04 Oct 2023, 3:25 pm
KitLily wrote:
I think the article is click bait but it's the idea of toxic positivity that is doing damage to society. It's not just one book, it's got everywhere now in all the self help books. I've seen it in so many places, it's getting ridiculous. Hopefully people are moving on from it and realising positive thinking and the law of attraction isn't foolproof.
Trying to Brush the Shadows of Life Away By Repressing Negative Emotions,
According to A Study i Read Just today, Leads to Disease And Disorder For the Internal Stress That Creates;
It's Often Transformed into Somatic Disorders Ranging From Headaches to Even Dangers of Auto-Immune Disease.
All Human Emotions Serve A Purpose For Change, DarK Thru LiGHT; Regulating Emotions and Integrating Associated
Senses Are Surely Possible Through Meditative Activities Yet Trying to Repress Emotions as The Study Indicates
Is A Real Present Danger; Additionally, Hiding From the Darkness Won't Continue to Work; And Folks Who
Don't Develop A Spine Enough to Face it, Generally Speaking, Are Much Likely to Crumble When the Real
Dark Days Come; Of Course, Some Folks Just Don't Have the 'Hardware and Software' To Do it; Yet When
Possible, Becoming A Stronger Human Being though and through is Beneficial to Not Only Surviving
Life Yet
Thriving Together too;
i am Neither Afraid of the
DarK Now or Cynical of the LiGHT;
Yet Obviously, Other Challenges Are
Still Waiting for me to Adapt to As Well;
And That's Just Life For Everyone; No Pie
in the Sky Guarantees; Work Indeed Left to Do...
And
Play Too..
04 Oct 2023, 11:44 pm
05 Oct 2023, 4:23 am
aghogday wrote:
Trying to Brush the Shadows of Life Away By Repressing Negative Emotions,
According to A Study i Read Just today, Leads to Disease And Disorder For the Internal Stress That Creates;
It's Often Transformed into Somatic Disorders Ranging From Headaches to Even Dangers of Auto-Immune Disease.
...And Folks Who
Don't Develop A Spine Enough to Face it, Generally Speaking, Are Much Likely to Crumble When the Real
Dark Days Come;
According to A Study i Read Just today, Leads to Disease And Disorder For the Internal Stress That Creates;
It's Often Transformed into Somatic Disorders Ranging From Headaches to Even Dangers of Auto-Immune Disease.
...And Folks Who
Don't Develop A Spine Enough to Face it, Generally Speaking, Are Much Likely to Crumble When the Real
Dark Days Come;
I agree with you! Repressing negative emotions is not healthy whatsoever and we need to feel them all.
And I agree that people who don't go through difficult experiences won't have the strength to cope when real problems hit them.
Well said!
Also, I only just realised that you centre your writing don't you! I thought you were just trying to make a pattern. I didn't understand the centring til now! Talk about me being oblivious!
05 Oct 2023, 10:12 am
KitLily wrote:
I agree with you! Repressing negative emotions is not healthy whatsoever and we need to feel them all.
And I agree that people who don't go through difficult experiences won't have the strength to cope when real problems hit them.
Well said!
Also, I only just realised that you centre your writing don't you! I thought you were just trying to make a pattern. I didn't understand the centring til now! Talk about me being oblivious!
Thanks Dear KitLily, Hehe As Far As Conscious Pre-Planning
In writing Free Verse Poetry in Flow in Left Justification View
i Am Also Oblivious to What i Am Doing in Creating the Shapes
That Naturally Come The Way Some Folks Force Their Poetry into Shapes
That Way Yet mine Automatically Flows Deep Within FLoWeR UNFoLDinG More in Tune
With Deeper Reservoirs of Subconscious And Right Hemisphere Processing of Reality...
When i First Started Writing Free
Verse Poetry in a Meditative Flow
Like This in 2013, my Wife Asked If i Was
Using A Program on Google to Create The Shapes
And i Said No, They Just Flow as Waves on the Ocean
Creating Continuously New Shapes of Shores And True the Free
Public Dance i Do Plays in the Same Way of Letting Go of Pre-Planning
Choreographed Control And Truly The Experience is Blissful, The Reward is All
in the Flow
of the
Present
Gift of the Moment Now
And It's Always Fun to Put it into
Center Justification to See What Shapes
Come Next As They Are Still Unique Snowflakes
Unfolding Not Much Different Than the Rest of Nature Set Free FLoWinG
ThiS Way
Spiraling
As the Milky Way Does
Above As Nautilus's Build
Their Homes Below Left in the
Fossil Record For 300 MiLLioN Years;
Just A Finger Print of Above Below Again,
Getting in Touch With Nature Becoming Truly
Free Like the Other Animals, Fish, Plants, etc... ALL
WHere So-CAlled 'God' is A Tiny Three Letter Word in
Comparison to the Six Letter Word Nature in Flow For Real...
The Other Way of Life is Conforming to
A Truly Evil Three Ring Circus of Reality (NO THANKS) WHere
Currently, 'The Orange Joker' off the 'Batman Series of Movies'
(Another Artful Archetypal Story)
Is Doing His
Best to Blow
Up All That is Great About Life
Where LoVE iN Peace Still Truly Exists...
Not Much Different Than the 'Non-Sense Poem'
At the End of 'Revelation' in the Old Bible; It's A
Human Archetypal Story of the Villain Versus The Hero
That Continues
on in the
Battle
of
'DarK'
Versus 'Democrats' Hehe...
