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Hell is a State of Mind

June 30, 2010
Misery is a choice to feed,
or not. The mind is self manipulated for positive or negative conditioning. The ‘karma of mind’ is to react to what it’s fed in kind. Being positive, negative or whatever is a learned conditioning and becomes like a ‘hamster’ in his revolving spinning cage going no where. The ‘state of mind’ is a quality of thinking and being that becomes almost ‘hard wired’ as a serial habit of conduct.

Feeding your misery relentlessly is only to give it food to continue. Like- wise feeding the positive makes the positive more hungry for the same. Remain aloof, apathetic, unconcerned about ‘misery thinking’ as giving it attention is to merely feed it’s growth. Slowly give negative thinking less and less attention to see it’s influence begin to become smaller and smaller. Substitute positive being and actions as the negative fades away.

Magnify the positive! Attention is food!  Anything you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to the garden eliminating the weeds while nourishing it with sunlight, water and fertilized, and it grows beautifully.  Neglect it or be apathetic to it and the negative weeds proliferate.  Condition yourself to distance from the negative. Develop personal techniques to measure your success with becoming more and more positive. Feed with paying attention and using discernment to make higher choices.

The world is a kaleidoscope of colors and viewpoints. Doing my ‘free speech displays’ in public, there have been many amusing moments. One recurring one is when two people step up independent of each other to remark. One has read the message as I meant it to be while the other often is angry at what they read, and is in a judgment that has nothing to do where I was coming from. My observation is that likely the ‘negative reaction’ is symptomatic of many layers of negativity of numerous things that have actually been so embedded as to become the ‘false self’ of the person.

We become prisoners of negative thinking and actions, or free to be a creative, positive, loving individual. It’s all in the application of techniques to rise above the madness of the cacophony of dissonance in the world and especially, within.
Arhata

Negative Tips!

July 1, 2010
It’s always a question of too much or too little! Negative grows on its own with little attention to the positive. Positive needs reinforcement until it reaches a point of being locked into the being, but even then a little touch up is always desirable. Look at life upside down as a victim, and negative flourishes. Frequent use of the negative is a type of contemptuousness of people and life in general. Attitude is like fertilizer for either the negative or positive.

Negative thinking and actions are a products of being too lazy to weed out and detach from negative experiences of the past going back to early childhood. They grow by staying attached to the mind of memory. Then transferring all negative experiences to others, especially in a union with another. Sadly, the negativity gets passed on to children as it likely has for generations going back to the beginning of the human experience. Stay at a distance from negative people. Positivity will help repel them too.

This ‘now’ is the best and possibly first time in life that billions have the possibility to rise in conscious energy into a new dimension of life. Getting caught up in anything that anchors one down into the negativity of the past millenniums is an unconscious suicide that happens like a slow, invisible poison. Focus on the positive likelihoods of the moment while never dwelling on the problems that perhaps only exist because of the energy given to them.

Want to change things? Change your viewpoint, void of negative assumptions and judgments, but without ignoring ‘negatives’ that have a purpose to arrive at more positive answers. The ‘sacred yes’ is a meditation to always say ‘yes’ without ignoring the negative. There is always an ‘affirmative’ answer to everything, even what is negative. Let anything that appears negative have an underlying positive. Positive energy is magical when relentlessly pursued. Be open to new possibilities beyond the negatives that litter the mind. Unless the negative has a functional purpose beyond all possibilities of a positive approach, always creatively seek positive answers! Crystallize the ‘Yes’, and always aim for the ‘high ground’! Love life and life will love you back!
Arhata