Transcript:
Welcome to this week's You Are Destined for Greatness. I appreciate you taking your time to be with us today. I'm just coming to you this week from HQ, otherwise known as The Horsemanship Journey Headquarters, here in our recording studio where I record the podcast. Today I recorded a podcast about rejection. Just wanted to talk to you a little bit about that.
We all get to experience rejection in this lifetime. There's a whole slew of ways that we get rejected. A lot of times, we take it personally because, well, a lot of times, it sure feels personal. Particularly when it's a personal rejection, it seems to be worse than failure. Failures are usually tied to a task or a thing, and rejection a lot of times just feels like it's all about us.
Rejection can lead to isolation. It can lead to depression. It can lead to suicide. Rejection is real, okay? It's so real that our brains actually believe that it's pain. There are studies they've done with MRIs that show we have the same response in our brain from social rejection as we do to physical pain. It even shows that Acetaminophen, or Tylenol, gets the same result. It helps. It actually reduces the pain that we feel from rejection the same way it does from physical pain. Super interesting, but that just shows you how big of a thing it can be.
So the question is, what can we do for ourselves and what can we do for the people that we love if we're going to experience this rejection? Like I said, I go into this in depth in the podcast, so I want to make sure that you tune in for the podcast on rejection. But here's one, a couple of things that I can tell you. Number one is for yourself or anyone you know that's in rejection. If it's been two weeks or more and you or someone that you love is isolating or feeling depressed, get medical help. Okay, that's one.
Second of all is to rally support. Get people around you that you love and trust. Get people around you that you trust. Get them on the phone, get them on the text, get them on a video call, get them on a Zoom call. Best of all, if you can get them in person, okay? Then share your story with what's going on with them.
There's three key points that I go over. That's the first key point that I go into in the podcast. I'm not going to go over the other two just for time's sake right now, but I will tell you this: there's also research that shows that 90% of rejection is not even about us. People are making those choices that we feel are all about us, when in fact, they're all about somebody else. Just knowing that sometimes can be helpful when we're making meaning about what that rejection means about ourselves.
Also, that's, of course, what we do at Stable Living. We are the support. We are your people. If you're country people, if you're a parent, or if you're a human being that wants to improve your life or the lives of others, we are your people. We offer those one-on-one coaching sessions in Stable Living, and this is some of the things that we talk about on a daily basis with teens and their parents.
Hey, stay with us and make sure you check out the podcast on rejection. And remember, You Are Destined for Greatness.
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