Denying the Negative?

Do not deny negative circumstance.  Simply have faith in what you believe and refuse to accept negative circumstance as final.
Uell S. Andersen, Three Magic Words, Loc 2292

Working through The Three Magic Words again, this time at the exclusion of other teachings...just so I can get a full grip of this.  I am not judging or analysing the validity of what is being taught...just studying it slowly and testing how it feels within me, piece by piece, chapter by chapter.  I am doing the meditations and I am using EFT as I do.  ( I just remembered how Bruce Lipton and a few others have recommended EFT as a means  to putting belief  in our subconscious...and thought why not? Trying to keep this mind of mine as open as possible.)

At the beginning of this study I had issues right off with the author's insistence on " denying negative circumstance".  I am a firm believer that "suffering' exists. Maybe it doesn't have to exist and only our minds are responsible for it ; maybe there is a way through it when we change our minds but it does exist. Throughout the book...negative circumstance and suffering is referred to as "evil'...and I prefer not to label it as such.  I prefer to think of it as neither good or bad...just is.

Today I found some clarification in the above quote.  It is not so much a matter of denying or pretending what is occurring in the physical world is negative.  It is simply about choosing differently.  So something goes wrong...you lose your house in a fire.  It would be strange to think you have to pretend that it didn't happen.  It did and it sucks.  For a while, it is expected, that you will be caught up in the negativity of this.  You will place your faith in the notion that "bad things happen and will keep happening. "  because they did. You have the proof in front of you right?

But...this is putting all our focus on the material world...what it has to offer and what it has to take away....not on the power of the spiritual and mental world  It is putting faith in the wrong direction...on things that will not bring joy, love, abundance and wellness into your life.

You see...according to Andersen's teachings...the mind (the Universal Subconscious Mind, that is) is all powerful. It acts according to whatever thought the conscious mind inputs into it with great conviction or belief. It is our thinking that determines what shows up in our lives. All things are first a thought and all thoughts are simply things.

Hmmm!

So if you have a core belief in this powerful Subconscious mind that says, "Bad things are always happening and are going to keep happening." Guess what?  Bad things are going to show up, again and again in your outer experience. The house fire is an example of that.  You believed it and it showed up.  Whatever belief we strongly adhere to in the subconscious...will become a reality in our physical world. We have faith in what we can experience with the five senses and we could experience this situation as such...so it became our reality.

When we focus on outer world as the final reality...all there is ...because that is all the senses are picking up...we deny or neglect the reality within...the mind and spirit reality ...the real truth.

We can choose another way and choose another thought.  As the thoughts come through our consciousness as they will constantly do ...it is up to us to choose which ones we want to create with...Do you want to keep creating with "Bad things happen and keep happening."? Or maybe with, "Things always work out in the end.  This is a temporary misfortune but things will turn around for the better." ? With the latter you are not denying the fire but you are refocusing on something more positive by recognizing the fleeting nature of circumstance.  Circumstance does not have to determine our inner reality.  Our inner reality can determine our circumstances.  It is guaranteed that if we keep focusing on the 'things will turn around" bit...things will turn around.  Positive things will start happening in our lives.

We do need to deny the negative happenings ...we just have to recognize they are not our final reality.  That reality is determined, not by the physical world, but by the mental and spiritual one.

Hmm!

Something to think about.

All is well