Rejection the real virus in our lives

Marcus Matthews • Jun 26, 2020

Rejection the real virus in our lives

We are all fighting against an invisible enemy, a virus which is killing people.

As humans we are no different than Covid 19, we are a virus looking to survive on a host. A powerful virus that can impact its host in the same negative way, but there is another virus attacking your greatness, this virus, which we inject like a vaccine into ourselves everyday to suppress us living an uncompromising life is rejection.

Rejection is the foundation to keeping us small, viruses come in all shapes and sizes
As a therapist there is a theme which runs through all my clients stories and to quote my mentor Marisa Peer, most things come down to the following:

  • I’m not good enough
  • I am different
  • That’s not available to me
Read that again, how does your body react?

The minds job is to keep you alive, take you from pain to pleasure and it does exactly what you tell it. 

This is why rejection is the key to everything. As you strip down the layers of any issue, connection and rejection are at the heart of every single issue.

The Rejection Equation

Rejection and connection = 
                                                   Feeling+(Thought+Action)

                                                                                                    Thought+Action = Experience 

When repeated this process it becomes your reality
Rejected Man

As humans we are no more complex than any other animals, our main function is to keep our species alive, we are a virus ourselves in many ways.


The subconscious mind, the most powerful part of your mind drives 95-98% of everything you do and it does this through experiences. These experiences are stories we tell ourselves every day and the feelings we connect to them are the notifiers on how to react to stay alive.


We are hardwired to connect with others so seek out those similar to us, or we change to fit in.

This is all subconscious, i.e running in the background, meaning you may not even be aware of it, this is why we can’t work out why we feel the way we do.

When logic and emotion collide, emotion always wins but we try to use logic to work it out.

The mind believes, these feelings we create have some role, function, purpose or intention to help you.

These thoughts and feelings are often locked away in the vault of the unconscious mind, filed away, only to submerge when the mind thinks we need notifying.

Often these feelings are the feelings created by us as a child, our inner child.

So imagine the Operating system you use everyday is Windows 95, the foundation of your life, but you want to run programmes in your life that are only compatible with Windows 10.

The programmes may not install, or it may cause your operating system to crash.

This is why talking about issues doesn’t always work, because the issue is deeper than our conscious thoughts, we are only aware of them through feelings which we often find difficult to dencode.

Like a computer virus, rejection is installed and passed on by those who want us to stay connected with them. As parents, teachers we don't practice social distancing with our thoughts, we believe our path is right and we force people down that path and even if we don't feel it is right, many of us conform, follow the path chosen for us, because if we don't we will be rejected.

So we inject the vaccine of projection, telling everyone we are OK, we self medicate using our ego to fit in and stay alive, whilst inside the virus is growing, but we can't tell anyone, rejected, different.

Do you know how to debug the operating system on a computer?
Do you have the skills to upgrade the Bios on your laptop?
How about writing a new Kernel in Linux?

Do you understand what those last questions even mean?

If your computer programming was broken, if your PC was running slow, you would get an expert in.

But you won’t do that for the single most powerful thing that controls your whole reality, your mind.

During lock down more people are suffering because their environment has become unfamiliar, people are literally going into survival mode.

This virus is replicated through your thoughts and feelings, the most dangerous virus at the moment are the negative thoughts, the fear, the lack of connection, these are far more dangerous than you know.

This survival instinct is then accelerated through social media, politics – why?

If you control the heard, you control the virus, but if you go inside to find out why you feel the way you do, that gives you choice, knowledge, power.

When you have knowledge and power you become a threat.

You become more powerful than the virus being injected in you.

Your immunity increases.

You start to see the inner child playing out, you see the broken code in others.

You no longer need the tribe to survive, the virus of humanity, but you will attract those who also see the code.

You don't need to feed on the host, you don't need to spread, you can survive easily, effortlessly.

Traditional coping and managing techniques will show you how to respond or take action, like taking a pill to subdue a fever, but what if you went one stage lower and asked:

“Why do I feel the way I do?”
“Are the stories I am telling myself true?”
“I don’t like those feelings, what are they telling me?”

Maybe you know the answer, but how long have you had that feeling, how long has your subconscious mind been saying “Your rejecting me and I know the answer so we can reconnect”.

Your feelings are created in your subconscious mind and to understand them you need an expert.

We look to doctors, scientist, politicians for the answers, we look outwardly and blame others for the way that we feel.

You don’t need a degree or PhD, you don’t need to look to others to tell you how to fix that, you need to go inside. 

So don’t look outwardly for why you are being rejected and look inward to find the answers.

I believe everyone should live a fulfilled and happy life and by removing those destructive feelings you attach to the stories you tell yourself everyday and installing and upgrading those feelings to represent who you are as an adult, not the programming of the inner child. I help you break free and I can achieve in one session what most therapists and coaches fail to do in a lifetime.

So learn to accept yourself, because when you do that you will never be rejected again and you mind and body will heal and you will create the immune system that nature designed, not the one created in a lab.
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