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10 ways to handle rejection

We all have faced rejection in our lives at some point. Be it a job, a relationship, or studies. Rejection actually hurts. We feel personal with it, we get into a lot of negative thoughts or feelings. We put ourselves down and start hating ourselves just because someone rejected us. Rejection stimulates emotional pain, which in turn produces physical pain (e.g., feeling your heart drop, obtaining a headache or feeling vertiginous, noticing a rising "fight or flight" sensation, etc.). One way to easily get out of rejection is to be prepared for it. This does not mean that you should have a pessimist approach to everything. It is just that it is always better to calculate the odds and be prepared for it. The better we tend to get at handling rejection, the less it affects us. Therefore how can you build yourself the ability to cope? Keep Things in Perspective Tell yourself: "Ok, I got rejected now. Perhaps next time, I am going to get a 'ye...