{"id":5029,"date":"2016-10-17T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?p=5029"},"modified":"2016-10-16T10:27:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T14:27:17","slug":"twelve-words-turn-negativity-new-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2016\/10\/twelve-words-turn-negativity-new-light.html","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Words that Turn Any Negativity Into New Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

Listen to this beautiful fact: You have no experience of life that doesn\u2019t originate within you<\/em>. What is your experience of life? \u201cLook at that stupid chair! Who would buy a chair like that?\u201d What\u2019s your experience? You say it\u2019s the chair, because that\u2019s what you see. You don\u2019t see the chair; you see the conditioned negative response to what\u2019s there, and it gives you a chance to see you that you call the chair. The experience of yourself is originating within you, and the chair is showing you this.<\/p>\n

Conditions will always continue to reveal what the self at large conspires to conceal<\/em>. Have you ever gotten rid of someone in your life that you\u2019re sure was the source of all negativity in the universe, only to get involved with another human being and realize, \u201cI can\u2019t believe it! Another one just like the last\u201d? Guess what? You\u2019re looking in a mirror.<\/p>\n

The instant you get negative, you condemn the condition that you see in the mirror. Everyone you meet that you say is the cause of the struggle you\u2019re in, every event that transpires that you blame for the state that takes you over \u2013 whether it\u2019s anxiety, or fear, or depression \u2013 every one of those things are not your struggle, but reveal to you this nature. What you are really seeing is not the person or the event, but you are seeing something that is showing you you<\/em>.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re already certain as to why you\u2019re feeling the way you are. You couldn\u2019t be sure that person was the problem unless you\u2019d gone way past, \u201cWhy am I like I am?\u201d to \u201cbecause you\u2019re<\/em> you.\u201d So the minute a person condemns one thing, they have condemned themselves to repeat the circle. When you condemn, what you have really done first is condemned yourself to the mind and its perception that sees the world as being the problem instead of the self that is the world it sees. It\u2019s so easy to be tricked into thinking, \u201cI would never be negative if you weren\u2019t negative. I would never be like I am if you weren\u2019t like you are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Catch yourself in this state of condemning the person or the situation, and realize that you have a choice in the matter. You can either choose to comprehend that situation, or continue to be its dupe and let the darkness laugh at you by being the one who condemns.<\/p>\n

What does it take to comprehend anything? Receptivity.<\/em> Would you say you\u2019re receptive towards learning when you\u2019re on fire about something? There is no receptivity in you — just false certainty born out of trying to believe that a person or event made you feel the way it did.<\/p>\n

I hope you will make up your mind: \u201cThat\u2019s it. I\u2019m not going to take part in this anymore. Darkness has had its last laugh at my cost.\u201d To any negativity you can say: You are not my struggle, but only reveal myself to me<\/em>. These twelve words will allow you to see that the person or event mirror has just given you a chance to go into yourself, see yourself, and begin to invite the change that only the Light can make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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