If ever you ask yourself how to stop taking things personally, you are really asking yourself to look deeper inside at what is truly bothering you. Feeling stuck or victimized can reflect in every area of your life to get your attention. You may wonder what or whom you are really resisting?
When you allow other people to control your emotions, you give your power away. When you feel stuck or victimized, you resist your true self. That is, you do something your true self would not do. You create your own stuckness because you resist expanding beyond your belief or idea. When you are peaceful or accepting of the way life is unfolding, you accept your true nature, you accept people as they are and know it is not about you. When you experience negativity, emotion is pointing to something you do not wish to see inside yourself.
You may resist change because you think it is threatening. You may take things personally because you may forget confidence and worthiness are innate. The human side of you fears going into the unknown, fears what it cannot explain. It wants to go somewhere on its own terms, controlling the what, the where, when and details. The human creates an ego identity to protect.
Every moment you feel stuck or uncomfortable, you are pushing yourself outside of your self-created comfort zone. As you choose to accept whatever other people say about you without being adversely affected, you are connected to self-acceptance. When you truly love yourself without conditions, you stop taking things personally. What other people say no longer matters. Your experience or projection of the external world is a mirror of how you feel about yourself.
Saturday, August 20, 2022 at 8:57AM 
Notice the idea of awakening is not real. Awakening is only someone else's experience unless the real thing happens in our lives. Those who simply overhear and repeat ideas emit different frequencies than those who act based on conscious awareness, true innate intelligence or direct knowing. Less-than-direct experience keeps us oscillating betweeen ego and heart rather than be integrated heart-mind. Our perception and experience shift based on our changing vibration. We see things as we are until we see them as they are- pure love energy. The physical, mental, emotional, intuitive and spiritual bodies are all on their own journey to align in harmony and stillness. We each determine the pace of our alchemical journey.