The first way it came into my life was when working with a couple of clients who were burdening themselves with "what others thought."  I counseled them with the quote by Eleanor Roosevelt (above), but they were locked into worrying about this. 

Nothing I could say would dissuade them - they were locked into this low vibrational form of thinking and they were going to stick with it.  Sadly, I was unsuccessful at helping them see how damaging it is to hold these thought patterns - not just to themselves, but to the quantum pool.  
 
The next way it came into my life was recently when a few people made accusations that were completely wrong.  They were hurtful and for a time I kept going over them again and again.

Quickly I realized what I was doing, so I wrote in my journal and came up with this formula for me to help "reframe" these wrongful accusations.

First, and most importantly, I examined my own behavior to see if I had indeed done something that was in error.  If I had, I was more than willing to immediately apologize.

But I had not.  I was only coming from "pure intent" in these situations and there was not one ounce of accuracy about these accusations.

So the next thing I did is release my attachment to what these people were thinking and really let it go.  I used the Sedona Method.  You imagine that you are holding in your hand something that is bothering you, then you do the following:

You ask yourself:  "Can I let this go?"
If the answer is "Yes,"  then you ask "When?" 
And as you decide to release it, you turn your palm over so the imagined "wound" falls ... and as it does, you state out loud "Now."

And finally, I asked my angels to go to their angels and help them see that no one was intending to harm them - especially me.

The reason I am writing about this is because of the negative energy it contributes to the quantum pool when we either focus on negative interactions OR when we obsess about something over which we have no control:  what others are thinking of us.

 

We're all doing the best we can.  I really believe that.  In this classroom called Planet Earth, we're all here as students and teachers.  And as students, sometimes we don't fully "get it."  And as teachers, we must learn to understand when someone doesn't "get it" (in our opinion) and let it go.

We must learn to rein in our minds and choose to engage in a higher order of thought.

"Great minds talk about ideas, Average minds talk about things, Small minds talk about other people." --Unknown