Life can be tough, no doubt about it. Especially in our modern times a good example is money struggles. Being under financial challenges can become overwhelmingly stressful and many people have them these days making them feel incompetent and inadequate...or we may feel that we are not pretty or handsome enough, not smart or talented enough. We might even wonder if we are loving enough or even if we are very lovable at all. Sometimes people tend, in a term, to get "down on themselves" and when they do their world dims and they begin believing that every silver lining has its cloud.
It is impossible to list all the reasons that people become depressed. Some depression is physiologic of course and can be repaired medically and so anyone reading this who is suffering deep depression should see a doctor. There is another kind of depression though that simply arrives from not feeling right with oneself; having feelings of unhappiness and lack of worthiness-you know being too fat, too skinny, too broke; nose to long, too short...being stuck in a mediocre job...can't get a date...the reasons we give ourselves for our negative prospective are unending. As a result we end up with a primal scream that affirms such stuff as...if we didn't have bad luck, we'd have no luck at all....Nothing ever goes right for me syndrome and so forth. And so, as a result, we end up wallowing in a quagmire of our own emptiness sometimes turning to booze or drugs and eventually ending up in a deeper depression than we began with.
I will dare say something that will probably not be acceptable to at least some folks but the old axiom that tells us that the world is what we make it, is true. Nearly all of us have been raised to believe that the world acts on us but...it is the other way around. What we project onto the world, the world become...to us. Another way of saying this is to say what is projected into the universe is always reflected. In fact, what old Henry Ford once said is true, if you think you can or can't, you are always right.
Can it really be true that we "create" our world? The new physics have been telling us for decades that matter itself must be observed in order to evolve into being, so in this way we are all part of the creative process. Indeed, the writers John Assaraf and Murray Smith explain it this way:
Everything in the physical world is made of atoms.
Atoms are made out of energy.
And energy is made out of consciousness.
In regard to this they make an extremely profound point. They say, "You've heard the old expression 'I'll believe it when I see it' but that's not really how it is. The truth is more like this: You'll see it when you believe it." There is not room here to go very deeply into the science or metaphysics of all this so I will summarize to make the point important for this narrative: What you need to know is, If you deem the rose bush a thorn bush, then that is what it becomes...for you.
What we determine the world to be is what the world becomes? In fact, when you wake up in the morning say to yourself a few times, this is going to be a lousy day and see what happens. On the other hand, say this is going to be a great day and...see what happens. (Our words have tremendous creative power but this is a subject for another article). All we're attempting to say here is that what we are experiencing (and so thinking and feeling) on the inside "paints" the world in the same tones of that inner-environment of thoughts and emotions-that is, a gloomy, downer mood colors the world dull and dark while a happy, carefree mood colors the world bright and rosy.
But how, you ask, can a person see their world bright and rosy when they are so darned unhappy and/or afraid and/or feeling alone and abandoned? Well, first of all these kinds of feelings are always only the symptoms of deeper causes. And, invariably there is always guilt, anger and regret in the very fabric of those "deeper causes." And so, get rid of those three viruses of the spirit and you'll start healing and your world will start brightening up again.
What may be your most difficult task is your most important task-you have to let loose of whatever is negative in your yesterdays. You do this by forgiving all those who have hurt you and yourself for whatever mistakes you've made.
There are some people I simply can never forgive, you say and I can't forgive myself either for some of the stuff I've done and the mistakes I've made.
Guess what, you're right at least in this way...you can ONLY forgive others to the extent that you forgive yourself. And so, start living life in the freedom of self-forgiveness before you even attempt to forgive others. Like everything else, it's one step at a time.
Where and how do you begin?
You begin in the morning (every morning) when you look in the mirror. You take few brief moments to simply say to that image reflected there, "You are loving and lovable." Oh, I know, lots of readers will be saying, that's a silly thing to do.
Well, it's not. Indeed, if you have the courage to do this every morning for only a week or so, you will absolutely start feeling better about yourself and as a result, you will start feeling better about the world of others. It doesn't matter if you believe me or not-try it and see what happens.
