Is Nature balancing out positive and negative - a Zero-Sum world?

[ShunterAlhena]

Hi all,

Right now I've done something that some call luck, some call intention-manifestation: I found a girl who is not perfect, but should be a great candidate for a long-term partnership. This was one of my largest goals for a long time and right now, my life seems to be on the right track.

This is all nice and beautiful, but many people seem to believe that whenever something good happens to you, the Universe will hurry to balance it out with a negative event later (and vice versa).

This fills me with anxiety as if this phenomenon indeed exists, something terrible will soon happen to derail my efforts.
I don't believe in a supreme force watching me, itching to get back at me for being successful; my prime argument against the existence of such a power are people who live in disaster-stricken famine zones: who balances out their suffering? No-one. And why would an equalizing force limit itself to middle-class Americans and Europeans?

What do you think?

[Anagogy]

There is no "source of evil". There is no "balance" to well being. Well being *IS* balance, my friend. Don't allow yourself to think otherwise. There is only well being, and when you resist it, you suffer. When you allow it, you prosper. Feel peace, knowing that you are achieving balance in this area of your life. You can actually feel whether you are resisting or allowing the stream of well being, your thoughts will feel either negative or positive. Listen to your emotions -- they are there for a reason.

So let go of the anxiety you are carrying, lest you attract the very experience you fear most. Strong emotion of any kind indicates something is happening. Focus on what you want and trust that it will come to you, and let the fear and anxiety recede.

[evrgrn3]

The ancient idea of the Yin and Yang, that all things have their necessary opposite may help here.

If you begin to define yourself as lucky and needing a negative to balance your positive, it indeed shall happen -- or you will interpret something in your life as that negative balance.

The more you believe that a negative will occur, and the more energy you put into worrying about it, the more it actually will manifest. The less you worry, the less it will concern you, and you will not notice if it ever does come.

Balance is the key -- do not swing to far from side to side.

[PerDev]

Hope for the best and it will be given

[wolfgang]

Originally Posted by ShunterAlhena

Hi all,

Right now I've done something that some call luck, some call intention-manifestation: I found a girl who is not perfect, but should be a great candidate for a long-term partnership. This was one of my largest goals for a long time and right now, my life seems to be on the right track.

This is all nice and beautiful, but many people seem to believe that whenever something good happens to you, the Universe will hurry to balance it out with a negative event later (and vice versa).

This fills me with anxiety as if this phenomenon indeed exists, something terrible will soon happen to derail my efforts.
I don't believe in a supreme force watching me, itching to get back at me for being successful; my prime argument against the existence of such a power are people who live in disaster-stricken famine zones: who balances out their suffering? No-one. And why would an equalizing force limit itself to middle-class Americans and Europeans?

What do you think?

I think that belief is a superstition. What would be the middle point? What would the balancing point of "good and bad" stuff be? What's to say what is good.

And what of karma? Good luck or positive effort that makes happiness could actually be making you karma bring more of that. I think it is more like this. That you get more of what you put out.

As you sow, so shall you reap.

[Angela]

Originally Posted by ShunterAlhena

I found a girl who is not perfect

Maybe this is the negative thing, and the girl can look forward to a positive thing to balance this out.

[Parthon]

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. - Sam Keen

As far as the universe is concerned, stuff just happens. Good and bad. There's no balance, no reason, no underlying pattern. The world is each our own to make into what we see fit.

And really, those people are turning their own worlds into weird places full of superstition and negativity. :P

[supertom]

Yeap the universe balances your perception, but thats for the like everyone else that doesnt know whats going on, just dont get elated, just be GREATFUL.

You must know that universe is FOR you, its not out to get you.