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Old 03-22-2008, 02:32 PM   #144 (permalink)
Joely
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Originally Posted by moonrambler View Post
If you read his post #130 you'll see he explains exactly why. If you disagree with those conclusions, I think you need to come up with a specific example of when an intention from start to finish was riddled with doubt and fear rather than positive energy, and still came true, so we can consider what happened there.
This is actually quite interesting, because it relates to something I've been struggling with for some time. I've always loved writing, doing writing, creating worlds, but I grew up being told I could never get a publishing deal, no matter how good I was. It was like the law of gravity. By the time I was 18 and off to university, I gave up to pursue a career as an academic. I really worked hard to get rid of my love of writing, and went to the opposite extreme of becoming severely depressed if anybody told me my work was good.

Yet for some reason, it refused to leave me. It's almost as though as much as I tried to run away and hide from it, it was still jumping into my life and things kept coming along that would push me back into writing. I'd have thought anybody as riddled with self-doubt and the total conviction I could never be published would have completely blocked everything. Instead, people have arrived in my life with an absolute conviction in what I've been doing and have taken over the process of getting me published, circumventing my own negative beliefs and doubt. I've seen a lot of people say you really can't get anywhere with this much negativity towards it, and yet I've had so much help thrown my way I've been consistently amazed by the assistance I've had.

I have no real explanation for this, but I just thought I'd throw it out there.
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