Is Your Baggage Getting Heavy?

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Is Your Baggage Getting Heavy?

You have experienced many frustrations in your lifetime dealing with friends co-workers and lovers. There have been times that you felt you were wronged or mistreated by these people. Right! You can probably vividly remember almost every time they have mistreated you. Maybe you even think about those experiences frequently. And most of these people are no longer in your life, but you still remember. Right!

When two friends part they should lock up
each other's secrets and exchange keys.
The truly noble mind has no resentments.
- Diogenes

Let's define 'baggage'.

1) Your baggage is the experiences from your past that you continue to carry with you today. These experiences may have been hurt feelings, disappoints, or betrayals.

2) Baggage you are carrying for others is the impression we form of the people we meet, and refusing to change that perception even if you know it is wrong or they changed.

All of these feelings are valid at some point. There is nothing wrong with having these feelings. The only thing wrong is what you do with those feelings. Are you holding a grudge, waiting for an opportunity to pay them back? If you continue to bring these feelings to the surface frequently, for no apparent reason, you are carrying unnecessary baggage.

A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the full value
of time and will not suffer it to
pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Rambler

There is much more to life than worrying about the past pains that were unjustly inflicted on us. Do yourself a favor and and lighten your load. Let go of the past and look to the future. That's were you will find peace of mind.

- Joe Freeman

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. - Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine

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