Starting a new chapter
in Spirituality ·
Frank Flores63 said:As I understand it, telling a new story means acting and feeling as though you are already the person who has achieved their desires. For instance, I can't stand some of the people at my office, but instead of constantly venting or harboring secret resentment toward them, I try to tell a new story based on the Esther Hicks formula: fake it till you make it. So, I talk about how my colleagues are great, how we respect one another, and how our working relationships are perfectly harmonious. Or perhaps someone is unhappy with themselves and is constantly self-critical. In that case, they should change the narrative and start admiring who they are. At first glance, this might seem somewhat idiotic, but if you patiently maintain this new narrative, eventually it will materialize, and it won't just be a story anymore—it will become reality.
But before that happens, you absolutely have to raise your vibration. If you are stuck in a depression, it’s going to be incredibly difficult to attract anything other than further misfortune.
Raise your vibration by simply doing whatever makes you happy! If feeding the neighborhood stray cat makes you feel good, then do that—it will lift your vibration!
It’s a bit of a vicious cycle, isn't it? Once someone finally realizes they're spiraling into a depression, they often fall even deeper. It happens because they start to panic about the realization itself—they realize that if they stay in that headspace, all they'll end up creating is more depression. It becomes this self-fulfilling loop where the awareness of the struggle actually fuels the next downward slide. 😁
I’ve been thinking quite a bit about people who struggle with depression, pessimism, or that constant negative outlook—those folks who seem to be perpetually leaning toward self-destruction. There is a certain kind of masochism at play there, isn't there? It’s almost as if, in those dark and heavy emotional states, they actually find a strange sense of certainty. They feel something, even if what they're feeling is painful. Honestly, some people become so deeply habituated to living in those shadows that the negativity starts to feel like home. It becomes their baseline, and without it, they might feel completely adrift.
I’m speaking from direct experience here. By my very nature—and most likely due to the circumstances I dealt with while growing up, though genetics probably played a role too—I’ve never been much of an optimist. In fact, I’ve always leaned toward the exact opposite. For me, that tendency has consistently manifested as various kinds of heavy, nagging anxiety.
It wasn’t until that specific moment—that sudden, sharp realization that things weren't supposed to work that way—that everything shifted. Once I truly grasped the fact that I actually held the power to change my own circumstances, that's when the momentum finally started building.
The biggest hurdle for those fatalistic, depressive types is that they’re trying to use the exact same tools and thought patterns that landed them in that hole in the first place. They're essentially trying to dig themselves out of a pit using the same shovel that dug it. It’s a bit of a paradox, really, and honestly, it doesn't offer much hope for progress because they can't see that their own mental framework is what's boxing them in. Everything is filtered through a completely skewed perception of reality.
If we spend all our time trapped in this loop of intense mental philosophizing, we can easily spiral straight into a state of depression. When you overanalyze every single detail of your life and dissect every problem until you reach the crushing conclusion that you’re just a complete failure—losing your self-confidence in the process—it creates a devastating cycle. It starts with feeling like you lack the basic skills everyone else seems to have, or believing you’re fundamentally less valuable than the people around you. You tell yourself you'll never actually accomplish anything meaningful. Then, because of that mindset, you develop even deeper layers of anxiety and depression on top of the original issue. If that's the case, what does it all actually mean? What is the ultimate point of that downward spiral?
It’s a bit of a reality check, isn't it? It turns out we can't take all that heavy-duty mental gymnastics—the kind of intense, overthinking philosophy we used to fuel our own self-destruction—and expect to use those exact same tools to climb our way out of the hole. We're essentially trying to fix a problem using the very mechanism that created it, and that just doesn't work. It’s like trying to put out a fire with gasoline; you're simply using the wrong instrument for the job.
If we’ve spent all this time shooting ourselves in the right temple, there’s really no reason to expect anything different just because we decide to switch to the left side. At the end of the day, the result is exactly the same—we're still going to end up with a perforated skull.
That’s the thing negative people just can't seem to wrap their heads around. Their entire existence feels like this constant, exhausting struggle—a sort of mental and emotional knot that they keep trying to untie by tightening the knot even further. It’s a cycle of tension that just never ends.
The bottom line is, Lost-soulIt really all comes down to that one thing: you just have to stop overanalyzing everything, quit the endless mental loops, and simply stop trying so hard.
One day, you’re going to have this sudden realization: life is just far too short and frankly too much of a cosmic joke to spend it grinding through unnecessary misery. You’ll realize that wasting your energy on mental gymnastics—constantly struggling to "try harder" or forcing yourself to feel better—is just a drain on your soul. Once you hit that point where you decide to stop the constant striving and just let things be, that's when you're truly finding your way. And honestly? You don't even have to wait for that epiphany to happen. You can choose to start living that way right now.
Generally speaking, our bodies and minds find it much easier to simply exist rather than to constantly act. It’s far more natural to just *be* instead of cluttering everything up with unnecessary exertion—which, let's face it, usually means those frantic attempts to force an outcome.
If you’re already practicing Law of Attraction, try doing it by actually surrendering to the flow of life and trusting that things will work out fine. Your first real step should be to stop trying to achieve your goals using the exact same methods that landed you in this current rut in the first place.
Remember, manifestation is about working on yourself, not grinding away at your wish list. You can't bully yourself into feeling better or being happier. That doesn't require effort; it happens naturally when you finally drop the mistaken belief that happiness requires struggle and heavy lifting. If you keep pushing that hard, you'll just keep manifesting more struggle and more exhaustion.
And honestly, what's the point? Is all that sweat really worth it?
Just lean into the current. Relax and stop overthinking... at least for a little while.