or are you a smiler or a griper?
There seem to be two types of people in the world. Uppers and Downers. The interesting phenomenon is that the Uppers are surrounded by other Uppers and the Downers are surrounded by other downers.
This is a great example of the Law of Attraction or the Mirror of Life.
Whatever you put into life, you get exactly the same in return. This is just like the bathroom mirror. If you face it with a scar or scab on your face and a scowl, you get a scar or scab and a scowling image is returned.
Downers put a frown, curse, aggression, misery, and resistance to change into their life’s mirror and guess what is attracted to them. Right! A frowner, curser, aggression, misery, and resistance to change.
Also, right. Others who are also frowning, cursing, aggressive, miserable, and believe life shouldn’t fluctuate or differ.
Uppers put joy, serenity, comfort, and assistance into their life’s mirror, and guess what is attracted to them? Right! People who are also joyful, serene, comforting, and helping in return.
There are so many who have believed seemingly forever that they were born to be victims. “I’ve got nothing. My parents had nothing. And my kids are not going to have anything either.”
This is very common thinking in many, if not most, impoverished, crime-saturated areas. This is not limited to these areas, either. Someone may have been raised in opulence and feel the same way.
They blame others for having more than them. “Mom always liked you best!” “You got everything handed to you and I got only grief.” “For you, the birds sing and for me, they dump on my head.”
This leads to “If you had my problems, you would drink, too.” This only leads to more “victims” being “manufactured” by the ones who are feeling so victimized and telling all about it.
Another way of seeing the difference between Uppers and Downers is similar to the difference between the problem and the solution. One is either the problem or the solution. One is either an upper or a downer.
One can not be a problem and solution or an upper and downer at the same time.
Reverend Stephanie Sorensen, of the Flint Life Enrichment Center, recently quoted the Indian Guru Nis-ar-ga-dat-ta Maharaj who said “Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on and to flow with life.”
Reverend Sorensen went on to state “If we are willing, change will grow us and expand us from the inside out by showing us that movement, flexibility and flow are part of God’s Universal Plan.
And that plan is here, there, and everywhere throughout this human experience because God is at the Heart of this human experience, within everything including us.”
Everything that happens in every situation will have a positive outcome eventually. Now, the idea of CHOICE reappears. If you did not drink or drug today, you now have CHOICES, maybe for the very first time.
Just how do you CHOOSE to go?
Do you CHOOSE to accept life’s goodness and to spread this goodness or do you CHOOSE to resist and bring others down into the dark caves of despair that you may have CHOSEN? The CHOICE is yours! CHOOSE wisely!
Thank you, God!
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