Message From the Universe: Thinking Outside the Box

"All deliberate change first comes from denying the logic that most gives you comfort.

The big ticket,

The Universe"

Think OUTSIDE the box. We all seek comfort in things that we are familiar with, such as not pursuing something because it is unknown to us. We fear that unknown, fear of an outcome that we have no ultimate control. We then complacent with what we have and not progress. WE keep doing the same thing over and over again so we avoid surprises. It might be helpful at first but you will eventually get tired of it. The same goes with insanity. You keep doing the same things over again and expecting different results. Doing the same as others will stop you from progressing and be something or someone different. Explore outside of your comfort level.

When looking at different options, you open your mind to different possibilities. What seems logic today might be looking totally illogical in a few days or month from now. Your perception of life will be different as you open your eyes to opportunities. When being stuck in a cocoon, you get familiar with your direct environment and feel no change is needed because of getting used to what is around you. Butterflies break OUT of their cocoon and go explore the world. This is what every humans should do. Explore the unknown. Yes, it is scary, unforgiving at time but if you don't try, you will never know what you are missing out. If you take calculated steps, think before you do anything, listen to that inner voice, focus on your goals and do everything it takes to make things happen and never give up, no matter what.

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Depression Is Caused By Lying To Yourself

Life is a lie. That sounds like a standard statement of a depressed person, but our discussion here is to show that believing a lie causes depression.

Let's begin with saying that depression can be mild, momentary, brief or, long and deep. Whatever the level of depression you feel, or have felt, a probable original cause is believing a lie of some sort to some degree.

Because this article can sound negative, I would like to ask you to not take any of this as negative. That would be your imagination again. This is so positive if you are willing to open your mind and break the illusion you want to live with, the illusion that has been fed to you, the great lie.

The let down when you have trusted someone or had faith in something that turns out to not be true or not deliver on the promised or hoped for outcome, will often result in depression. The length and depth of the depression is determined by your personal resilience and attachment to the hoped for future.

Usually, when we want something very badly, the desire comes with a level of doubt that we will get it, and that usually means we are closing an eye to the reality, and hoping that all works out the way we want.

The more difficult your life is, the more problems and loneliness you have or, whatever you are lacking to make you happy, the more open you will be to believe a lie that promises happiness.

This is the principle behind a revolution and rise of a dictator for example. The masses are desperate enough they will believe that the leader will change the way the country is run, only to put him in power and find out he is even worse. The same principle goes for the birth of a new religion or false teacher.

The disappointment is depressing and starts more unrest. The world has seen so many of these situations with the French, Russian and other revolutions in the past.

Religion can be one of the biggest let downs in life. The only thing that keeps religions with the promise of the good loving God going is that either the person is bred to have blind faith since birth so it is too deeply programmed to reject, or they are so desperate they have no one else to turn to.

Governments are theoretically meant to protect and serve the citizens. Marriage is supposed to be for better or worse, till death do you part. We all know what lies those and so many other promises are. In recent years, people are more and more discouraged because the promise that if you work hard and save up, you will have a nice retirement, is not at all guaranteed.

Living a life based on lies will result in disappointment and that leads to depression when there are enough repeated disappointments. Finding a partner through the process of dating can become very depressing after so many lies come out with every one you meet. This makes finding 'the one' a hopeless concept, and thus one enters all new relationships with doubt and distrust rather than hope and an open mind.

We are faced with a choice; see the truth about human nature and life on earth, or live with your eyes closed and hope for the best as you blindly wander through life.

The latter is what many people choose to live with, but that always brings a letdown.

The truth shall set you free

This ancient saying is a truth. Accepting the truth frees you from; your mind and imagination. It is our imagination that is behind our depression because it lifts us up only to be dropped crashing on sharp rocks down below.

Im not saying we should not be creative and use our imagination. I am referring to the imagination that wants to believe things that are simply not true.

The disappointment is finding out that what we thought was true is ultimately not. That's ultimately guaranteed when you believe a lie. Then you may either become hopeless because your last hope turned out to be a lie, or you could feel like a fool and idiot for having believed something that you now see was so obviously false that only an idiot would have fallen for that.

There was a man I knew who had gangrene in his toe. He refused to have it amputated and believed it would heal as he was a 'man of faith' and refused to accept the truth. It eventually spread and he lost his whole leg. The lie that God would heal his toe only led to a major depression and limited life. But if he accepted the truth that God, if there even is a god as the religions want us to believe, is not going to get involved in your life, and you have to take responsibility for yourself and accept the facts of life as a human, and keep your leg and foot and four toes.

Either way, it is depressing. So the resolution to depressed thoughts caused by believing all the lies is in accepting the truth of the world, life and the nature of human nature. I am not going to point out all the many lies that our world and humanity is filled with, rather, it will be better for you to discover what lies you are falling for that have let you down.

