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Old 26-05-2017, 02:24 PM
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unfortunately the facade is exploited for tyranny and absolutely atrocious behaviour by many preaching the whole "conscious exploration of loving action"... i'm not pointing the finger at you.
Yet here you are, preaching all this cynical and snide "Let me guess you believe in the law of attraction too ?? an affirmation is a man made invention... not truth !!" rhetoric.

You really had no other "loving" action to take part in at SF, other than starting a discredit-thread in a sub-forum so as to invalidate the particular belief? This is your idea of positive, productive participation and action?
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Old 26-05-2017, 02:34 PM
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i guess it depends on what sort of help they're looking for

search and ye shall not always find
That concept would apply more to you, taking into consideration the meaning of your username 'disconnected'.
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Old 26-05-2017, 02:38 PM
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That concept would apply more to you, taking into consideration the meaning of your username 'disconnected'.
I was pretty cynical and disconnected from life in my 30s. I know life doesn't give answers exactly when someone could use them and/or is desperate for them. So that is a reality. Incidentally I've been drug-free since then. And I am going to suggest that the real reasons for the things being discussed here haven't even been touched upon.
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Old 26-05-2017, 02:51 PM
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I was pretty cynical and disconnected from life in my 30s. I know life doesn't give answers exactly when someone could use them and/or is desperate for them. So that is a reality. Incidentally I've been drug-free since then. And I am going to suggest that the real reasons for the things being discussed here haven't even been touched upon.
I was referring to the user ‘disconnected’, and how they’re choosing to act. As if it’s benefitting them in any way.
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Old 26-05-2017, 02:57 PM
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I was referring to the user ‘disconnected’, and how they’re choosing to act. As if it’s benefitting them in an."y way.
Right, I understand. But if this were years ago and the way I used to feel, I would have named myself "Miserable In Life" or "Black Hole." So I see it not so much about benefiting anything, but just expressing how one is feeling. I get what you're saying: create it, and that's what you will experience. But when I was experiencing life as a black hole, there was nothing that could convince me life was happy in any way. I was unhappy, and that's all I saw and all I could muster.
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Old 26-05-2017, 03:02 PM
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Right, I understand. But if this were years ago and the way I used to feel, I would have named myself "Miserable In Life" or "Black Hole." So I see it not so much about benefiting anything, but just expressing how one is feeling. I get what you're saying: create it, and that's what you will experience. But when I was experiencing life as a black hole, there was nothing that could convince me life was happy in any way. I was unhappy, and that's all I saw and all I could muster.
I understand that, at the times that is how you’re feeling it is hard to cope with it cause of how it leaves you feeling. When one doesn’t want to accept that, hard to see that feeling of it changing - very hard.
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Old 26-05-2017, 03:05 PM
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To a degree, I think the op is right mainly because humans are quite suggestible and if that counts and is important for all our personal reasons we want them to work, so believing has the potential to make it happen for us.
Affirmations are a pipe dream of sorts - but it doesn't hurt or harm - or does it?
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Old 26-05-2017, 03:09 PM
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I understand that, at the times that is how you’re feeling it is hard to cope with it cause of how it leaves you feeling. When one doesn’t want to accept that, hard to see that feeling of it changing - very hard.
And also, impossible to convince them otherwise, even something as simple to understand as "Believing a thing to be pointless, is what makes it pointless." It's not even about affirmations; this is an essential understanding regarding basic spiritual self-development work. Even quantum physics is coming to this understanding: the outcome is dependent on the observer.
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Old 26-05-2017, 03:13 PM
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To a degree, I think the op is right mainly because humans are quite suggestible and if that counts and is important for all our personal reasons we want them to work
let me guess you believe in the law of attraction too ??
an affirmation is a man made invention... not truth !!


You're being kind and generous, very generous.
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Old 26-05-2017, 03:13 PM
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To a degree, I think the op is right mainly because humans are quite suggestible and if that counts and is important for all our personal reasons we want them to work, so believing has the potential to make it happen for us.
Affirmations are a pipe dream of sorts - but it doesn't hurt or harm - or does it?

Hi Silver.

Relative to one's intent. Affirming from a place of feeling lack, not appreciating oneself nor others, would of course be a hurtful/harmful type of affirming,

While affirming something general such as, "I would like to feel better," if one were not in a good-feeling mood, is very much a positive, helpful mental suggestion.
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