Stay heart-centered. It is the mind that worries, that complains, that causes us to fret over unecessary trifles.

Then again, I like truffles.

love, b

What's up lately, something about the weather?  I had a couple of thought forms, entities, whatever, come wandering in last night as I was dropping off to sleep, thinking about something entirely different (and even pleasant).

I shooed them off and they left, but still, odd that they should show up right before I read this post.  They were highly unimaginative, too...came on like all the stereotypical pictures of demons, Satan, that sort of thing.  I've seen better Halloween masks!  Dumb things.

HI Bets. One view is that it's not good to suppress negative thoughts. Rather that it's better when they surface to if we can manage it stand back and let them develop. Then go into them.

Sometimes they will be feelings, in which case they often centre in a part of the body as tension or pain.  Others may be wholly intellectual.

The intellectual stuff is often capable of deconstruction using logic, and doesn't stand up when we allow it to truly emerge into the open. Resting with e.g. a fear induced knot in the gut will sometimes lead to non intellectual insight that helps - e.g. the realisation that it's only an intense feeling, and that the fear we connect it with is only a habit dating from long ago. That the feeling is not actually unpleasant, and that our fear is only a conditioned response and essentially mistaken.

Not sure if you're likely to get to them all, as that'd probably amount to instant realisation. The tough part is that some causes of negative thoughts and emotions were imprinted very early in our existence (e.g. fear of being left alone, without food or whatever) and require getting down to quite deep levels of consciousness if we are to access them.

It seems often to be necessary almost to relive the experience again, to create some emotion - just thinking about it isn't always enough.

This can take a lot of meditative expertise, or use of others means like TMI tapes to get down deep enough. The experience for me has been that many issues have slowly surfaced as I kept on meditating over the years. There's still lots to come.

When something does surface it's important to welcome it, to send it love so that you can re-integrate what may have become a god or a demon as described in the piece I posted on Chod practice some time ago.

Some with really painful stuff need a lot of help, time and support to get to a place where they can actually face their fears....

  Generally speaking, i'm not a fan of "seeing it not there."   I feel it's more effective to see something else, far more positive and constructive, in it's place. 

  Also i agree that it's not good to repress something, but to fully recognize it, try to find out where it comes from, then to "heal" that.   Even to give gratitude to it, and this kinds of reminds me of Bruce's dialougging method where you start talking to some aspect of yourself that is blocking the more total you, feel gratitude towards it, but firmly say and intend that this part isn't needed anymore and let it go.

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hi sweetie, hang in. we are here for you also. I hope you can do some reading of Bruce's books, maybe that will help to give you a lift. And those people at the mental health clinic, they are there for you, so at least you have them. People in that field really do work hard for you.

This is a hard life for you Juditha because you are so sensitive..seeing things about others and mostly seeing the negative now, you simply don't know where to put all the information overload.

I think you are too down on yourself. You gotta start taking care of YOU! if that means finding a quiet place once a day and nurturing yourself to find the positive course for yourself, then better get on it as quickly as possible, as you're no help to life if you get sick or commit suicide, and I think you will be a very good medium someday as you already began to do that.

love to you, I can feel myself crying for you because I love you. make me stop crying!

durn, you're so talented Juditha! I must say I like those dragons, reminds me of some friends I have, lol. the colors are great too. you see I need good news from you so I can be of good cheer once in awhile.

I'm very close to you for some reason...probably I see you at night with the rest of us.

So now maybe you know the world needs you and what you give. and, it may not be fantasy we're looking at! shoot, it took me all night to draw a stick figure once.
those colors look so realistic and dreamy too. great eye for detail.
was wanting to give a bit of advice about all the negativity you may be seeing about you..whenever you are assailed with this negativity (probably constant) just say to yourself, oh oh, this person is not getting enough love in their life, apparently, god has assigned me this one to give them some love, then if their barrel is extra dry and an hour goes by and they're still complaining, just say, wow, I'm going to pray for you tonite, but I have to go now! bye! let me know if my prayer works!

I mean, Juditha, don't let anyone suck your energy from you for hours. You have better things to do than that. Get yourself strong.
you're too soft, sometimes you have to say no when you need to take care of yourself and not let it get you down the negative things. People will be drawn to you so you have to know how to handle them firmly but lovingly.
especially so with mediums. they're the ones take all the flack since time began.

love, alysia

Juditha:

I also like your artwork. Don't take people who laugh at you seriously.  They need to look at some of their rascally thought forms closely.

Albert