During a retrograde it can be easy to get your feelings hurt due to the actions or words of others. In fact, as a highly sensitive person you may often find your feelings hurt by other people. However, when you base your feelings on other people’s opinions, you are allowing them to control your life. You are basically allowing them to be your puppet master, and when they pull the strings just right, you either feel good or bad. And when you give ownership of your feelings over to others, you give up control over your emotions. The fact of the matter is, the only person that can hurt your feelings is you. To change how other people’s actions make you feel, you only need to change a thought. This step sometimes takes a bit of work because your thoughts are usually automatic or even on the unconscious level, so it may take some digging to figure out what thought is causing your emotion. But once you do, challenge it, question it, or accept it. Your emotions will follow. Today, recognize that when you give ownership of your feelings over to others, you give up control over your emotions, over your life. In truth, the only person that can hurt your feelings is you. Conversely the only person who can make you feel worthy and valuable is you. Today, choose to stop worrying about what other people think of you and free yourself from the prison of approval and begin to start living your life authentically you.

Just for today, I am far more than other people's opinions. My opinion of myself is the only one that counts. I allow myself to succeed. I am far more than my past thinking. As I move through other people's belief and opinions, I see within myself a beautiful and wise being. I love what I see when I look inside me. It does not mater what other people say or do. What does matter is how I choose to respond and what I choose to believe about myself. I am doing the best I can with the knowledge, understanding and awareness that I have right now and all is truly well in my world. And so it is.