One of the most frequent questions I get from people who either do a healing session with me or have read my book, Getting Off the Merry-Go-Round is: How do I handle the feeling that I want everyone to like me?
Perhaps you have had that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach when someone unsubscribes from your email, cancels your service or stops buying your product.
It´s a normal feeling to want to be liked. It´s actually encoded in our very DNA as part of the safety mechanism that people need to like us. Once upon a time, when people lived in small villages, tribes or communities, we needed to have the support of others to bring in a harvest, help birth babies and assist us when we were sick.
Although we still need support, most people today live in larger communities where everyone does NOT know each other and where our network of support is much smaller. That reality has also eliminated the need that everyone needs to like you or support you. As a matter of fact, it is an impossibility that everyone will.
Are there people that you don´t particularly like? Do you have some negative impressions about certain people? If you don´t, I´d be very surprised. We all have opinions, some good and some not so favorable about everyone. So why would you think that everyone should like you? They´re not!
I heard a quote today from Dr. Seus, the well-loved creator of the Cat in the Hat book. He said, “Be who you are and say what you feel. Those who mind don´t matter. Those who matter don´t mind.”
The key to true peace and happiness, success and joy is to be who you are. Express the true you. Some people will like it. Others won´t. So what. You´ll never please everybody all the time. That´s a merry-go-round that never ends. So be true to yourself and you will attract those who like what you stand for. Life will be easier, more peaceful and fun. Let go of the worry about those who don´t agree with you or who mind who you are.
Seriously, I feel sorry for those who have the time and the energy to spend their days criticizing, pulling apart and hating others. All that precious energy wasted in something that doesn´t make them feel good. How pained they must be inside to feel the need to judge others so harshly.
So let go of the belief that everyone needs to like you. And know in every cell of your body that you are fabulous just the way you are. Know that you are loved and supported by an entire Universe that appreciate your gifts, your desire to grow and to be everything you are here to be. Stay in that place and everything else becomes much easier.
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