Yes, it is nice to believe that essentially all humans are good, but the fact is that self-preservation and self-interest with all the greed that humans are ruled by, are more powerful than the essential subtle goodness in our soul.

The point is to say; see everything objectively, see everyone objectively as the human animal nature which rules them, see whatever you believe your religion to be objectively, and stop living on hope of the impossible or winning the lottery. Salmons swim upstream, but they die in the journey.

But most importantly, see yourself objectively and when you catch that your imagination has you believing a lie, instantly admit your mistake and move forward with your new belief.

The best method of altering the proportion of lies to truth, to the majority being on the side of truth, is to live based on the evidence. It's a simple two steps.

Think about this. How many people have delivered on their promises? How many have let you down? How many smart people compared to stupid people have you encountered? How many times has God delivered a miracle without you having actually been the main participant?

Live based on the evidence, treating every situation and event based on the evidence rather than blind hope, and you will find that there are so many less disappointments.

That is the first step towards ending depression and making life more livable. It also makes you far more successful because you will see what is really happening and take action to protect yourself from loss, or move forward on opportunities while everyone else sits back in their dream state.

The second step is simply to take responsibility for your life. Accept what comes to you, what you have and do not have. If you do not like it, then do whatever it takes to change it. You and you alone are the only one you can rely on. The rest are just lucky chances that worked out well, but not to be counted on.

There is a reason for this world to be based on these lies, and that is something you may discover on your own, but you have to first see all this as positive and freeing. The truth will set you free as your eyes open to reality which will be like gaining perfect vision after living near blind your whole life. There is a lot more to see than you realize, and this is called having cutting insight.

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How To Correct Injustice - Positive And Effective Change

This article is about the common frustration of facing someone who is doing something you consider very wrong, either to you or in general.

When faced with a situation in which someone is cheating or hurting you, and you feel a tremendous injustice is done, leaving you very confused by the incomprehensible actions of that person, you may find yourself very angry.

A feeling of revenge or you may deem it a sense of delivering justice falls upon you. Giving it objective thought, it really is a desire for revenge even if you want to call it correcting a wrong.

When done out of anger, there can be no balancing correction, the only possible result is a hurt for hurt. These situations can never resolve or bring true justice, they can only make you feel better for a short while.

The anger you feel is in a large part due to not being able to understand why or how a person could do what they did, and your pain is in a large part from the confusion rather than the results of the actions.

The ego also gets into play with your feeling cheated and hurt and someone else getting away with something they do not deserve. It may not even involve you, but the situation is the same, someone hurts someone else and gets away with it.

If you attack with anger, the only thing that will result is a greater fight and you suffering in your anger. Go ahead, be angry but you will burn in your own anger. Is that going to help make you feel better?

When you truly understand someone, you cannot be angry. Think about that. You may not agree, but you cannot be angry when you understand the reason for someone's actions.

Now we must examine why we cannot understand someone's so called evil actions. Simply because of your own ego arrogance. You are making a statement that you are right and they are wrong. But they would say that they are right and you are wrong. So unless one of you is God, then who is to say who is right. That is just a matter of opinion and the source of war.

When you apply humility to the freedom that every human being should have to believe in what they want, simply because you want that freedom, and thus you must offer that same freedom to another, you could open you mind to understand them.

With understanding, anger dissolves. When anger dissolves you no longer are in conflict and war with that person. And now a very simple conclusion to this article and the way to resolve almost all conflicts.

Who is more likely to be able to make a person understand that what they did is wrong and correct or at least stop it? The angry attacker, or someone in harmony and understanding with their thoughts?

When you accept that humans are in general scared, greedy, foolish and in some cases pretty nasty and selfish, disregarding any other living creatures rights to a peaceful life, all due to their own personal fears about their own survival, you will know what drives that person to do what they did.

Let me ask all the women readers a question; Would you be a prostitute? You may say no, but I would say almost every one of you would. All you need is the right circumstances.

If you had three kids and you are a single mother and the only way to feed your children or get them medical care to save their lives due to being so desperate that there was no choice, or perhaps if a man put a gun to your children's head and offered you a choice to save their life, would you then prostitute yourself for the sake of your children's lives?

In general, we are very fortunate, but in reality there are a myriad of distorted and perhaps unjustified fears that rule all of us. Most of us thankfully are never pushed to that situation, but just consider that you do not know what drives a person, what formed them when they were young, and open your mind to the reality that they feel justified in what they did, or in their excuses to avoid taking responsibility.

Being angry will rarely correct what was done, and it will just make you sick and waste more time and energy. Open your mind, understand that you may not understand but that there is a valid reason in that person's mind, and accept the sad fact of life which is; Life is not always fair.

There are times to stand up for your rights, but if you are driven with anger, you will lose in the end, even if you win. There are times we must simply accept our loss and move on.

Objective is not negative, it is simply what it is.

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