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Some things are hard to keep afloat--they simply take too much energy. It's nice when positivity breeds positivity; it's nice when believing things are good and good things will come our way does give us an edge in perspective.
But sometimes things just don't work and it has nothing to do with fate or some unconscious flaw in our thinking that screws us up or "attracts" negative vibes we're projecting out into the universe. Sometimes $#it happens...
If we have pinned our futures, our self expectations and our self assessments on these notions of a kind of magic that fails only if we fail to apply it correctly or because we just haven't pushed the right magic button or taken the right magic class yet... we're going to live an awfully rocky life.
The natural world is an interesting place and your life has far more involved in it than just you, your choices, your outlook and control. Yes, absolutely, there is a whole bunch we can handle better and life can be completely different if we do, but sometimes what happens has nothing to do with us and we just have to watch it roll by. Perhaps we'll say "ouch!" or even smile and wave at it as it crashes on down the street.
And we move on.
Peace,
Anton Elohan
Some things are hard to keep afloat--they simply take too much energy. It's nice when positivity breeds positivity; it's nice when believing things are good and good things will come our way does give us an edge in perspective.
But sometimes things just don't work and it has nothing to do with fate or some unconscious flaw in our thinking that screws us up or "attracts" negative vibes we're projecting out into the universe. Sometimes $#it happens...
If we have pinned our futures, our self expectations and our self assessments on these notions of a kind of magic that fails only if we fail to apply it correctly or because we just haven't pushed the right magic button or taken the right magic class yet... we're going to live an awfully rocky life.
The natural world is an interesting place and your life has far more involved in it than just you, your choices, your outlook and control. Yes, absolutely, there is a whole bunch we can handle better and life can be completely different if we do, but sometimes what happens has nothing to do with us and we just have to watch it roll by. Perhaps we'll say "ouch!" or even smile and wave at it as it crashes on down the street.
And we move on.
Peace,
Anton Elohan
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Thanks Anton for this post, it was insightful. I believe people have sometimes hard expectations for themselves. These expectations, nourished by some Gurus or Harry Potters of personal development, are often deceiving. It is not because something does not happen as you like, that it's your fault... Each of us has a unique rhythm in life for growth. Being ourselves is respecting this personal rhythm.
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Steve
Gracefully put.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you brought this up. First let me start by saying I appreciate how short your posts are. They're very easy to read without getting bogged down.
ReplyDeleteSecond, I couldn't agree more with what you said. I would point to the movie "The Secret" as a popular culprit. While I do approve of the fact that the movie begins to introduce the public to Quantum Physics. I do not agree with this notion that just because we can effect our environment we can control it completely. To use an analogy I would say it's like gardening. While you can help to create the ideal environment for a budding plant, you can't make it grow overnight. Just like you can't control when it rains and when the sun comes out. If the universe responded to our every whim, what would happen if one person wanted the sun to come up and the other wanted it to go down? Life doesn't work that way. The only universe we actively control is the one inside of us. Fortunately, that is the most important one.