Caroline speaks about the power of belief. Being legally blind from birth her parents decided not to tell her of this physical limitiation. At 17 while at the eye doctor with her younger sister she finally learns the truth. Listen to her story about taking lifes challenges in sighted world which she managed to excel in for another 10 years before finally admitting her limitations and then moving onto the next phase of her life. My question then is “Self Esteem not about Belief”?
In Caroline’s own words:
And I have learned, you know what, cars and motorbikes and elephants, that’s not freedom. Being absolutely true to yourself, is freedom. And I never needed eyes to see — never. I simply needed vision and belief. And if you truly believe — and I mean believe from the bottom of your heart — you can make change happen. And we need to make it happen, because every single one of us — woman, man, gay, straight, disabled, perfect, normal, whatever — everyone of us must be the very best of ourselves. I no longer want anybody to be invisible. We all have to be included. And stop with the labels, the limiting — losing of labels. Because we are not jam jars; we are extraordinary, different, wonderful people.
When we hear quotes like the Power of Positive Thinking we feel it’s supposed to spring you into action and change your life for the better. It’s like watching The Secret and learning about the Law of Attraction for the first time as they teach that you attract what you think about. Over hearing a conversation someone asked about this movie and the reply was it’s just about positive thinking. So is it about being optimistic and expecting good things to happen no matter what.
In the book Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill he writes that man must learn to control his thought thus by doing this he will gather great riches but for those who cannot will suffer at the hands of what the world will give him. Nothing will be harder than for those who yearn to control their own mind. Not saying this was exact quotes but the just of it is we are not taught in any school how to think or control our thoughts in any way. Let’s face it “Positive Thought” are like the statement “Get Over It” . These are bland mix of words like the color “Plaid” with no real meaning but just some form of expectation all to be better.
Perhaps we need to look at this like seeing the future for what we really desire it to be and having the thought process to expect it even if we have no idea how this will come about. For those who dream and see the invisible will have desire to firmly pursue these thoughts without any expectation of anything less.
So in my view point it comes down to how you think and not just what. After watching “The Secret” it bothered me for the longest time on their phrase of how you think. When we begin to understand that on an average day we have 60,000 thoughts course through our brain and most of them negative one begins to understand the complexity of this idea. So I guess it’s to observe our internal dialogue to see what is going on and direct those brain waves to a more pleasant environment of something we would like to see happen in the future.
No where in our schools of any area’s of education are we taught how to think or how to really feel good so we must find other sources of mental direction. We must learn to be like the positive thinker who sees the invisible which are unseen images of good things to come.
