Before we begin there’s an important distinction I need to make between blame and resentment. Blame is what I’m \u2018doing\u2019<\/i>; it’s a conscious act. Resentment is what I’m \u2018feeling\u2019<\/i> and resides in the realm of the subconscious.<\/p>\n
These are important distinctions. While it may seem I don\u2019t always have control over my feelings I do<\/i> have control over what I\u2019m thinking. Whether or not I exercise that control is entirely up to me.<\/p>\n
If it\u2019s important enough and I so choose, I can make a conscious effort to change my thoughts around who I\u2019m blaming and why. If I can change those thoughts my resentment will subside and that \u2018awful feeling\u2019<\/i> will disappear. Simply put, I can change what I\u2019m feeling by changing what I\u2019m thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Before we begin there’s an important distinction I need to make between blame and resentment. Blame is what I’m \u2018doing\u2019; it’s a conscious act. Resentment is what I’m \u2018feeling\u2019 and Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,36],"tags":[10,73,9],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blame-2","category-resentment-2","tag-blame","tag-forgiveness","tag-resentment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theforgivenessstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theforgivenessstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theforgivenessstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theforgivenessstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theforgivenessstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/theforgivenessstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"http:\/\/theforgivenessstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theforgivenessstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theforgivenessstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theforgivenessstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}