Pollyannism

How do you feel when something horrible is going on in your life and someone tells you that you just need to change your thoughts, or the way you think? How does it make you feel as you are in the midst of drama in your life, full of pain and confusion only for someone to tell you that you must have done something wrong in your life, or better yet that you are the one bringing this all on yourself? Remember as a child when your parents would tell you, "Well, you've brought this all on yourself"? It felt horrible didn't it? But not only that it leaves a person feeling as though they didn't get something right. This person may now spend the rest of their life correcting their wrongs instead of looking for the good in the situation.

Just as with pain we can ask ourselves, "What did I do wrong? What was I thinking that would have brought this much pain or discomfort to me?" What if this pain was to help us to learn something even more fascinating? What if it was there to teach us compassion, understanding, and that this world is created to experience all of it. What if pain also helps us to learn to be peaceful within the midst of that pain?

But there is a real danger that occurs with people that "think" they've got it, that all you have to do is "think" positive and that they know why pain has been created and why a person is experiencing the pain.

Pollyannism can actually empower the shadow and allow it to rise with more force.

That's right, having a positive attitude about everything all the time empowers the ego. It becomes empowered by making you think that your issues don't need to be look into or processed, but rather ignore it.

With HMLM we are not ignoring the issues but diving deep into them. We continue to process them until we are able to see HOW we've done this to ourselves and the golden nugget that resides in what we've hidden. The shadow doesn't want you to find these nuggets. It wants you to believe that you know better than everyone else by having all the answers. NO ONE HAS THE ANSWERS FOR ANOTHER, IT IS ALWAYS WITHIN THE SELF.

If you are one of these people that go around seeing all the reflections of other people without recognizing that this is YOU, then your ego is experiencing pollyannism by making you think that your life is positive but everyone else is screwed. STOP IT!

No matter what we do in this life we are to have compassion for one another. It matters not what another person did in a past life, what matters is the compassion we share with each other in this one. It matters not what you think another person wronged you in, but rather how you have wronged yourself by hiding out within the shadows.

There are many people that love to teach HMLM because they literally have fallen victim to the ego to use this against themselves. Higher Mind, Lower Mind allows the individual to see clearly and to gain clarity. Teaching it so they can use it on another person instead of learning from it for themselves only allows them to fall further into their own deep sleep.

There is nothing wrong with being positive, but there is a real danger in ignoring what doesn't appear to be so positive. You surely would not go into the burn unit of a hospital and start telling patients, "Oh, look on the bright side", the bright side they may not discover until years later, but it is for them to wake up. Telling someone to look at the bright side will sometimes make them run and hide, especially if you are telling them they are 100% responsible for the creation. Who would want to create that kind of situation?

All bridges have to be crossed with care. All bridges and transitions are fragile and can become weak if there is anything testing or threatening the foundation. We do not want to shatter another persons foundation just because our egos have become so huge that we have lost the self within the shadows.

It's always amazing to me to see clients that get HMLM and then turn it quickly on to another person. They have forgotten their own projection. It's amazing to me to see how deeply they will go within the illusion as well because now their whole life has become one big shadow. They are fighting with themselves.

Upon reading this if you found yourself sniffing in through one nostril then your ego is reacting to what you are reading. We've all seen it, we've all heard it. A person gets information that they think they are beyond and they sniff in like, "Well". Almost like a huff but taking air in instead of out, but it can go both ways.

Remember when dealing with people you are dealing with yourself. Be kind, compassionate, following the heart in what to say and do. When dealing with the shadows of ourselves it's okay to be firm. But remember, Jesus never said go away, he said, "Satan, get behind thee".

Something to think about!

Enjoy!
Dr. Velvete