Defuse Hate With Knowledge

If there is someone directing hatred or unkind feelings to you, take time to spend with them. Just spend an hour over lunch or at a park and just talk about life in general. You will find that they have the same desire to be understood and loved as you do. Unkindness will fade and you will have more respect and good feelings toward each other.

love resides here

When you fill yourself with love then hate cannot reach you for hate cannot reside where there is love. When someone is hateful toward you, send them love. Keep sending then loving thoughts and words until things turn around.

love your neighbor

There is most likely someone in your neighborhood who is feeling desperate or helpless. They probably feel unloved. Reach out to those around you. You never know how your kind word or loving response might lift your neighbor up.

lingering hatred

When someone in your presence has acted hatefully don't hang onto it and talk about it. By doing so you are just spreading the hate around. Instead, send this person loving thoughts and then let it go. If others have witnessed it also and want to talk about it, urge them to also send loving thoughts to the offender and let it go.

washing their feet

When you are in a place where a hateful act is taking place, think of Jesus and his act of washing the feet of his disciples. Then wash the person who is being hateful with loving thoughts and words. This will help to nutralize the hate and sometimes even disolve it into a posative atmosphere.

get rid of self hate

If you are struggling with self hate you need to stop and shift gears in the direction of love. Errors of the past were important to your growth. They provided the way for you to gain the wisdom you need for your life. Now move in a forward, loving direction with God as your pilot. He loves you always. Draw on that as you learn to love yourself.

sowing love in immediate relationships

When your loved ones are being hateful it is because they are in emotional pain. Silently send your loved one a blessing of love each time they behave hatefully. Turn to God and get out of your ego. Ask him to make you an instrument of his peace. If you can keep your thoughts to love then there will be no room for you to hate. Remember, God is ALWAYS there. He can send pure love through you.

love never faileth

No matter what the problem or situation, use love as an answer. Love never faileth.

get into nature

Being in nature is the best way to clear the world away and be at peace. Our souls long for the quiet and connection that being in nature provides. Even just a walk in a park can help to quiet us and bring us a feeling of peacefulness. So take time on a regular basis to in nature with God.

you need to make peace with yourself

You cannot be a peacemaker if you don't feel peace with yourself. Every time you go into a self loathing or negative self talk you loose you ability to be at peace with yourself. Take moment to wrap yourself in a bright warm "blanket" of Gods light and peace, telling yourself that you are of God and therefore able to strive for the best that you can be and then sit in that warm peace as it washes over you. Then you will be able to exude peace to others.