Your opinions on positive thinking, spirituality, et cetera?
June 28th, 2009 | by admin |
Pine.apple asked:
I’m interested in hearing your opinion on spirituality and other methods from media - books, television, radio shows, and movies - and how they’ve portrayed living happier, much more successful lives, et cetra.
I’m interested in hearing your opinion on spirituality and other methods from media - books, television, radio shows, and movies - and how they’ve portrayed living happier, much more successful lives, et cetra.
Do you follow or believe in the Secret or stuff like that? Has thinking positive worked for you? What self help books (Napoleon Hill, Good to great, etc) have you read that you find has helped you/or not…what experiences have changed you….?
Or even of you’re religious, just you opinions or how you feel. I tend on using this information for school, so anything is appreciated.
For sixstringfarm, all i’m asking is how you feel about all this talk about sprituality, thinking positive. Has it worked for you, what have you done to feel better that kind of stuff. Just your opinion.
RONNIE
13 Responses to “Your opinions on positive thinking, spirituality, et cetera?”
By I'M ON A DIET!!! on Jun 30, 2009 | Reply
I feel like the media and movies portrays some religions as good and others as…not good (lets just say that). you know what religion I’m talking about…
By Lucy on Jul 2, 2009 | Reply
I think that hope (or positive thinking) is necessary for a happy existence, although, it’s a lot easier to think positive when things are going well. I have just learned this from experience. I like to read quotes from wise people for inspiration. There is also a lot of wisdom in the Bible that even non believers and skeptics could benefit from.
By jmb316 on Jul 5, 2009 | Reply
The best self help book is the Bible. If you follow the guidelines you will have joy in everything. You will focus on the good and not the bad. Because if you are always focused on the hardships in life that will be all you ever have.
By Agent Smith on Jul 8, 2009 | Reply
The Secret is based on channeling a demon.
Just Google the secret behind the Secret.
Is this the spirituality you are talking about?
By Sorrow Free on Jul 9, 2009 | Reply
I know the Secret, but it’s not the Secret you are thinking of…
=D
By grayure on Jul 11, 2009 | Reply
You can’t beat serious, academic Philosophy for self-help. The Secret works in social psychological terms but has serious limits. It’s also promoted in a very devious way.
Look at Seneca, Epictetus and other Stoics and you won’t go far wrong. The Dao De Jing and Yi Jing are also useful, as are the Upanisads and the Hatha Yoga Pradipika.
There are probably people writing now who are good, but only time will tell.
By Maybe just happy on Jul 13, 2009 | Reply
When you go over the same thought in your head many times, the synaptic path that it stimulates becomes stronger. It’s kind of like a footpath in a field, that becomes bigger and more noticeable every time someone walks it. That is why positive thinking enforces a positive pattern of thought and, consequently, behavior.
Positive thinking works. Only spirituality has nothing to do with it.
By -FYOP- Ruler Of None on Jul 15, 2009 | Reply
To save the abuse … I sent you an email …
By james o on Jul 18, 2009 | Reply
The thinking is that if you think positive, wonderful things will miraculously come your way, and that’s obviously rubbish.
However, there’s excellent reason for thinking positively:
The way you think predisposes you to be respond to new events in a particular way. That is, if you are thinking positively, and some positive opportunity comes along, you will be much more likely to recognize it, and you will certainly be more quick to cease this opportunity. If, on the other hand, you are thinking negatively, you may not even recognize a positive opportunity, or you may hesitate. What’s the point? It won’t work anyway.
So a person with a positive attitude is more likely to recognize and take advatage of the positive opportunities that come his way.
However, even if it doesn’t do a dang thing for you, consider the alternatives:
Other people prefer being around someone who is positive, so you will have more friends who enjoy being with you.
You can live positively, and die relatively happier, or you can live with a less-than-positive attitude and die less happy.
What’s not to like about a positive attitude?
The argument for the other side, I suppose, is that you will be living the truth if you are less positive. So what do you want to be?
RIGHT?
OR HAPPY?
If you have trouble answering the above question, I highly recommend therapy.
