When overcoming rejection, it can be easy to think that there is something "wrong" with you. Instead of focusing on your shortcomings, you might try to see all the good things you bring to the table. The more positive you can see in yourself, the less important and painful the rejection...
Unfortunately, after asking these questions, you might still conclude that a person close to you doesn’t value your relationship as much as you do. This is a painful realization, but it can help to remember two things. First, this rejection isn't just about you. The other party wants so...
Painful as it might be, rejection can serve as a tool for personal growth: Resilience Building: It arms you with emotional coping mechanisms for future challenges. Self-Discovery and Personal Growth: It directs introspection towards personal improvement. Emotional Intelligence Enhancement: It fosters ...
Ask for what you want. You usually won’t get it, and often the rejection will be painful. But when this works, it works surprisingly well. Almost always(几乎总是), the people who say “I am going to keep going until this works, and no matter what the challenges are I’m going to...
But there’s another way to process rejection as an adult that also sidesteps the hapless drunken humiliation and numb hiding. It’s so simple we don’t do it, or if we do, we don’t apply it enough. We have to love ourselves. ...
Why Does Rejection Hurt So Much? Rejection hurts because people – even the most introverted or self-sufficient of us – long for human connection. At our cores, we want to be accepted, cherished, respected, appreciated, and loved. However, the harsh reality is that no one can be accepted...
Why is it that our physical health is so much more important to us than our psychological health? We sustain psychological injuries even more often than we do physical ones, injuries like failure or rejection or loneliness. And they can also get worse if we ignore them, and they can impact...
Ask for what you want. You usually won’t get it, and often the rejection will be painful. But when this works, it works surprisingly well. 问你想要什么。你通常不会得到它,而且拒绝往往会很痛苦。但是当它起作用时,它的效果出奇地好。
A recent social research study shows that the same regions of the brain that become active during painful sensory experiences are also activated when we experience social rejection. Rejection literally hurts. What to do? How do we lessen the pain? How do we join the ranks of Maslow’s self-...
No one wants to face rejection in public, as that can be humiliating. So, pick a private and quiet place, somewhere you can both hear each other clearly; so that words are not misinterpreted. The only exception to rejecting someone in person is if you don’t want them to react violently...