Look, as long as you have a healthy brain and all the chemicals are doing what they are supposed to do, your feelings of being defeated and/or being down trotted are self inflicted and habitual. Break the habit of feeling unhappy and soon enough you'll cheer up. Yes, it's just about as simple as that. And, in this way, you really can rise about your circumstances.
What is being said here?
For one thing, whatever information your brain is given, your brain believes.
Can this be so?
Dr. Paul Pearsall tells us that we cannot only tell our brains what to think but how to think. Want a positive brain-give it positive instructions. (This is why it is so very destructive to call children names such as lazy, sloppy, stupid, bad and naughty. If you're an authority figure, the child's brain believes you and invariably begins fulfilling those images).
Now then, with the above in mind, I want to give you another task. Don't scoff, trust me in this and I promise you that you'll be glad that you did.
Take a walk today (in a safe place of course) and say silently to yourself but to everything you see and to every passerby, I love you. Yes, I mean every tree, every bird in the sky and even the grass beneath your feet.
Why? For one thing, you are reconditioning yourself to be whole and happy again and for another you will probably start feeling better about the world immediately. After all, you are lifting the veil of your doom and gloom and, if you will, letting the sunshine in.
While I cannot tell you how this works, I can tell you that it does.
Really, make every walk you take a loving walk for even a single week and see the changes you experience; as you practice loving others and loving the world of things, your self-love will begin to grow and start flow through your existence again. Why is all this love so important and especially self-love? The answer is this-you cannot give what you do not have.
Incidentally, what is so wonderful and yes, magical about love is that the more you give, the more you get!
Anyway, there is something else: Remember we said that you can only forgive others to the extent that you forgive yourself. Well, it is just as true that you can only love the world to the extent that you love yourself. Practice loving yourself unconditionally and see how loving your world becomes. Now then, go to the mirror right now and say to that kind, forgiving and generous person looking back at you...You are loving and lovable and...I love you.
NOTE ONE: Charles Pierce had everything taken away from him by the Nazis as a young man including his parents who were murdered by those who enslaved him. Nevertheless, he is the first to tell you that the Nazis took everything from him except what he had in his own head. Those thoughts, those memories, those visions belonged to him. And it was indeed those thoughts, those memories and those visions that helped him survive and to love the world again. No matter what you're past or what you circumstance you too can prevail and find your way back to loving life and yourself in it.
NOTE TWO: I FULLY REALIZE THAT WHEN ONE TALKS ABOUT TELLING THE PLANTS THAT THEY LOVE THEM, A LOT OF PEOPLE, PERHAPS MOST PEOPLE, BECOME SUSPECT AND SKEPTICAL: Let's face it, this certainly has factors that take us back to the old hippy days of the 1960s and what the world needs now is love sweet love. But the wisdom of the ancient past tells us that the universe is all mind and all phenomena and the Kabbalah tells us that even "the stone is pervaded by divinity." These thoughts, in the least, are worth contemplation. It is simply okay to say silently to oneself to the stranger on the road or the bush growing alongside that road, "I love you." Give it a try and you might just find out that something wonderful follows.
NOTE THREE: Some years ago I asked the internationally famous physicist, Fred Allen Wolf, what love is. He gave me a very simply but, at the same time, profound answer. Love, he said, is the glue of the Universe.
By: Joseph Berry
It is impossible to list all the reasons that people become depressed. Some depression is physiologic of course and can be repaired medically and so anyone reading this who is suffering deep depression should see a doctor. There is another kind of depression though that simply arrives from not feeling right with oneself; having feelings of unhappiness and lack of worthiness-you know being too fat, too skinny, too broke; nose to long, too short...being stuck in a mediocre job...can't get a date...the reasons we give ourselves for our negative prospective are unending. As a result we end up with a primal scream that affirms such stuff as...if we didn't have bad luck, we'd have no luck at all....Nothing ever goes right for me syndrome and so forth. And so, as a result, we end up wallowing in a quagmire of our own emptiness sometimes turning to booze or drugs and eventually ending up in a deeper depression than we began with.
I will dare say something that will probably not be acceptable to at least some folks but the old axiom that tells us that the world is what we make it, is true. Nearly all of us have been raised to believe that the world acts on us but...it is the other way around. What we project onto the world, the world become...to us. Another way of saying this is to say what is projected into the universe is always reflected. In fact, what old Henry Ford once said is true, if you think you can or can't, you are always right.
