Shunning pessimism

By Paulo Coelho

To help to renew the Earth’s energy, it is necessary to be aware that pessimism is contagious. Defeatism is contagious. Despair is contagious. Those who have enough sensitivity to see auras (energetic vibrations that surround living beings), perceive that before physical sickness penetrates the body, part of the vital energy is drained by the afflicted and worried brain. All that we put into today will somehow be returned to us in a cycle much like what we see in nature.

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  • Sure, pessimism and optimism are contagious. People are inclined to copy models of thinking which they like or think they are cool or the person who gives them is cool not even knowing they do it. For a man who is not experienced with this it is very easily to copy models of thinking without knowing how bad they can influence on him. To prevent this we must look what we “eat” and what we take for our understanding and then for ourselves. The most clear example of this are kids. They don`t defend themselves, they copy everything which is cool no matter if it is bad or good. These small people are in danger because they do not think and have very little experience. We are the people who rule our psyche and thoughts and one advice you must be sure what exactly you want when you know it the reaching is a matter of time.

    Freedom,
    Vivian

  • Yes, you’re right ,but so long is the way to understand this kind of feeling , and so hard is the brain to believe of what’s good and what’s bad! but every people can be a sort of “god” if I can say for the others, whit love and time , and the animals and pets are the better friends for help someone to goes up.

  • Yes pessimism, and optimism are contagious.
    So it’s also up to us not to watch too much tv, neither to read too many newspapers, that spread pessimism all over the world.
    I think we can use our mental energy to “see” other parts of this planet.
    As I wrote before, sunsets, dawns, natural landscapes are beautiful and…free.
    I can’t see aureas, but I can feel the positive or negatives energies of people.
    My Reiki Teacher can do it, and he told me at the beginning of this year that there would have been great changes in the world’s situation.
    I think he’s right. He gets my gratitude for he he’s told me so.
    Let’s get on living as well as we can.
    Have a nice day.

  • As you say above, Paulo Coelho, all our feelings are contagious.

    When I was a child, I remember my nanny saying to me that every Good Friday it is always a cloudy, gloomy, rainy day, although it is always in the Spring, because God is sad and so is the whole Nature , because it is the day that Christ is on the Cross.
    In the Gospel, Christ said, when the ‘bleeding woman touched his gown’, :
    I felt an energy leaving me.
    It is the energy absorbed from others, because we are all one and interconnected.

    Homeopathy is the revived Medicine from ancient Greece, Hippocrates, that examines and faces the patient as a Whole. [Holistic = ¨Ολιστική ιατρική].

    The white light includes all seven colours of iris. Whenever we think ourselves, or our beloved ones, in a luminous white colour, we ‘build’ with our imagination a shield of protective energy. Our Aura, when photographed or looked by a ’sensitive’ person,
    reflects our inner energy. This energy is the energy created by our inner self and mind. This is the reason and principle that it is said, that our thoughts are the ‘creator’ of our .. lives. It works also like a magnet, attracting the … same ‘elemental’ and ‘creatures’. If our thoughts are kind and optimistic, we project to others kindness and optimism, and the colours of joy. Our aim for us is to become creatures vibrated with kindness, harmony and LOVE.
    Love,
    Thelma

  • True.
    And it is also true that in life we can choose between being a victim or a winner. We are the result of our own merits, we get what we deserve, even if we like it or not, these are the rules of life. We become what we think, our attitudes.
    The inner energy we all have inside, Kundalini is the one who protects us, as it knows best what is right or not for our well-being. But it cannot be forced upon us, free will is an important law in the universe, so God allows us to choose what to experience but there is always a response to all our actions.
    Since going to free meditation classes at Sahaja Yoga, I learned to interpret vibrations, energy, I feel them guiding me every day and this is such a relief! I don’t usually see auras, only sometimes while meditating but I believe that God is everywhere and guides those who want to listen.
    Lots of affection and appreciation and happy winter holidays for everyone! :o)

  • De verdad que estoy muy emocionada al saber que ya a escalado y dado un paso muy grande usted como escritor y yo como lectora y fan de sus libros en cuanto a la pelicula de veronika decide morir ya que e uno de mis preferidos a parte del Zahir de verdad muchos exitos…un abrazo grandote.

  • I Concur! I myself can not see auras but I can feel them strongly. I’m learning with time how to interpret them. I have been telling myself when I wake up in the morning I have the choice to go out into the world today grumpy or I can go out there joyfully. I choose joy!

    Happy Holidays!!!!

  • I do believe you get out what you put in… So it is good to remember your gifts and the great things about this moment. If you can remember to be grateful, then optimism is easy.

