Pondering whether Persisting > Resisting
This is one of the places where I always get tangled with things like optimism, positive thinking, law of attraction, visualization etc. Don’t get me wrong – I’ve based much of my life on the concept that being able to separate yourself from your thoughts and emotions can help you thrive in life. I meditate. I visualize. And though I reject the idea that positive thinking is some kind of magic that can bootstrap people in survival mode out of poverty? And other theories that claim that people born into a marginalized group are somehow attracting their oppression to themselves? It has served me well. As I’ve said before, you have to make out of survival or trauma mode before you can even focus your thoughts enough to thrive and prosper. Even if that particular claim of the law of attraction is accurate, I hardly think that blaming people for unwittingly worsening their prospects is an effective method of getting them to change their habits. When you are in turmoil or survival mode, it’s nearly impossible to break free of a cycle of negativity, unless you’ve already been taught how to control your emotions and thoughts. Still. Even as a highly sensitive personality who has two chronic illnesses and cancer, if I’m not in survival mode, the only things that have consistently worked to prosper in my life are: believing in myself, focusing on my desired outcome, putting all my energy into one goal at a time, and, meditating daily to dump out