Yet The 'DarK' is Necessary
As it Stimulates the 'Democrats' to
Help Those Who Are Marginalized and Oppressed More..
05 Oct 2023, 10:31 am
It's nice to see a creative person, Katie!
05 Oct 2023, 10:42 am
05 Oct 2023, 11:48 am
KitLily wrote:
It's nice to see a creative person, Katie!
Thanks Again, KitLily,
Pleasure All mine With SMiLes..
05 Oct 2023, 2:23 pm
05 Oct 2023, 2:23 pm
aghogday wrote:
KitLily wrote:
It's nice to see a creative person, Katie!
Thanks Again, KitLily,
Pleasure All mine With SMiLes..
08 Oct 2023, 1:17 am
Personally, I can't imagine picking up a book that un-ironically calls itself "The Secret." That's a huge "SCAM" red flag to me.
I do try to remind myself to think of positive things in my life when my anxiety gets me down.
However, I've also had my run-ins with "toxic positivity." During my struggle to find employment in my 20s, I was told that it was all my fault nobody would hire me because prospective employers could "sense that you don't really want the job." One person literally said this to me while reading a newspaper with a headline about the recession causing hiring freezes. Because it wasn't enough that I was willing to do low-paying entry level jobs. It had to bring me unbridled joy as well 
.
HOWEVER, some parts of this article have an agenda too, which has just as little appeal to me as "The Secret" does. Demanding ceaseless good vibes or else all your problems are your own fault and demanding ceaseless moral outrage or else all global problems are your fault are pretty much the same message to me.
08 Oct 2023, 3:39 am
vividgroovy wrote:
However, I've also had my run-ins with "toxic positivity." During my struggle to find employment in my 20s, I was told that it was all my fault nobody would hire me because prospective employers could "sense that you don't really want the job." One person literally said this to me while reading a newspaper with a headline about the recession causing hiring freezes. Because it wasn't enough that I was willing to do low-paying entry level jobs. It had to bring me unbridled joy as well .
HOWEVER, some parts of this article have an agenda too, which has just as little appeal to me as "The Secret" does. Demanding ceaseless good vibes or else all your problems are your own fault and demanding ceaseless moral outrage or else all global problems are your fault are pretty much the same message to me.
. HOWEVER, some parts of this article have an agenda too, which has just as little appeal to me as "The Secret" does. Demanding ceaseless good vibes or else all your problems are your own fault and demanding ceaseless moral outrage or else all global problems are your fault are pretty much the same message to me.
Yes that is the attitude I mean- people telling you things that are out of your control are your own fault because of your negativity or whatever. That is harmful and ridiculous.
I didn't get the idea that the article wanted us to be morally outraged constantly. I agree with this bit (below) from it though, I've been thinking it for a while. If people are only out for themselves, focusing on their own wants, and never working together with others for a united goal, society will indeed fall apart.
Quote:
Society can't run with millions of individuals secretly trying to manifest their own personal desires, with zero thought about what their own personal desires mean for someone else.
That's exactly what's happening.
Indeed, millions of individuals are trying to manifest their own personal desires without the slightest concern for anyone else. It's driving the collapse of our institutions, from public health to education.
That's exactly what's happening.
Indeed, millions of individuals are trying to manifest their own personal desires without the slightest concern for anyone else. It's driving the collapse of our institutions, from public health to education.
08 Oct 2023, 10:12 am
KitLily wrote:
vividgroovy wrote:
However, I've also had my run-ins with "toxic positivity." During my struggle to find employment in my 20s, I was told that it was all my fault nobody would hire me because prospective employers could "sense that you don't really want the job." One person literally said this to me while reading a newspaper with a headline about the recession causing hiring freezes. Because it wasn't enough that I was willing to do low-paying entry level jobs. It had to bring me unbridled joy as well .
HOWEVER, some parts of this article have an agenda too, which has just as little appeal to me as "The Secret" does. Demanding ceaseless good vibes or else all your problems are your own fault and demanding ceaseless moral outrage or else all global problems are your fault are pretty much the same message to me.
. HOWEVER, some parts of this article have an agenda too, which has just as little appeal to me as "The Secret" does. Demanding ceaseless good vibes or else all your problems are your own fault and demanding ceaseless moral outrage or else all global problems are your fault are pretty much the same message to me.
Yes that is the attitude I mean- people telling you things that are out of your control are your own fault because of your negativity or whatever. That is harmful and ridiculous.
I didn't get the idea that the article wanted us to be morally outraged constantly. I agree with this bit (below) from it though, I've been thinking it for a while. If people are only out for themselves, focusing on their own wants, and never working together with others for a united goal, society will indeed fall apart.
Quote:
Society can't run with millions of individuals secretly trying to manifest their own personal desires, with zero thought about what their own personal desires mean for someone else.
That's exactly what's happening.
Indeed, millions of individuals are trying to manifest their own personal desires without the slightest concern for anyone else. It's driving the collapse of our institutions, from public health to education.
That's exactly what's happening.
Indeed, millions of individuals are trying to manifest their own personal desires without the slightest concern for anyone else. It's driving the collapse of our institutions, from public health to education.
How about a passage like this:
Quote:
...When you start talking about climate change and your friend changes the subject, they're doing the same thing. They're indulging the superstition that thinking negative thoughts can make bad things happen. It's better to ignore them.
The author demands their friends be interested in listening to their political diatribe. If the friend dares to change the subject and tries to have a say in the direction of the conversation themselves...well, they're DOOMING WESTERN SOCIETY.
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