RE: Steemitzombies: Good and Bad are human constructs
Why, then, 'tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison. Well, then it isn't one to you, since nothing is really good or bad in itself—it's all what a person thinks about it. And to me, Denmark is a prison.
Hamlet had it going on, but didn't get him anywhere - but he wasn't as enlightened as you, clearly :) - it's so true though. I always think of negative thinking as fine unless you are repeating it over and over and over, wearing a groove into your brain that's gonna be really hard to putty up later. What kind of groove do we want in our brains? That's what we need to work on.
Nice little deadpost there, a sweet little musing on how harmony is achievable if we decide what we're focussing on. :)
Well, technically no thinking is negative, there is only contradictory thoughts, but for convenience's sake I also call it negative. I don't really want to think any thoughts I see as negative but when they pop up they need to be acknowledged and not thrown under the rug like some new agers like to do. It's kind of like a massage, gotta work out the knots, and it hurts sometimes but it always feels better afterwards.
We are all enlightened! :-D except for Hamlet, who knows exactly what to do and doesn't do it.
It's impossible NOT to think - it's what the human brain does. Definitely shouldn't be throwing it under the rug - i think there's a big movement now towards self compassion because it's worse when we think negative thoughts and beat ourselves up over it. Much better to acknowledge, as you say.