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

The New Cosmos 3: When trusting fails

As a response to my blog/bulletin "The New Cosmos 1: Trust is given" some friends told me about the problem that it is sometimes difficult to trust people. I often get this response when i write about the need to trust others. Many people have frustrating experiences after they gave their trust to friends. Another frequently mentioned problem is that it is difficult to connect to your own heart, that the head seems to take over. What to do when we are getting 'too much in our head' and we find it difficult to trust people?

There are three levels on which this problem can be caused and needs to be solved.

1. Are we having loving relationships with people who are taking advantage of us but we are not enough aware of this? If this is the case, our heart will be influenced and on a subconscious level we might find it hard to trust people. Deep in our heart we know that something is wrong, but we haven't yet made clear where the problem lies.

2. It could be that we are influenced by wrong teaching, or that we misunderstand good teaching. For example there are teachings in the world that profess that all love is good, yet we all know that sometimes people give love in order to tempt us to do something wrong. Some teachings are advocating such kind of love, a love that is not centred on the Creator. These kind of teachings pull us away from our heart of trust and love and makes the intellect to be dominant over the heart.

3. A third level is that of actions. When we speak or write about doing good things but we don't really practice it in our lives, we will find that our intellect takes over more and more. We speak about love and peace but don't really practice it in our own lives. Each of us has a God-given task in life. Only when we are aware of this task and give ourselves for it, we can safeguard the beauty of love that is deep in the heart of each one of us.



Cosmic Eagles - February 6, 2009

The New Cosmos 1: Trust is given

All life, all love begins with
giving. When we meet someone new, we start with giving. To trust someone, that
is to give trust to someone, is a giving act.

When we meet a new person, a possible
friend, a teacher maybe, a potential lover, it is essential to begin the
relationship by giving trust. Trust means that you believe that the person is
essentially good, essentially having good intentions.

As humans, we all are children of the
Creator. Each of us has a core of goodness. We can trust other people because
they are essentially good. Really!

Of course, trust can be betrayed.
Some people don't deserve our trust, but still, when meeting people it is better
to trust that their goodness will come out.

Some people find it very difficult to
give trust to others. They begin with distrusting. They spy on a new friend,
they come with critical questions trying to figure out a person.

That basically is a wrong attitude.
Either you begin a relationship with giving, or you start out with distrust. To
have trust is a giving act. To have distrust is an asking act.

It is impossible for a person to
prove that he or she can be trusted. Nobody can prove to be trustworthy. We can
only confirm that we are trustworthy.

Love grows on trust. Love that is
given on a basis of distrust is no good love. It is a demanding and selfish
love.

Cosmic Eagles - February 4, 2009