Tony
27th June 2012, 12:05
Being caught in a negative mindset.
Being caught in a negative mindset, is very uncomfortable. It happens to all of us. Everything one does and sees, develops a negative edge to it. This is a temporary phenomena, but we can stay trapped there for a long time, if we no longer notice it. It has become a way of life, 'it' has become a personality!
The problem nowadays is that there isn't any help available, try talking to someone and they come back with their own habitual patterning. When we are being negative we generally cover this up by finding fault with others. This is merely conceited pride trying to show we are better, by degrading others.
So how do we get free of this negative patterning,?
We just have to accept that learning is painful. Having to admit it, only seems to make it worse!
But these moments pass, and we loosen a little. We allow ourselves to come down from our pretentious pedestal and soften, and become ordinary...nothing special.
The expression, “water off a ducks back” comes to mind. In this world emotions are flying all over the place, good ones and bad ones, it's to be expected. They come and go....come to pass!
They have no reality, only in our conceptual mind.
Clinging to whatever appears in the mind is the activity called ego-clinging. A negative mindset is ego activity. What is amusing, is that clinging to a positive mindset is the same ego-clinging.
If one identifies with just being human and that's it, then we can live our own make believe story. Which is in fact an accumulation of all the other stories around us, our ideas are not unique! We chug along in our own world, and we make it cosy enough, we keep forgetting the same things keep happening.
However if we get the feeling that there is more to us than our make believe story, then we have to let go of the make believe story, and find the real story, beyond our hopes and our fears.
Change will not come along by itself, this takes practice. Practice, is seeing the effect of this temporary negative mindset, which obscures our pure perception, and letting 'be'.
If I were you I wouldn't bother with this, and chug along on your own sweet way. You must be used to this be now! That's, if I were you, but I'm not!
We are always free to choose,
Tony
Being caught in a negative mindset, is very uncomfortable. It happens to all of us. Everything one does and sees, develops a negative edge to it. This is a temporary phenomena, but we can stay trapped there for a long time, if we no longer notice it. It has become a way of life, 'it' has become a personality!
The problem nowadays is that there isn't any help available, try talking to someone and they come back with their own habitual patterning. When we are being negative we generally cover this up by finding fault with others. This is merely conceited pride trying to show we are better, by degrading others.
So how do we get free of this negative patterning,?
We just have to accept that learning is painful. Having to admit it, only seems to make it worse!
But these moments pass, and we loosen a little. We allow ourselves to come down from our pretentious pedestal and soften, and become ordinary...nothing special.
The expression, “water off a ducks back” comes to mind. In this world emotions are flying all over the place, good ones and bad ones, it's to be expected. They come and go....come to pass!
They have no reality, only in our conceptual mind.
Clinging to whatever appears in the mind is the activity called ego-clinging. A negative mindset is ego activity. What is amusing, is that clinging to a positive mindset is the same ego-clinging.
If one identifies with just being human and that's it, then we can live our own make believe story. Which is in fact an accumulation of all the other stories around us, our ideas are not unique! We chug along in our own world, and we make it cosy enough, we keep forgetting the same things keep happening.
However if we get the feeling that there is more to us than our make believe story, then we have to let go of the make believe story, and find the real story, beyond our hopes and our fears.
Change will not come along by itself, this takes practice. Practice, is seeing the effect of this temporary negative mindset, which obscures our pure perception, and letting 'be'.
If I were you I wouldn't bother with this, and chug along on your own sweet way. You must be used to this be now! That's, if I were you, but I'm not!
We are always free to choose,
Tony