{"id":6337,"date":"2019-09-13T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?p=6337"},"modified":"2019-09-10T17:38:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T21:38:15","slug":"healing-prescription-painful-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2019\/09\/healing-prescription-painful-reaction.html","title":{"rendered":"A Healing Prescription for Any Painful Reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The assumption is that when your words or actions set me off, then my irritation is only the effect of having to tolerate your ignorance of my superior understanding, else you would never challenge my thinking. While the truth is that real wisdom can neither be injured nor inflamed, and only one\u2019s imagined intelligence is quick to ignite when struck!<\/p>\n<p>The only medicine guaranteed to help heal the common conflict that flares up between ourselves and another is our willingness to realize, explore, and then release our own negative reaction to what we believe we see as being the other person\u2019s transgression.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?attachment_id=6338\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6338\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6338\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/92\/2019\/09\/Work-to-understand-8-13-18-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"woman arguing\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The assumption is that when your words or actions set me off, then my irritation is only the effect of having to tolerate your ignorance of my superior understanding, else you would never challenge my thinking. While the truth is that real wisdom can neither be injured nor inflamed, and only one\u2019s imagined intelligence is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,73],"tags":[116,286,431,2814,495,3287,723,2617,1697],"class_list":["post-6337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kindness-compassion","category-love-relationships","tag-blame","tag-conflict","tag-demands","tag-fighting-with-others","tag-healing","tag-irritation-with-others","tag-negative-reactions","tag-painful-reactions","tag-understanding-others"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Healing Prescription for Any Painful Reaction - Letting Go with Guy Finley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2019\/09\/healing-prescription-painful-reaction.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Healing Prescription for Any Painful Reaction - Letting Go with Guy Finley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The assumption is that when your words or actions set me off, then my irritation is only the effect of having to tolerate your ignorance of my superior understanding, else you would never challenge my thinking. 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