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The Power of
Personal Attitudes
The
Nature, Source of Our Attitudes
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On Attitudes
Attitudes are vital/emotionalized thoughts about our
existence.
Attitudes can be divided into those that we
have towards life, towards ourselves, and towards others.
Attitudes can be positive or negative.
An ongoing positive attitude is the goal we
seek. It leads to greater accomplishment and attracts positive
conditions.
Most of our difficulties in life are rooted
in our wanting attitudes.
A wanting attitude reversed attracts sudden
good fortune.
Attitudes in
Our Human Makeup
A simple
analysis of our fundamental human makeup reveals a wide-spectrum of
being, ranging from a most unconscious material substance to a most
conscious subtle substance. Our being ranges from the material body to
the vital sensations and emotions, to mental thought processing,
beliefs, values, and pure thought, to the spiritual parts of mind, and
on to the realm of the pure spirit itself.
Our
attitudes fit in between our emotions and feelings of our vital being,
and the thought processing and understanding of our minds.
Attitudes of Our Emotions
Our (mental)
views of different people and things are organized into ideals, values,
opinions, beliefs and sentiments. Our emotions are organized into
feelings, attitudes and motives. (MSS)
The Source of
Attitudes is the Mental Part of the Vital Plane
We consist of there planes of consciousness; the physical, the
vital/emotional, and the mental. There is the spiritual beyond
these. Within each plane there are Subplanes that actually
reflect the other essential three planes, for a total of nine
planes, excluding spirit.
Our attitudes
are formulated in the mental part of the vital/emotional plane;
which we designate as plane 4 of 9. This is plane of human
consciousness where emotions (of the next level) are processed into
emotional thought, the emotions' perception of knowledge. It is thus
where our attitudes, life intelligence,
and higher emotions lie. It is the center of our vital
skills. At this plane the mental element emerges strongly in the
vital consciousness and gives a higher direction and organization to
the expression of the vital energies. One way that expresses is
though our emotions.
Life reflects on the outside the
inner attitudes you have on the on the inside. Life for you is
in essence a reflection of your inner perceptions of the world.
We can surely see the causality between such negative attitudes
and the world around us. If we dislike our boss, there will be
tension and friction as a result. This is a direct cause and
effect relationship that is logical to our minds. What is not so
logical however is the sudden, magical ways life responds
to such changes in attitudes. We call this phenomenon where life
positively, suddenly, abundantly, and miraculously responds to
our inner change of heart and emotion, "Life Response."
Attitudes from Opinions
An attitude is born when an opinion is endorsed by the
emotions.
(MSS)
Subjective Opinions as Root
Cause of Negative Attitudes
Non-objective, subjective conclusions and
beliefs about facts of information are our opinions about those
facts. An opinion is not based on objective truth, but on a subjective judgment that may or may not be true.
-Our opinions are the root cause of our negative
attitudes. When these opinions are reinforced by our feelings and
emotions, our attitudes are born.
-A negative attitude takes shape when our subjective, non-fully
rational and logical opinions are endorsed by our vital emotions and
feelings. In a positive attitude, the opinions are "less-opinionated,"
as our perceptions are more in touch with the inherent truth of things.
Analysis
of an Attitude
- Attitude is one of opinion and vital urge.
- Opinion is a mental experience based on what the mind knows.
- Vital urge is the energy based on vital habits.
- Vital energy is physical passion sublimated.
- The physical IS at No. 9. [see
this]
- It is touched by the vital at No. 8.
- It acquires skill at No. 7.
- The skill becomes passionate or the man develops passion for
that skill at No. 6
- At no. 5, the passion giving up its physicality becomes pure
vital energy.
- That vital energy is directed by No. 4, the vital mind.
- That direction is endorsed by the opinion of the mind. (Opinion
must be similarly analysed)
- Both together are attitude. (MSS)
P,V,M Values
-- i.e. motives, attitudes, opinions
Attitudes are vital values, opinions mental
values, motives physical values. (MSS)
Attitudes vs.
Values
Our personal
attitudes and our personal values appear quite similar. However,
on closer analysis we see a distinct difference. For one, an
attitude reflects more of our vital behavior and action, whereas
our values reflect more of our mental beliefs, which may or may
not express through our behavior. For example, when we say that
I am tolerant or intolerant, it is expressing a positive and
negative attitude regarding one's own tolerance. However, when I
say that I believe in tolerance or open-mindedness, then I am
expressing a value. In that way, a value contains a conscious
mental recognition of the thing -- as an ideal subscribed
too; whereas an attitude is a less conscious vitalized opinion
expressed through our behavior and actions.
It is also
interesting to note that one may value tolerance and still be
intolerant! A perfect value would be integrated into one's
behavior, not just one's belief system; i.e. the value of a
belief in tolerance would be reflected in our tolerant vital
behaviors and actions, i.e. as a positive attitude.
A value
practiced and applied through our attitudes, behaviors, etc.
is a skill of life whose origin is of the spirit.
Acquisition of Attitudes
We acquire our attitudes through
our parents as we are raised, in our interaction with others and
the environment, through the genes we inherit from pervious
generations, and through the challenges and difficulties of
life.
Three Types
of Attitudes
-We have
identified three major categories of attitudes -- those that express our
essential state of being; those that express our relationship with
others; and those that reflect our relationship with life outside
ourselves.
-Each
one of us has our own unique blend of positive and negative personality
traits, including helpful and harmful personal attitudes.
To see
a list of Human Attitudes expresses positively
and negatively, click
here.
Article on
the Power of Personal Attitudes
Reversing
Negative Attitudes
(main)
Attitudes is Problem
The main problem is in our wanting attitudes. 90% of our difficulties
are rooted there.
On Attitudes in Life
Perhaps our greatest stumbling blocks are in our attitudes. In our
attitudes lies our greatest barrier to success in life. We can trace our
positive and negative attitudes towards others, towards, things, towards
ourselves, and towards life. Each person can make the effort to overcome
their own predominant negative attitudes. This will lead to becoming a
better person, and enable greater accomplishment and joy in life. When a
person changes a negative attitude, often we witness an instantaneous
positive response from life.
Change
an Attitude to Make Life
Instantly
Respond
We are filled with attitudes
acquired from our family, friends, and the environment. They are
also in the very fiber of our being, inherited
through our genes. Many of our attitudes are
fine, while others are less than stellar.
However, if we can identify a bad attitude, and make an effort
to change it, we will not only raise our consciousness, but life
will suddenly respond with unexpected bursts of
good fortune.
A salesperson was intimidated about
meeting
a very large customer. He felt that the effort
was a waste of time since the company was too large and could never
be penetrated. As it turned out, he didn't get the sale.
However, a number of months later, he changed his attitude
about approaching such larger-type customers. The very day
that he changed his attitude, the very same customer, who
turned him down months earlier, gave him a huge order.
As we see, changing a negative
attitude
has an amazing way of attracting positive conditions from
life. We call this phenomenon "life response." It is a power available to us every moment of the day, meaning
that our ability to evoke the miraculous is always at our
disposal.
The Sublime Result of Turning an Attitude Positive
The other day I was driving along down the highway, when I turned on my radio. I tuned into a show that gives career advice, which is on every weekend. I listen to the program on occasion, admiring the host's insights into many matters, but sometimes being put off by a certain line of thought he occasionally drifts into.
This time as I began to listen to the show, I caught myself and decided not to indulge my annoyance with his occasional outbursts, and remain still in my feelings. Within a few seconds, he began to speak of matters I had never heard from him before, including the power of self-givingness, of not trying to force your ideas on others, the importance of listening, and so forth. I was utterly astonished that he would say such things, for he had never expressed such sentiments before when I was listening!
I was once again privy to the life response power of controlling a wanting attitude. At the point we withdrew an annoyance or misgiving, positive conditions suddenly present themselves. Not only does it come in ways in ways you would never have imagined, but a sweet richness envelops your person and you are left with the thought that life would be infinitely sublime if you took to such efforts all of the time.
Reversing a Negative Attitude
The process of
reversing a negative attitude would
occur by shedding our subjective, false opinion about an object,
and replacing it with the objectives truth of things. As this
broader and more accurate knowledge takes shape in our minds, our
negative attitudes would be obliged to change. When our vital emotions
and feelings withdraw their support for the old opinions, and begin to
support this new, objective view of things, the negative attitude would
be fully cancelled.
Two Inner
Approaches that Will Catapult You to a Whole New Level of
Success
Man complains that he is not as successful as he would like,
yet does not understand that his inner condition is what
directly blocks further accomplishment in life. There are at
least two major approaches to resolving this problem. One is
to look at negative circumstances occurring outside one's
self, and make the necessary corresponding inner adjustment;
the other is to do an evaluation of one's inner condition in
life, find what is wanting, and make the necessary change.
Either will attract rapid good fortune from the world.
In the first approach, I identify negative circumstance
occurring in my life, and I relate it to a wanting attitude
or behavior on my part. I then change that negative, and as
a result, life
suddenly responds in my favor, as new sources of
money, work, opportunity, etc. appear out of nowhere.
This is the principle of "inner-outer correspondence" in
action; that if you change the inner wanting condition, life
on the outside will suddenly respond in our favor. For
example, one woman who saw that her ill-will towards another
had precipitated negative circumstances in a completely
different area of her life, decided to change her feelings
towards this individual. At one point, she even came up and
congratulated her on winning a big company prize. As a
result, not only did she create goodwill with this person,
but the organization where they worked suddenly bestowed a
highly prized, expensive gift to
every
employee in the firm, including the woman who changed her
attitude!
This is one approach to accomplishing vastly, beyond one's
current limitations. The other approach is to "take
inventory" of one's self, identify several wanting
qualities, and make the persevering effort to overcome them.
For example, I evaluate myself in such areas as my level of
cleanliness and orderliness, my skill levels, my attitude
towards work, life, and myself, whether I am psychologically
strong, whether the work I am doing is really what I want,
whether I am fully accepting what life demands of me,
whether I have a clear direction in life, and so forth. I
then conclude that my living and work space are completely
disorganized, that I have no focus in my life (i.e. I am
scattered in my intentions), that I procrastinate, and that
I not punctual in keeping appointments. I then develop a
comprehensive plan to overcome them, and carry it by making
a sincere, determined
effort. In the days and weeks that follow, life responds
with miraculous-like results. The outer has mirrored my
inner condition with positive new developments. It is the
phenomenon of “Life Response” in action.
How to Spiritually Overcome Negative Attitudes
We tend to think in a negative way under two broad classification-
insecurities and fear of failures.
As a first step, Mother says if
you can recognize that you are thinking in a negative way- don't argue
with it, don't analyze it, don't defend yourself against it, you just
cut it off. The moment you recognize that you're thinking a negative
thought, simply cut it off and insert a totally different thought into
your mind. Appa says that in a different way, “whenever such thought
comes-think of Mother”-which is consecration.
