Cutting Ties & Distancing Ourselves From Negativity

Cutting Ties & Distancing Ourselves From Negativity

 Sometimes, even when we try to be kind to others, they still may treat us poorly either through spreading malicious gossip, bullying, being abusive, showing disrespect, breaking your trust or some other form of negativity. Despite trying to work things out with them and being courteous, there are unfortunately some people who will never return the respect and kindness to you. When encountering individuals such as this, the best thing to do is forgive them for whatever negative thing they said or did to harm you but also simply trying to avoid them as much as possible. By avoiding interaction with them, you are preventing them from adding more negativity and pain to your life, thereby making your life more peaceful and less stressful. Sometimes this is the best thing for us to do, even if we still want to be nice to this person that hurt or wronged us.

So how do we distance ourselves from people who continue to wrong us or hurt us, especially for either no reason at all or a petty reason? Avoid being in places where you know where they will be. If you cannot do that, simply just ignore them when they are around. Yes, this may seem like a rude or mean thing to do but you are only doing this to avoid them hurting you anymore. You should not let ignoring or avoiding them make you feel guilty in any way because if they truly cared about or respected you, they would not be doing what they are consistently doing to cause you any grief, pain, stress or suffering.

Additionally, another way to distance yourself from them is to remove or block them from any social media accounts you may have such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook etc., so that they cannot cause any problems with you there as well. If for some reason, you have their phone number, blocking their phone number on your cellular device is also a way to prevent them from contacting you. Blocking their email is another way to prevent them from contacting you. By doing all of this, you are removing their negative energy from your life and allowing space for more optimistic, joyful things and people to enter it instead.

Remember, you deserve to have people in your life who love you, support you and respect you. The people in your life who are worthy to be in it will celebrate with you during the good times, not put you down during them out of spite, bitterness or envy. The people who deserve a place in your life should help and uplift you through your dark times, not revel in your misery and wish more ill will on you. Stay away from those who are toxic, pessimistic and unhappy. Keep positive, happy, encouraging people in your life instead.