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I wonder if this is what’s actually happening on those days where I’m in a
bad mood and, as a result, it appears to me that everyone else is in a bad
mood as well.
It’s not that there’s an abundance of people in bad moods that day; the
balance is the same as it ever as, it's just that I’m not receptive to the
positives and am only taking in the negatives, creating the illusion that
“everyone” is in a bad mood that day.
Yes, this is called "confirmation bias". In addition, our tendency is a negative bias ... natural selection has wired us to pay far more attention to threats than to benefits. The former have a potential to house potentially life-ending threats, the latter, from a survival standpoint, are irrelevant.
This negative bias served humans far better on the savannah than in the boardroom or in front of a computer or in an intimate relationship. So functioning well in modern technological / urban society is an exercise in self awareness, training oneself to overcome and compensate for these biases.
Combine this with the fact that we're a hyper-social species, another "gift" of natural selection where we're always scanning for potential social reciprocity or denial thereof.
So sure ... we are highly intuitive about the subtle signals that others give off about their (un)receptivity to certain things. Subjectively, this often "feels like" "energy" being "given off". In reality it is just our subconscious need to conform and to belong, mixed up with our subconscious need to be safe / okay, combined usually in most people with a blissful ignorance of these forces at work, which they then misattribute to some sort of eldritch "energy".
Not sure about "bad energy", but there's a lot of negativity and harshness in the US now. Some people do nothing but bytch and groan all day, carry around their dark clouds with them, and try to make everyone else miserable. One might start off by trying to rid themselves of those folk and their junk (hate media, etc.) Lighten the load a bit, and clear the air. Then get in, or increase, positive information and affirmations. One can plant seeds in filth or high-quality soil. The latter will lead to better results.
Not sure about "bad energy", but there's a lot of negativity and harshness in the US now. Some people do nothing but bytch and groan all day, carry around their dark clouds with them, and try to make everyone else miserable. One might start off by trying to rid themselves of those folk and their junk (hate media, etc.) Lighten the load a bit, and clear the air. Then get in, or increase, positive information and affirmations. One can plant seeds in filth or high-quality soil. The latter will lead to better results.
We're in an objectively polarized / polarizing and politically very dangerous time here in the US especially. Denying that doesn't help, however, you are right that finding the positives in 2017, effortful as it's been, has been essential to mental health.
There are some very simple things you can do easier than meditation or calling a priest...give...give to the panhandlers, give smiles, give kindness, politeness, let someone in front of you in a check out line, pay for the
kinda poor looking person in front of you (how? you say,' Excuse me' and then run your card thru...''My treat today, God bless you''.) or pay for the person in the car behind you in a drive thru...
tack $5 bills to bus benches....at laundromats to be found...take a bag and go around your neighborhood picking up any trash. Get out of your head and get into your heart. (Try 2 days of this.)
But, that's just one way...I'm sure every way others post here will work, also.
Take your pick.
Oh yeah.. give to panhandlers. Give to one, and in no time, there will be hundred of them on every intersection in the hood as the word will spread about generous feeding grounds.
Maybe watch "Night of the Living Homeless" S11 South Park. They sometimes have enlightening episodes.
Or, maybe a word from the Sri Bhagvan Radjnish will give you some insight:
Back to OP.
There is no good or bad energy.
There is only energy, Prana.
Prana is in everything and everyone.
What one makes of it, is up to that one. No one else.
That is on the inside.
On the outside, what others make of your energy, is up to them. You have no control over that.
And, wise person will not be bothered with things, he has no control over.
Also, do not forget: you will ALWAYS be tackled by egregores and leaches, to feed on your energy.
How to rid of leaches and egeregores is well described in Vadim Zeland's Transturfing Reality. Look it up, as I have to leave for work, to do my good or bad part of my life lessons.
Bad or negative "energy" tends to start in the mind, and what the mind lets in and festers on. That's always the best place to start the review and housecleaning.
Reject the junk and deal with the junk before the junk starts spoiling the mind, spirit, outlook, attitude, etc. etc. No need to be blaming demons, spirits, and even other people. Take personal responsibility.
