Happiness Trigger 10
Reverse Your Hurts
All of us get hurt in life. That is life! Friends too hurt us, knowingly and sometimes unknowingly and we feel unhappy. But we must realize that being hurt directly corrodes our joy. So, how do we deal with hurts? Like Dr. Robert Schuller said “Do not curse your hurts, do not nurse your hurts, do not rehearse your hurts, instead reverse your hurts.” Yes, there is no point in repeatedly cursing the hurt or reminding ourselves of it by nursing and rehearsing it, but the challenge is how you reverse it. The best way to reverse the hurt is neither by expression nor by suppression but rather by forgiveness. When you pull the trigger with forgiveness, your sorrow will turn to joy and your unhappiness to happiness.
Every day, our near and dear ones may do small and big things that create irritation and hurt. The more we rehearse these, the more we are sure of becoming unhappy, because these will create feelings of sorrow. And why choose sorrow if we learn the trigger of reversing our hurts through forgiveness? We are doing ourselves a bigger favor than to the ones we forgive, because we are gifting happiness to ourselves. Of what use is it to repeat and rehearse negative thoughts and feelings? They will grow bigger and bigger and blast unhappiness into our lives. Is it not simpler and more intelligent to just pull this trigger and reverse the hurts? Forgive and be happy. Try it now.
