How to get rid of resentment and stop being offended - 10 tips from a psychologist

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The most common emotion, of course, is resentment and its roots go far back to childhood, where, being offended, we tried to manipulate the feelings of our parents in order to get what we wanted. How to get rid of resentment when you yourself understand that this is a dead end, read the article.

Resentment appears in three stages:

1. The object expects one behavior from the subject
2. We see that the subject behaves differently than the object thinks
3. The object becomes disappointed and offended, trying to make the subject feel guilty in order to correct his behavior that is beneficial to the object.

If you are on this page, it means that you have already realized your problem and are ready to solve it in order to live a rich life in love and without negative emotions in complete peace and harmony with yourself.

Learning to identify resentment

To understand the offense, we must understand our behavior, if suddenly you start to get angry that a person is not behaving the way you want, congratulations, you are the one who is offended, another question is how much the offense is.

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If you are a touchy person, but at the same time forgive quickly, then there is no point in worrying, everything will pass quickly. The main problem is people who are offended for a very long time, and if this is a relative or close person, then it is very difficult to live next to such a person, when they are constantly angry with you on the sly, this is difficult to tolerate if you do not suffer from masochism.

It’s probably impossible to count how many marriages were destroyed because of resentment, but if you understand this epidemic and learn to forgive, then life will become much easier, and most importantly, in love and happily.

The root of the problem lies in the psychology of the touchy person and his inner child; such people have low self-esteem, do not want to take responsibility, but try to shift everything onto other people and justify themselves, “I’m good, it’s others who want to hurt me.”

What is this feeling and how does it happen?

Touchiness is often a form of unrealized aggression. When you are angry or upset because of someone's words or actions, but due to certain circumstances you cannot give free rein to these emotional outbursts, a block is triggered inside that turns the unexpressed into a oppressive sediment.

Vulnerability is a consequence of self-doubt. If you are firmly confident in your thoughts, words, actions, know how to work correctly with criticism and not take subjective assessments to heart, know about your strengths and weaknesses and work with them, any attempts to hook you will not be taken seriously.

Another option for what is hidden behind resentment is unjustified expectations. This can often be seen in relationships, when we expect one thing from our partner, but get something completely different. At the same time, we do not voice or discuss our true desires in time.

The danger of these feelings is that they can become firmly and permanently entrenched within us. Accumulated, unresolved worries over trifles can ultimately result in much greater negativity, and it will be simply impossible to stop this destructive force.

Forgiveness as acceptance of an offense is the most important way

Let's look at the situation using the example of March 8th.

There is a girl and a guy who have been dating for 2-3 years, but it doesn’t matter. The young man declares that he is inviting a girl to an interesting place on March 8th and wants to surprise her. The girl walks around joyfully, thinks with interest where the MCH will invite her, and has already formed in her head the idea that they will go to a cool Japanese restaurant. The girl is looking forward to March 8, all thoughts are only about the Japanese restaurant.

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Day H comes and in the evening the couple, on the initiative of MCH, goes to a cool burger joint, arriving at the place the girl realizes that her expectations were not met, and slowly begins to be disappointed, and her mood deteriorates, but she doesn’t show it from the beginning.

This feeling inside grows more and more, and after a good evening, the accumulated resentment and anger pour out on MCH like a full tub of slop with claims, what a fool you are, I wanted to go to a Japanese restaurant, but you’re such a fool.

In such situations, there are two ways of development of events:

• Full of condemnation, pour out anger, take offense, and so on and so forth, ruin all relationships.
• To justify the offender is the most environmentally friendly, simple and aimed at healing from the offense.

If you chose the first item, then close the page, if you chose the second, then continue...

Forgiveness technique using several questions

• What behavior did I expect so that I would not be offended? How should he have behaved?

Example: a girl expected flowers from a young man on March 8, but the young man forgot to buy them

• What stereotypes of mine did these expectations come from?

