If you're ever scrolling through social media and you feel "some type of way," whenever you see someone, don't ignore it. Take time out to find out why you feel that way. Your heart isn't only to be guarded from "negative," people. Guard your heart from your feelings. Guard your heart from envy, from lust, from spite, etc. etc.
Disliking someone for no apparent reason is a deep seated problem not to be overlooked. Why are you triggered?
I've spoken with people who have said to me "I don't like Person A,'' and when I ask why, they usually can't pin-point the issue. They just know that this person just makes them feel a certain way. So I ask, “Is the challenge really the person, or is the challenge with you?” Because you see, sometimes we don't want to face our emotions head on - we are afraid that it will open up wounds that we've covered up with plasters.
Until you confront your feelings head on, you cannot work on uprooting the bad seeds that have been planted in your heart. To ‘Guard your Heart,’ is not only to protect it from external things, it also means to look inwards and uproot the plants that have grown the wrong way. In some cases, weeds that you didn't even plant...but showed up on your beautiful land.
It is completely unfair to dislike someone that has done nothing to you. Today, I ask that you take stock of your plants and UPROOT where necessary.
xx
Adaora ‘Lumina’ Mbelu
You always have the right words. I was lowkey thinking of you when I saw your newsletter notification drop. Holy spirit sort of timing.
About this post, I don't know whether to call it "dislike someone" but there are certain people whose energy repels me. Is that a "healthy dislike"?