How To Handle Disappointment

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How To Handle Disappointment

Disappointment is something we have all and will all experience at various points in our lives.

Of course there’s a spectrum of disappointment that can go from not being able to find your favourite snack in the shop to hearing bad news of varying degrees, disappointment from other people, situations and even disappointment in yourself.

It can be that relationship you were hopeful about not working out.

It can be getting a no for something you really wanted.

I don’t need to explain disappointment to you at all. We’ve all been in the trenches.

But I’m still kind of going to anyway!

The dictionary defines disappointment as sadness or displeasure caused by the non-fulfilment of one's hopes or expectations.

I think we can all feel that one!

One of the things I have noticed throughout my years of learning about why we do the things that we do, why we react the way we react and feel the way we feel, how our brain and nervous system contributes to that and how we can learn to work WITH that information, is how much my ability to handle disappointment has changed.

I’m always talking about how feeling our feelings is so important and how what we’re aiming for when we ‘do the work’ on ourselves isn’t to ‘get rid’ of ‘negative’ emotions. Or to avoid them.

But almost learn to befriend them and see them in a different light.

To see negative emotions as part of the human existence that contributes to the sweet sweet polarity of experiencing all the positive emotions too.

To understand them more so we don’t fear them or judge ourselves for having feelings and emotions that make perfect sense!

Disappointment is one of those inevitable emotions.

Can you imagine a world when you were never disappointed...ever?

You might think it would be nice, maybe it would be, but personally it would take some magic out of life for me.

Let me explain why I think that way.

Sometimes you can think something is right for you, you want it, you don’t get it, it stings.

We’ve all been there.

However, these moments tend to be the ones that lead you to something even better. Or in a totally new direction that’s better for you. Or where you learn an incredibly valuable lesson.

It’s always been the case for me.

The last year for me has been full to the brim of disappointments for me.

AND it’s also been full of incredible experiences, deaths and rebirths of my ego aplenty, lots of twists, turns and redirects and as much as it might suck sometimes i’m totally trusting the direction and 100% know that there’s so much beauty, positivity, happiness, joy and all the oth...