    Thanks for the reminder to remain diligent! :-)

  • How true those words ring.Yes a smile, a hello can maybe create a domino effect.Hopefully.
    I still believe that a positively warm greeting can warm the coldest of souls.Maybe a little light reaches much further than the dark deep ruts so many struggle to climb out of.I hope so.

  • The new economic model

    The financial crises has shown that the world needs way of dealing with the belongings to this mother earth. Who owns the houses we live inn. They are just holding our bodies, and the wall had no value in it.

    The counting system we are using is wrong, because the number system is not correct. A year has 365 1/4 . Do we need this numbers; the new world is nature of the earth and trade of services. True socialism and sharing, goods. The pure countries with large resources will be the new world.

  • worth keeping in our awareness continuously – both pesimism and optimism are contagious, for a wol keepis pessimism at bay seems the bigger challenge, becaususe he is naturally optimistic, joyous, it is only those moments of doubts, of encountering failure face to face that s/he needs to remember this passage more vividly; otherwise for one who is joyous and overflowing ( not overbearing ) no special efforts are required !

    love
    aditya

  • I am pretty sure you are right.I cant see auras.BUt I remember times in which I was very confident,and every desire became true.Now I am optimistic,but not as much as before.I think the power of our thoughts is greater than we imagine.Must take into consideration that.Also,I know about psycho-somatic illness.One might feel physically sick due to stress,problems,depression.I hope everybody might avoid such for the best.Love

  • All energies can be contagious. Optimism is contagious too. This is why i insist we must be the change that we wish to see. That is to say, if we want the world to be a happier place, then we must become happier people. We should then focus on being who we are and want we want and allow the right people to be attracted to us.

  • Hi all,

    You are so right. I believe we have the means to change the world if we simply (although not simple at all to realize) changed the way we look upon things, matters, events…
    But it seems to me that it suits better those who direct our world in our days, to spread fear. Fear of the other (terrorism), fear of tomorrow (crisis and unemployment), fear of global warming (just happened before over thousands and thousands of years and changed the face of the earth, just life, plus of course the acceleration of a natural processes due to us polluting earth and going against life), fear of missing, fear of lacking, fear of whatever and every possible way to hope.
    Out of fear we wage wars, out of fear we are paralyzed, afraid to do, panicked. Out of fear we lack to imagine a shiny, smiling future. So we cast it to the image that we have feared.
    Emotions are contagious, weather positive or negative.
    Wisdom is contagious, so as craziness.
    Instead of living we keep calculating the future in the way that would make us fear to go on. While tomorrow is never there unless one has already lived today.

    Thanks Paulo, best to love to all.

  • Dear Paulo,

    How right you are.

    These days we are bombarded with mass media black news, coming crisis….all negativities possible !

    In Croatia is said that Prime Minister has robbed us Christmas, and in a way it is true.

    Nothing much has changed but people lost hope in better tomorrow, the faces I see are not as faces of people at Christmas time, streets are almost deserted.

    I think it is crime to multiply hoplesness and dispair.

    But how, how to fight it, how to strugle out of it, out of pesimism and depression, when positive thought as yours seems to be just tiny island in the ocean of negative thought.

    Paulo, dear friend, make this island grow.

    As you helped many of us, we’ll do the same for others, at least I hope.

    And go on, fight for free contents on internet because for many it is only way to knowledge, to wisdom, to new light !

    Love,
    Luce

  • Yes, Vivian, children absorb the thought patterns and energy around them. That’s why I think that one of our jobs as parents is to model how to choose LOVE over FEAR. Of course, in order to model that for our children, we have to be able to do it ourselves! Not always easy… but always POSSIBLE!

    Love and light,
    Ria

  • That´s true :-)
    That is why we should choose to se the optimistic side of life, but some days we fail doing this.
    That´s when we need a good friend that can listen to us.
    We should all listen to each other more, share more :-)

    Love Jesscia

  • So we should all keep practicing daily, from moment to moment, to put loving kindness out there to all beings, visible and invisible, to help balance that strong negativity which does seem to multiply quickly.

  • Sure, pessimism and optimism are contagious. People are inclined to copy models of thinking which they like or think they are cool or the person who gives them is cool not even knowing they do it. For a man who is not experienced with this it is very easily to copy models of thinking without knowing how bad they can influence on him. To prevent this we must look what we “eat” and what we take for our understanding and then for ourselves. The most clear example of this are kids. They don`t defend themselves, they copy everything which is cool no matter if it is bad or good. These small people are in danger because they do not think and have very little experience. We are the people who rule our psyche and thoughts and one advice you must be sure what exactly you want when you know it the reaching is a matter of time.

