ST I was wondering if there is a way I can learn to stop projecting "negative" thoughts on everything and learn to see things for what they are rather than by my own seemingly "negative" perceptions.(Sorry for use of word "negative", I couldn't find anything more appropriate.)
My tendency to expect/interpret the absolute worst from every conversation/person/event is really wearing me down and I feel that my perception is extremely "colored" or "swayed" in a certain direction regarding all these things. Yet I can't seem to stop doing it and I think it's pretty hard to be happy with this sort of "dark" perception of the world/life itself.
I've already realized that the words I've just written are an extremely scant representation of the ideas I was trying to convey, but I thought I'd ask anyways in case you could somehow understand these ideas through this primitive form of communication we human's use.
Quoting: CN 3891773 CN, what are the negative thoughts you get before meeting a person? Are you expecting them to be mean, lie, steal or expecting bad news? Just interested to know
Happy you enjoyed the video. I'm reading the thread you linked here. Thanx mate..Very interesting.
Rightnut and Lefty you're both loonies ..Ta for the laugh
It's not so much that I expect anything particularly negative out of a new person or anything. I don't necessarily expect them to be mean or steal or anything of that nature. I feel its more than in my search for truth i tend to project worst case scenarios on everything.
I mean most of the people I meet are so mundane and caught up in the mundane world that the only topics they are going to discuss have no real relevance in the search for true meaning anyways, so whether they twist the truth about meaningless mundane topics anyways I don't really care that much.
What bothers me is that I assume the worst in all scenarios where I feel it's possible someone has something to say that could actually improve my understanding of the world.
I can give a simple example and please don't take offense to it because I think the video you gave me was great, but I'm just trying to give you a glimpse into my self imposed predicament and this happens with pretty much everything for me, not just your video.
When I start watching a video like that I at first get excited thinking the person is surely on to something. Then doubts start to creep in: Does this person really know what he's talking about? Did he grasp some small truth and then elaborate it with his own inventions rather than truth? Could he really know anyways, being that he's a human and not an ET, and humans tend to take an idea and run with it? Is it just for money? Is this something TPTB encouraged to confuse "new age types who wouldn't buy into the other forms of confusion? Was that a semi-disguised 666 hand signal he used to signify his affiliation with TPTB at the end of the video when he pinched his forefinger and thumb together?
That's just a small sample of the analysis that my brain rapidly generates in almost every situation. It's pretty exhausting and I have the same problems with my relationships in real life. I don't assume my friends/family are out to hurt me or affiliated with TPTB or anything, but I do analyze everything that is said and done in about 100 different ways and can never REALLY know what they meant in any given situation, barring of course the simplest of statements that cannot be mistaken.
I hope ST is ok with me posting this as it doesn't entirely relate to his thread and terrestrial psychology probably isn't exactly their specialty. Then again? How could they possibly know less than our backwards doctor's here?
