Mindset & Emotion
From Hating to Loving
Psychologist, Researcher, and Teacher, Saxa Stefani, takes a look at the destructive emotion of hate, and why we should make peace with this uncomfortable emotion and see it as a gateway to self-knowledge and mature, true love. The most destructive emotion of all is also the most immediate. The consequences of hatred may also last for a long time, controlling a large
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part of our ordinary activities and relationships. How do we manage this feeling in a healthy way and how can we use it for our self-knowledge? Many people tend to think that love is the first affection we build and then afterwards comes the emotion of hate. Actually, this process is reversed. When we come into the world, we start this path from the feeling of loss. We are dispatched from