Secondly recognize
it why it is coming. Mother says we do not even know what kind emotion
we have. If we can name our emotions correctly it is half won-for
example-we understand anger as irritation, irritation as annoyance,
annoyance as dejection, dejection as rejection etc. Behaviors and habits
cannot be “shifted” by determination alone. It can be changed only by
self-conscious approach by analyze what kind of personality we are. For
introspection purpose; if you extend that-negative thought to its
limits- at certain point you may find that how ridiculous it is and may
even become a laughing stock. But note that it is only to analyze your
character and you should not give strength to those thoughts.
Taking opposite of that thought, images, and positive outcome in beliefs
and initiating deeds based on that, and based on the truth behind that
-is “shift”. (Ramesh, MSS)
On Attitudes
Take but three of your negative attitudes and turn them around. That's
all you have to do. Your life will change forever. Everything else can
be irrelevant.
The hard part is not shedding one's negative attitudes, but discovering
what they are in the first place.
Ego-reversal
and Right Attitudes
When
we move from an ego-supported conscious to non-ego, our negative
opinions, false beliefs, etc. tend to break down, we perceive
become more open to the truer truth of things,
which in effect causes our negative attitudes to dissolve, which under
the right conditions can suddenly elicit a powerful positive response
from life.
Levels of Overcoming Negativity Toward Others
There are three points to overcoming negativity towards another, such as
bad will, anger, jealousy, disdain, etc. First, refrain from verbally
expressing it (that's at the physical plane). Second control your
emotions about it (that's at the vital/emotional plane). Third, empty
your thoughts of it (that's at the mental plane). Start with the
physical plane aspect of the negativity, and move your way up to the
vital/emotional plane next, and then lastly the mental plane. Total
transformation of the negativity occurs when you are able to turn the
conflict into a positive at all three planes. If you do that you can
yourself become a transformed person.
We can have bad will towards another in three ways that correspond to
our three essential levels of our being -- at the physical, the
vital/emotional, and the mental. When we have build will for another at
the physical level it seems to express in our very nature, in the very
fibers of our bodies, almost as if it were natural and second nature.
One needs to only look at the present conflict in the Middle East to see
the intense, visceral hostility that is there in their physical
consciousness of its leaders. It expresses in their actions and deeds.
It is as if one were born feeling that way, and expresses in their very
movements, actions, and deeds. No thought or emotion needs to invoke it.
If you have such a bad will toward another it must absolutely stop now
and forever. Nothing is more important in your life; there is no greater
barrier to accomplishment, success, and happiness in life.
At the next level up, the emotional/vital level, is where most people
experience and express their bad will toward others. At that level we
have a sensation, an emotion, a passion of bad will towards
another. How many of us have not related to another in such a way? A
woman feels a continuous distain or emotional conflict with her boss or
coworker. A man is miffed by something a friend has said holds onto this
irritation for a long time, and feels it welling up in him from time to
time. Another individual holds a 30 year grudge against a relative. This
visceral ill-will can be held deep in the emotions, and expresses more
or less intensely in one's feelings. If one has such ill-will in the
emotions, one must shed it as soon as possible. Also, if you sincerely
make the psychological effort to shed such feelings, life will suddenly
respond positively in kind. Opportunities and good fortune will appear
from out of nowhere; and from the most unlikely sources! For example,
the woman who had hard feelings towards her boss was somewhat shocked
when her boss suddenly started acting sweetly and kindly, which was not
in his normal nature, after she had give up all her bad will towards
him.
Finally, there are those who have shed negative emotional feelings, yet
still feel a vestige of bad will in their thoughts. It just kind
of pops into the mind from time to time. If it does, one simply needs to
catch it and stop it in its tracks. This is the easiest to control, but
still needs to be shed.
Method to Overcome Negative Thoughts and Feelings
We can try a little experiment. Simply observe all negative thoughts and
feelings in a one hour period of time. Write them down. Try it again,
and see if they repeat. Also, see if you can tie it to a negative or
limiting part of your being; such as false knowledge, limited judgments,
bad attitudes, harmful desires, stupid impulses, foolish actions, and
limited beliefs, sentiments, or personal values. What an exercise that
would be!
Quality Not Liked in Another
If there is a quality you don't like in another, detach yourself from
your irritation and bother. If you examine yourself, you will be able to
identify a parallel or mirror-image of the perceived negative quality in
yourself. (This phenomenon is often seen in the relationship between
parents and children.) Minimally make the feeling toward the other
person positive. Maximally understand the corresponding or mirror image
attribute in your own nature, and them make an effort to change it for
the better.
Getting at the Root of Anger
Anger is hard to catch, but if you can, correlate the object of your
anger to something nagging at you within that has nothing directly to do
with the object of anger. Change that, rather than continue your anger
outward in any way. Actually, the first rule of anger is to never have
it, and if you do, stop it immediately; and thereafter check within
yourself to see what is really bothering you, and make an effort to
change that limiting or negative quality or aspect or capacity within
yourself. This is the way to peace; for the individual or the nation.
Negative Life
Response to Negative Attitude
Negative Life Response
If you think of someone or some group in a
negative manner (i.e. with negative feeling), you will almost be sure to
have a negative life response somewhere thereafter to this expression.
In that sense we can trace all negative responses in life that befall us
back to such negative feelings, actions, etc.
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Expressing a negative thought, such as a
mischievous, unpalatable idea to others, will attract negative life
response to the perpetrator a short time thereafter
Small Attitude Cancels Great Opportunity
Many can recall such instances where
a small attitude cancelled a great opportunity.
(MSS)
Other
Feeling Superior to Another
If you look down upon a person because you are endowed with one superior
quality, know you do not have several skills the other person has. A
good example of this scenario is described in Jane Austin's Pride and
Prejudice.
Ill-Will in Pride and
Prejudice
Negative Attributes Of Kin, Ourselves
Many of the attributes we dislike in our children we have in ourselves.
Many of the attributes we don't life in our parents, we have in
ourselves. Sometimes the attributes not liked manifest in different ways
in ourselves, in our children, in our parents. They have the same root,
however, just manifesting either the same or somewhat differently.
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"True courage belongs
to the person who voluntarily gives up his fondness for having enemies.
An unawakened man clings desperately to his enemies, for without them he
would feel empty, unimportant. He fears the loss of the agitation
supplied by enemies, for he is deceived into thinking that agitation is
an exciting way of life. Can we give up one enemy today, whether a
person or stubborn machine or cloudy day? We can do that much in order
to express the courage for conquest." (The Daily Guru)
Outgrowing Group Negativity
When friends and associates gather and mock
those who are weak, infirm, or vulnerable, it is an indicator of their
own common insensibility. It is part of why Nature has brought them
together; to outgrow it.
Small Men's Small Attitudes
Small men enjoy being small. Their
minds travel in small attitudes. The range is not only comfortable but
gives pride of possession. When they occupy power they exercise it with
a vengeance.
(MSS)
Change an Opinion
Change one opinion of yours, a miserable
life becomes a happy life. (MSS)
True Inner Silence
I have heard from many devotees that though they want harmony with
others their efforts end in failure with the other persons provoking
quarrels and picking fights even when the devotee keeps silent. The
other person could be the spouse, another colleague at work spot or
another devotee they meet at the center or even a neighbour.
Very often the failure comes because the physical silence that the
devotee practices is not backed by true inner silence. The devotee
though not openly quarrelling will be criticizing the other person in
his or her mind all the time. This silent criticism sends out
vibrations of disharmony all the time which the other person responds
to and provokes what the devotee thinks is an uncalled for quarrel.
But it is the vibration coming from the devotee that is causing the
mischief. We may take rotten food away from the dining table so that
others do not see them and put them away in the kitchen. But the smell
of rotting food floats from the kitchen and enters the dining hall and
disturbs people. Silent criticism is like rotten fruits and disturbs
the other person just as effectively as open quarrelling. Life is far
more subtle than we think. What we do not speak out is sensed by life
as vibrations and they are just as real to life as spoken words.
In P&P Elizabeth has silently criticized Darcy so many times
throughout the story. Suddenly out of the blue she finds Lady
Catherine visiting her and showering a rain of abuse on her leaving
her bewildered. How will she ever know this is what she gets as life
response for the incessant silent criticism of Darcy that has been
going on her head for so many months. She may never see the
connection. But at least we devotees should know this connection and
see that we do not commit this mistake when we strive for harmony with
others.
Let any devotee who wants true harmony with others stop
this silent criticism and then he or she will see the results. (N.
Asokan, MSS)
Attitudes and Accomplishment
(main)
Thoughts & Attitudes and Our Success, Failure
Our thoughts and our attitudes determine the results of our actions.
Mind is the determinant of our successes and our failures. (MSS)
Attitudes and Accomplishment
Attitudes have a significant positive or negative effect on one's
ability to accomplish in life.
Shifting from Outer to Inner Right Attitudes for Success
Success arises from shifting our reliance from the
outer world around us to our own inner being, relying on right
attitudes, rather than on external sources of support and
assistance.
On Attitudes in Life
Perhaps our greatest
stumbling blocks are in our attitudes. In our attitudes lies our greatest
barrier to success in life. We can trace our positive and negative
attitudes towards others, towards, things, towards ourselves, and towards
life. Each person can make the effort to overcome their own predominant
negative attitudes. This will lead to becoming a better person, and enable
greater accomplishment and joy in life. When a person changes a negative
attitude, often we witness an instantaneous positive response from life.
The Right and
Wrong in Attitude and Acts
The right or wrong does not lie in the ACT, it dwells in one's
attitude. (MSS)
Right and Wrong Attitudes for
Accomplishment
For the purposes of accomplish, there
are no right and wrong attitudes. There are only attitudes that assist
accomplishment and those that prevent or retard it. A negative attitude,
no matter how justified by events, prevents the free and unrestricted
flow of energies required for accomplishment the way a red traffic
signal stops the flow of cars at an intersection and prevents its free,
uninterrupted movement down the street. Positive attitudes are like a
string of green lights that enable you to travel at a steady speed for
block after block without slowing or stopping. Open-mindedness, positive
thinking, expansiveness, and willingness to change are green lights for
accomplishment. Doubts, suspicions, fears, pessimism which is passed off
as "realistic thinking", shrinking from what is new or challenging are
red lights, which no matter how justified by past experience or current
circumstance, prevent the conversion of energy into force for higher
accomplishment. (MSS)
Sincere Personal and Spiritual
Growth through an Organized Plan
"The golden
RULE is not to achieve, but to preserve what is achieved. We
have to observe ourselves very closely and explain to
ourselves the nature of our acts. We always think of the
ideal to which we should reach, which is good in itself; but
let us know that it is only a thought. From where we are to
where we should go there are a great many steps. Let us know
all these conditions and find out what is the immediate next
step. If one is to act, if one is to do the right thing, if
one is sincere to himself, all that one can do is know this
next step and take it. Rationally that is the only thing he
can ever do. The rest he can only talk about."
This is the process of creation for the
aspiring spiritual individual. Goals of self-improvement
considered and perceived, knowing the strategies to get
there, and acting on them is that process. It is for those
serious in his endeavor. Then this person will become an
entirely new person, the spiritual individual. Otherwise, it
is a slow, semi or unconscious process of hit and miss,
using this and that technique of Appa's when applicable. A
life plan of his teachings that incorporates a way to hold
down the negative and uplift the positive shows sincerity.
