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We all want to grow and advance in life, and to do so it is important that we assume the right attitude that pushes us towards it. The desire to do it may be in everyone, but the right attitude is not always there. That is why today I want to tell you about two things that we must eradicate from our lives since, surely, they will stop the advance, as much as we want to. It is about complaining and self-pity (grief).

Complaint and grief are largely learned behaviors. If we have them in our life, it is because they have very possibly been around us. They operate in a very subtle way, so subtle that they become normal and everyday in our lives. They take over our thinking and become part of our normality. The Bible teaches us that just as the thought is in our hearts, so we are – Proverbs 23: 7. In other words, if human behavior is thought, feeling and then action, then you are what you think.

Complaint and self-pity generally arise from dissatisfaction. We live looking for everything to satisfy us and when we are not satisfied, that feeling of grief and complaint arrives that becomes something continuous. We begin to live as if life was unfair to us and owed us something. We begin to see faults in everything, nothing is so good or sufficient, and nothing pleases us. And I am not talking about not yearning for excellence or being conformist with things.

Do you know that it is proven that continuous complaints, at the neural level, predispose the brain to live complaining naturally? In addition, they reduce the hippocampus, which is an area of ​​the brain for solving complex problems and ideas. The complaint fills your body with cortisol, the substance that produces stress. It alters our state of mind, hinders good relationships with others (people get tired of listening to continuous complaints), paralyzes us, since they cloud the way we see things, they wear us out, since they steal energy from us. Instead of leading us to see solutions, they only lead us to see problems. Complaint and grief lead us to become bitter, lonely, frustrated, discouraged people with everything. They begin to develop in us feelings of envy, we live comparing ourselves with others and, above all, they take away our peace. So, viewed from any angle, these feelings only bring curse.

There are times in our lives when we need to be focused to achieve new goals and objectives, and if these two attitudes appear in our lives, they will blur us. The root to be free from this lies in forgiveness and in being able to let go of the atmosphere in which we have received them. Forgive those or what you feel they owe you. Life is about your decisions, no more than what others have been able to do or not do, give or not give you. Recognize the atmosphere in which you have surrounded yourself and the people who have contaminated you with this attitude and start cutting with them. Do not allow more than this to contaminate your life. Release the grief for what you seem not to have or not achieve and begin to focus on the one who said that through Him you have everything and are complete. Today you decide, it is time to forgive, let go and focus, only this way you will see how you begin to achieve what you have longed for and life will surprise you when you are focused on Jesus. Fill yourself with Jesus and you will see how everything in your life will be invaded by Him. There will be no reason to feel sorry or to complain because you will feel full and satisfied, because only in Him you have everything and you are complete. Blessings.