Don’t Overlook Positive Influences
A number of years ago, I read the book Power vs. Force by David Hawkins. In that book, Hawkins outlines an idea where, by using kinesiology, a person can calibrate how truthful or positive something is. In the presence of truthful, positive things, a person’s body has more strength. Thus, by measuring bodily strength under different influences, a person can measure how truthful and positive something is. It is an interesting idea and it is something I’d describe as true enough, but not really true. It is an illusion measuring and illusion.
The influences we let into our lives are not neutral because our thoughts about those things aren’t neutral. Influences can either energize us or drain us. When we give our attention to something, we essentially meditate upon that thing. Meditate upon negative things and you’ll most likely end up feeling negative. Meditate upon positive things and you’ll most likely end up feeling positive. People don’t have bad thoughts because they are depressed, they are depressed because they have bad thoughts.
We tend to be attracted to meditating upon things near our own level. A good example of that is music. You can often tell a lot about a person’s state of mind by the kind of music they like or are into at a given moment in time. And as people grow and change, their musical preferences often grow and change.
The most popular music is generally indicative of the median mental state of the general populace. I personally find most popular music either depressing, trite, or both. I listen to it only as much as is needed to stay up-to-date. While I’ve gone through many phases of music preference, the only music I’ve consistently liked throughout my life is upbeat pop-punk (example), which is in the same spirit as the other stuff I’ve consistently liked, like early Beatles (example). I also have consistently enjoyed composers like Vivaldi, Beethoven, and Mozart (example). And the only music I can’t stand at all is bass thumping techno house music, to me, that stuff is like torture.
So anyway, take a look at the influences you allow into your life. It should all for the most part be stuff that lifts you higher and energizes you with positivity. If you are energized with positivity, then when the unavoidable negative stuff intrudes on your life, you’ll be able to hold your own ground and deal with it and so it will have minimal impact.
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