I read an article today about the pendulum of life. This article stated that life is like a pendulum. One minute you're up and then the next minute you're down. What one has to realize is that when you are down, it won't last forever. You're bound to be up again shortly. You have to learn to live with those down moments in order to get to those up moments. After all, the only thing we have is this moment.

I prefer to think of it as the quiet time...the gap to infinity.

I don't believe that life has to be "up" or "down." It's all in how you think about it!

If you follow the Certain Way its all up!!!

God bless

Yep, or mountains and valleys. Everything ebbs and flows.

I use to refer to it as a rollar coaster, sometimes your high and going full speed and sometimes your just shuffling along. Now I'm working on all of it being a high, everyday!

Shannon

Hmm...Maybe it's a "Hall of Mirrors" at the "Circus of the Universe" and everthing we see as "real" is simply a reflection based on the distortion of the mirror we happen to stand in front of.

Michael M.

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Originally posted by Michael.:
Hmm...Maybe it's a "Hall of Mirrors" at the "Circus of the Universe" and everthing we see as "real" is simply a reflection based on the distortion of the mirror we happen to stand in front of.

Michael M.

In Holland we call these 'laughing mirrors'... Especially kids are always laughing real hard when they stand in front of them. Makes you wonder huh...

Lucky

For people who put focus, faith and feeling into that idea it's probably true as well.

The trick is, to decide if you WANT to have that experience of lafe, IMO!

/c

This taps right into my current question. I have noticed some people are more vulnerable to up and downs than others. is that because some people are conditioned into a certain way of thinking whilst others not. by chance through parents etc. I would like to hear from people who were once in the up and down flow and through thinking the certain way have genuinely found that even though days may not always be as good as the day before but they really have found it no longer feels up and down. Consistently over long periods of time.

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Maybe it's a "Hall of Mirrors" at the "Circus of the Universe" and everthing we see as "real" is simply a reflection based on the distortion of the mirror we happen to stand in front of

Wow! Michael that created such a vivid image in my mind, kind of black & white and a little spooky looking. I would love to create that image graphicaly and use it for my album cover! And even call the album "Hall Of Mirrors"... you're deep man! Permission? With your name mentioned in the credits of course!

Hi Jolene - I have definately noticed a "leveling out" of the EMOTIONS related to my ups and downs. An overall calming. This began to occur when I was able to see the downs as "circumstance" and not "outcome". When I was able to understand that what seems, by appearances, to be a real drag was actually the Universe moving things around to arrange for my deliverance... "It's ALL good" as the saying goes.

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I would like to hear from people who were once in the up and down flow and through thinking the certain way have genuinely found that even though days may not always be as good as the day before but they really have found it no longer feels up and down. Consistently over long periods of time.

Hi Jo,

Well, in my own life experience I have made and lost, more than once, what some would call a small fortune..(Bill Gates would call it an afternoon's work..lol) I am not talking about just money, btw.

From my perspective, I no longer view life as up and down. I have come to view it more like seasons..spring, summer, autumn and winter...always moving onward toward more life and each season performing its function perfectly.

What I used to view as "down" I now see as winter..a time to "die" to old ways of thinking and being...a time to inwardly prepare for "rebirth" and becoming new. The trick, of course, is to learn to appreciate winter. As Tony Robbins said: "In winter, some people freeze to death...other people ski!"

To me, its learning to feel gratitude for every season you happen to be in and know, deep down, that upcoming is spring for planting, summer for growing and autumn for harvesting.

In an early posting in this thread, I used the mirror example. I think there is some truth in that because how we experience our "seasons" is a reflection of what we feel inside about ourselves and the world.

Michael M.

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I would love to create that image graphicaly and use it for my album cover! And even call the album "Hall Of Mirrors"...

Wow Michael..that would be cool! I want a copy of the album when it comes out!

Michael M.

Hi Michael,

I think I am asking more about the internal world than the external. It is obvious to me that when I feeling postive, full and strong no matter how bad the external is, the world looks rosy and I have faith in the future. On my down emotions i feel a heightened doubt, small things appear big, and the world is half empty. Of course this is the truth of what SOGR teaches us. So I am wondering if people have found through practising these principles that on the inside they feel more emotionally balanced irrelevant of what happens on the outside.

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I think I am asking more about the internal world than the external.

Well Jo...actually I am talking more about internal than external.

It is possible to have a million dollars (external) and be as poor (internal) as someone with only 50 cents to their name. Wealth is more than money and is ALWAYS an "inside" thing.

"Down" emotions like fear grow larger according to how much we focus on them. Some people think that they should never feel fear...i.e. just think positive and it will be ok. So called "positive thinkers" are living in denial. Everyone feels fear. Everyone has doubts. EVeryone feels overwhelmed at times. There has never been a human who never felt fear....(Jesus himself felt fear before being crucified.)

YOu don't make fear go away by denying it. You accept it and look for what it is teaching you. Where we get into trouble is allowing fear to grow larger than it really is. Like the afternoon shadows fears become larger than they really are...its an illusion.

I think what Mr Wattles is saying SOGR is that we must, at our very core, know the underlying TRUTH in all things depite fear, despite worry.

One little trick I have used many times when fear comes up is mentally put it in a box and shrink the box to a smaller size...all the way down to the size of a matchbox. From that perspective I can look at it in a more controlled way rather than having it huge and "up in my face". Try it. It's fun shrinking fear down to size.

Michael M.

Thanks Michael, that really helps. It gives me something active to do. To firstly ask what I am being taught...and to remember to not make it bigger than it really is.
This week my business partner and I did the exercise of leading each other where the follower is blind. She noticed that when it came to big obstacles to climb I was quick and adventurous, quite unafraid and hardly needed her help even though i couldn't see where i was or what i was doing. But when we walked and shadow fell on my face I reacted instantaneously as if something was about to hit me...the afternoon shadow that created the illusion of danger yet the truth was that nothing is there. thanks for replying today.. I really appreciate it because although I have tried to focus on what I want today...it doesn't seem to have meaning for me when I am feeling like this. Its time for me to be in charge of my emotions not the other way around.

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The compass that lets you know if you're heading toward or away from what you desire is already within you, already perfect. How you FEEL at any given moment gives you that information. So what we're learning to do here is to notice our thoughts and feelings:
In this very moment, right now, is what I'm thinking about and feeling where I want to go? If so, great! If not, then I can choose to shift to something that feels better.

- Rebecca


I spent some time uncovering what thoughts are really happening at the moment. Then I looked again at what i really want and how I am living by beliefs that unless I do things in a particular way (nothing to do with the certain way) I'll never get it. That I am still living with the belief that when I get A, B & C then I can start living. Yet its time to live now. So I wrote a list of what I know to be true despite appearances. I do feel different.
I am grateful to have had this forum this weekend to support me.