19th October 2012
ByMonaBhattacharya
Literature on positive thinking and positive thought has been one of thecornerstonesof the modern-day,mainstreamself-improvement movement in western culture.Almost every technique, school or modality emphasizes the benefits of being positive, but in myexperienceas a healer, being positive can come in the way of being authentic.
Concepts such as expressing gratitude and always being positive have become buzzwords in the current New Age world. However, when you look deeper into these concepts, there is a seed of untruthfulness that is sometime (not always) embedded in it. To give you an example, imagine something negative happening – it could be when something you have been working on for a while and put a lot of time and energy into suddenly falls apart, be it a job, a project, or a relationship.Intuitively, when I tune into the authentic moment, I feel disappointment, sadness and grief. However, if you start exerting conceptual platitudes like “I am grateful for this collapse, it is for the best”, you rob yourself of the space and honest sensations that come from feeling those emotions.
The larger issue I have with this – being someone who is in the field of healing people – is that positive thinking can be a detriment to healing deep-seated, unconscious patters and issues.
Unconscious patterns that manifest in our life can be healed with consciousness. But consciousness in itself does not judge energy. It does not see things as either positive or negative, or good and bad. Energy is energy. It simply exists. This ability to see things for what they really are is the first and possibly most important step to healing.
In my experience, the pressure to think positive thoughts exists subversively in the undertones of our culture. If we express real feelings and emotions, they are often viewed as negative thinking. Negative in a way which has a social stigma attached to it; a person is often viewed a lesser evolved for not being able to see the positive in every situation – no matter how dire the situation realistically may be. However, in the world of energy transmutation, embracing the negative in the circumstance is the key to freedom. Think of the time when you have said no to a person, job, relationship or proposition, only to find a whole new world of possibilities opening up to you. All by following the simple, negative act of saying NO.
Positive thinking can sometimes glaze our vision with unrealistic version of reality. Acceptance, humility and truth are the sobering antidotes to this socio-psychological condition. Healing starts with truth; the closer we can get to seeing ourselves for all of our attributes, both positive and negative, the more power and control we have to navigate through our lives with grace and authenticity.
To me, the goal of healing and self-improvement is BLISS. Bliss is our true nature, and therefore, returning to bliss becomes like returning to truth. The path to bliss is about shedding restrictive old ego programming. My particular technique uses the art of activating the DNA, reading the programs embedded within our DNA, which are exemplified in the patterns we constantly repeat in our lives, and then recognizing higher vibrational paradigms that make us feel good every time we go through that loop. Both positive and negative energy are used in perfect balance to create the higher vibrational paradigms, as it really is thesacredunion of these two energies that generates bliss in our lives, bodies and relationships.
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October 23, 2012 @ 3:03 pm Brendan
I don’t see telling someone “no” as inherently negative. Just like turning someone down with a “no” and standing up for myself isn’t “negative”, positive thinking does not mean just thinking, “i’m grateful, whatever happens is great” resembling a limp-penis and not getting anything done. But then for us to discuss these words anyway is kind of silly anyway, because what do they mean. Is it not just a twist on “good” and “bad”? Since when do I want to think of everything in this world in such simple terms?
I do understand the tone and perhaps goal of this article, however. I just listened to the John Hogue interview where he speaks of his experience amongst people sitting quietly like so many Buddhists while the building burns down around them. I think this article and that analogy are familial. There truly is a difference between choosing to ignore a hard topic using a excuse, and choosing to move on from a hard topic after coming to an understanding. There are many colors between ignorance, understanding, and obsession. When we get outside of ego and ourselves, the discernment that is needed in order to see “the path” comes naturally. This then allows us to not get caught up in the “new age” dogma of words without meaning. Let us set and successfully achieve our goals, peel away ego, and learn learn learn without blinders and excuse. I will always be a student, because to learn is to understand, and to understand is to love. Now, how do we get more people to WANT TO LEARN? Being able to see where one is at is the ability to step outside and look around. How do we ENGENDER THIS.
I think that what I have come to learn from this article and myself is that I am going to be more careful about using garbage words. Atom Bergstrom is good at using his gun… mouth.
Semper