I have not been impressed by bad news for nearly twenty years. Of course, the loss of a dear one is always a moment in which you experience grief and pain. But these emotions are only invitations from the body to enter the other world of inner peace.
Just occasionally I watch the world news. But I do not want to let it "come in" to me. I do not follow TV programs with bad news, hardly read newspapers.
'The world is not getting any better' is a statement often heard. That is just a lie of people with pain, who are looking for a way out of facing their own pain. It is a lie of a painful mindset, that in the past everything was better or that everything would get better in the future.
Bad news has everything to do with "collective pain" in this world. People simply appeal to pain rather than joy. Take, for example, the death of Princess Diana. Millions of people around the world were in mourning. The death of this beautiful woman triggered the craving for pain and "unprocessed" pain in their own bodies. We saw the same after the attacks in Paris. People become very reactive on social media and say they are in shock. Perhaps without knowing it, they activate the collective pain of this world.
Many people are more attracted to traffic accidents than to weddings. Unprocessed pain remains stored in our lives as unpaid bills. That is why bad news is big business, because it gives a temporary anesthetic for millions of people. "You see, the world is bad," they can reaffirm, and they wallow in their own pain again without being aware of it.
There is more good news than bad news. There are many more things that succeed than fail. The constant threats of disasters or invisible enemies that reach us through the media keep people trapped in fear and pain. It is precisely that fear and pain that paralyzes and robs the world of real joy and creativity.
In the country where I live, the media reports so many bad news daily that it feels like a blanket of doom and gloom over the country. All that daily complaining and grumbling on a large scale in a country does something with the atmosphere. Negativity does not produce anything at all and only attracts more negativity.
'You must not close your eyes to the reality of all day'. That has been said to me quite often. The question, of course, is what the reality is? If your reality is that you can not resist or withstand the attraction to bad news, then that will be your strongest reality.
You just have to look at the stars to make sure that there is a much larger reality than our tiny planet.
When you make the journey inside, you experience that the strongest reality is simply in your own body. The kingdom of inner peace and peace reigns in you. That is stronger than everything that takes place on planet earth. Always make your inner world stronger than the outside world. Do not allow anything bigger than this inner peace to constantly guide and guard you. I will eventually become a state of mind that surpasses all reason and all the noise of the insignificant world. This is the constant presence of Jesus in you. Then you have found a treasure in heaven and you understand the proper role as a temporary resident on this turbulent planet.
Setbacks and the bad news on our planet only show that there is a bigger and stronger reality, the supernatural, divine world. Bad news constantly invites us to be full of other things. If there is black, there must also be white, otherwise black can not exist! Our thinking is the gateway to this supernatural world. When this thinking is really focused and changed, our heart, our inner man, will be able to preserve and fully experience that peace.
If you still find it difficult to experience the safety of your own body, if you are not yet able to be anchored in that supernatural world, simply start practicing.
Sometimes it helps (is less spiritual) just to laugh with a few comic movies. Look at the "ordinary" without too much thought. A beautiful flower that blooms openly, the bird that sings, your dog that is happy. Write down the beautiful experiences in your life and make this your report of good news. If the collective pain of this world wants to affect you, you can always revert to something good.
There is more good news than bad news. It is just what you want to see. It's just what you want to think about.
Wednesday 28 November 2018
Wednesday 21 November 2018
The power of thankfullness
Just as loving is not a kind of action to which we have to put ourselves, but more the constant state of our whole being, so it is with gratitude. Let the gratitude flow through every breath of our breath and every vein of our body.
The statement "be grateful if you have a roof over your head and food every day", does not help us to really experience the great power of gratitude. In this case, gratitude is more of an anesthetic and a comforting agent. But gratitude may just be a great creative force in our lives.
We can not force ourselves to be grateful if we are dissatisfied with our lives. But we can learn to separate our lives from the circumstances in which we find ourselves and from there start applying gratitude.
Many make the mistake of equating their lives with their circumstances, their thoughts or physical condition. This is nothing but a state or a phase in which we find ourselves as creatures in time. It can be temporary. But it does not say anything about life itself. Life takes place deep inside of us. That is the life with God himself.
Jesus Christ regularly faced "impossible" situations, such as the death of his best friend and a large crowd that He had to feed. It is special to see how His whole being transformed the power of gratitude into what is possible. He did not address either the circumstances or the bystanders. He thanked God that his friend would live again. He did not focus on the lack of so little food, but thanked God for the little that there was and it became a meal that was enough for thousands of people.
When we try to tame the voice of the mind, which is often a voice of doubt and dissatisfaction, through pure consciousness, we have taken a huge step forward. We then learn to detach from ownership, status and worries for the future. When we discover more and more the treasures of inner life, we have discovered the source of gratitude. That source is in the self-awareness. The more we discover how wonderfully beautiful everything is created, the more we take on the role of grateful onlookers and discoverers who never get bored in creation.
