This lesson seems very timely. I am trying to choose to see the truth, the positive and the opportunity in each situation. However, my partner spends all day at work listening to talk radio and then wants to come home and tell me about all the negative stuff the pundits are clamoring about.

Short of getting a new partner (I really like this one and would like to keep him around!), how do you deal with the negative views of the people closest to you? I've expressed that I really don't want to hear about it, but still can't seem to get away from it.

I can turn off the TV and ignore the newspaper, but can't seem to find a way to "mute" the negative talk from everyone I know!

Hi IJG,

Could you explain to your partner a little bit about what you're doing? Perhaps you could request that you both sign off the media for a month. Your partner might just like the results :-)

I'm about to read LL-8 this evening and my hubby likes to listen to the news on the radio and sometimes to watch it on TV. I think he'll be OK with not discussing the news for a while...even though we have a national election happening on October 14th LOL!

May we all stand squarely in the flowing current, the river of abundance, the flow of life.
Wes Hopper, edited SOGR member wendyht

My suggestion is to use the Find button. Search on "negative spouses", etc. There is a lot of excellent dialog on this topic.

Spend time with like minded people (like all of us here). Sharing my thoughts and reading what others have written gives me a great feeling. As I practiced, this fact alone enabled me to choose more effectively.

Remember "when the student is ready, the teacher appears". While this has happened for you, it has not for your spouse. Over time he will see a change in the way you talk and act. He will wonder what is going on and love what you have created by choosing to think and act in the Certain Way.

Thank you Rohan. I suppose I may be getting ahead of myself. My question is not so much whether I consider what I hear as positive or negative. My concern is that the SOGR tells us to "not read anything which fills your mind with gloomy images of want and suffering." And I'm not reading such things but I am *hearing* such things and it takes an enormous amount of willpower everyday not to allow these things to pop into my head.

You get to choose. It is not good or bad until you make it so. What you take on as negative is only negative if you make it so, every thing that happens in the world is for a reason and is moving us toward our CMI.

Rohan