The deception of positive thinking

English version with subtitles in Spanish.

Food for thought. It is always healthy, to challenge our believes and theories we accepted as guidelines in our lives. We are not alive just to follow others without exerting any discrimination power, like sheep, neither to get stuck in some sort of comfort zone that eventually stops suiting us or even chokes us. So, thank you, Maria. Synch: I almost had a go to some poster on a social network, the other day, for bringing up the "Law of attraction" when it seemed cynical an inapproporiate to do so! people have the tendency to get engaged and obsessed with something they deem as fashionable or very clever, but it is in practice, that u see if a method works , and if a spiritual law is such and not a delusion of the limited humans' mind!

Food for thought? Yes indeed, and here are some:

Positive thinking as a method of control? I can see how that works on the physical plane. Certainly it is a standard technique of the BKWSU to control "students": BapDada says

Start thinking in a positive way, and the negative will automatically finish

and so they refuse to listen to any criticism, let alone respond to it or act on it, no matter how valid or constructive that criticism may be. This is their default behaviour, and any exceptions seem only to occur under extreme and persistent provocation.


However, in spiritual terms it makes sense to think positively. As BapDada says:

light finishes darkness. If you continue to think "dispel the darkness, dispel the darkness", then you will become disheartened.

In other words, be radiant, and the nasty stuff will not stick to you. A practical example is the teaching to avoid operating consciously in the astral planes, as there is much danger there, and no benefit, while a high spiritual stage will simply make you immune to anything astral (or physical). Why labour and struggle, when there is an effortless alternative?


But, on a more mundane level, blind positive thinking, as practiced and taught by the BKWSU is akin to the myth of the ostrich hiding its head in the sand to avoid dealing with uncomfortable reality. In a word, denial. This causes only harm. Problems, obstacles, troubles of any sort, have to be faced head on, understood, and vanquished. Sticking your head in the sand may make you feel more serene for a short while. But nothing has been dealt with. Whatever you are hiding from will come back to haunt you again, when you finally take your head back out of the sand. This level of "positive thinking" solves nothing, and simply stores up problems for later.

The video posted by maria cites the example of someone losing their job in the corporate world, and being advised to think positively to "attract" another job in the corporate world. This might apparently work, as a positive attitude will more likely lead to applications being completed and posted, and to interviewers being impressed. But nothing is solved, as the real problem was being involved with the corporate world at all in the first place! Instead of seizing a great opportunity to free oneself from the chains of corporate slavery (fully analogous to BKWSU slavery), the sucker (oops I mean victim) jumps from the frying pan into the fire... and gets burned even worse.

The problem is not positive thinking, but shallow thinking.

Anything fast and shallow, sells. Shortcuts to get somewhere . Where, though? As Howie says, peole are not even questioning. Like "feel good music "or comfort food. Pos. thinking can replace tranquillizers, drug, having a temp effect of calming the person down and as u said procrastinating the action ( which is different from hiding and suppressing, denying..., when what is needed is in fact TRANSFORMATION). I think that discrimination , judging and facing powers are those wjho need to be invoked and used. They usually work and make us stronger, superficiality and postponing, disempower the soul. Nobody mentioned Karma, though. For sure is in the pic ( why does some 1 get fired and can or cannot easily find a decent job??), but cannot be obviously seen.

Good point alladin, re karma. Karmic return trumps any "law of attraction", in my understanding.