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It's Easy to Deflate Arrogance Most people feel hurt when treated arrogantly, yet it's quite easy to deflate all types of arrogance.
Arrogance, aloofness, haughtiness etc. run
into emptiness if we simply ignore them. Arrogance affects us only if We accept the game. If we ignore it, it has no effect and cannot hurt us.
So it's basically our decision whether we want to back another person's arrogance, - or whether it wouldn't be better to simply ignore such antics and turn to less narrow themes.
Be aware that opposing someone's arrogance also costs our energy - possibly as much as when we silently suffer by it.
How to Find Out If This Challenge Is Active in OUR Life Arrogance is easily recognized in others, but it's quite a test to realize and accept that we ourselves are under its sway.
A number of simple signs tell us if this obstructive mechanism is active in our life - • Do we need to feel important, - and do we crave others
to continually bolster this feeling? • Do differing views irritate us? • Do we only accept people who confirm our importance -
and flatter us in our presumed supremacy? • Do we communicate with others as if we grant an
audience to subjects?
