I am getting really into this material, being grateful and feeling great!

I've found myself trying to share this amazing stuff with some people who I believed would be "like minded" or at least interested in hearing more.

I know everyone has the right to think or believe whatever they want, so I'm not concerned with that.

What does bother me a little is when people say things that hurt a little, making you feel a little nuts.

How does anyone deal with this? and how do you react or what do you say, if anything?

Should I just stop talking about it? I would love to be able to talk about this stuff and expand and review different points of view about it...

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What does bother me a little is when people say things that hurt a little, making you feel a little nuts.

How does anyone deal with this? and how do you react or what do you say, if anything?

Well, I personally find that listening to what they're saying WITHOUT trying to counter any of it is best. "Hmm. You could be right" tends to take the wind out of those particular sails.

That said, people make it pretty clear pretty fast whether or not they're interested. If not, just change the subject. Easy!

Here's my question for you: Why does what anyone else has to say "hurt" or "make you" feel nuts -- or anything at all, for that matter?

When you feel that, stop and look for the THOUGHT that is causing those feelings. I think you'll be surprised (and maybe fascinated).

That's because THEY aren't making you feel anything at all. It's YOU doing that! It's just the story you're telling yourself about whatever they're saying or doing.

And that's wonderful because YOU get to choose how you think about it, not them.

I tend not to discuss it with anyone but a few very select people. In spite of it's a topic that applies to everyone and everything, not everyone is (IMHO) ready for studying it. The people with who I mix, friendss etc, I know them well enough to know how they'll react to it.

My best and oldest friends (od 30+ years) are probably among such people - intelligent, happy, and successful, so I don't feel they necessarily need "changing" from a balance with which they're happy. I KNOW they'd be even more than better-off for studying SOGR, but it's not for me to tell/push them. Like I did, they have to discover it for themselves.

However, another guy whom I've known for "only" 13 years, is someone to whom I've introduced SOGR; he just needs urging to read and follwow the material. He's cheery when conditions permit (i.e. over a beer perhaps), but generally downbeat and pessimistic.

Well, I certainly do know that feeling of thinking I know what someone else needs! But as Wally reminds us, we don't really have a clue about that. He also tells us this that if you are simply LIVING the principles in the book, then "Words will not be necessary to communicate this feeling to others. They will feel the sense of increase when in your presence" and that "they will feel that in associating with you they will get increase for themselves."

Whatever message you wish to convey, just BE it. That speaks volumes and with much more power than anything you try to tell them.

Thanks Rebecca and ij. Great points.

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Originally posted by IsabelF:
I've found myself trying to share this amazing stuff with some people who I believed would be "like minded" or at least interested in hearing more.

If this stuff is amazing, live it; make your life amazingly shine. Then others can't help but be drawn to you, wanting to know your certain way. If it's just sharing ideas you've learned from the book but not lived, this action of "sharing" itself is not aligned with the principal, bacause Wally says, the best way to help others is to get rich yourself. "An ounce of doing is worth a pound of theorizing." Nobody is ready to listen to what you have to share until they ASK for it.

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What does bother me a little is when people say things that hurt a little, making you feel a little nuts.

How does anyone deal with this? and how do you react or what do you say, if anything?

When it "hurts", it's an indicator that there's something in you (an idea, a belief) that doesn't agree with the spirit in you, who loves what is and sees perfection in everything. Your belief creates the resistance inside you. There's no good belief or bad belief, just belief which serves you or not.

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Should I just stop talking about it? I would love to be able to talk about this stuff and expand and review different points of view about it...

No need to stop talking about this stuff. Here on the forum is the best place to do so.