>\n

People are so conditioned to abuse themselves emotionally with fear, guilt, shame, doubt and pessimism all of which can be stimulated by words naturally will run from any situation that might stimulate that abuse.<\/p>\n

Having compassion for them is the first step in healing ourselves so that we can help the others heal themselves.\u00a0 So when I am rejected don’t just remember that, I practice FEELING that compassion throughout my body, in every cell of my being.\u00a0 This is a meditation that ‘heals’ the pain.<\/p>\n

This meditation is what I just did to heal the pain I HAD from this friend’s rejection of me.\u00a0 As I did this compassion meditation I could feel my body relax around the thought of the guy.\u00a0 I could feel my appreciation for MYSELF and how I developed my ability to take care of myself.<\/p>\n

Practice makes perfect\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why does rejection\u00a0hurt so much?\u00a0 Why do people reject one another? Yesterday I had someone I wanted to stay connected with unfriend me on Facebook and it was painful.\u00a0 Intellectually I recognize that this person did this to protect himself; he was afraid of how he might react to what I might say to him.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,91,45,115],"tags":[11,119,117,63],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-healthemotional","category-lovefear","category-understanding-ourselves","tag-compassion","tag-relationships","tag-understanding","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimfreedom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}