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Unhappiness and Inner Pollution
Adapted from The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle (New World Library, 2004).
Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess? You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is, just as you are responsible for the planet. As within, so without: If humans clear inner pollution, then they will also cease to create outer pollution. Read these thought-provoking ideas.
Are you carrying unspoken resentment? Do you realize that the energy you thus emanate is so harmful in its effects that you are in fact contaminating yourself as well as those around you? Have a good look inside. If there is even the slightest trace of resentment, unwillingness, observe it on both the mental and emotional levels. What thoughts is your mind creating around this situation? Then look at the emotion, which is the body’s reactions to those thoughts. Feel the emotion. Does it feel pleasant or unpleasant? Is it an energy you would actually choose to have inside you? Do you have a choice?
Maybe your thoughts and emotions about this situation are justified, but that makes no difference. The fact is that you are resisting what is. You are making the present moment into an enemy. You are creating unhappiness, conflict between the inner and the outer. The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.
Negativity is never the optimum way of dealing with any situation. In most cases, it keeps you stuck in it, blocking real change.
So how do we drop negativity? By dropping it. How do you drop a piece of hot coal that you are holding in your hand? How do you drop some heavy and useless baggage that you are carrying? By recognizing that you don’t want to carry the burden anymore and then letting go of it.
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add your comment »If you look closely you can see the unhappiness or resentment surrounding someone's aura. I am a bodyworker who returned to corporate america. When i get in the elevator with co-workers, I can literally see how unhappy some people are....
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Resentments, arrogance, selfishness, and all other inner pollution is all a part of our backslidden human nature since our fall from a higher spiritual vibration from Adam and Eve's day to now.
It is impossible for any person to elmininate resentments or ego unless we first say "NO" to our ego and self and reach to God for Divine intervention against our self- pollution.
Just as the Creator separated the elements and confusion of Earth- during Earth's initial restoration (see the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament), He also can seperate the confusion and corruption in each of us if permitted to.-- (Like Earth- We are little Earth's into ourselves in need of restoration)
.- allowing ourselves to become a channel of Divine Power and Love means first saying "No" to the self-energy to allow the Creators' more pure Energy to flow through us and clean/seperate the inner pollutions as He did millions of years ago when Earth had no life on it- and was a sea of confusion.
When Christ incarnated on Earth, He emphasized the need for us to strive for "On Earth as in Heaven". That should be our mantra.
And as the article said, we must start detoxing our own personal Earth and then we will be fit tools to detox this suffering planet.
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I love reading articles like these. It is a comfirmation that "WE" are preparing ourselves for a better and brighter future. As we all know and feel, there is a major shift comming up in the next few years. Including a major election. In order to prepare ourselves we must make our souls brighter. Clearing ourselves of negative energies and emotions is EXACTLY how we are going to do it!!! Any time you meditate, laugh with friends and share love with eachother you raise the vibrations across the universe. (P.S. Watch the Secret if you haven't, great visuals.) Keep up the good work, and yes, it is hard work!!! It's not always easy to love thy brother (and sister) But just find peace in this, we will co create heaven on earth, in time. As above So below )O(
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this article is very buddhist in its nature. as for asking "how to"nobody can "tell" another how to feel, that being said, the whole point of the article is for you to do some hard work, nothing good ever comes from being lazy and expecting others to solve your problems! it states " have a good look inside". buddhism,and yoga can help you to find those "spots" on your soul, you then have to "turn your frown upsidedown" as the old saying goes. pray for peace and understanding in others, it shall come to you.
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I agree "it is not easy" and "it is hard". It is and it takes practice. It begins with intention born of deep desire. Let’s adapt the 3rd Tradition and first 6 and 10th steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. The 3rd tradition "The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking" could be "The only requirement for membership of the human community is a desire to accept and surrender and be conscious". The first 6 Steps and Step 10 of the 12 Step program adapted could be (1) We admitted we were powerless over our self-destructive tendencies (2) Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity (we might be more insane than we think…choosing to be unenlightened when we can be could be insanity) (3) Turned our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him (4) Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves (5) Admitted to God to ourselves and to another human being (it is a letting go of excuses and self-justification and accepting ‘I screwed up’ if I did) the exact nature of our wrongs (6) Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character (I found I had and still am finding many. The self-inventory and admitting is an everyday, may be even an every hour/minute thing) (10) Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. Gradually we move from the unconscious to the conscious state and joyousness, overcoming fear and letting go of the ego, which keeps us in slavery.
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I think what Eckhart said about letting go is good but I agree with the other comments about this often this is hard to do. Lately, I have been trying to get over a hard time and what has helped me so much is acceptance. Simply every moment that I begin to feel down, I change this thought pattern into looking at all that is good in my life and trying to accept the things I cannot change. Accepting and being grateful for everything good and bad in my life is how I have getting through a very difficult time.
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I agree with the overall premise, but this piece is like a map without directional arrows. The idea of "snapping out of it" is indeed unrealistic--and it can be self-defeating because it IS so unrealistic. Behavior change takes practice. And I'd think that negative thoughts must be recognized and moved through and beyond. I imagine that's a rapid process for minor issues (say, a traffic jam) and may take some real work for something major (betrayal). Maybe after some real practice and emotional rewiring, all that could occur in real time. But I think it's unhealthy to deny that some things just sting--it's more a matter of perspective and experiencing your reaction in proportion to events that can help you accept what is. But no one can move beyond what they haven't acknowledged consciously. Although perhaps many of get stuck in that stage ...
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Easier said than done
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My personal experience showed me that I can't just drop self-defeating thoughts and beliefs. If it was that easy, everyone would simply do it. I found that I have to move THROUGH all the uncomfortable emotions which accompany those thoughts and beliefs in order to get to the other side of them. I do this by FEELING whatever feelings are triggered. It's like being a surfer and learning to ride the waves as they rise unexpectedly in each moment.
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This artical builds up to telling those who need to know how to drop negativity in your mind. The question is still unanswered. How? There is no point telling a depressed person to snap out of it. Or to drop the negativity. A depressed person needs to know how. Perhaps visualisation would help. To put yourself and the "problem" in a rope loop in the figure of 8. Close your eyes and visualise the problem opposit you in the other loop of the rope. Say that the problem whatever it is is no lnger needed in your life and that you let it go to the eternal winds or into the unverse. Cut the figure of 8 rope at the cross point and watch the problem disappear into the wide blue yonder or the universe or whatever void you have chosen to visualise. It is GONE. Do this again each time the woryy or problem rears it ugly head again in your mind. The is just one way of doing it. Rather than to be told to "recognize that you don’t want to carry the burden anymore and then letting go of it." People need help to do things I always feel.
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