The New Cosmos 7: A possible shadow side of positive thinking

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It is popular nowadays to determine your own future by thinking in a positive manner. There exist many forms of this kind of teaching to adopt an attitude of having faith in your own good future, of believing yourself to be a great person of love, of understanding the universe to be essentially filled with love etc.

I am sure that most of you can fill out names for these kinds of teaching and training. It doesn't matter how these are called, but there is a danger here that i want to point out.

Although there is spoken about love, what is being taught is that one needs to condition one's mind in a certain way. You should believe that you are love, you should think that problems don't exist, you should allow only thoughts of having a good future, etc. This kind of teaching promotes to condition your own mind in a certain way.

Deeper than the mind is the heart of love. Whatever we think or feel or plan with our mind, it always is based on deeper intentions. When there is spoken about love and light and your own happiness, there seems to be nothing wrong with this. Indeed, there doesn't need to be anything wrong with thinking positively and having faith in yourself, except when there is a separation or breach with the real condition of your heart.

There can be a difference between really loving the Creator and loving people on the one side and speaking about love and positive thinking on the other side. In the latter case the love may not be so real as it seems to be.

We need to check whether positive thoughts are basically meant to improve our own situation or whether they are truly benign, because we want a better world for others before we wish it for ourselves.

It is easy to fool yourself by believing that because you speak and think about love all the time, there would not be problems hidden inside of your heart. Without making clear to yourself such problems of the heart, the love that is promoted may prove to be superficial.

To heal our heart is like healing any disease: It is not enough to only mask or soothen the symptoms. We need to go to the core of an illness in order to establish real healing.



From: Cosmic Eagles - myspace.com/cosmiceagle - February 12, 2009