There are so many times in our daily life we can feel victimized, from the smallest incident to the biggest. For example, if you set the timer on your coffee maker to go off at 6:00 am and instead of brewing that morning cup of pleasure to get your day started, it does nothing. You might feel upset, curious, and most likely frustrated and disappointed. You search for what went wrong with that damn timer or you search for someone to blame. You are smack dab in the victim position. In order to feel powerless, or bullied or victimized there has to be a persecutor, something or someone you can blame for why you suddenly feel trapped, hurt, disappointed or wronged.  There are those devastating circumstances of feeling victimized;  the loss of a loved one, or job, car accident, or you were the victim of a crime, or get a scary diagnosis. Again, you feel a loss of power or influence over your safety and wellbeing, you feel angry, or that life is not fair and why is this happening to me?

From the smallest incident to the most devastating circumstances, you can feel like a victim.

But, what if there are no victims; only volunteers? More on this with my next Waking Wise…