2007 January Archive at Jasiri

It is a bitter pill to swallow, but betrayal in our lives is the outgrowth of fear in our minds. People do not necessarily betray us; sometimes we just set ourselves up to be a victim. We don’t like to think about it. Very often we do not realize it. Yet the law works whether we recognize it or not. People often come into our lives to demonstrate that which we think and feel.

Each time we experience some form of betrayal, we are convinced about how weak, fragile, ill-equipped, or inadequate we are. We get to feel sorry for ourselves. We get to blame others for taking our power and we fall deeper into victimhood. We can’t help ourselves when we are a victim. It’s not our fault when we are a victim. We don’t have to grow when we are a victim. Betrayal is just one of the tools the ego uses to make us victims and to ease God [substitute here your higher power of choice] out of our lives.

You can get to the heart of betrayal by forgiving those who have hurt you before. You can ease betrayal out of your life by forgiving yourself for allowing others to make you a victim. You can turn all experiences of betrayal into steps toward empowerment by affirming over and over and over…I AM NOT A VICTIM!