To carry the debris of resentment is a killer for the soul.  To love the self is to ask why one would want to carry toxic emotion in the body.  Resentment is like a poison which creates a bitter and twisted pain.

Resentment can create inappropriate anger which can grown and get heavier and heavier becoming harder to suppress and manage.  This is when people explode or act out their emotions inappropriately.  The dis-placement of internal resentment and anger which can be projected onto others because the individual can no longer hold it all themselves.  This is why holding onto resentment has negative consequences and the potential to be harmful and hurtful.

It creates strong emotions that can  mean being reactive and not in healthy adult control.  This can create fear which means being ungrounded, unstable and neurotic.    This is whether acted out externally or internalised which has consequences on individual health,  It is like a personal threat or attack on the self which can result in many dire consequences.

Individuals can literally morph into a visual resentment package.  What I mean by this is you can see it by the collection of facial grimaces.  You can see it by the body positions and presentations.  You can see it by the actions they take and how they live their lives.  You can see it in drama and dis-satisfaction.  You can see it in the autonomic nervous system or psychosomatic conditions.  These are psychological and emotional disturbances that create stress and suffering.  That then impacts physically and has consequences on health.

Resentment can breed hostility, rage and hatred.  Resentment has created wars, death,  fragmentation of identity and separations of family and love..   Even if one has been impacted by another’s resentment it is not worth doing the “eye for an eye” “a tooth for a tooth”.  It will only hurt the self and create more sickness.

It is much better to realise that people who have wronged are themselves suffering.  Its much better to accept life and and the complexity of human beings and relationships.  That spiritual sickness can be thick with resentment.  We may not like what others have done, their symptoms, their behaviours or conduct and the way they disturb us.  However, people get sick with emotional pain and resentment.

For our own self growth we need to have tolerance, pity and patience.  Just like we would have for a sick friend or family member that needs nurturing and understanding.  It really is a choice of developing on the path of spiritual grown and processing resentment and not collecting any-more.  Or not taking the actions required and staying stuck in pain which invites further dis-comfort.