Rejection

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Rejection

Unsuccessful attempt to gain approval from another. (Paul Solomon)
Questions to self: How was my prenatal and early life disrupted? Is it time to work on Self-Love, Self-Talk and Self-Worth?
Similar emotions: Disgust, Loneliness.
Opposite emotions: Acceptance, Trust.

Rejection may be time to recycle/reinvent self?

Bach Flower Remedies: Holly [feeling unloved], Gentian [courage to continue despite setbacks], Larch [expecting rejection or failure], Pine [being hard on oneself], Willow [bitterly dwelling in rejection], Sweet Chestnut [feeling abandoned by all, including God].
California Flower Essences: Evening Primrose or Mariposa Lily [rejection stemming from prenatal & perinatal experience, and from early childhood], Bleeding Heart [when broken-hearted], Sticky Monkeyflower [fear of sexual rejection], Shooting Star [feeling alienated from humanity], Baby Blue Eyes [rejection that has created cynicism], Angelica [feeling taken care of by higher spiritual forces, no matter how rejected by others].

Quotes

Rejection is the bed the iconoclast has prepared for himself.
(Gerry Spence, How to Argue and Win Every Time, p.145)

The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears. I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt — and there is the story of mankind.
(John Steinbeck, East of Eden, 1952)

Resources

Want to stop feeling hurt when someone says no? Take the rejection therapy challenge (Andrew Lloyd, The Guardian, 2022) [Ensure you are rejected daily].

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