{"id":7496,"date":"2017-02-06T08:47:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T13:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=7496"},"modified":"2017-01-31T18:00:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T23:00:16","slug":"criticize-condemn-complain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2017\/02\/06\/criticize-condemn-complain\/","title":{"rendered":"Criticize, Condemn, and Complain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Condemn.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Condemn.png 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Condemn-300x112.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No matter what you do or don&#8217;t do, I always have a choice in how I communicate with you. You can&#8217;t make me do or feel anything.<\/p>\n<p>If I choose to not consciously communicate, I am choosing to give away my power. Whether I am attempting to feel small or big in front of you, my unconscious words are reducing me to less than I am.<\/p>\n<p>If you can stay steady in you, I can&#8217;t claim your power. Despite my anger-filled desire, my words can&#8217;t possibly do this. Nothing external can.<\/p>\n<p>Only you can allow something external to reduce or deflate you. Even my careless words.<\/p>\n<p>If\u00a0I am not being anything but respectful and loving towards you, know it&#8217;s not about you, it&#8217;s about me. It just happens to appear to be directed at you.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an optical illusion I like to perform. It helps the weight of my responsibility to magically disappear for a moment and appear on you.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cdevers\/4579864329\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Devers<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter what you do or don&#8217;t do, I always have a choice in how I communicate with you. You can&#8217;t make me do or feel anything. If I choose to not consciously communicate, I am choosing to give away my power. Whether I am attempting to feel small or big in front of you, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[578,569,231,239,581,325,571,330],"class_list":["post-7496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural-creativity","tag-accountability","tag-anger","tag-care","tag-communication","tag-consciousness","tag-responsibility","tag-unconscious-behaviour","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}