It will enable personal and spiritual progress, even
evolution, marked by constant evocation of LUCK.
Just the other day I decided to be positive in my
attitudes for the rest of my life, holding down certain
specific negative ones, like anger, irritation, sarcasm, and
several others. I even though of catching and halting the
tiniest negative that arises inside me. If I do it AS A
SERIOUS PLAN, doing it sincerely with full effort, it will
be a breakthrough. Otherwise, I will have to go through the
hit and miss cycles of ordinary life; even with my knowledge
of Karmayogi's principles.
Attitudes and Life Response (instantaneous success)
(main)
Change
an Attitude to Make Life
Instantly
Respond
We are filled with attitudes
acquired from our family, friends, and the environment. They are
also in the very fiber of our being, inherited
through our genes. Many of our attitudes are
fine, while others are less than stellar.
However, if we can identify a bad attitude, and make an effort
to change it, we will not only raise our consciousness, but life
will suddenly respond with unexpected bursts of
good fortune.
A salesperson was intimidated about
meeting
a very large customer. He felt that the effort
was a waste of time since the company was too large and could never
be penetrated. As it turned out, he didn't get the sale.
However, a number of months later, he changed his attitude
about approaching such larger-type customers. The very day
that he changed his attitude, the very same customer, who
turned him down months earlier, gave him a huge order.
As we see, changing a negative
attitude
has an amazing way of attracting positive conditions from
life. We call this phenomenon "life response." It is a power available to us every moment of the day, meaning
that our ability to evoke the miraculous is always at our
disposal.
Life Responds to the Quality of Our Attitudes
Life responds to the quality of our attitudes. If we
reverse ourselves from a negative one, or move from a neutral to a more positive one, life tends to
quickly respond with sudden good fortune. Likewise, if we take a
positive view of a situation, life also tends to respond quickly in our
favor.
The Sublime Result of Turning an Attitude Positive
The other day I was driving along down the highway, when I turned on my radio. I tuned into a show that gives career advice, which is on every weekend. I listen to the program on occasion, admiring the host's insights into many matters, but sometimes being put off by a certain line of thought he occasionally drifts into.
This time as I began to listen to the show, I caught myself
and decided not to indulge my annoyance with his occasional
outbursts, and remain still in my feelings. Within a few
seconds, he began to speak of matters I had never heard from
him before, including the power of self-givingness, of not
trying to force your ideas on others, the importance of
listening, and so forth. I was utterly astonished that he
would say such things, for he had never expressed such
sentiments before when I was listening!
I was once again privy to the life response power of
controlling a wanting attitude. At the point we withdrew an
annoyance or misgiving, positive conditions suddenly present
themselves. Not only does it come in ways in ways you would
never have imagined, but a sweet richness envelops your person
and you are left with the thought that life would be
infinitely sublime if you took to such efforts all of the
time.
Shedding
Negative
Attitudes Instantly
Attract Success
Attitudes are
the nexus of success.
Other factors --
such as skill,
knowledge, and hard
work; things we believe
are critical -- are
relatively less
important. That's
because when we
change an attitude, life
immediately responds in
our favor through a
subtle process,
attracting
instantaneous success.
Friends and associates have
of mine have
experienced this
phenomenon
hundreds if not
thousands of times over
the years,
instantly propelling
them forward in their
domain. For example-
-
An employee shifted
away from her
negative attitude
toward a ruthless
boss, and he quickly
and most
unexpectedly left
the company.
-
A man overcame his
reluctance to work
weekends at a retail
computer store, and when he
came in, he attracted the
largest sale of his life.
-
An owner overcame
a limited attitude that he
can only sell to the
local market, and
revenues quickly doubled,
when previously,
despite his
aspiration, sales
barely moved an inch.
-
A man went ahead and
finally dealt with a
floundering project
that had cost him
time and effort
without pay, and
as a result, a 6-month
backache suddenly disappeared.
-
A business owner
changed his attitude
about getting repeat
customers --
previously he
garnered
none -- and quickly
attracted the biggest pharma company in
the world, who wanted
him to repeat his
sales training 100
to 1000 times
throughout the
world.
When we shed a negative
attitude about others,
work, life, or
ourselves, life
immediately starts
working on our behalf.
Shedding a wanting
attitude moves us from the
local domain of
limitation to
the universal plane
where the infinite
potentials of life rush
in. When we
make these
"reversals of
consciousness," we align with
the very best of conditions, which we
experience as instances
of sudden good fortune.
It is the phenomenon of
life response in action!
Attitudes and Inner-Outer
Correspondence
Life reflects on the outside the
attitudes we feel and express within ourselves. For example, if we
dislike our boss, there will be tension and friction; and if we reverse
that, then we will create a more harmonious relationship. What we do not
normally recognize, however, is that this reversal attracts sudden good
fortune, such as the sudden resolution of a problem, or an opportunity
suddenly coming our way. We call this phenomenon a "Life Response," and
it is occurring all the time. To see them, all we have to do is look
around, examine the outcomes in our lives, and see how our positive or
negative attitudes attracted them. Now we can avoid the wanting ones and
increase the positive ones to attract a never ending series of fortunate
events.
Life Response and Attitudes
Beneath the surface of our outer
perceptions of life, there is a deeper awareness, where we experience
that everything in life is related, connected, and one. That is the case
because we are born of the same spirit and substance. In that state of
deeper awareness we come to see that there are powers, forces,
vibrations, and energies that move in the world. When we have negative
feelings towards another, we attract corresponding and related negative
forces and energies, which come to us as negative fortune and
circumstances. When we give them up our negative propensities, such as
bad will toward another, the reverse occurs, and we experience sudden,
seemingly miraculous good fortune. These positive response to our change
seem to come from out of nowhere; but they are in fact directly
related to our own inner change. Such results seem to defy all of our
normal perceptions of logic, our commonly held notions of cause and
effect, and space and time.
Reverse Your Wanting
Attitudes to Make Life Respond
The majority of the problems we encounter in life originate in our
wanting attitudes. However, if we reverse ourselves and make them
positive, life can suddenly and abundantly respond. For example, one
woman gave up her ill will toward her co-workers, and suddenly attracted
a full-time job position -- her first in nearly a decade of trying. Action Plan: Consider the negative attitudes you have towards other,
and towards life itself. (Examples are dishonesty, ill will, disrespect,
callousness, arrogance, intolerance, suspicion, obsequiousness,
indifference, reluctance, low self-esteem, pessimism, impracticality,
irresponsibility, pridefulness, laziness, and procrastination.) Then
make a concerted effort to overcome one or two of the most problematic
ones. When you do so, the infinite potentials of life will rush to your
doorstep!
Change an Attitude to Make Life
Instantly Respond
We are filled with
the attitudes that we acquire
from our family, friends, and the environment. They are also in the very
fiber of our being, inherited through our genes. Many of
our
attitudes are fine, while others
are less than
stellar. However, if we can
identify a bad attitude, and make an effort to
change it, we will find
that
life will suddenly respond to our efforts, and bring us good fortune.
A salesperson was
intimidated about meeting a very large customer. He felt that the effort was a waste of time
since the company was too large and could never be penetrated. As it turned out
he didn't get the sale. However, a number of months later he changed his attitude about approaching
such
larger-type customers. The very day that he changed his attitude, the very same customer, who turned him down, gave him a huge order!
As we can see, the
power of a positive or a changed attitude has an
amazing way of attracting positive responses from life. We call this
phenomenon "life response." Whenever we change our inner
attitudes and consciousness, life has
a most astounding and miraculous way of responding positively and
instantaneously in kind. Life
brings success, fortune, and joy to those who make this psychological
adjustment.
The Power
of Changing Our Attitudes
Since changes in attitude have a
particularly powerful tendency to invoke
sudden good fortune, it would be worth
knowing what our own wanting ones are,
and then make the concerted effort to
overcome them.
Generally speaking, we can identify three
types of wanting attitudes -- those
concerning work and life, those involving
other individuals, and those relating to our own
selves.
Examples of negative attitude about work and
life include an unwillingness to be fully
engaged in the work at hand,
procrastinating, not caring about the
quality of our efforts, being lazy, and
being cynical. Examples of negative
attitudes towards others is being hostile
and harboring ill-will to another, and being
jealous. Examples of negative attitudes
about ourselves is having low
self-esteem and self-confidence.
The good news is that if you can identify
two or three negative attitudes in your
life, and overcome them, life will suddenly
move towards you with overwhelming good
fortune.
-One woman who was working as a temporary
employee for years overcame her negative
attitude toward a co-worker, which suddenly
attracted a full time position, her first
after ten years of trying.
-Another individual overcame his reluctance
to work weekends, which attracted the
biggest sale and commission of his life,
catapulting him into a life long career in
that field.
-A third individual overcame his reluctance
to do an unflattering but necessary task,
which attracted a new position that enabled
him to change the course of financial
history.
Life does have this extraordinary capacity
to respond to our changes in consciousness
within -- particularly our wanting
attitudes. This magic-like response is what
I call a "Life
Response."
So why not pick out one or two wanting
attitudes that you have been expressing, and
make the effort overcome them. Like the
individuals above, you will be astounded by
the results -- amazed when life suddenly
begins to cooperate from all quarters!
The 1000% Solution
Ever since I purchased my new computer with Windows Vista a year
ago, I have been very pleased with its performance. There has
been one little quirk however. Every time I start up the
computer, it creates a new version of the printer driver through
a series of dialogue boxes that I have to click my way through.
It was not only an annoyance that occurred every time the system
loaded, but it would cause me to have to pick the right driver
before I printed any document from the computer.
It turns out that I purchased this printer several months before I
purchased my new Vista-based computer. Since Vista generally
works best with new hardware and software built for it, the fact
that I had these quirks with the pre-Vista printer was not
surprising. Still I managed to muddle my way through over the
past year. Recently however I decided that it was time to
eliminate these minor but annoying quirks by purchasing a new
printer that would be fully compatible with Vista.
At the same time there was another situation going on. It turns out
that I refer potential project management software clients to a
local technology company in my area. They are a fine
organization with great expertise and goodwill, but are
generally lax in making their payments. It is not that they are
unwilling to pay, but they seem to be unable to keep their
records up to date. Plus, they seem to have problems
communicating necessary information to the right person. In any
case, it is always up to me to remind them of the money they owe
me. This even after we recently had a lunch meeting where they
told me about a new system they were implementing to tackle this
very problem! Well it turns out that they owed me a relatively
small sum of around $350-$400.
Now back to the printer situation. Recently I made the decision to
purchase the new Vista-compatible printer from Amazon, and
unload my older printer. I expected the new printer to arrive in
about a week to 10 days, but instead it arrived sooner. In fact,
when I came home from some chores last night, I was surprised to
see the printer delivered at my doorstep. And so that night,
though late, I decided to install the printer. After unpacking
the box and setting up the hardware, I had serious trouble
installing the software. When I ran it from my CD-player, it
made a terrible whirring sound, and then five minutes into the
installation, it came up with a fatal error message. I restarted
and tried again, and it failed once more. That meant that I had
to call technical support late into the evening to resolve the
problem.
