Choosing Purposeful Integrity

How To Handle The Haters

When you start expanding into new territory in your life, there will be those people who are threatened by that. There can be varied reasons as to why, and some will be blatant in their negativity towards you while others will be more unaware of what they are doing. They may say things critically or in ways that are meant to keep you below them, or definitely not above them.

This is a common experience, especially when you first start seeking truth. As you embark on the great journey of knowing yourself, you will find yourself in new territory. As you start to see yourself differently, you will also see the world differently. Your choices and behaviors will begin to reflect the new awarenesses you are having, and others will notice. Those who are wise will support and love you in your endeavor. Sometimes their support will even be to give you the space you need to find what this newness means for you. Others will not like it because they will see it for what it is: you are changing, and that change will move you away from them unless they, too, change. So they will try to stop you, either consciously or through less conscious sabatoge.

This isn’t something that just happens to people moving up in consciousness, but to anyone who is expanding. That could be in the success you are going towards also. There will be those who are supportive and happy for you to become more materially successful than they themselves are, and there will be those whose envy and jealousy (even unconsciously) taints their view you, and at worst will start to attempt to sabotage or stop you from having greater success.

So, what do you do when you find yourself in this situation, where someone or a group of someones are threatened by your expansion?