The illusion of “positive thinking”

We are told to think “positive”, we are told to have “happy” thoughts, and the reason for this is: that our thoughts are picked up by the universe, and so we, ourselves, create what we focus on.

This is, in a nutshell, a popular concept, a set of beliefs, that a lot of people take to be true these days…….but is it?

It has a nice ring to it: “think positive and nice things will happen”, it brings about a feeling of being in control, and “a way out” of our unhappy, unfulfilling, non-perfect life’s.

But what is at the core of this all? At the core of this concept?

Doesn’t it all start with a judgement? A judgment about life as it is, right here, right now?
Don’t we judge life as “unwanted”, “undesirable” and “not right” as it is (right here, right now)?

In fact isn’t it a rejection of life itself, as it enfolds itself, to and through us?
We are life, we live, we are “it”, so isn’t it a rejection of ourselves?

The illusion of positive thinking is rooted in a thought construct, a set of beliefs and rules, put together by our “mind”, nothing wrong with that, but it tends to distract our attention away from what we are, to “an external world”, we (mind) oppose rules upon the world, we make demands on life itself…….here is where the confusion starts, in a way, we want to master ourselves……

There is no doubt that thoughts are creative, but what do they create, not merely more illusions? We see what we expect to see, what we focus on, but does that make it true? Or is this more self-deceive?

The concept of “positive” can only be by the mercy of the opposite “negative”, rooted in right / wrong, judgement (conscious or sub-conscious judgement). There is no way out of this, the concept of “me” can only exist if this “me” has a counterpart: “not-me”…..

So “me” and “not-me” are making up the world…..the world we create, it is the core of dualism ;-)

Would there be any use in “thinking positively”? Of course, it would matter to a “me”, but therefore it doesn’t mean it bears any truth……it would keep us tied to the world of concepts, which is imagination …..

An other matter is to live the life that you are, we already are “that” positive and negative ;-)

I am that

I am “this”, I am “that”, are all expressions of the need to feel special, to distinguish yourself from “the rest”, …… funny thing is that we overlook how this is pointing away from the one thing we all share: the “I am”

The illusion of being special

Specialness is a contradictio in terminis
If every-one is special then no-one is ;-)

Specialness can only be.....in-relation-to....
This "being-in-relation-to" is no more or less "relative"
And what is relative, bears no truth......

The part, in the sentences above, that I left out, is the one thing that specialness needs the most: (a) ME.

It is the “ME” part that brings specialness into “being”, but this is a relative reality……

But to a “ME” it works the other way round to,….the “ME” sees (creates) a special reality and makes it “personal” by putting itself in the middle,……

So without “specialness” there would be no “ME” ……

But, argues the “ME”: I am, I exist, there is definitely a “ME” …….a seemingly contradiction no?

Until we start investigating this “ME”, the “ME” that does all of the talking, the reasoning, the thinking, the “ME” that we so easily mistake ourselves to be……

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The use of words, in itself, limits us......it can only be used as a tool to point to something, that only can be talked a bout in a conceptual way, until you can relate to it in your own experience......

And we can use the tools differently, all in favor of our own particular needs.

We are all "special" and we are all not, I see no contradiction here, do you?

Does nature discriminate?
Only to "ME", things, occurrences seem to be unfair......but does this make it to be true? Isn't it not just a relative view of a "separate me"?

So "Specialness" holds the key to both separation and unification, we all are special, unique......and in the same time, because it applies to all of us, it unites us into ONE BEING......as in "BEING ONE".

Don't we all share the ONE life? Was there a time we were disconnected from life?.......In time we always were (a life) alive.

Was the start of the "special you" not a merge between an already alive sperm and an alive egg?
Life was there all the time, we are IT ;-)