Why are we naturally negative/pessimistic?

The reality is that one can only give away what is inside Self. When one only has Love inside Self, then that is all one can give away. This is what happens when one has Spiritual Freedom at really high levels as per Dr David Hawkins' work. Similarly, if one has negativity and pessimism inside, then that is what one will give away and portray to others.

Visualization and meditation techniques can certainly raise consciousness and awareness which is a really important thing to do. However the questions are, Will the techniques work, and if so, how long will the effects last? There is a tendency to feel that just because an issue is discussed in consciousness that the issue is then resolved. It is vital to find the exact cause and then deal with it and its compounded consequences to obtain a permanent result.

When one is dealing with a specific issue, there are two important components of the solution:-

1. Obtaining the right and focused information to raise awareness and consciousness ... this is the knowledge / information acquisition stage so one has the understanding of the issue. It is very important to keep on asking, what is the cause .. until the real solution is found ... and never accept any opinion that ignores dealing with the exact cause.

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2. The practical aspects - these are the ACTION steps.

Some of these action steps can involve visualization, meditation and other techniques. However, when there are issues to do with lack of feeling loved from childhood actually in one's Sub-conscious mind, then non-serving software programs will keep playing in the background, stopping one from effectively dealing with the causative issue permanently.

The issue about using other "techniques" when there is a fundamental issue of not feeling Loved (this can easily be tested to be the case) that is deeply ingrained in the sub-conscious mind, is that the techniques are using force and are unnatural, hence the relapse phenomenon.

The end result of this feeling of not being Loved as a child varies enormously in terms of consequences from one individual to another. All the consequences and huge multitude of presentations of this original case of feeling unloved are actually a cry for help to deal with the principal Love issue plus its compounded consequences.

One's own perceptions are one's reality and these perceptions of Self very often create the very barrier to correcting the fundamental cause. Others will usually see the issue first, whereas one can usually not "see" one's own issues to start.

If someone's perception (their own "truth") is that there is no personal issue within self to address and the rest of the world is wrong, then the individual is not going to be looking for solutions that involve self. This is when these people will resort to quick "pick me ups" to feel better, eradicate the issue off one's screen of life and get attention.

When pain or feeling different becomes a real issue, it is then in the conscious when one can either deal with the issue or ignore it. Addictions such as alcohol, smoking and drugs are ways of trying to feel better within Self about Self ... or lose sensibility .... as an escape from the internal pain.

Technologies are now readily available to identify and then remove permanently, all the non-serving baggage stored in the sub-conscious mind and thus the various effects these causes have, thus revealing one's true Self and pure Love.

This true revelation of Self (Self-Discovery) in full glory is the very thing that everyone on the spiritual path or their spiritual journey is aiming to achieve. The technologies will allow this Spiritual Freedom to happen fast when combined with the correct information. After one has Spiritual Freedom for Self, one can then find another similar soul mate for the magical Spiritual Compatibility for the blissful IN LOVE relationship.

I would also say that we are overwhelmed by a variety of everyday concerns and problems. A few of those problems could be quite severe even for the most optimistic of us. So weeks, months and even years pass before we begin to "see the light," if at all.

The positive stuff, sayings and all, slowly begins to sound hollow, but we continue anyway.

Will those efforts pay off eventually or not? No one knows. It all depends.

I must say that this turned into a very insightful topic and I learned quite a few things from reading everyone's post.

But I probably should've worded it better when I said that "everyone" was pessimistic lol.

Since we are mostly water maybe we can use water as an example to explain. Naturally, water tends to seek it's own level. Sometimes that means running downhill, like a stream or a river. When it reaches it's own level it stops and becomes a lake, an ocean or even a swamp. We think that water never goes up hill, but how did it get up high to again run downhill?

Of course, it's by evaporation. So continuing the example, the restoring or rising up is done quietly, usually imperceptibly and without any noise or noticeable action. That's the "up" side, that's the opti(mist)ic part.

Later on it will settle on a mountain top as snow or fall as rain (noticeable and perceptible) or come racing down a mountain stream. Everyone is different so it's incorrect to make too much of generalities. But I suspect that we are more likely to be optimistic when every thing is quietly going our way and tend toward pessimism when we get crossed out or find our situation out of our control. It's just natural.

On the other hand we can take control of our emotions and attitudes and learn to maintain optimism in spite of whatever is happening in our environment. Actually, we can learn much about that right here in the forum.

How true Gudron.

I remember thinking this years ago in a tough military officer's school.

One of the "instructors" suddenly started harassing me, after I ignored a fellow student's orders one day. I had to report to him every day to hear him tell me he was going to send me home.

I soon started to fear and visualize the shame of going home.

One morning as I looked out my bunk window, I thought about all the poor leaders who made it. They commanded no one's respect. And I said to myself, "If all those idiots made it, I certainly can."

That thought convicted me to press on, even though my bunk mate shockingly bailed out. It refocused my outlook and determination.

While I can take no personal credit, but God alone, I graduated first in my class of 108 officers.