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Merla,
I agree with: "...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..."
Personally, I'm not mad anymore. I'm not blind and see all the crap
out there, but I made I decision a while back to 'keep the good vibes
going'. Also... Although I think that criticism is important (e.g.
Greenpeace has an important social function; ...alarmers), I believe that
society also needs the silent 'doers' that work at solutions rather then
'loudness of words'. Plus, I fear we are suffering from the 'too much TV'
syndrome that has produced all sorts of 'media driven fears'. For example,
CNN keep reminding us that terror is present (I think they terrorize us and drug
us up with fear... for $$$ of coarse), and people that watch shows like 'THE
X-FILES' now see a conspiracy theory in everything and everywhere.
So much energy being dissipated...
My father always says -" ... it take all sorts of people to make a
world...". And it's good that way.
With respect,
Robin
----- Original Message -----
Sent: July 28, 2002 2:57 AM
Subject: Re: FW: [globalnews] Stop the
Corporate Takeover of our Water
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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It
seems the only way around the future is through it...on our terms.
>
Possible alternatives would be groups of likeminded folks forming
communities
> around their farms and siezing control of their destiny,
water, and
> environmental policy...seems like this needs to become a
more serious
> discussion...SStorch
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