Resentment is poison for your life, as it’s made with the perfect and lethal combination of fear, disappointment, anger, and sadness, and this is one of the best recipes for suffering. If you want to live a happy life, you must let go of your resentment.

Resentment is what forbids us to recreate ourselves anew, because it ties us to past situations where we felt humiliated, sad, disappointed, or angry, so instead of living in the present, we live tied to our past, and we repeat those past feelings over and over again, even if what we are going through in this present moment doesn’t have any kind of similarity with past situations.

We think resentment is the way to make justice for all those moments where someone made us feel bad for no reason, so we use our resentment as a way to justify our current behavior against life and people. What we most of the time don’t know is that resentment doesn’t punish anyone, but the person who carries it, because resentment contaminates the heart and soul of those who suffer it.

“As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

Resentment puts your limits because it won’t allow you to be the best version of yourself. Resentment defines you and makes you act according to what you are not, instead of allowing yourself to be the person you really are. Resentment blurs your vision, shrinks your perspective, gives you wrong beliefs, or not allows you to change them, so it can control your feelings, and become the leader of your emotions and behaviors.

The problem of living under the control of our resentments is that we experience those unpleasant feelings we felt in the past over and over again because we are attached to our past, and so we bring back those feelings to the present, keeping them alive year after year, and when that happens we cannot see with clarity, and so we compare current situations with past situations even though they don’t have any kind of connection between them, and this happens because we are so contaminated with our resentment that we cannot see the difference.

The truth is resentment never helps us in any way, but rather consumes our soul and punishes us with a heavy charge we must carry in our backs through our life, and true peace and happiness cannot be found if we don’t release the weight we carry in ourselves. Once you let go of your resentment you will feel at peace, and you will have back the power to create yourself anew at any moment you wish. You will decide how something will affect you, depending on how you feel at that moment, and you will not be influenced by your past anymore, which gives you total freedom to be who you want to be and to feel what you want to feel without being influenced by your resentment.

“Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it’s not the person we’re resenting – it’s us.” – Alana Stewart

You may be wondering: how can I let go of my resentment? According to my experiences, what made me let go of that heavy charge was: Forgiveness. That is the key to releasing any attachment to any unpleasant situation from your past, what makes you be fully present in this moment, giving you the power to create yourself anew, what gives you the ability to see what is really happening so you can judge a situation according to your beliefs and emotions, what will give you better feelings and a much wider perspective, without letting resentment influence your present.

Resentment will disappear from your life if you forgive your past and those who have hurt you. The best way to do that is by releasing those toxic emotions that are holding you back. Express your emotions and don’t keep them in your heart, open your mouth, express yourself, and release them. Your resentment will never let you enjoy your life, it won’t let you see a new reality, so let go of your resentment, and release your soul from any attachment to your past!