When I spoke with the woman there, it did not seem very promising,
as she seemed to be merely following a script. As I was tired, I
thought to myself: ''Oh the HP printers just don't work right
with Vista, as do many other things." In anguish I even said
this to her at one point. Fortunately, she did not react to my
cry in the dark, and calmly continued with her work. Skeptical
and anguished, I decided at one point to give up all my negative
attitudes about the matter, and surrender to her capacity to
resolve the problem. She then had me download the software over
the Web and install it. Though it took a while, it worked
flawlessly. Not too long after, the printer also worked
perfectly. Plus, I now had none of those irritating dialogue
boxes at startup that plagued me for the past year, nor any of
the printing issues related to having multiple drivers. I
clearly saw how my reversal from the negative to a right
attitude had attracted these positive conditions.
The next morning I got up and then checked my email. It was a
message from the company I make referrals to; the one I
described above. It was a note from the president, who told me
that everyone there had been busy and only now had they gotten
around to paying the bill they owed me. That was encouraging.
However, when I examined the amount more closely, I saw that it
was not for $350-$400, but it was for $3540! I.e. 10 times the
original amount! I wondered what was could have caused this, and
then saw that the work I had referred them for one of the
largest companies in the US had unexpectedly increased
tremendously in the last several months
Instantly I understood the real cause of this extraordinary
response. I saw that the vast increase in the amount was
directly related to my change of attitude the night before; when
I calmed myself, shed my angst and cynicism, and surrendered to
the capacity of the technical support person. By shifting from
doubt to faith, life responded not only by easily resolving my
printer problem, but by attracting a payment the next morning
that was 10 times the amount I expected. Life not only fulfilled
my aspiration for payment, but exceeded it by 1000%
Affirmation of Position
A close friend and I have been working on a project
of a lifetime. There are endless discussions on the matter, with many
side issues debated. The other day I expressed an opinion on an episode
of a TV series that related to one of the topics, but my friend in
response took a decidedly different point of view. I responded to his
statement curtly, but non-aggressively, reaffirming my own. It was not
that he fully disagreed with my position, but had a very different one.
I felt somehow that he failed to address my own, and so my assertiveness
and ego rose to the fore. I held onto this feeling throughout the
remainder of the day and over night.
The next
morning, I recalled the situation and took a different tact. I called to
the Divine and asked that it relieve me of my assertiveness and ego, and
instead create an atmosphere of harmony. One minute later, I opened my
email program where I found but one message. It was my friend responding
again. When I finished reading his comment, I was astounded, for he had
in essence taken my point of view, even adding a creative dimension.
I saw the
dual power of moving from
ego
and separateness -- in essence a wanting attitude
-- to one of harmony, and then offering
that aspiration to the Higher Power. The result was that I attracted a
small but powerful outcomes that struck me as nothing short of
miraculous.
Complete, 180 Degree Turnaround
One day
recently, a contact of mine who I had been giving advice to told me
about an episode involving a close friend of his. It turns out, my
contact's acquaintance worked for a manufacturing group in India in a
technical position. The friend is supposedly an emotional person, and
had been upset because he was not appreciated by his superiors. He was
constantly complaining that he was not getting his due recognition,
and therefore had been threatening to resign from the company.
Fortunately, the
cooler head of my contact prevailed when he convinced his friend to
take a day off to consider the matter further. He also asked him to
shift his attitude from hostility and bitterness to having positive
thoughts and feelings towards his superiors and the organization as a
whole.
Well it turned
out that the very next day, my contact learned that his friend had
suddenly and most unexpectedly received a bonus of 4.85 Laks (~2000 US
dollars, a substantial sum in India) from the company! It was a
stunning development, and a sure sign of the phenomenon of life
response at work. Equally remarkable was the fact that he garnered the
sum during the current world economic crisis when salaries were being
decreased and people laid off.
When I read the
story, I commented to my contact that neutralizing a negative attitude
will always evoke a positive response. Moreover, if one goes a step
further and turns negativity into
positive goodwill, as the
friend did here, then the response can be overwhelming.
Several weeks
later, I received another note indicating that there was an update to
the story. My contact wrote that he implored his friend to continue
his inner effort of inner goodwill towards his manager, the CEO, and
the organization; and once again, which the friend again took it up in
full. The friend then called the contact back to tell him that another
miracle had taken place. It turns out that he was suddenly and most
unexpectedly asked by the CEO of the company to make a major
presentation. Not only was it successful, but it was very much
appreciated by his manager. Thus, he had now made a complete, 180 degree
turnaround from bitterness and feeling underappreciated to garnering
full recognition by his superiors!
In this case, we
see how one individual showed inner courage by following the sage
advice of his friend, thereby turning around a negative situation to
its
complete opposite. That same power is of course available
to each of us. All we have to do is determine where we are expressing
a wanting attitude, and then make an effort to neutralize it, or
better yet turn it into its opposite. When we do, we too will
experience a miraculous-like outcome. Moreover, if we take to this
approach on a regular basis, miracles will be our constant companion.
Keep in mind
that the solution to the overwhelming majority of problems we
encounter is inward, not
outward. When we shift our emotions away from insecurity, ranker, and
bitterness, we align with and attract the most positive of conditions.
And if we go a step further and turn those feelings into their
complete opposite -- e.g. from resentment to active, positive good will
-- then we attract conditions that simply overwhelm, as was the case
of the friend who saw his deepest aspirations in his work life
fulfilled.
Turning a Problem into a Vast Opportunity
Last week I relearned an important lesson of life.
If you approach a
perceived negative
situation in the right
spirit, you can unleash
a powerful positive
opportunity. Here is the
story:
After the recent Palestinian-Israeli flare up with
Hamas, I was beginning
to feel far less
sympathy for the latter.
Though no supporter of
terrorism, I felt that
Israel was once more
expressing their
insincerity by fighting
rather than negotiating
when they had the
opportunity to do so in
the quiet period before.
Though I have seen the
same pattern over the
years, this time I was
perhaps a little too
troubled by the
situation.
That day, my company received an
inquiry about one of the
primary services we
offer. The party was
interested in seeing a
demo of our online
training application. In
response, we sent her a
link so the organization
could review it for
three working days.
Though she was pleased
with my response, she
asked that the term be
extended several days
because they do not work
on Friday and Saturday
in Israel. Understanding
the issue, I agreed to
the extension. I also
now understood something
else: the subtle
connection between my
previous inner emotional
outburst about the
Palestinian situation
and the sudden arrival
of an email message from
this representative of
an Israeli company. It
struck me as the type of
synchronicity and a
confluence of events I
had experienced a
hundred times before,
but this time with a
somewhat negative edge
to it.
Several days later, she sent another
email with her verdict
about the demo she went
through. She indicated that though she admired its features, especially the depth
and breadth of content,
she had some serious
reservations, especially
the fact that the text
was riddled with typos,
and that many of the
graphics were muddled
and hard to read. As a
result, now I really saw
the connection between
my earlier emotional
outburst and this
criticism from a
potential customer in
Israel! In fact, when I
looked at her signature
stamp, I realized that
she was a
technical writer for the
company's IT department -- not the
normal person who
contacts us about
purchasing our training.
In essence, her comments
were not only a direct
punch in the gut, but
came from someone who
ordinarily spends her
time examining such
issues. In other words,
I had attracted the
perfect person to
criticize our product!
The question then was what would be my
reaction to this direct
assault.
Being human, my first
inclination was to lash
out at the criticism. I
thought, well if she
didn't like the product,
she should have just
rejected it, and avoided
criticism. Fortunately,
I gained control of my
egotistic,
self-justifying line of
reasoning, and began to
take a more rational
approach. I then
reasoned that since I
had already seen the
connection between the
locale of this company
and my earlier inner
emotional outburst, I
needed to reverse my
attitude and open myself
up to the truth of her
words. Besides there was
still an opportunity to
sell her the product if
we made the changes she
suggested.
So I took a deep breath, pushed aside
my earlier combative
approach, and seriously
considered the validity
of her recommendations.
After perusing our site
in search of problems,
and seeing the awful
truth in her criticism, I
immediately began to
take up her suggestions.
And so over the course
of the next several
days, I made
considerable changes to
the text of the site --
correcting grammar,
punctuation, and typos,
while inquiring into
ways to deliver better
on-screen graphics. In
fact, I threw myself
into the work, and after
a short while, realized
that I was enjoying the
effort!
Before delivering the punch line, let
me give you one more
piece of information.
The product I have been
referring to is an
online software training
application that we have
developed for
Microsoft's project
management system. For
the last five years, my
company has been
focusing on it
exclusively. Well, after
I completed the above
three-day effort, I
received a solitary
email in my Inbox. It
was from an individual
at a company offering
its own online project
management software.
They were interested in
having our firm do
training and consulting
on their online product
throughout our region.
At first, I balked at
the idea, because the
product appeared
somewhat
flimsy compared to the
robust Microsoft
offering. But then when
I saw a demo, I was
stunned how powerful,
full-featured, integrated, and easy
to use it
was. It was using
breakthrough technology
that in many ways now
surpassed Microsoft's
offering!
Now suddenly my business was presented
with the largest
opportunity for new
services in a decade. I
clearly saw the
potential now to double
or triple my earnings.
And it all came about
because rather than
react to a negative
situation (her detailed
analysis of all that was
wrong with our current
product), I held my feelings in
check, and did all that
she suggested. The
result is that I
attracted perhaps our best
long-term opportunity
in years.
When we shift our attitude in a
negative situation to
the positive, we harness
an awesome power. In
essence, we use the
energy of the negative,
reverse its polarity,
and then align with and
attract the very best of
conditions. Or, as in
this case, evoke the
biggest business opening
in years. Of course, you
too can do the same in
similar situations in
your own life.
Change Here, Fulfill (or Super Fulfill) There
When we shift our consciousness to the positive in one area, we often
move life in another area, whether it turns an aspiration unfulfilled
into its fulfillment, or an expected fulfillment into its
super-fulfillment.
Overcome Negative Feeling
Toward Another
If you give up a negative
attitude toward someone or some situation, you will see a tremendously
positive life response; e.g. you might get a promotion, develop never
before demonstrated capacities, be surrounded by nicer people, etc.
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Life reflects on the outside the inner attitudes you have on the on
the inside. Life for you is in essence a reflection of your inner
perceptions of the world. We can surely see the causality between such
negative attitudes and the world around us. If we dislike our boss,
there will be tension and friction as a result. This is a direct cause
and effect relationship that is logical to our minds. What is not so
logical however is the sudden, magical ways life responds to such
changes in attitudes. We call this phenomenon where life positively,
suddenly, abundantly, and miraculously responds to our inner change of
heart and emotion, "Life Response."
Overcoming Our Negative Attitudes
-If we can identify our own unique
individual negative attitudes, and make the concerted effort to overcome
them, not only can we create the right conditions for greater
achievement and joy in life, but also under the right conditions we can
invoke continuous sudden and abundant response from life.
