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Originally Posted by moonrambler  I understand how that works. But that situation was not a tragedy. And so it doesn't answer the question of how people manifest situations that are tragedies and do not give them anything they want. |
What you seem to be saying is:
- If the situation is positive, the persons involved have manifested it.
- If the situation is neutral, the people involved have manifested it.
- But if the situation is negative, the people involved did not manifest it.
This looks quite untenable to me, but today what I will explore is another angle. Consider your proposition:
"Tragedies are not manifested by their victims." Entirely leaving aside the question of whether this proposition is actually "true" or not ..... I will warn you that it is potentially a very disempowering belief to hold.
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""Tragedies are not manifested by their victims."
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... it is very easy to move to:
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"Very negative circumstances are not caused by the victim."
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... and then it's a quick step to:
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"I am not responsible for the very bad things in my life. They were caused by forces beyond my control."
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"My life is rotten. I blame:
[my childhood] / [the economy] / [the government] / [my spouse] / [this society]/ [God] / [my lousy luck] / [my ugly appearance] / [my unhealthy genes] / [the fact that I was born in this lousy country] / [the weather] / [the colour of my skin] /[______ insert other excuse ________]
and there is nothing I can do about it - it's all beyond my control."
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And then you become quite extremely disempowered by your own beliefs.
In contrast, the belief that with your own thoughts, you create everything in your own life, whether good or bad, is extremely empowering. Because as long as you can still think, you have the opportunity to develop, evolve and improve the way you think. Faced with the most negative events in your life, your instinct would be find the most positive response to it possible.
And while, as Freud might say, most of your mind will always be unknown to you, you can work on discovering more and more of it ....