{"id":1117,"date":"2011-04-04T15:47:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T19:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/ourladyofweightloss\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2011-04-04T15:47:07","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T19:47:07","slug":"motivational-monday-resentment-anger-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/2011\/04\/motivational-monday-resentment-anger-potatoes.html","title":{"rendered":"Motivational Monday – Resentment. Anger. Potatoes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free. ~ Catherine Ponder<\/em><\/div>\n

How Much Dead Weight Are You Carrying Around With You?<\/strong>
\nI\u2019d read about a teacher who asked her students to bring a clear plastic bag and a sack of potatoes to class. For every person the student refused to forgive, they were to write the person\u2019s name and date of upset on a potato and put it in their plastic bag.<\/p>\n

Their bags began to fill up quickly. The moral of the story was that they were lugging around some pretty hefty amounts of anger that was clogging their spiritual development, big time.<\/p>\n

I call it dead weight.<\/strong>
\nThis got me to thinking. Some of us are carrying around a lot of anger at all the people in our lives who aren\u2019t behaving the way we think they should; who clearly haven\u2019t read the script we\u2019ve written for them, etc. etc.<\/p>\n

In addition, some of us are also cartin\u2019 around barrelfuls of upset and anger at ourselves for our many dietary transgressions, for what we\u00a0\u2018should\u2019 be doing,\u00a0\u2018could\u2019 be doing and who knows what else.<\/p>\n

Imagine what it might feel like if you dropped a potato in your proverbial plastic bag every time you were angry at others and\/or upset with yourself and dragged it around with you all day and into the night. Whoa! That\u2019s some heavy duty, weighty bag that is robbing you of your energy, focus and determination.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s agree to let go of the anger at others and at ourselves.\u00a0 Let\u2019s practice Our Lady of Weight Loss\u2019s mantra:\u00a0 All Is Forgiven, Move On<\/a>!!!\u00a0 Ahhhh, that does feel good, doesn\u2019t it?!<\/p>\n

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