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Originally Posted by jawillie  I don't buy into the doom and gloom mentality that the media seems to be selling. (and most of my friends and family are buying) |
I'm glad you posted this, jawillie. Yesterday I protested a doomsayer post and now I recognize why I felt drawn to say what I had to say to and about him. You've helped me to see something -- I don't think I would have even been interested enough to reply to that guy except for the doom and gloom I've noticed, too, in the media and in conversations lately.
It's as if we're only 'allowed' to be as happy as the least happy person among us.
Yesterday on CNN (while I was working out -- the only time I see the news; fortunately I don't have to
hear it!) there was a feature on "The National Bad Mood." Also, someone told me yesterday that gas prices are the primary indicator of how good people feel, and that we should hurry and make some stupid, "feel-good" comedy films because of the zeitgeist people will want to 'escape.' That's very funny, isn't it -- like I'm going to adjust my creative expression to pander to The National Bad Mood!
I think a big part of the suffering of The National Bad Mood, and any suffering really, is thinking Things Should Be Other Than What They Are. It's not even a matter of being optimistic about things getting better, although that probably feels better. It's a matter of realizing that right now, right here , I (you) are safe and supported. We're ok. Actually I'm way better than ok right here and right now. You may have to look under your emotions about the past and future, which don't exist. Even if we do have the apocalypse in front of us (
), suffering from emotions NOW about possible future events is like borrowing from the future and the debt is payable immediately. Why would we suffer about something that is not happening?
When you practice generating what you want to generate, you get better and stronger at making your inspiring possibility for yourself and the world. Why would you not make hay while the sun shines? Why not, in times when you are not being challenged to capacity, be a Generator -- someone who is making a difference right now? Someone who can make really effective choices about her Next Right Action, free of reaction and full of abundant, joyful response? That's the kind of person who can make a difference in circumstances in which we
are being challenged to capacity.
The person who practices war, fear, and pain all his life is not going to be a person who makes a difference for people during the apocalypse. The person who practices generating love, joy, freedom, connection, peace, etc... inspiring ways of being... THAT's the person who is the true leader in times that are challenging or not, the kind of person who leads us to becoming more and more of who we really are -- unlimited joy and abundance.
Wouldn't it be a little selfish NOT to do that?