Example: a young man always gave flowers on March 8th, the girl built expectations that it would always be like this and now the guy came without flowers, and I’m offended

• How realistic are your expectations if they did not come true? Is it possible to adjust them towards greater realism? What prevents you from doing this? Is the person aware of these expectations that are expected of him? Maybe the behavior that they want from him for some reason does not work out for him? Why did he do this?

The main task in these matters is to justify the offender and stop demanding what is expected of him. Let's take the situation above with flowers. The girl was expecting flowers, but the guy didn’t give flowers, let’s ask ourselves this question:

“Why did he do this?” if we don’t want to be offended, then we justify the offender, for example, a guy was late at work because of his promotion and completely forgot about the flowers. The girl understands that he didn’t do it on purpose and the object of the offense disappears.

Constantly train yourself to justify the offender, and you will stop being offended and thinking that they are doing this to you for evil, perhaps the simple reason is that people are people and they have the right to behave the way they want. Accept people for who they are, with all their flaws.

Touchiness is an emotion that can be manipulated and is harmful to health.

Constant grievances harm health, relationships and lead to stress. You cannot be happy if you do not remove internal grievances.

The only correct solution that can help remove resentment is to find the root in childhood and solve it (close the gestalt). If you solve the root, the problem goes away forever.

In 30 minutes we will find where the “legs grow” from and understand what to do with the resentment so that it goes away forever.

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Consequences of Vulnerability

In addition to frequent conflicts and quarrels that lead to the breakdown of relationships, offended people expose their bodies to constant stress. No one has canceled psychosomatics, so any negativity that we accumulate inside can ultimately result in the development of serious diseases. Unwilling or unable to forgive, we occupy our thoughts with self-pity, accusations and anger. Definitely, this interferes with enjoying life, creates a feeling of chronic dissatisfaction, and becomes the cause of irritability and nervousness.

Vdovin Ivan

• More than 15 years in psychology
• Owner of 2 successful businesses
• Developed his own method “Key Therapy”
• Certified NLP Practitioner
• Certified Hypnotherapist
• In practice I use: Gestalt therapy, imagery therapy, body therapy, art therapy, hypnosis, Hellinger constellations
• Helped over 100 clients
• I invested more than 500,000 rubles in my education
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And some more useful tips

By the way, I forgot to say that people are offended only at close people, to those who cannot be influenced and strangers, we deeply don’t care and the reaction of offense does not arise in the body.

Speak out

Express yourself without any complaints!!! Exactly no complaints!!! to the offender what you expected from him and you will understand that the person did not even want to offend you, all he did was live his own life, and all the expectations of behavior from him were set by you yourself.

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We draw the conclusion that we need to communicate without complaints and everything will fall into its happy place and relationships will improve.

Speak out to the image of the offender

Imagine the offender in front of you and begin to express all the emotions that you feel, then take the place of the offender and express all the emotions and thoughts that you feel towards you.

Then again stand in your place and feel everything you feel and express all your thoughts towards the offender, change places and feel all the emotions in the offender’s place and express all the emotions towards you.

Take your place and admit all the things that you are afraid to admit to the offender, even the most secret ones, change places and do everything the same until complete relief comes to your soul and the understanding that all this is nothing.

Put yourself in your place

Put yourself in the place of another person, usually few people are capable of such a step, but still try to take the side of the offender and think from his bell tower and look at the situation through his eyes. Usually the understanding comes that the offender did not even try and did not want to offend anyone, but simply lived his life

Get over the offense yourself

Do not try to insult the offender and talk it out to his face, if the person is dear to you, first you need to calm down and then have a preventive conversation so the relationship will be preserved for both. If you have a pathological state of resentment, then it is better to turn to an experienced person who will remove the roots of the problem and improve your life easily and quickly.

