…continuing, in some form, is never going to change for me. I have had far too many other-dimensional experiences for personal verification to disbelieve. What does give me cause for spiritual pause is how dice are dealt.
Being part of the same Source or Great Everything, at some level, we make those choices, so there is not, in my view, a spiritual Uber-Meister cracking the whip.
But, being human, it is natural to forget that earlier spiritual choice, and it is even more human to observe how some people enjoy lives of seeming plenty and joy, with nary a negative incident to blight the flow. Even their children are beautiful and talented, and so the pleasures of human existence continue for them.
Luckily for them, they also seem inured to lifeīs inequities. No nasty empathies to torture the mind!
Positive thinking does not really come into play as most of those I know are not particularly more positive than the norm. If anything, they are blessed with single-mindedness - a different kettle of fish altogether.
This is a theme I touched on in Profit From Unlimited Thinking, but am now exploring more.
Iīve moved on apace since I wrote that book which, in any case, was written to free my mind for other philosophies. It would not have been possible, if my mental filing cabinet was still bulging with all those ideas, however true they were for me at the time.
Iīve always believed pragmatic positive thinking is paramount - not just blindly affirming and expecting. Simple observation would back that up, if nothing else. I canīt think of many in the self-help industry whose lives have been trouble-free. Several have made and then lost tremendously large fortunes, suffered serious ill-health, broken marriages and so on. But thatīs another subject.
Where I am now is in observing how relatively easy it is to programme particles to believe something simply from necessity. Pavlovian, if you like. Stockholm Syndrome works in a not too dissimilar manner. People change behaviour as a means of self-preservation - well apart from martyrs.
But re-association of ideas does not have to be negatively based. The placebo effect, for example, is just an associative idea. There again, so could taking an aspirin! So, blindly following the mantra of positive thinking can work - albeit not in quite the way advised by those S/H writers.
Whatīs this got to do with our lot in life?
Comments on Barbara Ehrenreichīs critique of the gospel of positive thinking, opine that the evangelical positive thinker lacks empathy. They believe that kind of positive thinking creates selfishness on the one hand and blaming others for their lot in life on the other.
Thereīs some truth in that if every thought ever did manifest. (And there is a metaphysical view that every thought actually does create - but not necessarily at the same point in time and space.)
Thereīs also some truth if, as I currently believe, we choose our own destinies. But why then wouldnīt we all choose the life I described earlier? Why choose to be born ill or in extreme poverty?
And, if we choose a way of existence, should we be responsible for the challenges that hit us? Thatīs the $64,000,000 question. More anon.
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According to some internet medical sites, heat rash is caused by too much sweating. Most odd, as when I suffered that awful rash, now thankfully moved off face and scalp though threatening my shin bone, I had not been sweating for days, despite much physical activity, and even sunshine. Indeed, when I did eventually perspire, there was distinct relief.
Itīs another of those instances when I believe it is best to trust oneīs inner doctor, although the outward symptoms might need the usual, approved, treatment.
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A recent contretemps with a supplier induced incredible rage which puzzled me till I realised I had also put incredible trust in them. Due to the (in)actions or poor actions of some, the energy of the whole created a tremendous energetic kickback in me. Thanks to the manager of the local store and two of his employees, the original trust is returning.
Sometimes itīs better to just be indifferent. It uses less energy.
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