Letting Go of Victimhood

Today I’m offering a quick reframe for you to use when you’re experiencing resentment, disappointment, shouldering the mantle of victimhood, or holding a grudge.  This idea comes from Debbie Ford’s book, The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse.  In the chapter on Forgiveness, she talks about how taking personally what happens to us sets us up to have deeper issues with feeling victimized by the actions and words of others.

What happens is our victim stance puts us in the position of soaking up those negative incidents and assuming they mean something about us.   These incidents aren’t about us other than to the extent we soaked it up with our victim thinking.  In other words, our stance drew to us the people, places, and events that fed the victim idea.  We are looking at events through the lens of the victim; everywhere we look we see victimization.

So, as we release more and more the victim beliefs, we will also release those people and events and draw to us those who support the expression of the empowered us.  There is the concept that nobody can hurt you without your permission. You want, you deserve, and you can draw to you the people who validate and support your mission, your strength, and your greatness.

Use any previous negative experiences as opportunities to gain wisdom or a gift.  For example, if you, too, have a history of abuse, you can use that to create deeper compassion for others and to have more understanding of what that pain is like and what it tends to create in terms of additional negative outcomes. You can also gain the ability to pause and edit your own comments so as not to inflict unnecessary damage on others, etc.

When you choose to hand that history of victimhood over to Spirit, think about what that can open up for you!  You can create the inner space to draw in what you want.  You can create a fresh perspective on opportunities vs a defensive, fear-based blocking of new experiences.  You generate opportunities for your light to shine more brightly and to share positivity with more people.

And truly I know this is not as easy as it sounds.  There have been days when I’ve wallowed in the muck of defeat, having allowed someone to step on my dreams.  But I’ve also had days when I was crystal clear on how someone was attempting to enroll me in game of victim and I decided enough was enough and I preferred to see it as their problem, not mine.  You are wondrous and deserving of all good in life!  Keep that in mind and absolutely REFUSE to step into that one-down victim position!