-If our
negative attitudes are acquired through the acquisition of subjective
mental opinions, supported by our vital energies, then the process of
reversing our negative attitudes would occur in an opposite movement
-
i.e. by shedding our subjective opinions and replacing them with
objectives truths.
Ego-reversal
and Right Attitudes
When
we move from an ego-supported conscious to non-ego, our negative
opinions, false beliefs, etc. tend to break down, we perceive
become more open to the truer truth of things,
which in effect causes our negative attitudes to dissolve, which under
the right conditions can suddenly elicit a powerful positive response
from life.
Two Inner
Approaches that Will Catapult You to a Whole New Level
of Success
Man complains that he is not as successful as he would like,
yet does not understand that his inner condition is what
directly blocks further accomplishment in life. There are at
least two major approaches to resolving this problem. One is
to look at negative circumstances occurring outside one's
self, and make the necessary corresponding inner adjustment;
the other is to do an evaluation of one's inner condition in
life, find what is wanting, and make the necessary change.
Either will attract rapid good fortune from the world.
In the first approach, I identify negative circumstance
occurring in my life, and I relate it to a wanting attitude or
behavior on my part. I then change that negative, and as a
result, life suddenly
responds in my favor, as new sources of money, work,
opportunity, etc. appear out of nowhere.
This is the principle of "inner-outer correspondence" in
action; that if you change the inner wanting condition, life
on the outside will suddenly respond in our favor. For
example, one woman who saw that her ill-will towards another
had precipitated negative circumstances in a completely
different area of her life, decided to change her feelings
towards this individual. At one point, she even came up and
congratulated her on winning a big company prize. As a result,
not only did she create goodwill with this person, but the
organization where they worked suddenly bestowed a highly
prized, expensive gift to
every employee
in the firm, including the woman who changed her attitude!
This is one approach to accomplishing vastly, beyond one's
current limitations. The other approach is to "take inventory"
of one's self, identify several wanting qualities, and make
the persevering effort to overcome them. For example, I
evaluate myself in such areas as my level of cleanliness and
orderliness, my skill levels, my attitude towards work, life,
and myself, whether I am psychologically strong, whether the
work I am doing is really what I want, whether I am fully
accepting what life demands of me, whether I have a clear
direction in life, and so forth. I then conclude that my
living and work space are completely disorganized, that I have
no focus in my life (i.e. I am scattered in my intentions),
that I procrastinate, and that I not punctual in keeping
appointments. I then develop a comprehensive plan to overcome
them, and carry it by making a sincere,
determined effort. In
the days and weeks that follow, life responds with
miraculous-like results. The outer has mirrored my inner
condition with positive new developments. It is the phenomenon
of “Life Response” in action.
Applying Higher
Attitudes, Overcoming Negative Ones Attracts Positive Life Response
One
can always develop better personal attitudes; towards one's self,
towards others, towards things, and towards life. Any effort to
improve one's attitude invariably invokes sudden positive responses
from life. This is perhaps the most frequently seen cause of
positive life response. (Likewise, we see similar results for
shedding limiting habits, opinions, prejudices, etc.)
When you reverse your emotions, attitudes, opinions, the response is
very rapid, even instantaneous.
LIFE RESPONSE EXAMPLES
-A part-time employed woman stops her distain for certain other
people in her work group. Thereafter, she suddenly gets a full time
job, her job in a decade. Moreover, her career develops steadily
thereafter. She also notices that those around her, including her
close family members, are also suddenly having very positive life
experiences.
-A salesperson was intimidated about
meeting a huge client. He felt that the effort was a waste of time,
and as it turned out he didn't get the sale. A number of months
later he changed his attitude about approaching large customers. The
very day that he changed his attitude the very same customer who he
originally went to visit gave a huge order!
-A man met his uncle every few years, and each time it turned
contentious or tense when discussing politics and family matters.
Before the next time they met he decided to withdraw any expectation
or negative feeling (and consecrated, i.e. offered it to the spirit
the event). Everything went perfectly in the meeting; without
any hostility or tenseness. In fact, there was a sense of pervasive
joy and harmony. There were also a number of sub-life responses as
well!
-
A
woman had visited the Mesa Verde national park in the US 30 years
ago when pregnant with her only child. There she saw an ancient
Pueblo Indian spiralling symbol of Infinity chiselled into a wall.
She is motivated 30 years hence to return to the vast park. When she
gets there she looks hither and fro through many areas of park for
this symbol, but finds nothing. Now she is in a special area of
ruins that is particularly compelling. She looks everywhere for the
symbol, and again has found nothing. She has now gotten totally
frustrated in her attempt to find it. She decides to give up the
quest. She then walks a few feet, turns around, and there sees the
symbol that has eluded her and been on her mind for 30 years. It
gave her enormous pleasure and happiness. (When one gives up an
intense desire, one enables it to occur. So long as she intensely
desired it in frustration, it eluded her. She gave up her negative
attitude about the situation.)
-An individual who does much photography of nature notices that
whenever he has a hasty, overly impulsive desire to take a photo, it
inevitably comes out poorly. (negative response)
Offering Wanting Attitudes to
the Spirit to Evoke Positive Response
We feel that our opinions and attitudes are
always right. First of all we have to stop
saying this. As long as we feel we are right
we are fully identified with our ego. There
are no right or wrong attitudes, there are
only attitudes that help or hinder our growth.
Positive attitudes help our lives expand.
Negative attitudes make it contract. We can
pray that the negative attitude should change.
The attitudes we have created are one of the ways by which the Infinite
has become finite. Our job now is to reverse
the direction and make the finite Infinite.
The way we do that is to reverse our attitudes of which we have
thousands. There is a method that can work for
all of us. Wherever we feel a strong reaction,
without trying to justify it in any way,
let us say "I offer this attitude to You,
Mother. Let me give it up.
Let me make a progress."Call Mother at that point to reverse it,
to dissolve that attitude. There is
infinite prosperity behind each of our opinions,
attitudes and habits. Each time we come
forward to give one of them up, we release an
enormous energy that translates in our lives as the disappearance of a
problem or the sudden appearance of a great opportunity.
Surrendering these aspects of our ego is the surest way to invite
infinite prosperity into our lives.
(Ragini)
The Right and
Wrong in Attitude and Acts
The right or wrong does not lie in the ACT, it dwells in one's attitude.
(MSS)
Change an
Opinion
Change one opinion of yours, a miserable life becomes a
happy life. (MSS)
Sincere Personal and Spiritual
Growth through an Organized Plan
"The golden
RULE is not to achieve, but to preserve what is achieved. We
have to observe ourselves very closely and explain to
ourselves the nature of our acts. We always think of the
ideal to which we should reach, which is good in itself; but
let us know that it is only a thought. From where we are to
where we should go there are a great many steps. Let us know
all these conditions and find out what is the immediate next
step. If one is to act, if one is to do the right thing, if
one is sincere to himself, all that one can do is know this
next step and take it. Rationally that is the only thing he
can ever do. The rest he can only talk about."
This is the process of creation for the
aspiring spiritual individual. Goals of self-improvement
considered and perceived, knowing the strategies to get
there, and acting on them is that process. It is for those
serious in his endeavor. Then this person will become an
entirely new person, the spiritual individual. Otherwise, it
is a slow, semi or unconscious process of hit and miss,
using this and that technique of Appa's when applicable. A
life plan of his teachings that incorporates a way to hold
down the negative and uplift the positive shows sincerity.
It will enable personal and spiritual progress, even
evolution, marked by constant evocation of LUCK.
Just the other day I decided to be positive in my
attitudes for the rest of my life, holding down certain
specific negative ones, like anger, irritation, sarcasm, and
several others. I even though of catching and halting the
tiniest negative that arises inside me. If I do it AS A
SERIOUS PLAN, doing it sincerely with full effort, it will
be a breakthrough. Otherwise, I will have to go through the
hit and miss cycles of ordinary life; even with my knowledge
of Karmayogi's principles.
Maintaning
a Positive Attitude in Challenging Situations
Power of Positive
Attitude in City of
Joy
Perhaps the most powerful way to evoke sudden good fortune is to shift your attitude from the negative to the positive. If you have a wanting attitude towards others, life, or your own self, and then reverse it, benefit will quickly come your way. Often it comes in an instant.
It turns out there is another way to evoke powerful
life response through one’s attitude. It is by
maintaining a generally positive one. If for
example, you are straining to accomplish something
in your life, and yet you maintain a positive
attitude that things will work out fine; that you
will succeed, bringing a solid confidence to your
efforts, life will conspire and give you all that
you wished for and more.
There is a wonderful example of this life principle
and dynamic in the American film City of Joy,
which is set in India. In the story, Hasari Pal, an
Indian farmer, arrives in Calcutta with his family,
desperately seeking work. Lost in the teeming masses
as they move about the city streets, Hasari is not
only frantically looking for shelter, but is hoping
to find any type of work to support his family.
At one point, Hasari is alone with one of his three
children, and in a tender and inspiring moment one
of them asks if he will ever find work. Hasari
responds that he is fully confident he will find
employment soon, despite what looks like a desperate
situation. Quickly a series of dramatic events
transpire, the end result of which is that within 24
hours he finds employment as a cart driver (a “human
horse”), which gives him a source of employment for
years to come, fulfilling his earlier wish and then
some.
It turns out that Hasari’s employment not only takes
him off the street -- providing a comfortable
place to live for his family -- but enable him to
save for his daughter’s dowry, who will marry into
greater fortune for the family. In addition, through
his job he is put in position to help overcome the
wickedness of the local mafia boss and his cronies
who dominate that part of the city, including the
cab company he works for.
In other words, Hasari’s focused intention in a
desperate situation married to an enormously
positive attitude attracts a result within a day
that changes his life forever, affecting not only
himself but the collectives he is part of. That is
the power of taking to and maintaining a generally
positive attitude towards the conditions one
encounters. Life then instantly moves in favor,
overcoming obstacles, while fulfilling your fondest
dreams.
There are countless examples where a generally
positive attitude attracted positive circumstance.
Here are several:
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One female business owner when confronted with
difficulties or challenging situations, tended
to take a positive, optimistic, calm, and
forgiving view of things, which continually
attracted their quick resolution, as well as
unexpected, sudden surges in sales.
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An individual who had deep admiration and
positive attitude for the Indian people, and was
always happy to speak with them through call
centers constantly had positive experiences
where the technical issues quickly disappeared.
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A young English girl, who had the tendency to
see everything in a positive light, not only
charmed the stodgy, grumpy, and cynical around
her, but through her positive attitude and
influence, caused their lives to quickly turn
around for the better.
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A man at a family gathering did not give into
others who were mocking a young woman’s looks he
once dated, attracting her sudden arrival as a
now beautiful grown woman, which had the effect
of causing another woman the man desperately
loved to suddenly fall in love with him, which
culminated in their happy marriage.
