Seeing Problems as Opportunities for Growth

[morefaithrequired]

No sorry. I dont buy that new age fake optimism.
Problems are problems that stress us out and shorten our lives.
My worldview is aim for a problem free life. Who needs problems. I dont. And Im not interested anyone else's either.
Ive always wanted to live in Utopia. Sounds like a nice place to live. Ideally I can live there one day. Thats my goal.

 

[morefaithrequired]

dont take my posts personally. i like to vent now and then. And hyperbolize as well. my main problem is an agitated over anxious mind.

 

[Whispered]

Spiffy slogans don't really do it for me either. I'm all for positive affirmations when the time is right. However, sometimes you just want to beat the stuffing out of something because it seems that all the crap that you can do without has your home address. And it loves to travel.
That's why I employed the smash-d-hell-out-of-it philosophy.

I learned this on a forum site years ago. Copied it and saved it for future reference.

Go to a Dollar Tree store or any store that sells ceramic trinkets for super cheap. Buy a bunch, maybe $20 dollars worth. That same store likely has small brown lunch paper bags sold usually in counts of 50 or so. More than enough. Go home and wrap each trinket in one bag.
Makes for easier cleanup.
When life gives you lemons, drink a beer and then go to your store of those paper bagged trinkets and smash them against the wall of your choosing. Get it all out. Scream, say how you really feel, don't be polite, and smash away!
After about $20 dollars worth of that you should be just fine. Let it out, don't keep it in. Because keeping it in causes all manner of health problems. While letting it out gets ceramics makers paid, brown lunch paper bag manufactures paid, keeps the Dollar store in business, and makes your broom and dustpan feel loved.

And it's hella cheaper than a psychologist.

Hope that helps.

 

[Whispered]

Why so serious?

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[morefaithrequired]

I don't need to grow any more. I'm fat enough. The doctor used the "obese" word the other day. Much to my annoyance.
Ok there's another problem. Losing weight. I used to just jog or gym the weight off. Now motivation is much harder. And currently my achilles tendons are very unco operative. They go on strike quite often. "Im too stiff. Don't use me today." So I cave in to their demands. Then my calves. say 'hey bud. im sick of carrying this weight. why don't you lose a few pounds!"
But at least I'm posting on here. Updating you on my thrilling daily life .
I need to make room for God in my life? is that what you are saying?
of all the rude things to say!! my goodness. You think I'm not Christian enough. well dear me!!

 

[Whispered]

I've made plenty of room for God in my life. And there's always room for more. What I need to do is stop making space for chocolate moose cake, eclairs, apple pie and lasagna.
But really, I learned a long time ago, if I burn more calories than I consume I will keep the weight off.
I make that a daily regimen of exercise that I switch up so as to not get bored. Walking, biking, stretching always before any exercise reduces chance of injury. Swimming, hiking, weights.
I'm doing pretty good too. But if I let myself get lazy, which I learned a long time ago when I was really into body building, is easy to do, one day I'll wake up and realize to keep that calorie burning rule active I'll need to jog around the entire central United States for about a week.

 

[G00WZ]

You can use some problems as an opportunity for growth depending on how you think and what kind of understanding you are under. For me i use some problems as a test for me to imagine better and my ability to live and react to what i chose to imagine instead of what was presented before me. For example just earlier 1 of my neighbors thought it would be a brilliant idea to shout loudly like a banshee outside at 8 something at night. Instead of identifying her as a top tier idiot like i normally would have, i chose to identify and imagine her as someone who had better sense, rather than coming into agreement with who she was presenting herself to be originally.

I see what you are saying though, and yea living to problems is indeed self destructive. A lot of unenlightened new age gurus preach this a lot. One of the main things about problems and just focus and attention as a whole is when a person focuses on the negative they become a part of it as they come into agreement with it. The thing about problems is that a person is alive, a problem is not. wherever a person shines his/her light/attention/focus there will be life to that thing. Man breathes life into things unknowing most of the time though because he is trained to come into agreement with what he sees, and not what he imagines consciously. Its actually in reverse, as he imagines what is seen/obvious/in the natural, and he just regurgitates what he just saw. I can't change what a person does on the outside, but how i choose to receive/react to them and imagine them is where it is most important. Sometimes the problem or person conforms to that belief, sometimes they don't but it is a good thing to be aware of and practice.. Jesus practiced this all the time, like in Luke 4:29 they wanted to throw Him off a cliff but he pretty much just walked off , he wasn't on the same page as they were because He was imagining and living to something else.It was the same thing when Jesus went to heal a dead girl, they laughed at him when He said that she was asleep. He could have simply agreed with the "obvious", that she was indeed dead and walked off and left, but instead He chose to live/ have faith to what He imagined.

I dig the idea of being in a utopia, but imagine being that utopia instead. Having the ability to live in peace, having a choice of what you live to, even when being presented with an external hell. Or even having the power to overcome and conform hell itself. That would be something.

 

[morefaithrequired]

some good thoughts there goowz.
im not averse to helpful positive advice....in fact.😁

 

[morefaithrequired]

I've made plenty of room for God in my life. And there's always room for more. What I need to do is stop making space for chocolate moose cake, eclairs, apple pie and lasagna.
But really, I learned a long time ago, if I burn more calories than I consume I will keep the weight off.
I make that a daily regimen of exercise that I switch up so as to not get bored. Walking, biking, stretching always before any exercise reduces chance of injury. Swimming, hiking, weights.
I'm doing pretty good too. But if I let myself get lazy, which I learned a long time ago when I was really into body building, is easy to do, one day I'll wake up and realize to keep that calorie burning rule active I'll need to jog around the entire central United States for about a week.

i cant relate to you whispered. you are too successful.

 

[Whispered]

i cant relate to you whispered. you are too successful.

No, I just realized a long time ago that the poofy state of being tended to run in the paternal side of the family. And since I'm only 5'41/2" , yes, fractions matter, I didn't want to follow that route. I'd end up looking like a mini -beer-fridge that someone parks beside their recliner for game day on TV if I'd dare to have worn brown. Not a good look. Really. Trust me.