The second step is, not to let us get upset by the bystanders and circumstances. The largest group of people in life on earth are followers. Unfortunately, for many are born to take great initiatives and become creative. Because this does not work out well, people are dissatisfied and complaining. One is not aware of the great possibilities in themselves, which are waiting in the earth like a lump of gold. Instead of thanking God for what He gives and has made possible and available, people start complaining and creating expectations to others. This brings a circle of disappointment into their lives.
Faith and unbelief are not opposed to each other. Rather is disbelief a product of not being thankful. The greatest fear of people is not that they can do nothing, but that they discover what they really can do. That fear paralyzes and is fed by dissatisfaction and complaining; lovingly supplemented with doom scenarios and end times theologies.
If we fail to keep a grateful heart, then our thinking is cut off from our goal in life and we become apathetic. Then we are without hope and without faith. Gratitude is a great key to keep our consciousness constantly alert, so that our minds can not discourage us. Discouragements that are not dismantled in time turn into thoughts and statements that justify what we feel and experience!
It is important that we fill ourselves enough with beautiful images and thoughts that maintain and encourage gratitude and wonder. Instead of greed and too many thoughts.
Remain grateful for the ordinary. During my morning walks, I always start to give out loud so that my mind does not get the upper hand in that great creation; the birds that whistle their song; the rays of light through the woods .... Let it be ordinary without wanting to comprehend it mentally. Thanks for the ordinary things. Your breakfast, the water from the tap, the dog that greets you cheerfully. Make sure that nothing just becomes ordinary. Experience intense thanks and thus activate pure consciousness above the torments of the mind.
The statement "be grateful if you have a roof over your head and food every day", does not help us to really experience the great power of gratitude. In this case, gratitude is more of an anesthetic and a comforting agent. But gratitude may just be a great creative force in our lives.
We can not force ourselves to be grateful if we are dissatisfied with our lives. But we can learn to separate our lives from the circumstances in which we find ourselves and from there start applying gratitude.
Many make the mistake of equating their lives with their circumstances, their thoughts or physical condition. This is nothing but a state or a phase in which we find ourselves as creatures in time. It can be temporary. But it does not say anything about life itself. Life takes place deep inside of us. That is the life with God himself.
Jesus Christ regularly faced "impossible" situations, such as the death of his best friend and a large crowd that He had to feed. It is special to see how His whole being transformed the power of gratitude into what is possible. He did not address either the circumstances or the bystanders. He thanked God that his friend would live again. He did not focus on the lack of so little food, but thanked God for the little that there was and it became a meal that was enough for thousands of people.
When we try to tame the voice of the mind, which is often a voice of doubt and dissatisfaction, through pure consciousness, we have taken a huge step forward. We then learn to detach from ownership, status and worries for the future. When we discover more and more the treasures of inner life, we have discovered the source of gratitude. That source is in the self-awareness. The more we discover how wonderfully beautiful everything is created, the more we take on the role of grateful onlookers and discoverers who never get bored in creation.
The second step is, not to let us get upset by the bystanders and circumstances. The largest group of people in life on earth are followers. Unfortunately, for many are born to take great initiatives and become creative. Because this does not work out well, people are dissatisfied and complaining. One is not aware of the great possibilities in themselves, which are waiting in the earth like a lump of gold. Instead of thanking God for what He gives and has made possible and available, people start complaining and creating expectations to others. This brings a circle of disappointment into their lives.
Faith and unbelief are not opposed to each other. Rather is disbelief a product of not being thankful. The greatest fear of people is not that they can do nothing, but that they discover what they really can do. That fear paralyzes and is fed by dissatisfaction and complaining; lovingly supplemented with doom scenarios and end times theologies.
If we fail to keep a grateful heart, then our thinking is cut off from our goal in life and we become apathetic. Then we are without hope and without faith. Gratitude is a great key to keep our consciousness constantly alert, so that our minds can not discourage us. Discouragements that are not dismantled in time turn into thoughts and statements that justify what we feel and experience!
It is important that we fill ourselves enough with beautiful images and thoughts that maintain and encourage gratitude and wonder. Instead of greed and too many thoughts.
Remain grateful for the ordinary. During my morning walks, I always start to give out loud so that my mind does not get the upper hand in that great creation; the birds that whistle their song; the rays of light through the woods .... Let it be ordinary without wanting to comprehend it mentally. Thanks for the ordinary things. Your breakfast, the water from the tap, the dog that greets you cheerfully. Make sure that nothing just becomes ordinary. Experience intense thanks and thus activate pure consciousness above the torments of the mind.
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