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**thegamexpertsdotcom** · 10-22-2007, 04:04 PM

by changing your focus to what makes you feel good, you increase the power available to those things and decrease the power available to those things that make you feel bad.

your points are quite valid, except for this one.

if i understand you correctly, what you say is that if you're feeling good, that is the ultimate sign that you are doing all the right things in life? this surely can't be your point. why don't we just take anti-depressants and live "happily ever after"?

also, we seem to again be confusing concepts. focusing on something is a way of seeing it. intending what to do with what you see if a completely different thing. you can't intend to do anything if you don't know where you are. focusing on either positive or negative too much turns into intention to keep the situation as it is.

i don't know if i'll describe this so that people can understand...

one knows that something is, and one feels secure in the known situation. we are all so afraid of change, any change, for better or worse. clinical psychology is full of patients who are afraid of getting well. their illness is the state of being they know so well, and being cured will put them in the situation they don't know at all. the fear of the unknown is so overpowering, that you can't even imagine it until you try to change yourself.

take one step toward the real understanding, and the pure panic overwhelms you. it's simply too terrifying. simply put, you start feeling very, very bad. if that fear stops you out cold, then you've lost any chance of understanding.

10-22-2007, 04:04 PM	#32
thegamexpertsdotcom Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 435 Senior Member	by changing your focus to what makes you feel good, you increase the power available to those things and decrease the power available to those things that make you feel bad. your points are quite valid, except for this one. if i understand you correctly, what you say is that if you're feeling good, that is the ultimate sign that you are doing all the right things in life? this surely can't be your point. why don't we just take anti-depressants and live "happily ever after"? also, we seem to again be confusing concepts. focusing on something is a way of seeing it. intending what to do with what you see if a completely different thing. you can't intend to do anything if you don't know where you are. focusing on either positive or negative too much turns into intention to keep the situation as it is. i don't know if i'll describe this so that people can understand... one knows that something is, and one feels secure in the known situation. we are all so afraid of change, any change, for better or worse. clinical psychology is full of patients who are afraid of getting well. their illness is the state of being they know so well, and being cured will put them in the situation they don't know at all. the fear of the unknown is so overpowering, that you can't even imagine it until you try to change yourself. take one step toward the real understanding, and the pure panic overwhelms you. it's simply too terrifying. simply put, you start feeling very, very bad. if that fear stops you out cold, then you've lost any chance of understanding.
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