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I just went to a massive workshop by Esther Hicks, famous for “law of attraction” and emphasis on positive emotions for manifesting deliberate creation. She pre

I just went to a massive workshop by Esther Hicks, famous for “law of attraction” and emphasis on positive emotions for manifesting deliberate creation. She presents a classic ”New Thought” philosophy—and her ideas are a big target of those espousing the dangers of Toxic Positivity. I was happily surprised. She emphasized the value of negative emotions, the importance of noticing and identifying negative emotions, and the importance of “not beating yourself up” about having negative emotions. But, at the same time, she unabashedly presented moods as something that we can and should consciously control. And, she claimed that positive moods can allow good things to happen that don’t happen when we are focused on negative emotions. I’d have to write more to clarify more, but I was surprised by her nuance. “There is just one message: You create your own reality, and —-you just gotta vibe it out.” I’ve read a ton of philosophy and I just love this. It might seem vacuous, but now that I’ve seen her, I really think it is on point.

wirrbel 4y ago
It’s a typical phenomenon that the original message/idea is often distorted by its replication. Usually the ideas tend to mutete to be more simple to pass on. So Balance and counterpoint is lost, but sometimes stuff is added because it helps „victims“ to pass on the narrative. Key example is agile: key ideas are lost (continuous re-evaluation of software development and user/stakeholder interaction), while other stuff replicates under the same label like crazy (sprints, story point estimation ). At the end of the day I find it’s totally plausible how a „manage your emotions and don’t be permanently negative, stay open and don’t reject things straight away“ can turn into something like „be positive, always, and smile at all the traffic lights on your way to work“ (no kidding)

wirrbel 4y ago

It’s a typical phenomenon that the original message/idea is often distorted by its replication. Usually the ideas tend to mutete to be more simple to pass on. So Balance and counterpoint is lost, but sometimes stuff is added because it helps „victims“ to pass on the narrative. Key example is agile: key ideas are lost (continuous re-evaluation of software development and user/stakeholder interaction), while other stuff replicates under the same label like crazy (sprints, story point estimation ). At the end of the day I find it’s totally plausible how a „manage your emotions and don’t be permanently negative, stay open and don’t reject things straight away“ can turn into something like „be positive, always, and smile at all the traffic lights on your way to work“ (no kidding)