Research suggests that the same parts of the brain that get activated with physical pain, get activated with rejection. It is a natural reaction and is to be expected! The time, place, person, significance and other contextual elements bring alive...
I am accustomed to airports, airline food and whizzing past arrivals and departures. My work makes it that way. The other day, I was tasked with receiving family arriving from abroad. In the middle of the night, it dawned on me...
We sat in a circle discussing "one thing that we had lost, we so wish we hadn't". The story circle that I host once in a while, spawns delightful conversation and an insight or two.
'I lack the charisma', I remember one successful entrepreneur telling me. Over time though, he discovered how limiting that thought can be and how much of a myth that was!