    Freedom,
    Vivian

  • Optimism is also contagious… The distance between it and pessimism is so little sometimes. It’s not as easy to be a rock, moreover when people you love hurt you. And anger and sadness are sometimes coming at full gallop, without any warning. We’re just human. the most important is to change our sight fastly and see, call or think about someone or something that take up our energy. Though in our society, we could not enclosed ourself in a tower, while we are constantly shelled by negative processes.

    Our energy is never rooted. It’s impossible: it’ll mean we’d be robots. We are passing through fluctuating feelings everyday, and some very sensitive persons, each minute. But we have indeed the gift to stay in bad feelings or make them turn into positive vibrations. We shouldbe in confidence with that feel we have. Though, unfortunately, some persons are so engaged on the dark way, that they are not capable to walk back and watch light is inner; above and all around. I’m not judging here, I could be that person to who circumstances did not lead to walk the right path.

    Anyway, there’s a real difference between the one that knows he is pessimism and can do something to change it, while not doing, and the one that have no way at all to do.
    It’s all about a matter of consciousness; all rational person is gisted of.

    Thank you dear Paulo.

  • Pessimism and optimism are contagious.
    I watched a program last night about kids in the Bronx and other areas of New York that were taught how to dance. They were so good, so much rythm, a beautiful sight to see. Perhaps they should do more of that.

  • petite paranthèse , puisqu’on est là pour informer :

    personnellement , je perçoit une énergie , ce que j’appelle “l’énergie de l’amour” :par exemple , je perçoit qu’une personne ,qui pense fort à moi, va me téléphoner et 5 secondes après le téléphone sonne ( et cela m’est arrivé des dizaines de fois ) , je sais aussi quand quelqu’un pense à moi (de façon très positive ) et cela à des kilomètres de distance ( un peu comme quand vous dîtes “Oh j’ai l’oreille qui siffle : quelqu’un doit dire du mal de moi …” ) etc etc
    Sauf que moi je perçoit “l’énergie de l’Amour ” quand la pensée est pure

    oui , je sais cela peut paraître bizarre , mais il n’est que bizarre ce que l’on ne connait pas et que l’on a jamais ressenti … : comme un enfant face à une nouvelle chose , il reste septique ( et heureusement , j’espère qu’il gardera toujours son esprit critique ! ) et il ne comprend que ce que son parent lui a dit , que lorsqu’il le vivra lui même

    J’ai juste envie de raconter cela ( un don ! , non une sensibilité aux choses , aux êtres et rien de plus ) car quelqu’un m’a dit ” vous faites de la fausse humilité , il faut raconter même si on ne croit pas … )

    Small parenthesis , since it is there to inform:

    Personally, I receives an energy , what I call “energy of love” :For example , i perceive that a person who thinks fort to me will call me and 5 seconds after the telephone rings ( and this happened to me the dozens of times ) , i also know when someone thinks on me (very positively ) and this at kilometers distance (a little as when you say “I have the ear that whistles : someone must tell bad of me ” ) etc etc
    Except that i collects “energy of Love ” when the thought is pure

    Yes , I know that may seem strange , but it is only bizarre what we did not connait and that it has ever felt … : As a child face a new thing , it remains septic ( and fortunately , I hope he will always keep his spirit review! ) And it includes only what his parent told him , when he will live itself

    I just want to tell that ( a donation ! , Not a sensitivity to things , to beings and nothing more ) because someone told me ” you made of the false humility , it must tell even if we do not believe … )

  • je me réveille le matin avec le sourire , et je me couche tous les soirs avec le sourire ( une chance !!)

    je vois toujours la vie du côté positif , et face à un nouvel évènement ou face à une nouvelle personne , je regarde toujours le beau .. et encourage toujours le côté positif en chacun

    En ce qui concerne la perception de l’aura d’une personne : je dirai , avec mes mots , que personnellement je perçois parfois ce que j’appelle “l’énergie de l’amour” , et parfois cela me guide ou m’interpelle ….mais ça n’existe que dans de rare cas et pas tout le temps

    je suis une personne tout ce qu’il y a d’ordinaire , mais je crois que chacun d’entre nous possède en lui 1 perception particulière , et parfois 1 perception plus fine ( aura , etc … )

    I wake up the morning with the smile , and I am layer every evening with a smile i still see the life of positive side , and in the face a new event or in the face a new person , i always looks the beautiful .. and still encourages the positive side in each

    As regards the perception of the aura of a person: I would say , with my words , I see that personnellementy sometimes what I call “energy of love” , and sometimes i heckling me guide or ….but does not exist that in rare cases and not all the time I am a person everything that there are usually , but I believe that each of us has in him 1 particular perception , and sometimes 1 perception more fine ( aura , etc … )

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