drbubb Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Imagining a Better World - is a Vital project Before we can have Better Future, we must first IMAGINE IT ! If we do not have our own Dreams, we may get stuck in someone else's nightmare. So it is an important project to exercise one's imagination... and to share it Break Free From Mental Slavery With This Simple Trick Published on Apr 4, 2015 Science Fiction is Science Fact in 2015. Have we been being programmed all along to accept this dystopic future or are we capable of breaking free from this mental enslavement to create the reality we desire? "You need to PRE-view things in detail a number of times... to get away from Fear, and put yourself on a positive track." - JR (paraphrased) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbubb Posted April 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Creating A Better WorldJune 9, 2011 / Laura Grace Weldon “We become what we think about all day long.”Ralph Waldo Emersonpositive thinking, the shift, better world attitude, Anastasiya MarkovichLong before I became an adult I launched a quest. This was inspired by a something that weighed on my childish mind, an urgent calling to alleviate the suffering of others. Even when I was a misbehaving little girl who ignored her chores and fought with her sister (often), I still felt the weight of this obligation. My parents cancelled their subscriptions to news magazines to avoid my questions as well as my despair over every sorrowful photograph. And my entire family dreaded driving past a chained puppy or crying baby, knowing that I would agonize the rest of the day over this momentary glimpse out the car window.For some reason my quest took the form of trying to understand why people acted cruelly. So in my spare time I read everything I could find on the history of suffering, evil, and misery. I learned about the Inquisition, U.S.betrayals of Native Americans, the Holocaust, the genocide ordered by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia—if it was awful I studied it. I worked my way through every book and resource possible.right thought, optimism changes world, hope,This project of mine stretched well into my teen and early adult years. It was grim. It haunted my dreams and colored what should have been youthful optimism. I began to realize that every single human has the capacity for cruelty. We just pretend we don’t. A bad mood may be contagious but the shadow we hide can wreak havoc on a personal and even a global level.One day as I sat in the sunshine while my firstborn played nearby in the grass, my dear friend Leslie came over for a visit. She found me reading yet another horrific book, a stack of similarly dire non-fiction at my side. And she’d had it. She told me I was ignoring the beauty all around me to immerse myself in misery. She told me to look at the light shining on my child’s face, the bright green grass, and all the love in my life.She was right, of course.Still I defended my quest. I told her it was an obligation to know what was wrong with the world in order to right it. I waved around books that described the evils of pesticides, the horrors of factory farms, and the title I was currently reading, something about political prisoners.She disagreed. She said it was time to focus on what was good.I told her I was I finding good. What I read exposed me to heart-expanding accounts of people who demonstrated the best of humanity no matter their circumstances. Those who were dying of hunger, yet gave their last bit of food to others. Those who had no reason for hope but who kept art and music alive. Those who faced the worst despair, but did not give in to it. The best lesson I learned from years of study? Every single person has a choice, even if it seems there are no choices. That choice is the attitude they take.the shift, making the shift, the secret in action, the secret applies to peace,It was time to work on my own attitude.Gradually I stopped trying to understand and fight against all the reasons for suffering. I also became a little less frantic about doing everything possible to counterbalance the wrong I saw everywhere. I noticed that people in activist groups I belonged to faced the world with the same despair I felt, battling evil so fiercely that they had no way to expand on all the good that also flourishes.So I began volunteering less time to lost causes, marched in fewer protest rallies, and gave up stomping around with petitions. I did more that seemed to boost the positive—gardening, singing to my babies, and guerilla acts of encouragement.I became certified to teach non-violence workshops which I taught to school systems, incarcerated teens, and senior citizens. As I taught, the lessons sunk in ever more deeply. The long and life-affirming history of non-violence can’t help but heal a heart heavy with the world’s troubles. The process of non-violence—reacting with love rather than hate—is more empowering than any other force we humans have ever used. It transforms greed, intolerance, and cruelty. It’s humanity’s way forward.peace through non-violence, achieving world peace, optimism, > more: http://lauragraceweldon.com/2011/06/09/creating-a-better-world/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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