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"woo" story
Twoapenny:
--- Quote from: Hopalong on March 06, 2017, 06:55:10 PM ---My friends are calling it The Miracle of the Toilet Paper.
:lol:
xo
Hops
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Lol, life is one long glamorous adventure ;) xx
sea storm:
What a great event.... toilet paper wish comes true. Louise Hays would say... This is just the beginning. That is so amazing.
Sea
Hopalong:
I know.
And I am SO allergic to woo.
I walked out of a Louise Hays workshop years ago...the facilitator was explaining how children, out in the universe, select their parents and then come and be born. I asked, what explains infants being abused? He said, that means they had XX from a past life to work out in....
I was slamming the door behind me by then.
I really DISlike the whole "Secret" thing. I don't think I "manifested" anything and have zero explanation for the Miracle of the Toilet Paper. Although it's quite true that toilet paper IS very important to me. I mean, who doesn't wanna be certain they don't get to a last roll and ooops... :lol:
But I always think that woo sez: just mumble this, pretend that, preoccupy yourself and spend hours and hours mentally insisting on this other magic-based thing... and TA DA will happen. And I always worry that people will derail some very prime, fine, creative, innate capabilities within themselves (yup, preaching to self) that could produce astonishing results in their lives -- because they're learning, basically, just to beg. Instead of ACT.
Oh wow. I really am preaching to my fat lazy passive self. Oh, my.
Very good pondering going on, here! Maybe that's the real Toilet Paper Miracle. If it gets me thinking about action, and recognizing that if there IS any real woo, I'll never be able to predict it or figure it out. So what I can do is, be truly grateful and delighted by good woo whenever it delightfully and randomly appears...and the rest of the time, rely on logic, facts, intuition and behavior to change my life.
Hmmm.
love,
Hops
Twoapenny:
--- Quote from: Hopalong on May 05, 2017, 05:01:21 PM ---I know.
And I am SO allergic to woo.
I walked out of a Louise Hays workshop years ago...the facilitator was explaining how children, out in the universe, select their parents and then come and be born. I asked, what explains infants being abused? He said, that means they had XX from a past life to work out in....
I was slamming the door behind me by then.
I really DISlike the whole "Secret" thing. I don't think I "manifested" anything and have zero explanation for the Miracle of the Toilet Paper. Although it's quite true that toilet paper IS very important to me. I mean, who doesn't wanna be certain they don't get to a last roll and ooops... :lol:
But I always think that woo sez: just mumble this, pretend that, preoccupy yourself and spend hours and hours mentally insisting on this other magic-based thing... and TA DA will happen. And I always worry that people will derail some very prime, fine, creative, innate capabilities within themselves (yup, preaching to self) that could produce astonishing results in their lives -- because they're learning, basically, just to beg. Instead of ACT.
Oh wow. I really am preaching to my fat lazy passive self. Oh, my.
Very good pondering going on, here! Maybe that's the real Toilet Paper Miracle. If it gets me thinking about action, and recognizing that if there IS any real woo, I'll never be able to predict it or figure it out. So what I can do is, be truly grateful and delighted by good woo whenever it delightfully and randomly appears...and the rest of the time, rely on logic, facts, intuition and behavior to change my life.
Hmmm.
love,
Hops
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I have the same issue with the child abuse stuff, Hops, not least because the theory that you choose lessons before you come into life is the complete opposite of Law of Attraction, which is all about your thoughts drawing stuff to you, not your soul picking out lessons for you to learn. I do believe that a constructive? attitude is a good one to have (ie someone who trys to learn and grow from bad experiences) but obviously most of us don't start to actively deal with our abuse until we're much older and the early stuff is affecting our later stuff. I also don't get how Law of Attraction explains earthquakes, disease outbreaks, sink holes and so on. So many disasters and awful things going on in the world. If it works why don't they all think really hard about world peace or clean water for everyone on the planet and make that happen? I would find that impressive :)
I have found positive mantras have helped to lift my mood or clear my head a bit and I do think positive thinking is a good thing to have. I do remember, however, talking about law of attraction stuff with a CBT therapist (who was very good), and she said that if you stand in a garden with your eyes shut thinking over and over again 'There are no weeds, there are no weeds' the weeds will still grow, no matter what. Then she went on to use examples of getting the gardening done but thinking positive thoughts about it rather than endlessly muttering to yourself 'I hate gardening' you'' feel better by the time you've done it. I have tried the law of attraction stuff many times and it hasn't worked. I even bought a book that claimed to have 9 scientific experiments in it to prove law of attraction worked and they didn't work either. I do think the 'children pick the lives they want to live' has an element of victim blaming in it, which I really don't like.
Hopalong:
Smart therapist!
Totally agree with you, Tupp, that positive thinking is...well, positive. My set point is a happy nature, given conditions. Some days/years it's been harder than others, but the arc of my universe leans toward gratitude if not justice.
Agnosticism is sometimes healing and often painful. But I'm there. So I struggle sometimes for explanations about suffering. Prosperity gospel drives me nuts. So does original sin. Capital punishment. All those convoluted justifications for human callousness.
One good thing (for me) about agnosticism is that it reminds me of the reality that my inability to be all-knowing is reason to be humble. My ignorance about many things is a fact as empirical as gravity. I have to choose to trust my thinking to some degree, but I also need to keep my mind open.
Mostly, I feel right when I lead with the heart.
And I am entirely open to random good woo! Imagine how many butt-wipes for the rest of my life will offer me the opportunity to contemplate the miraculous!
:lol:
love,
Hops
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