It is one thing to overcome
one’s own negative attitudes, and thereby attract
sudden good fortune, it is another to maintain a
positive attitude and do the same. In fact, each
moment is an occasion for us to remain positive,
cheerful, and confident, which will evoke the most
positive results from the field of life. It is the
miracle of “Life Response” in action.
Taking a Positive View of
Things in 'House of Eliott'
In 'House of Eliott'
one dimension of Life Response -- i.e. sudden good
fortune -- is clearly revealed. It is the power of
taking a positive attitude in a crossroad moment.
E.g. on numerous occasions when Evie was confronted
with a situation, serious or not so, we see that she
takes the more positive, often optimistic point of
view. Life immediately responds with positive
results thereafter. Positive attitudes expressed as
optimism, forgiveness, etc. attract powerful
response from life. It happens in critical or the
most mundane of situations.
In examining life response, one can readily see
how a transition from a negative attitude to a
neutral or positive one will attract life response.
(E.g. in Pride and Prejudice we see Darcy, Eliza,
and Mr. Bennet make such transitions.) Here in HofE
we see quite clearly seen how simple moment to
moment positive reactions and decisions to
circumstance attract the sudden onset of positive
conditions for that individual (including the
collective they are part of). A situation presents
itself as somewhat problematic, and the person has a
positive take on things. Life responds with sudden
good fortune. It is not a transition of that
person's consciousness from the negative to the
positive; but taking what could be deemed as a
problematic situation, and taking the positive view
of it. Such situations and the positive reactions
and choices of individuals (in particular focusing
on Evie here), and the powerful positive response of
life is readily portrayed in HofE.
When there is a very difficult situation, and a
person reacts to the intensity with calm and
equality -- thereby attracting luck -- that is one
thing; but the opportunity to take a positive view
in common life experiences where there are lesser or
greater challenges to ours sensibilities, is
another. The latter occurs so much more often, and
thus affords us endless possibilities to attract
life response.
We could list out 10-20 of such circumstance in a
day and see how we have reacted. We can learn from
that. Then on another day we can make the effort to
react positively in each of those situations, and
see how life responds for us in the hours and days
that follow. The response can even happen
instantaneously.
Dan in
Real Life
Life presents us with many challenges, some of which arise through
negative circumstance. In particular, it can be quite difficult to
remain positive when the social atmosphere is wanting -- e.g. if people
around us are behaving in ways that are detrimental or even harmful. And
yet those who are able to maintain the right outlook in these
circumstances, who are immune to and do not participate in the negative
social activity, gain an interesting power over life, as they tend to
quickly attract positive conditions. Let me illustrate with a film I
watched the other day.
In
Dan in Real Life, Dan Burns is a newspaper advice columnist, a
widower, and a father of three daughters in the New
Jersey suburbs. One day Dan and his children take a
trip to the Rhode Island home of his parents for
their annual family get together. After they arrive
at the large house, situated on a bluff overlooking
the bay, Dan takes some time off and goes to a local
bookstore. There he meets a woman named Marie who
mistakes Dan for an employee. He then proceeds to
gather up several books for her, and in the process,
hits it off with her. Suddenly love blossoms.
When Dan arrives back at the house, he lets his
family know that he has found a potentially very
special person. They are thrilled to hear this since
it has been three years since he lost his wife.
However, a short while later, his brother's new girl
friend arrives on the scene, and it turns out to be
none other than Marie! She too was on her way to the
family get together when she met Dan at the
bookstore.
There then begins a tense situation in which his
brother and Marie are somewhat romantically
interacting at the home, even as Dan is now has
fallen in love with her. After several days, the
situation becomes unbearable for both. Because he
appears so miserable, Dan's mother suggests that he
call up a local girl on a blind date and ask her to
come to the gathering. When the rest of the group
learns that she is coming, they recall that she was
a physically unattractive young girl, and so they
begin mocking her for being an ugly duckling. At one
point, they go as far as to launch into a
rollicking, impromptu sing-along in which poke fun
of "miss piggy face." All except Dan, that is.
A few minutes later, so-called ''piggy face" arrives
at the house, and shockingly turns out to be a
beautiful woman. Immediately, Dan and her are
physically attracted to one another. As a result,
Marie becomes very jealous, which has the further
effect of turning the emerging, partial love she
felt for Dan into a full-blown blossoming of her
emotions. This in turn compels her to truly seek out
the relationship with him, once she breaks off with
his brother. In the end, Dan and Marie fall deeply
love and are blissfully married.
The
moral of the story? Because Dan did not give into
and participate in the mocking sing-along of his
soon to be arriving date ''piggy face," he attracted
instead a beautiful woman. Furthermore, her arrival
compelled Marie, the woman he loved, to commit to a
relationship, which culminated in their marriage.
That is the power of remaining
positive in a negative situation -- in this
case, in the face of social pressure to act falsely.
The effect is that this person, the exception in the
crowd, is propelled to the heights through complete
emotional fulfillment. When we follow our own positive
instincts and do not give into the social imperative
of the herd, we release positive energies that
attract the very best of conditions. In that way, we
develop "true individuality,"
which tends to lure the infinite potentials of life
in our direction.
The Power of a Generally
Positive Attitude
Success -- i.e. luck -- will flow in every direction
when our attitude is generally positive. It not only
brings us constant luck and leads us in the right
direction, but it is infectious and affects others.
In the wonderful English story 'Pollyanna,'
a young girl sees everything in a positive light,
and as a result, everyone around her from the
stodgy, grumpy, and cynical are charmed. In fact,
their lives are suddenly turned around through the
wisdom of this happy individual. That is the power
of having a continuous positive attitude; that
can-do spirit; that observance of life from the
brighter and truer side. It even sees negative as
positives in disguise; as great positive potential
ready to burst forth.
Naturally, The
Mother's Force gains special entry and has greater
effectivity through such an instrument.
Right Attitude that Attract Success with Indian Call Centers
While others have known the opposite, I have had very positive experiences with technical support originating in India. I can only attribute it to one thing; the deep respect I have had for the Indian people, and the close collaboration I have had with them in commerce and deed and thought.
When your have positive, supporting feelings towards others -- even if their capacities are limited -- positive circumstance will still invariably follow. That's because life always responds to your positive intentions and attitude with sudden good fortune. Hence the Indians have unfailing solved the most intractable of my technical problems.
We can remember that lesson each time we interact with any person or party whose help we need; or for that matter, any problem or circumstance in life.
Also See Entries
on Cheerfulness
Opinions,
Preferences
(main)
Opinions vs. Truth
Opinions are many; Truth is few. Opinions are partial; Truth
is full (i.e. it is integral knowledge of the matter). It is
therefore advisable to hold off from expressing your opinions
whenever possible, and instead pursue the many-sided Truth of
the matter, which will provide powerful insight that can lead
to success-filled decisions and actions.
Opinions, Attitudes, and Energy
Opinions are concentrated energy, pulling
energies away from other activities. However, if we withdraw
our opinions, that collected negative energy is then used
positively, leading to greater results.
Even more powerful than withdrawing our
opinions, are catching and overcoming our wanting attitudes.
When we do, we release powerful positive energies that quickly
align with the most favorable conditions of life.
Opinions Subconscious Origins
So many of the opinions we express have a
subconscious origin that we are unaware of. There are things
deep inside that compel us to express these emotionalized,
prejudicial thoughts. On the other hand, if we become
conscious of their origins, we can shed those limitations,
which is a powerful means for personal progress in life.
On Opinions, Preferences, Prejudices
Opinions
are actually, our thoughts acquiring vital’s directions based
on our experiences towards those persons, objects, and
situations. That develops as preferences when this
direction is expressed as vital insistence, depending on our
juxtaposition with persons, objects, situations. In the
process, we justify all we like, and condemn all that we don’t
like that develops as prejudices expressed in all
similar situations, persons and objects. (paraphrase of
Karmayogi by Ramesh)
Withholding Our Opinions
We eagerly give our opinions, as it
reflects our emotional attachment to an idea that is only a
part truth, if not a falsehood. It is therefore best to
withhold one's opinions as much as possible, unless one is
called upon to express it.
Higher Harmony by Shedding Ego, Wanting Attitudes
Sri Aurobindo said that all problems of life are problems of
harmony. One corollary of this is that the key to resolving a
problem is not so much the differences of belief and content,
but the attachment one has to one's position because of the
force of one's ego or negative attitude. As soon as we shift
away from these, the context is lightened, the separativeness
is loosened, and right solutions for progress are made
possible. It is a lesson for any individual, or any collective
of such.
On Opinions
vs. Facts
Obviously opinion is ours, not necessarily the fact of the
situation. There is a report about a theft. It comes to us. As
we hear of it, our past experience receives the facts - assuming
they are correct facts - and arrives at a conclusion.
That becomes our opinion. Our opinion of an event reported to us
is our version of it in the light of past experience, valid to
us only. To know the facts of the situation, one needs to shed
that opinion. He who desires an open mind must be able to
prevent opinion formation. He who forms an opinion prejudges the
event. It becomes a prejudice. To insist on that prejudice is to
have a closed mind. (MSS)
Subjectivity and
Opinions
Non-objective, subjective conclusions and
beliefs about facts of information are our
opinions about those facts. An
opinion is not based on objective truth, but on a subjective judgment
that may or may not be true.
Lack of Knowledge, Proof and Opinions
An opinion is a belief or conclusion
held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or
proof. (American Heritage Dictionary)
How Opinions Form
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Mind observes the
environment by the senses.
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The senses carry sense
impressions of the outside to the mind.
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A vitalised mind accepts the
impressions as facts.
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Mentalised mind separates
these impressions and extracts the pure facts out of it which
are organised by the brain into opinions or decisions.
(MSS)
Mind and Opinions
The character of the mind is divisive; its sight is partial and
one-sided. Its opinions are formed on the basis of sensual input.
Limitations of Opinions
One must realise that opinions are limiting factors in the
mind's growth and must be given up for good. It is true even in ordinary
mental life. But it is very common that men are proud of their opinions
and treat them as a valuable possession. (MSS)
Opinions Bar Success
Opinions are a bar
Opinions are concentrated energy.
Opinions concentrate energy AWAY
from other activities.
Withdrawing the opinion, all the negative
energy is at work.
Hence greater results. (MSS)
Overcoming Opinions by Offering Them Up
Offer
up to the Divine the opinions and thoughts that are there in the mind.
Ego-reversal
that Overcomes Negative Opinions
When
we move from an ego-supported conscious to non-ego, our negative
opinions, false beliefs, etc. tend to
break down, we perceive become more open to the
truer truth of things, which in effect causes our negative attitudes to
dissolve, which under the right conditions can suddenly elicit a
powerful positive response from life.
Life Response and Opinions
When
you reverse your emotions, attitudes,
opinions, the response is very rapid, even instantaneous.
Fully Positive
Opinions
All your thoughts, opinions, attitudes and motives concerning the
activity should be fully positive. By "positive" we mean free of all
negative elements, such as falsehood, dishonesty, exaggeration,
selfishness, jealousy, anger, irritation, impatience, greed, fear,
laziness, etc. (MSS)
Opinions and Attitudes
-Our opinions are the root
cause of our negative attitudes. When these
opinions are reinforced by our feelings and emotions, our
attitudes are born.
