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Originally Posted by Anagogy  Sounds like you've been listening to the news, which 90 percent of is negative in nature, reporting random pockets of disharmony from different parts of the world in a one hour block. It is incredibly misleading as to the REAL nature of this world. What you focus on expands in your experience.
You're ignoring the well-being, the beauty that is present, the wonder of instantaneous mass communication. The glass is not half empty, it is half full. You have to look at things in a different light, not from a separated vantage point, but as an interrelated whole.
Watch this: Abraham on politics and the environment. |
Wow that video was amazing. I have a few of the Hicks' books but kinda forgot about them after trying that stuff out for a year or so and didn't see any results. As far as what I was saying before, I HAVE tried to focus on only good news in fact I skim over the newspapers now only to look for the good stuff and i don't even watch the news on tv anymore (except to get the weather forecast sometimes). But I've found that even if you ignore or avoid the bad news yourself, you will inevitably run into it when dealing with people. A good example is, how I don't watch the news but when I go to my dad's house, he has it on the entire time, and I always pick up a magazine or book and pay no attention to the news but then my dad has to comment on everything and force me to acknowledge it. How do you avoid that kind of stuff? I'm not going to quit visiting my dad or tell him to watch something else, that is unreasonable.
And also, I don't think any of it will go away just by me not focusing on it. Sure my life may be better for it but that doesn't automatically make it go away. I don't have any part of the war on drugs or the war on terrorism yet those things are getting bigger and harder to control.
But back to my original question, that doesn't really answer it...because either way, it shouldn't be happening AT ALL if humans are so advanced and conscious.