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perspective of opportunity. Let’s explore the consequences of both vantage points.
If you perceive that your experiences are happening to you, then by definition – consciously or unconsciously – you adopt a “victim state.” When circumstances appear limiting you feel you’re the victim of the particulars being witnessed. From this victim vantage point you will feel that no matter what or where the origins of the constriction stem, that you are being victimized.
If the origin of debilitating factors is felt to be mental or emotional hindrances, then you feel victimized by whatever factors have contributed to your emotional or mental condition. Perhaps a history of abusing factors have been identified as the culprit of distressed mental and/or emotional states.
Perhaps limiting circumstances have left you bereft of the knowledge and wherewithal with which to transcend debilitating issues. On the other hand, perhaps you feel that mitigating circumstances beyond your control – circumstances outside of you as it were – is why you feel victimized. Factors such as the economy, employment conditions or perhaps family circumstances may be cited as to why you feel a powerless victim.
There is an unfortunate physiological consequence of the “victim state” as the very feelings of victimization release toxic chemicals into the body-mind that your being acclimates to receiving. Consequently, you unconsciously become a participant in your own victimization as the body now craves particular chemical releases. Once your body and brain adapt to a constant flow of victim-hood chemical releases (the chemicals the brain releases when you feel distressed, depressed, futile, exasperated, or fearful), it (the body-mind) begins to conspire to keep the victim juices flowing.
Of course this is not a conscious act; the body is simply craving, chemically speaking, what it has become accustom to receiving. A clear example of this process is often witnessed when you’re in a frustrating, futile state of mind, and you find that EVERYTHING appears dismal. In fact, the mind can even find a way to turn a bright, sunny day into a reminder of how lousy things are for you while in this state. This occurs because your body has now become an active conspirator in the victimization process because it knows it’s going to get that “victim chemical” that’s released during victim episodes of distress.
Bet you didn’t know all this was going on during those chronic bouts of self-pity and anguish, huh? This insight is not a challenge to whether your anxiety over circumstances is warranted or not, but rather, it is a challenge to the idea that you have no choice in how those limiting factors are filtered through your perception. Circumstances themselves are neutral; it is our subjective interpretation of what they represent that determines whether we are victimized or empowered by them. Back To Tribes & Congregations 1
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