Merla, You are missing a very important principle by focusing on your feelings and that is BALANCE. You are not just a "feeling" individual. You also have (I hope) the ability to reason and a spiritual side of you. When you become out of balance you can become very depressed or violent as we see in many in our society today. Keep your reasoning ability and your faith. If your faith fails you, seek for another that won't. Keep your mind as the window to your heart and your emotions to enjoy the view or to motivate your reasoning. If your emotions become the window to your heart you're in for a roller coaster ride!
peace, Patti Berg Merla Barberie wrote: > I'm in the process of trying to have good vibrations most of the time because of > a book that was recommended to me�Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting by Lyn > Grabhorn. Her thesis is that you can only turn things around by maintaining > strong positive FEELINGS, even in the face of all kinds of things happening that > you don't want or when you want something which is seemingly impossible; that > attacking these "don't want" issues just makes them worse and longing for > something comes out of a "don't want" mentality too. These feelings can draw to > you the same negative vibrations from other people on the same and different > issues. I just started this and it is working, but I just had my first setback. > > Tonight around midnight I woke up with the most caustic fear around the issue of > the fairbooth that I'm working on for the county fair. The generator was > running and I went outside and turned it off and took some of my St. Johnswort > tincture and ate some cottage cheese. I'm feeling better. > > The unreasoning fear is alienating people and being ostracized for critizing the > present administration's ties to Monsanto and patenting of life. I bought a > video at the Global JAS conference which shows the implications--It starts out > with pictures of bubbling hot springs at Yellowstone and saying that the > microscopic creatures that live in the hot springs were going to be patented > until there was an outcry. It goes through the issues of the utility patent and > seed breeding, through the patenting of indigenous people's medicines that have > been developed over 100s of years and the patenting of cell lines from > indigenous people's DNA. > > The theme of the fair is "Star spangled memories uniting Bonner County," which I > take to imply a patriotic war theme which I am not in sympathy with at all. The > "united we stand" mentality is strong here and sometimes it gets to me, > especially when some of my fellow organic growers are so much into silence on > these issues and won't work in my booth. It's hard to maintain my positive > feelings and as tonight�I wake up with a powerful, negative feeling that I have > to turn around. Butting heads with people of like mind gets to me a lot more > than butting heads with someone who is my exact opposite. > > I knew that trying always to keep good vibrations would be hard, but when you > backslide after a period of focusing on being positive, it is scary. > > Has anyone had experience with trying to maining continuous positive > vibrations? How has it worked for you? For years I have been just facing pain, > sadness, anger head-on and working through them, but such honesty makes it hard > on your spouse and can put you at odds with other people too. Trying always to > keep good vibrations is a very different way of being, but I think it does draw > people to you. The idea of manifesting what you want with good feelings is > brand new to me. I gave up praying for anything personal that I wanted long ago > and instead just worked for what I wanted. That makes me a nag, and I'm always > trying to accomplish some project. Is it better to stiffle negative feelings, > let a lot of things just go by and always try to feel appreciation for > everything? The two philosophies are at odds. I find it hard to relax when > there is so much work that needs to be done. Is this the half-full, half-empty > conundrum or is this a change of emphasis from accomplishing things by doing to > accomplishing things simply by feeling good and staying plugged in to your > Guidance? > > I think this question applies to what is happening in the world today that we > are all thinking about all the time...how DO you turn it around�by having > fairbooths about it in enemy territory or simply by having strong good feelings > about how you would like things to be and enjoying life? > > Merla
