As a woman often referred to as a person who’s wearing rose coloured glasses, I was drawn to a recent discussion on how optimists get discouraged first.
First Things First
My rose coloured glasses are based on possibility rather than positivity!
There was a time when the story about “thinking positive” creating good outcomes was rampant. And from that point of view, sure, there were experiences of disappointment or discouragement, when “it didn’t work for me.”
And the positive thinking mantra is still widespread in some circles.
For years the personal growth and development/self-help/new age industries have been teaching the formula – have “good” happy thoughts and you’ll have a good, happy outcome.
And conversely of course, when something terrible happened – it was quickly delegated to the way and what you had been thinking.
The often missed gap in this well meaning formula – is that it was set up as a formula. A “do this” and “then that” will happen paradigm.
It’s based in the masculine principles of cause and affect, this and then that. A plus B equals C. And if you’re not creating C, then you must be faulty or flawed at point A or B, because a formula always works. Arrgh!
Part of the great awakening we are all in, is recognizing where we have entrenched our realities in masculine oriented stories and theories. Feminine principles are the domain of creation.
Creation out creates formulas every time.
What about the unknown factor that bring a sperm and an egg together. In that precise unformulated meeting- a spark of life is created.
Life is created. There is no formula. There is a creation.
What are you creating with the vision of possibility in your rose coloured glasses?
Each and every snow flake is created as a unique pattern. It falls organically into this reality.
It does not judge itself as a success or failure based on how long it sits in this dimension. Some melt on their way in, some when they touch the ground. Some after they’ve been here for a whole season, and some way beyond that. Life knows cycles and flows and differences.
Life runs on oneness in diversity. A far call from formulas for success.
There is no formula for life. There are trillions + + of possibilities.
Wherever you’ve lost the realization that you are a powerful creator – you’ll need way more than positive thinking.
It’s about gritty grace.
It’s about inviting, being available for quantum mechanics to BE your life.
Not because you made it happen.
More like because you let it happen.