Can it really be true that we "create" our world? The new physics have been telling us for decades that matter itself must be observed in order to evolve into being, so in this way we are all part of the creative process. Indeed, the writers John Assaraf and Murray Smith explain it this way:
Everything in the physical world is made of atoms.
Atoms are made out of energy.
And energy is made out of consciousness.
In regard to this they make an extremely profound point. They say, "You've heard the old expression 'I'll believe it when I see it' but that's not really how it is. The truth is more like this: You'll see it when you believe it." There is not room here to go very deeply into the science or metaphysics of all this so I will summarize to make the point important for this narrative: What you need to know is, If you deem the rose bush a thorn bush, then that is what it becomes...for you.
What we determine the world to be is what the world becomes? In fact, when you wake up in the morning say to yourself a few times, this is going to be a lousy day and see what happens. On the other hand, say this is going to be a great day and...see what happens. (Our words have tremendous creative power but this is a subject for another article). All we're attempting to say here is that what we are experiencing (and so thinking and feeling) on the inside "paints" the world in the same tones of that inner-environment of thoughts and emotions-that is, a gloomy, downer mood colors the world dull and dark while a happy, carefree mood colors the world bright and rosy.
But how, you ask, can a person see their world bright and rosy when they are so darned unhappy and/or afraid and/or feeling alone and abandoned? Well, first of all these kinds of feelings are always only the symptoms of deeper causes. And, invariably there is always guilt, anger and regret in the very fabric of those "deeper causes." And so, get rid of those three viruses of the spirit and you'll start healing and your world will start brightening up again.
What may be your most difficult task is your most important task-you have to let loose of whatever is negative in your yesterdays. You do this by forgiving all those who have hurt you and yourself for whatever mistakes you've made.
There are some people I simply can never forgive, you say and I can't forgive myself either for some of the stuff I've done and the mistakes I've made.
Guess what, you're right at least in this way...you can ONLY forgive others to the extent that you forgive yourself. And so, start living life in the freedom of self-forgiveness before you even attempt to forgive others. Like everything else, it's one step at a time.
Where and how do you begin?
You begin in the morning (every morning) when you look in the mirror. You take few brief moments to simply say to that image reflected there, "You are loving and lovable." Oh, I know, lots of readers will be saying, that's a silly thing to do.
Well, it's not. Indeed, if you have the courage to do this every morning for only a week or so, you will absolutely start feeling better about yourself and as a result, you will start feeling better about the world of others. It doesn't matter if you believe me or not-try it and see what happens.
Look, as long as you have a healthy brain and all the chemicals are doing what they are supposed to do, your feelings of being defeated and/or being down trotted are self inflicted and habitual. Break the habit of feeling unhappy and soon enough you'll cheer up. Yes, it's just about as simple as that. And, in this way, you really can rise about your circumstances.
What is being said here?
For one thing, whatever information your brain is given, your brain believes.
Can this be so?
Dr. Paul Pearsall tells us that we cannot only tell our brains what to think but how to think. Want a positive brain-give it positive instructions. (This is why it is so very destructive to call children names such as lazy, sloppy, stupid, bad and naughty. If you're an authority figure, the child's brain believes you and invariably begins fulfilling those images).
Now then, with the above in mind, I want to give you another task. Don't scoff, trust me in this and I promise you that you'll be glad that you did.
Take a walk today (in a safe place of course) and say silently to yourself but to everything you see and to every passerby, I love you. Yes, I mean every tree, every bird in the sky and even the grass beneath your feet.
Why? For one thing, you are reconditioning yourself to be whole and happy again and for another you will probably start feeling better about the world immediately. After all, you are lifting the veil of your doom and gloom and, if you will, letting the sunshine in.
While I cannot tell you how this works, I can tell you that it does.
Really, make every walk you take a loving walk for even a single week and see the changes you experience; as you practice loving others and loving the world of things, your self-love will begin to grow and start flow through your existence again. Why is all this love so important and especially self-love? The answer is this-you cannot give what you do not have.
Incidentally, what is so wonderful and yes, magical about love is that the more you give, the more you get!
