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A Human Tendency

January 7, 2009 on 4:25 am | In philosophy, scientology | No Comments

A human tendency is to see the negative in things, people and situations. When hearing someone talk or reading something, what will often occur is that one will see a wrongness or outness* in it.

When this becomes unhealthy is when only the negative is registered whilst receiving a communication from someone or when looking at some situation in life. This is what cynicism is, or what a negative outlook on life consists of.

The tendency to see negativity or outnesses can be a fast track to a compulsion of seeking them out, and only seeing them everywhere one looks! It becomes an automatic process, and leads to unhappy fixed considerations like “life is pointless”, “the world is corrupt”, “everyone is full of it” etc. This breeds hate and an absence of love.

It’s the path to unhappiness.

The danger is that by only perceiving negativity and outnesses, the feedback from oneself outwards into the world will only be negativity and outnesses.

So what’s the optimum solution, or process one can use?

I feel that the only way to be truly happy is to see things from a pan-determined point of view. This means looking at something like a communication from more than one angle or viewpoint. Example: perhaps you read an article you strongly disagree with and decide to write to the author telling them how they are all wrong, etc. And perhaps they are wrong. But from who’s point of view?!

Figure out what their point of view is and you’ll see they aren’t really “all wrong/bad/stupid”, just different. By using this way of looking at life, you’ll experience a higher level of understanding and compassion for others, and yourself. This is also a path to happiness and ultimately wisdom about the game of life in which one exists, and plays.

*outnesses: conditions of something being wrong or incorrect.

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