By Violation Notice on Jul 20, 2009 | Reply
positive thinking can help a bit…if it doesnt decrease the symptoms of a physiological condition…it can at least alter ones perception of it.
I am far from religious and had part of my brain taken out. Interestingly, the part of my brain that was screwed up and needed to be taken out is the left temporal lobe….people with abnormalities in the temp lobe tend to have religious experiences..and I used to be religious =O
I follow nothing.
If there was any validity to *the secret*…then holier than thous would pay for people in 3rd world countries to read them..and the world would be perfect. Just because it alters the perception of people in first world countries..doesnt mean they really do anything to reality
By Maureen S on Jul 21, 2009 | Reply
I was born a Catholic. Married a Mormon and joined their Church. Divorced and then started investigating and searching for myself. First I started with every religion I could think of, reading, attending services, visiting temples etc. Then somebody gave me a book by Deepak Chopra Ageless Body, Timeless Mind and that started me on a new Path. Since that time, I have read most books written by people such as Deepak Chopra/ Dr. Wayne Dyer/Dhali Lhama/Eckhart Tolle and books like Course in Miracles. Also the actual teachings of Jesus NOT the Bible, and the teachings of Buddha.
My life has never been the same I have become a more positive, loving, accepting person. I have no fears, since I do not have a belief system that fears demons, anti-christ, devil, depths of hell etc.
I now understand that it is MY thinking, MY actions, MY understanding that shapes my path. I no longer fear death, because I believe we - the real WE that leaves the body at death - is eternal. That love is all that is important and that we are all part of one family. I know longer have the attitude that I am right and everybody else is wrong. I see now that everybody chooses the path for themselves, and that does not make them wrong.
I have learned that if we want to help change the world for the better, then we must start with ourselves.
also
That a man is but the product of his own thoughts
and
Happiness is not a reward, it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment it is a result.
Wayne Dyer - If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
By Frou Frou on Jul 24, 2009 | Reply
hi there pine
well i am a very spiritual person
and yes i do beleive a lot of things like this are possible to probable
actualy, yes, positive thinking does work for me
it works because of 2 things
its a brain training, which is how we learn anything, even down to basics like the alphabet, we learn that off by heart by repeating it over and over and over, and then it become second nature
well, positive thinking is the same thing
and because it makes you FEEL more positive, and like you are taking control of your life, yourself, changing
and that itself is a motivation, confidence
you just have to tell yourself it over and over
im a realist pine, i dont live in a fantasy land of happines and rainbows , life sucks, but i get through it by accepting it, learning what i can about it and then using all of this information etc and either accepting its happened and moving on or changing or helping it
that IS positive thinking for me
positive thinking only works with positive action
so the thoiughts are not enough alone
you still need to do more work than just tell yourself its all good etc
well, i read whateve rones i pick up in our library, right now i still have, after a year or so, ‘robin sieger- you can change your life anytime you want’
and of course some of it is rubbish, but, some of it has really helped me, and thats what i do it for
i have also found dealing with my personality flaws and psychology a huge help to making me and my life better and more positive
i know myself very well, and i know when i need to change or fix soemthing, and its hard, its not an easy thing changing yourself, but, if you really want to, you will
thats how simple i see it
and that works for me
it doesnt mean life is great, or your happy forever
life gets tough and it does and alway swill bring you down, but, its how you deal with that and pick yourself back up that is the important part and the part that people dont realise is important
they punish themselves and feel bad or guilty over what happend, over how it affected them, rather than accepting they are just human and are now doing soemthing about it
but, as with eveyrthing, it all depends on what YOU beleive and the kind of person YOU are
not what i beleive or who i am
ignore those on tv books etc, just take what YOU need from them, but dont use them as an example, they are just a help, not a goal, and if its on tv etc etc, its ALWAYS going to be talked up and made a bit ‘faker’ than what it is
you just do it yourself, the way you would, the way you want, and thats what works for you
read the books, but dont take every word in as truth, or literal, or must do or think etc, take some inspiration from SOME of it, what YOU think will help YOU
thats the best way to do this kind of thing
By sixstringfarm on Jul 24, 2009 | Reply
Could you clarify the question?