Anyway, there is something else: Remember we said that you can only forgive others to the extent that you forgive yourself. Well, it is just as true that you can only love the world to the extent that you love yourself. Practice loving yourself unconditionally and see how loving your world becomes. Now then, go to the mirror right now and say to that kind, forgiving and generous person looking back at you...You are loving and lovable and...I love you.
NOTE ONE: Charles Pierce had everything taken away from him by the Nazis as a young man including his parents who were murdered by those who enslaved him. Nevertheless, he is the first to tell you that the Nazis took everything from him except what he had in his own head. Those thoughts, those memories, those visions belonged to him. And it was indeed those thoughts, those memories and those visions that helped him survive and to love the world again. No matter what you're past or what you circumstance you too can prevail and find your way back to loving life and yourself in it.
NOTE TWO: I FULLY REALIZE THAT WHEN ONE TALKS ABOUT TELLING THE PLANTS THAT THEY LOVE THEM, A LOT OF PEOPLE, PERHAPS MOST PEOPLE, BECOME SUSPECT AND SKEPTICAL: Let's face it, this certainly has factors that take us back to the old hippy days of the 1960s and what the world needs now is love sweet love. But the wisdom of the ancient past tells us that the universe is all mind and all phenomena and the Kabbalah tells us that even "the stone is pervaded by divinity." These thoughts, in the least, are worth contemplation. It is simply okay to say silently to oneself to the stranger on the road or the bush growing alongside that road, "I love you." Give it a try and you might just find out that something wonderful follows.
NOTE THREE: Some years ago I asked the internationally famous physicist, Fred Allen Wolf, what love is. He gave me a very simply but, at the same time, profound answer. Love, he said, is the glue of the Universe.
By: Joseph Berry
THE SURVIVAL STATION - http://thesurvivalstation.com
ABOUT THE SURVIVAL STATION
The concept of this website, The Survival Station, came about only as a way of sharing Charles Pierce's life story as a way of keeping the World War II Holocaust at the forefront of people's minds so that we might build a better, kinder, more secure and loving world; to keep such inhumanity from happening. Nevertheless, as we thought about Charles surviving six horrifying years as a Nazi slave, it occurred to us that we (all living things) are in the process of surviving. Our goal then expanded into wanting to collect, create and give both information and inspiration to those who are struggling or simply wanting to forge ahead in their lives.
Certainly no one knows despair more than Charles who had to keep going day after day in an arena of death and suffering, of torture and torment. He survived and our message to you is that you can too...indeed, you can survive and succeed. In fact, in our virtual survival station we have a sign that reads:
We hope that our material will serve to make that rise easier or, in the very least, serve as inspirational food for thought. We need your participation, however. If you have survived some struggle or difficult situation in your life please share your story with us...If you are going through difficult and challenging times share that with us. We will not only attempt to respond with helpful information but your story will be helpful to others and remind them that they are not alone. In the meanwhile, we wish you love, joy happiness and a safe and prosperous journey all along your way.
ABOUT THE SURVIVAL STATION
The concept of this website, The Survival Station, came about only as a way of sharing Charles Pierce's life story as a way of keeping the World War II Holocaust at the forefront of people's minds so that we might build a better, kinder, more secure and loving world; to keep such inhumanity from happening. Nevertheless, as we thought about Charles surviving six horrifying years as a Nazi slave, it occurred to us that we (all living things) are in the process of surviving. Our goal then expanded into wanting to collect, create and give both information and inspiration to those who are struggling or simply wanting to forge ahead in their lives.
Certainly no one knows despair more than Charles who had to keep going day after day in an arena of death and suffering, of torture and torment. He survived and our message to you is that you can too...indeed, you can survive and succeed. In fact, in our virtual survival station we have a sign that reads:
We hope that our material will serve to make that rise easier or, in the very least, serve as inspirational food for thought. We need your participation, however. If you have survived some struggle or difficult situation in your life please share your story with us...If you are going through difficult and challenging times share that with us. We will not only attempt to respond with helpful information but your story will be helpful to others and remind them that they are not alone. In the meanwhile, we wish you love, joy happiness and a safe and prosperous journey all along your way.
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