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Oh yeah.. give to panhandlers. Give to one, and in no time, there will be hundred of them on every intersection in the hood as the word will spread about generous feeding grounds.
Maybe watch "Night of the Living Homeless" S11 South Park. They sometimes have enlightening episodes.
Or, maybe a word from the Sri Bhagvan Radjnish will give you some insight:
I used to volunteer to work for the Food Bank which you may know is instrumental in providing food to people all over the country who are food insecure. AKA for poor people who can get free food at their church and other distribution points that the Food Bank helps to supply with free nutritious food. Take some time to do anything along those lines yourself, and you will see that none of these people are inspired to be poor, hungry or beg, because of what little they can get by being poor, hungry or begging.
I've never believed that giving beggars money is any kind of answer to a very difficult if not impossible problem to correct, but I also think that the callousness some people have about people who are in such dire straights is part of why we don't come up with public policies that would at least help mitigate the problem in significant ways. More than the programs already in place, and thank goodness for those programs like SNAP that are already in place despite people who haven't a clue about the nature of this problem.
Bad enough these ridiculous conclusions about the poor and homeless. Spouting off about them like this is hard to come across without protest. Hardly an example of good energy in any case. That's for sure!
Jesus, LM. Knee jerk responses without, actually, reading what was suggested..
It is very superficial, to "give" and call it a day and "feel good". Oh, how great a person am I!
Did your donation actually FIX THE PROBLEM or, it only encouraged it? As, nothing given for free, ever improved a person.
And how do you even come up with such hypocritical terms as "food insecure"? "housing challenged"? Do they have institutes, coming up with such word soup to make folks feel good? Woke liberal nonsense.
Here's what you really want to do. Do you know, how a bad doctor treats a patient? Treats symptoms. Gives him pill, likely, a painkiller or a sedative, and makes many more follow up appointments. Runs him through "specialists" so that they, in their turn, feed off this.
How a good doctor treats? He finds CAUSE of the problem and treats THAT. And then, problem is GONE.
So yes, in your eyes, I am callused, but I challenge you to be a good doctor and, FIX the root cause of the problem, not to be a do gooder and have check mark with god, how much of a saint are you. Maybe, actually read, what OSHO said about do gooders. Might hurt but, as Wei Wu Wei said, the truth, in order to take effect, needs to penetrate, like a sharp arrow and that, is likely to hurt.
Fix the root cause, instead of encouraging dependent lifestyle.
Jesus, LM. Knee jerk responses without, actually, reading what was suggested..
It is very superficial, to "give" and call it a day and "feel good". Oh, how great a person am I!
Did your donation actually FIX THE PROBLEM or, it only encouraged it? As, nothing given for free, ever improved a person.
And how do you even come up with such hypocritical terms as "food insecure"? "housing challenged"? Do they have institutes, coming up with such word soup to make folks feel good? Woke liberal nonsense.
Here's what you really want to do. Do you know, how a bad doctor treats a patient? Treats symptoms. Gives him pill, likely, a painkiller or a sedative, and makes many more follow up appointments. Runs him through "specialists" so that they, in their turn, feed off this.
How a good doctor treats? He finds CAUSE of the problem and treats THAT. And then, problem is GONE.
So yes, in your eyes, I am callused, but I challenge you to be a good doctor and, FIX the root cause of the problem, not to be a do gooder and have check mark with god, how much of a saint are you. Maybe, actually read, what OSHO said about do gooders. Might hurt but, as Wei Wu Wei said, the truth, in order to take effect, needs to penetrate, like a sharp arrow and that, is likely to hurt.
Fix the root cause, instead of encouraging dependent lifestyle.
How do you propose we FIX the cause of poverty and homelessness? Have they ever been cured, at any time?
What was Osho’s cure for that cause? Did he ever find the root cause amidst his collection of BMWs? Or his 96 Rolls?
Last edited by cb2008; 05-14-2022 at 08:54 AM..
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