(03-23-2015, 08:53 PM)Folk-love Wrote: Is it enough though to just change our perceptions and thoughts, or do some external circumstances simply need to be changed if we are to be well? Maybe I am underestimating the power of the mind. I don't know. I just struggle to believe that I or anyone for that matter can be well regardless of ANY circumstance, as long as a positive and balanced state of mind is maintained.
I too am tired of feeling burdened by the world and also guilty for not believing that I am 'doing enough to help'. What did you mean by not accepting our desires? You mean in general, or did you have something specific in mind?
What do you mean by "well"?
Perhaps I'm in the minority here in seeing it this way, but you didn't come to fix a broken world. The guilt you feel is unnecessary. Try to let it go. Would you believe your attention to the world's problems helps perpetuate them? Yours and everybody else's consciousness gives them life. You are simply here for an experience. What we perceive as "problems to solve" are not problems to the universal consciousness, they are simply energy transfers potentiated deliberately to provide an experience for the incarnating consciousness.
Withdraw your attention from what is unwanted, and instead direct it towards what is wanted, and you won't feel so tired anymore. You will begin to feel your freedom then. You'll begin to feel joy again.
Your life is a story. All lives are stories. Suffering is caused by overidentification with the story character. Your real self is beyond all suffering.
So how do you stop doing that? Well that is the trick isn't it? You have to find your identity as consciousness, as awareness, rather than as a person, living a life confined in time and space. From that perspective there is no good or bad, positive or negative, pain or pleasure, just peace, silence, and variety.
I get caught up in identification too, but more and more, I'm learning to stand on the river bank, and watch the waves, rather than being tossed about by them.