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My name is Ivan, I am 35 years old, and I have been practicing psychology for 15 years. I have studied all the basic methods and techniques through which I help people find happiness. NLP, hypnosis, body-image therapy. I was invited on television as an expert.

And it was... just a nightmare!

I lived in a state of depression for 7 years (constant stress exhausted me). I had a lot of low self-confidence (my self-esteem was below 0). I could not calmly communicate with people, it seemed to me that I was not worthy of them.

The relationship did not work out (because I was very negative, jealous, a doormat). I’m generally silent about decent earnings; I earned 15,000 rubles a month and thought that was the limit. I didn’t want to live... Envy.

The worst thing is, I thought I would have to live like this forever, and I don’t deserve love and happiness.

But it only got worse, negative states fell on me like a snowball. It felt like I was sitting in a deep, black hole from which there was no way out. Hopelessness, despair, pain, resentment.

My life has turned into endless torture. But then a miracle happened...

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One day my father came home from work, a little drunk, although he never drank much.

He came into the kitchen..., looked at me with a dissatisfied expression and began to say with anger how worthless I was, how I couldn’t do anything, and in general, how sorry he was that he was my father.

At first I felt severe mental pain (this is very painful to hear from my family). Then I got offended (does that mean I’m not a favorite son?!) And then an insight came to me...

I received that magical kick that I had been waiting for all my life. It changed my thinking, my life and my relationships with my environment.

I had already forgiven my father simply because he told me the truth and I was happy about it!

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Literally 5 minutes later I was already sitting at the computer and writing out all the psychological (!) methods of working with myself.

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Meditations

Meditation is a powerful tool for realizing and re-awareness of everything you want. In meditation, it is easy to reprogram yourself from resentment, anger, irritation, envy to success, positive actions and begin to live in a new way.

The main thing is to learn to meditate correctly, enter a certain state, and your life will change much for the better than it is now.

Lie down on the bed or sit in a comfortable chair, relax all parts of your body one by one, simply paying attention to them. Relax completely, your body should be sluggish and your mind should be awake and begin to visualize how you are changing. The method is working.

Draw your grievance

Take a piece of paper, a pen or different pens, any color, at least one blue - it doesn’t matter. Draw yourself, associate with this drawing, find a resentment in your body and draw it, start scribbling on paper, expressing everything you feel for 5-15 minutes, depending on the circumstances.

Hit a punching bag or pillow

If you release anger in the form of hitting a pillow or punching bag, a colossal amount of negative energy comes out, after this exercise you will experience internal euphoria and lightness in your soul.

I recommend doing this more often for prevention.

After hitting the pillow, you can scream at it with all your might, literally, scream out everything that is being held back in your body. It is very useful to pour out everything that has accumulated from the vessel of anger, and it is better that you do it yourself, otherwise the vessel will overflow and it will only get worse.

Forced to grow up early

Diana, 30 years old:

“I was always considered mature beyond my years. I was flattered by this. By the time I was in second grade, I was able to go to school on my own, didn’t ask for help with homework, knew how to cook, and took care of my mother. Mom drank from time to time. She can be understood. Exactly a month before I was born, my father died in a car accident. She could not cope with her grief and often said that if not for this, we would be the happiest family in the world. I never knew in what condition I would find her at home when I returned from school. At the age of eight, I already knew what to do in case of intoxication and where to call if it didn’t come.

Now I'm thirty. Life has improved. I hold a leadership position, work a lot and get very tired. Now I have to support my family. A family consists of a mother and two cats. She hasn't drunk for a long time. But after a stroke she became unable to work. The only thing that really bothers me is the lack of privacy.”

If a woman has suffered emotional trauma that drains all of her energy, if she is physically or mentally ill, if she is under extreme stress or is overwhelmed, she may switch roles with her child, forcing him to take on parental responsibilities.

This does not mean at all that she does not love her child: she can love him with all her soul - but not have the strength for maternal responsibilities.