-A negative attitude takes shape when our
subjective, non-fully rational and logical
opinions are endorsed by our vital emotions and feelings. In a
positive attitude, the opinions are
"less-opinionated," as our perceptions are more in touch with the
inherent truth of things.
Attitudes
and Opinions
-An attitude is born when an opinion is endorsed by the emotions.
(MSS)
-Attitudes are vital propensities endorsed
by opinions, thus making opinion the spearhead.
(MSS)
-The process of reversing a negative attitude would occur
by shedding our subjective, false opinion about an object, and
replacing it with the objectives truth of things. As this broader
and more accurate knowledge takes shape in our minds, our negative
attitudes would be obliged to change. When our vital emotions and
feelings withdraw their support for the old
opinions, and begin to support this new, objective view of
things, the negative attitude would be fully cancelled.
Overcoming our Blind
Spots
After the
independence of India and its partition from Pakistan in
1947, Jawaharlal Nehru led the country through its
transition to democracy and a new modernity. He was a man
deeply committed to his country, with a strong mind and a
driving idealism. There has been no greater leader of that
emerging Asian nation since.
And yet he was tripped up by one view
that he seemed so sure of. He proclaimed that China was the
very embodiment of his own high idealism. Unfortunately, he
would be disillusioned not long after when in 1962 China
invaded and run roughshod over his own beloved country. It
was a blind spot of belief for sure.
In the 1920s and 30’s Western idealists
railed at the corruption of capitalism, and signs of
emerging nationalism and fascism both in their own countries
and aboard. They were highly perceptive in their analysis,
sounding warnings that the people of the world would fail to
heed. Many of these same writers, thinkers, and advocates
saw the Soviet Union under Stalin as a real alternative, a
potential Paradise on Earth, in opposition to the corruption
and greed of a money-driven West. It took Solzhenitsyn’s
‘The Gulag Archipelago’ to fire the first salvos against
this view. Since then it has been discovered that Stalin was
responsible for the deaths of nearly 30 million people of
his fellow citizens. He had that many shot and killed in a
reign of terror unknown in the history of the world.
In America, it has been faddish amongst
the conservative elite to proclaim that unfettered,
laissez-faire capitalism was the salve of the masses. That
wealth and profits of the rich would trickle down to the
masses below. That theory proved to be a disaster, as we saw
from the recent financial crisis that threatened to ruin the
economies of the world.
Like nations, peoples, leaders,
philosophies, we too as individuals also have blind spots
that we are ignorant of and oblivious to. We dearly hold
onto one or more critical opinions or beliefs that are in
direct contradiction to the truth -- affecting not only our
own selves, but the people around us.
Perhaps those closest to us see that
blind spot. Or maybe it is someone at a distance who
perceives it, yet cannot express it in deference to our
feelings. Then who amongst us are willing to confront such
“certainties,” challenging their truth worthiness? I am not
sure if there is one in a thousand. If there such a person,
then that brave soul is intellectually honest and sincere.
For after all, who has the gumption to lay out one’s
attitudes and values, and deconstruct them to determine
their accuracy and truth-value? E.g., who would make the
effort to go to that goldmine and fount of information --
the Internet -- and discover the relative or absolute merit
of one’s most cherished beliefs? Whether we are a scientist,
a leader, an advocate, or a parent, we are likely blind to
something significant in our lives. And yet we are also
capable of determining its veracity by gathering evidence
from the world around us.
There is another approach to overcoming
such ruinous blind spots. We can subscribe to an inner,
psychological approach I call “taking another man’s point of
view.” I.e. the next time you have a conversation or
otherwise communicate with someone, make the effort to
embrace the other person’s point of view, no matter how
far-fetched. See a glimmering of truth in it, while
releasing your attachment to your own entrenched position.
Doing so indicates an open mind that seeks knowledge and
truth in life; that is open to a wider domain of
possibilities. In that way, it is a spiritual-like approach
to one’s existence.
One interesting result of taking this
approach is that it attracts sudden good fortune. For
example, let’s say we have been invited to a party by a
friend or spouse, but are not inclined to go. Though others
have recommended it in the past, we feel certain that it
will be a waste of time. However, when we shift from our
entrenched opinion and embrace their suggestion, then when
you arrive at the reception, several startling conditions
present themselves. Not only do you find yourself enjoying
yourself, but a long lost friend appears on the scene,
energizing you to no end. Best of all, you meet someone who
offers you a great opportunity in a field closely related to
your own. When you embrace another’s point of view, life
opens up and you are catapulted forward.
There is one other way to ascertain a
blind spot. In the course of your day, watch for any
significant negative conditions that appears in your life.
It is a sure sign of something amiss in your being, for
everything that appears on the outside is a reflection of
your inner condition. For example, if an important project
is suddenly cancelled, find the corresponding negative
attitude or belief. It is a blind spot that has been there
for a while, affecting present and past conditions.
Deconstructing our beliefs, taking the
other person’s point of view, and relating negative outcomes
to inner perceptions, are three powerful methods to reveal
and overcome our blind spots, which in turn will help us
avoid a lot of pain and suffering in life. Will you then be
brave and ask a confident, relative, or friend if there is
something key that you are blind to? Or will you try to
deconstruct several key beliefs to see their truth-value? Or
will you fully embrace another's perspective today? Or will
you take the time to consider how negative outcomes are
direct reflections of wanting attitudes, opinions, and
beliefs? If you make that effort, your entire life will be
turned around, for nothing has a greater effect than
identifying a blind spot and turning it into the light of
truth.
To Be Categorized
Opinions
On Opinions
Karmayogi says accepting the difference
of opinions is the distance between
being correct and being perfect. Opinion
is a personal understanding - the
understanding arrived at in a given
situation in the context of what one
already knows and he acts accordingly.
In the process he aligns with all that
converges to his opinion and dislikes
all those who opposes or expresses
against it.
Other (Articles, Thoughts,
etc.)
(main)
ARTICLE on
the Power of Personal Attitudes
How personal attitudes
are key to success and happiness in life.
Thoughts on Having
Negative Attitudes
Thoughts about Where Attitudes
Take Shape in the Human Makeup
Factors Aside from
Attitudes that Enable Great Achievement in Life
TO
BE CATEGORIZED
Attitudes
Positive Attitude
Power of Being Positive in Simplest Situations
The most profound wisdom lies in being
fully positive in the simplest of
situations. (Sri Karmayogi)
Comment: Oh how true this is! And it
always attracts positive conditions! We
can try it out for ten minutes in a
meeting with others and see the effect.
As we maintain our positive attitude,
conditions sparkle. At the point we lose
our positive poise, negative or at least
not very positive circumstance quickly
arise. It can be a very enjoyable
experiment! When the truth of the
phenomenon is confirmed through our
experience, we will feel as if we were
walking on air. It can now mature and
become the basis for an entirely new way
of living our lives.
Negative Attitude
The Negative that Has Come to You, You May Have
Done to Others
When negative circumstance befall you
due to someone else's actions, you might
discover that you perpetrated the same
or similar on somebody else. If you
perceive your mistake, then the present
parallel negative condition affecting
you will instantly evaporate. This
phenomenon holds true for positive
circumstances as well.
For example, payment was held up for a
businessman, causing his business to
move to the edge of failure. Everything
he tried to secure the payment failed to
produce the desired result. He felt the
bill payer was completely insensitive to
his desperate plight. He then thought
about the matter and realized he had
done the very same thing to another
party in the not too distant past. After
much delay, the money due him suddenly
appeared in his account the very next
morning!
Embrace Givens
Embracing Current Work; Applying Human
Values Attracts and Energizes
A cardinal rule of life is to fully
embrace the work you are given, not the
work you would like to do. When you do
that in your emotions, make the
necessary effort, and consecrate it,
Life takes over and you are sent to the
stars.
One man was reluctant to work weekends
in a retail concern. In fact he didn't
like working there at all. He changed
his attitude, and on his first weekend
shift attracted the biggest sale of his
life. He then went from the lowest to
highest producing salesperson in the
4-store chain. That is the power of
embracing the current conditions that
Life has put before you. It is the very
best situation for you to grow, and to
Attract.
Also bringing higher human values to the
work can make it a rich, enjoyable
experience that also has power to
attract the best of conditions, while
energizing you to no end. Embracing
tolerance, openness, freedom,
creativity, etc in work can make it very
stimulating, no matter the field.
On How to Deal with Work One Does Not Enjoy
Sometimes you may not enjoy the work
that life has put before you. However,
you can change that perspective by
changing your attitude, and life will
respond beyond compare, which will
energize you to no end.
Here is a true story. When asked to do so, a man
did not want to work weekends at a
retail store. He did not even like
working there weekday! He remained among
the lowest producing salespeople in the
chain. He then changed his attitude and
embraced the work and worked weekends
when asked. The very first Saturday he
appeared, he got a customer in the first
10 minutes that turned into the biggest
sale of his career, enabling his
greatest sale for any month that
propelled him to the highest sales in
the chain's history among its entire
sales staff! (It is my own story.) That
is the power of changing one's attitude
toward the work at hand.
One now sees that the infinite can burst
out of the finite with a changed
emotional point of view. Once you get
such Life Response results (it comes in
all forms, such as given an unexpected
promotion or a hot new project), you
will be energized to no end. Your view
of work will be radically changed. It
can happen in the dullest of all things.
(By the way, consecrating your attempt
to change that limiting attitude will
certainly be helpful.)
Reluctance,
Resistance
Overcoming Resistance of Starting Attracts
Often overcoming the resistance of
starting a work, effort, etc. attracts a
far easier course than one might have
imagined.
Overcoming One's Resistance that
Attracts Wonderful Results
When you give in to that which you were
resistant to, new vistas and
opportunities suddenly arise.
Comment: How many times have I
experienced this! E.g. with my students:
as soon as I accept where they want to
go, everything works out, and so many
new unintended positive developments
take place. And with a friend: They
bring up an opposing view, or take a
discussion is a different direction. As
soon as I give up my inner resistance,
the flow of events that follow become a
marvel. That is why on an on-going basis
Karmayogi says to Take Another's Point
of View; i.e. put yourself in their
shoes and see things from their side.
That way resistance will tend not to be
there in the first place.
Change Inner to Make Wanting Individual
Disappear
Change Inner to Make Wanting Individual
Disappear
To make an unwanted individual on the outside permanently go away,
discover and then change the
corresponding wanting attitude, habit,
opinion, or belief within.
Attitudes
Change an Attitude & Life Will Rescue You
As soon as you change your attitude about others, a matter, or
a work, life instantly comes to your rescue. One man changed
his life long attitude about his son, and was astonished when
his son appeared out of nowhere and rescued him when he was
held hostage and his life threatened.
(2009-2011 Q1)
The Sublime Result of Turning an Attitude Positive
The other day I was driving along down the highway, when I
turned on my radio. I tuned into a show that gives career
advice, which is on every weekend. I listen to the program on
occasion, admiring the host's insights into many matters, but
sometimes being put off by a certain line of thought he
occasionally drifts into.
