For this to work, read the text to yourself and allow your emotions to get into the picture. Allow yourself to become emotionally immersed in the imagery and feel as if you were a part of it. Of, course, do it repeatedly, like once or twice a day... Try it. I dare you... :)
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October 11, 2006
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Not to be too critical, but how does this mindset fit with a philosophy that enjoins we not get too attached to the physical world -- that in fact attachment to this life, and the things thereof, is the root of all our problems? I'd rather take spiritual enlightenment, myself, and not focus at ALL on the material more than I have to.
(Not saying I'm there yet, but that's my personal goal."
Most people start using visualization and self-programming techniques for the obvious day-to-day things. We are human after all, at least until we learn and know better.
After a while, if we have any sense about us, we awaken to the fact that "things" cannot bring happiness and we start creating REAL happiness for ourselves and those around us.
But why even focus on the "things" in the first place, at this point, if you already know they're not worth it? Why even talk about them, instead of saying to everyone "Look, you are wasting your time."
Most people are so convinced that they are a victim of life and the world that they are unable or unwilling to even consider that they might not be, little less that they may be (are), their own worst enemy in that they have been creating everyday without considering what they are manifesting.
As much as I, or anyone else who is aware of these details, would love to go directly to the point, most would just pooh-pooh it and go their merry way making themselves miserable. Look at the ideas of "Positive Thinking" or "Think and Grow Rich", those who are open to the concepts have success, the rest think it a fraud. People tend to be VERY attached to their misery. But if you show them how they can change their situations and reality where they live, then you can reach them and give them a step up it becomes a practical example, not pie-in-the-sky.
You can't do the miracles for them, they will call you messiah and follow you for them and ignore the teaching you might bring.
For example:
From my perspective and interpretation of scripture, Jesus was trying desperately to show Israel the idea that we are not the body and tried to do it via resurrections and healings of many people, what did it do for his message? For all intents and purposes, buried it under the magnificence of the miracles. In a last ditch effort, albeit prophesied and inevitable, he allowed the same to be done to him to show that the body is not the beginning or end of "Jesus" but do we get that message? No, we turn him into an unreachable idol that must be appeased or we spend eternity in hell. Strange that his teachings don't support that conclusion. Jesus represents the ideal, not the idol we have turned him into.
I intend to go into this in detail at some future time...
Heh, I definitely think there's a difference between being attached to one's misery and not believing that "positive thinking" is all it takes to get exactly what one wants.
It's ironic: I had a friend who was telling me about this self-same movie, and how it had changed his life. He told me he had been spending the last couple of years avoiding all negative thoughts, and sending only positive ones into the universe, and he had seen his luck change most definitely for the better.
The next week, all of his textbooks were stolen right out of his backpack while he was talking to his professor in the front of the room. It's been over a month, and despite all his positive thinking he still doesn't have the money to replace any of them. He's been making photocopies out of my books ever since.
That's more of my rationale behind my skepticism. I certainly hope I don't come across as someone in love with misery... :oP
As to "being attached to ones misery" and "positive thinking" go, I don't claim them to be the same organism at all, but they are both capable of canceling each other out.
As to your friend, there are many possible reasons why things have happened the way they have and I could easily start listing them, but I'll give my most likely two:
1) Negative Attachment--While he appears to be focused in one direction, his focus is on the opposite, such as being trusting, but locking everything up for fear of theft... The attachment is to the thought of theft.
2) A Don't Want--similar to the above, but where he says I want the money to get new books, what he is really focused on is the lack of that cash, hence it does not show up.
An easy way to determine if these might be the problem, ask him to take his thoughts on the subject and focus on each of them for a while till he gets an emotional response. If the feeling is good, keep working on it; otherwise see about re-working the thought until he truly has a positive process going.
Also, let him know that as long as he is living, he will be having the occasional negative thought, the thing is to become aware of it so that you can change the thought at will and not stay there any longer than necessary.
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