Children of mothers who cannot cope with their own responsibility are forced to grow up early, as in the case of Diana. As adults, such people feel comfortable at work, they are prone to workaholism and achievement - this behavior helps them feel safe.

However, it is difficult for them to build a trusting relationship with anyone: on the one hand, they want to relax and let go of control, and on the other hand, they are very afraid that without control their whole life will collapse. It is difficult for them to rely on someone, because from early childhood they have learned: “You can only count on yourself.”

The consequences of this type of childhood experience can also be:

• difficulty understanding one’s own desires and experiences;
• feeling guilty when trying to follow your desires;
• feeling of lost childhood;
• inability to “play” (experiment, be spontaneous, flexible and inquisitive);
• tendency to take responsibility for others (even if they are independent adults);
• Difficulties in separation from parents and building your own personal life.

Rimbaud was also offended

Offense is a common emotion and there is no need to be afraid of it or try to get rid of it; it is normal to be offended. It’s not normal to have pathological resentment, when people get offended by any trifle, such behavior is not acceptable and strains those around them.

I remember a film with Stallone, the main character comes to a small town and a conflict begins with the police and based on resentment, if only everyone were calm and smart, they would remain alive and healthy. So even tough men are very touchy.

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The resentment stems from childhood, or the child learned to be offended and manipulate parents, or saw the behavior from the outside, he liked it and began to repeat it (learned). The saddest thing is when this happens to girls, they don’t guide or try to change their behavior, but the girl continues to be offended by her parents, then by her teachers and even further by her man, but basically this doesn’t lead to happiness, trying to constantly manipulate people.

Our main task is to be happy and few people understand this, many people are used to living as they are and only dreaming of a bigger life, but in fact everything is very easy to change, you just need to make a decision and work hard on yourself.

You will have to go through pain, through mistakes and experiences, and when everything collapses that you have been creating for years, then it will begin to recover the way you consciously want, without the influence of external factors, as it was in childhood.

Take responsibility for your life, because only you decide what happens in it. Do you want a Mercedes? If you really want it, it will be yours and any life you want. There is no specific way to get rid of resentment, the main thing is to approach this issue comprehensively and get rid of it forever and ensure a happy life.

How to form new behavior with other people

To make your relationship with your mother more reliable, you should develop the following skills:

The ability to ask for help and accept support. Asking for help is often perceived as a gesture of weakness, a demonstration of vulnerability. But it is precisely this skill that helps build trusting relationships, get rid of unnecessary emotional burden and become stronger. The important thing here is to be honest, speak directly and remember that your interlocutor has the right to refuse.

The ability to be yourself regardless of whether others accept you. This implies that you are not shy about expressing your feelings and sharing your opinions. Don’t rush to do this everywhere and with everyone. To begin, choose one person you trust most and expose yourself step by step, no matter the risk. Then expand your circle of trusted people, based on your own readiness.

Remember, you have the right to change your mind, not take responsibility for the problems of others, set your own priorities, make mistakes, admit them openly and just be yourself. You can adapt to others and make compromises, but only when you want to, and not when you feel like you have to.

Ability to build and maintain emotional connections. Helping those who seek it, interest in the opinions and experiences of others, gratitude, understanding that in a relationship it is more important to be yourself than to be ideal - all this contributes to the establishment of good relationships.

Self-care. The ability to notice what takes your energy and what replenishes it is a great tool that will help you in your relationships with other people. Your physical condition will tell you whether to increase the distance in a relationship or, conversely, shorten it.

Vdovin Ivan

• More than 15 years in psychology
• Owner of 2 successful businesses
• Developed his own method “Key Therapy”
• Certified NLP Practitioner
• Certified Hypnotherapist
• In practice I use: Gestalt therapy, imagery therapy, body therapy, art therapy, hypnosis, Hellinger constellations
• Helped over 100 clients
• I invested more than 500,000 rubles in my education
• My blog is visited by more than 1500 people per day

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