You just suck and need to be more Positive! (NOT)
That certainly appears correct.
If you look at all the “positive thinking”, “visualisation”, “think it and it will come” stuff out there it sounds really good in theory. Fear is bad, fear is terrible – and it’s just a “mindset thing” that needs to be overcome.
In taking this thinking to the extreme, to me – ignoring or “overcoming” your fear is not very intelligent.
Let’s say you walk up to busy motorway or freeway. There are tons of cars going at 100+km / hour. If you just watch you probably won’t feel any fear, but then let’s say you think about crossing it. You then start feeling scared.
So let’s look at this two ways:
1) You get scared – then you think, hmm – I really need to be bloody careful here! If I don’t cross at the right time I will get run over. So hmm, I am going to watch the traffic and wait for a safe spot.
2) You get scared – then you think, hmm – I am dis-empowering myself and I need to be more positive. My fear is just an illusion and I need to be more abundant. I am just going to have faith and cross the road.
So this is the great thing about positive thinking! Whatever happened to realism? Am I advocating just submitting to ones fears and not taking intelligent risks? Of course not – I am all for that, I just think this positive thinking hype has gone to the unintelligent extreme and is mostly used as a rip off tool!
From Edward Zia, thank you for taking the time to read this. I wish you the Awesome best out there!
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