This time as I began to listen to the show, I caught myself
and decided not to indulge my annoyance with his occasional
outbursts, and remain still in my feelings. Within a few
seconds, he began to speak of matters I had never heard from
him before, including the power of self-givingness, of not
trying to force your ideas on others, the importance of
listening, and so forth. I was utterly astonished that he
would say such things, for he had never expressed such
sentiments before when I was listening!
I was once again privy to the life response power of
controlling a wanting attitude. At the point we withdraw an
annoyance or misgiving, positive conditions suddenly present
themselves. Not only does it come in ways in ways you would
never have imagined, but a sweet richness envelops your person
and you are left with the thought that life would be
infinitely sublime if you took to such efforts all of the
time.
(2009-2011 Q1)
Negative Attitude to the Positive to Gratitude Attracts
Overwhelmingly
Negative attitudes towards others or life
circumstance that turns to positive recognition and further
still to gratitude can quickly evoke overwhelming positive
response from life. E.g. hostility towards a former boss for
his abuse that shifts to thoughtful recognition of the
benefits he has given that further expands to emotional
gratitude rapidly attracts extraordinary conditions that leave
one dazed and in a state of amazement.
(2009-2011 Q1)
Life Response Power of Truth Acceptance
When a man embraces the truth of things
that he was previously reluctant to accept, good fortune will
suddenly descend on him.
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Accepting All Things that Come Our Way
A person of high consciousness tends to embrace all things
that come their way. The average person wants life to take
form, unfold on a particular way, but the more realized
individual accepts all and everything that comes his way,
perceiving the deeper truth of all that is unfolding before
him; of the necessity and utility of each and every thing.
E.g., one parent did not want to accept the child's interest
in photography, expressing deep disappointment with that aim.
But then she changed her attitude and accepted it, and the
child grew up to become a successful cinematographer.
The more we open ourselves to all that is occurring around us,
the more we will be in the right flow of life, the more life
will be our friend, and the more we will understand the hidden
clues life is offering us at every moment.
(2009-2011 Q1)
Shifting an Attitude Attracts Truth of
Issue
When an issue is in doubt, and you shift
your attitude away from some prejudice, the truth will quickly
reveal itself.
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Catching and Overcoming the Negatives Rising
You know you have made significant inner progress when you
become aware of every small wanting feeling, emotion, and
attitude rising inside, and are able to catch and reverse it.
Doing so, quickly smoothes out the conditions of life around
you.
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Overcoming Reluctance Attracts
Overcoming any reluctance (such as an unwillingness to take up
a friend's practical suggestion) quickly attracts
miraculous-like good fortune back to our person.
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Overcoming Reluctances Attracts
Overwhelmingly
Overcoming one's reluctances attracts an
explosion of Luck.
(2009-2011 Q1)
'Yes Man' and the Power of Attraction/Life Response
I have discovered what may be the first commercial film that
very consciously and directly knows it is presenting something
akin to the law of attraction; at least to a limited extent.
It is the American comedy 'Yes Man.' It is a somewhat silly
and exaggerated film, but it at least shows and advocates the
power of attraction, i.e. how life instantly responds
favorably to a change in attitude, in this case to a shift
from rejection to acceptance, even as it finally mocks those
who take to it in an extreme form. This is a start of a more
conscious presentation of life!
'The Legend of Bagger Vance,' a far more profound and serious
film, does the same, though it comes from a different angle.
It is conscious of the power of our attitudes and being 'One
with the Field that is life," and then consciously shows the
great positive effect. 'Yes, Man' is less subtle, but states
outright that you will instantly attract positive conditions
by acting in a positive way.
Of course, such life response can be seen in virtually every
film, in every good or great work of literature, as the
authors subconsciously present what is true to life, even as
they have little or no idea that this phenomenon has occurred.
(2009-2011
Q1)
The Other Side of Reluctance
On the other side of one's
reluctance, the truth and answer can be found.(2009-2011
Q1)
Power of Embracing the Moment's
Needs
As soon as you embrace the specific needs
of the moment (instead of avoiding them), unexpected positive
conditions immediately present themselves.
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Embracing that Attracts
When you embrace, rather than resist
the flow of things, you always attract the best outcome.
(2009-2011 Q1)
Right Attitude that Attract Success with Indian Call Centers
While others have known the opposite, I have had very positive
experiences with technical support originating in India. I can
only attribute it to one thing; the deep respect I have had
for the Indian people, and the close collaboration I have had
with them in commerce and deed and thought.
When you have positive, supporting feelings towards others --
even if their capacities are limited -- positive circumstance
will still invariably follow. That's because life always
responds to your positive intentions and attitude with sudden
good fortune. Hence the Indians have unfailing solved the most
intractable of my technical problems. We can remember that
lesson each time we interact with any person or party whose
help we need; or for that matter, any problem or circumstance
in life.
(2009-2011 Q1)
Smile at Life
(power
of positive attitude)
If you can always smile at life, life will
always smile at you. (The Mother)
(2009-2011 Q1)
Power of Being Positive
The most profound wisdom lies in being fully positive in the
simplest of situations. (Karmayogi)
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Being Positive Brings Life Under Control
To remain positive in all circumstances is the simplest and
most effective way to bring the conditions of life under
control; to move life in your favor.
(2009-2011 Q1)
Power of Patient, Positive Outlook
A patient, positive outlook will always attract the best
conditions, no matter how difficult the situation.
(2009-2011 Q1)
Overly Focusing on Problem
Intensifies It
It is true that a problem
unaddressed can only get worse, but it is also true that a
difficulty overly focused on will only intensify. Having the
discrimination to see the difference is a key to problem
solving.
(2009-2011 Q1)
Positive Attitude
Non Desponding
Completes the Work
Incapacity for
desponding helps complete the work.
(MSS)
On
Smiling at Life, Which Will Smile
Back at You
The Mother says that if you can
always smile on life, life will
always smile on you.
Reader's
Comment:
love this saying of Mother, it's
such a sweet way of expressing a
truth about how things work in the
psyche.
My Comment:
It IS simple
and sweet, and very direct. Very
hard to do as each problem that
arises tends to take away the smile
you have towards life. Something
therefore needs to hold you in
place.
Some do
meditation, others chanting, others
prayer. I personally practice
continuous opening to the spiritual
Force, Mother's
Power, which tends to ground me
within, enabling me to be Silent
Witness to events. Then it is much
easier to Smile at Life.
Beyond that
is to see ALL
as necessary part of the unfolding
of life. So one sees negatives as
positives in
disguise, causing one to smile at
them too.
A lot of
experience helps too, as one sees
that it just isn't worth frowning on
certain things as one has been here
before; and well ...
it works out; or it is leading you
to a new understanding for your
benefit.
When one is
filled with the Force and Presence;
when one has the inner orientation,
everywhere one goes feels like an
occasion for joy. Hence one's
tendency to smile at life conditions/unfoldings
is always there.
Then there is
the other aspect of the Mother's
statement. If you smile at life,
life WILL SMILE
BACK; as it is the law of
Attraction. Like likes Like. Or as I
call it, a positive
"Life
Response"
to one's
positive outlook, attitude.
And then the
more life responds positively to you
(coming to you as miraculous-like
instances of sudden good fortune),
the more you aspire to maintain the
positive that attracted it. To
insure you do that, you go back to
the first paragraph above, and open
yourself to the method that keeps
you centered within. For myself it
is consecration; i.e. opening to the
Supramental Power; Her Power and
Force. It fortifies a deeper
"witness
consciousness,"
from which to calmly look out on the
world
and thereby
smile, while setting right
life's
conditions in miraculous-like
fashion -- widening your inner Smile
that much more.
Hostility, Ill-Will
Ill-will, Goodwill and Attracting Success
Any
feeling of ill-will towards another retards accomplishment.
However, its opposite, feelings of goodwill quickly attract
good fortune from out of nowhere for all parties.
Therefore, periodically check yourself and
scan for ill-will, and halt it in its tracks. Also, if
possible reverse it to goodwill.
Also consider to whom you can evoke
sincere feelings of goodwill. Then sit back and watch as life
responds in the coming hours and days for all parties. It can
even come instantaneously.
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Relationship between Goodwill/Ill-will and Outer Conditions
Examine circumstance around you when you are in the presence
of another. If they have sincere goodwill, positive conditions
will continually present themselves. The opposite will occur
for those with insincere goodwill or ill-will. What they are
feeling inside will manifest on the surface.
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Failure in Presentation Due to Ill-Will Underneath
A presenter will run into serious problems in the presentation
due to the unexpressed ill-will of some part of the audience.
(2009-2011 Q1)
Negative Feelings Attract Wanting Outcomes
Irritated and hostile feelings towards others, events, and
circumstance attract instantaneous negative results, such as
mistakes, errors, blackouts, accidents, and other wanting
results.
(2009-2011
Q1)
Booing Competition Attracts Negatively
Booing the competition in an athletic
event gives the other side newfound energy. Withholding it
gains power for one's own side.
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Neutralizing Ill-Will in a Situation
If life is not going as hoped,
e.g. an initiative is not moving forward, and you are blaming
another person, withdraw the harsh emotion of ill-will -- even
turning it into good-will, if possible. Positive energies will
be released and life will quickly cooperate, moving things
forward, while attracting unexpected new conditions.
One individual did this,
detaching himself from the emotion while doing all that he
could on his own, and attracted a solution that he never would
have thought of. The positive relationship to the situation
helped resolve it.
(2009-2011 Q1)
Lack of Accomplishment
for Devotees of the Spirit
Sri Karmayogi says that when
devotees of the Spirit are not prosperous and successful it is
because of our unhealthy habit of thinking about how to spoil
and interfere with the prosperity and well-being of our rivals
and enemies. However, if we reverse that, then our motives,
attitudes, and actions become pure, our focus will be on our
own success, and accomplishment and prosperity will follow, as
the Grace that is trying to descend into our being will find
fertile ground.
(2009-2011 Q1)
Conflict
Contradictions Between Dual Pairs Enables Further Progress
Life evolves or can evolve through the contradictions of two
parties, whether spouse or family members, associates,
organizations, nations, etc.
E.g., a man has the quality of feeling that he is not being
listened to by others. His wife tends not to listen when she
is absorbed in some small pursuit. When the man asks his wife
to do something, she does not listen, as she is absorbed
elsewhere, causing irritation in the man. He must evolve out
of his insecurity; she out of her unresponsiveness. This can
only occur through their interaction. Life has put them
together to serve this evolutionary purpose.
All life thus evolves or has the potential to evolve through
the contradictions of two parties, through these conflicting
pairs. Our goal should be to perceive it and then go beyond
that contradiction, which we do by overcoming a corresponding
limitation in our nature. When we do, we progress and grow. We
also evoke sudden good fortune.
From a higher perspective then, the contradiction is really
not so, but a
complement in that it is an
opportunity to develop our higher consciousness. I.e., the
thing with which we are in conflict is the vehicle by which
will overcome a personal limitation, and thereby progress.
(2009-2011
Q1)
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