Life Untwisted

How Do You Deal With Paranoid People?

7/13/2021

We've all met people we would have to classify as paranoid. There is no sacrosanct environment either. You can meet them at work, at church, in volunteer activities; even people you thought were your friends can suddenly start acting paranoid. Knowing this, what are a few of the things that are recognizable as paranoid behavior?

The person doubts the commitment, loyalty, or trustworthiness of another, convinced that others are deceiving them. This could also be a form of projection where the person is actually uncommitted, disloyal, and untrustworthy themselves. Unable to accept this, they develop a self-created illusion whereby their heinous attitudes are projected onto the other person.
They read hidden meanings into innocent remarks or casual looks of others. They perceive the intentions of others to be in alignment with their own agendas rather than seeing them objectively.
The person is unforgiving and holds grudges for imagined wrongdoings.
The person is often controlling and jealous of others. This can be particularly apparent when working in groups where others display talents and abilities this person does not possess.
They cannot see their role in problems or conflicts and believe they are always right. When cornered by logic or facts, they often deflect to a well-worn passive-aggressive stance of acting as if the other person is out of control or not being professional, notwithstanding their own indefensible position.

How do you deal with people like this? Of course, there is not one answer. It can depend on if you are able to make sweeping changes in your environment. If you can, it may be the best thing for your own mental health to walk away and go on with your life. If you can't make that choice, you will have to call into play other options. You can develop a way of interacting with such people.

Your Soul Affects The World’s Progress

4/30/2021

The Universe is always in motion. Nature is always changing. As a human being, we do not always see this or acknowledge it because our humanness is a blink in the grand movement. Slowness of motion does not equate with inertia or signify an end to its evolution, especially when viewed by those whose physical existence is so brief.

Those among us who see the world on which we exist and the Universe in which we exist as removed from the energy of progress are known as immobilists. Their inability to see life as moving forward, progressing, are supported by attitudes such as habit of thought, pessimism, and yes, morality and many religions which are focused on the past, failing to accept the ability of the soul to move forward in conscious awareness.

The failure to acknowledge the mobility of the human soul slows the progress of creation. Our individual levels of conscious awareness in this human experience play a part in the forward movement of the Universe. As Teilhard de Chardin said, we are spiritual beings having a human experience. Therefore, the complexion of the world we experience is fueled in its direction of movement by the collective consciousness or the average of all those souls on this planet at any given time.

On a much smaller scale, think of the phenomenon we call mob mentality where zealots with poorly developed awareness get others of similar consciousness all stirred up. Think witch trials, violent protests, overreactions by the masses. Those are immobilists clinging to the past, the status quo. Little thought is given to solutions or means of moving forward because they do not believe that things can change. They might be shouting change, but their actions are not concentrated on solutions.

The Universe is in motion at every level. As humans we have the option to resist that motion within ourselves with every fiber of our being. It is our free will. Interestingly, it is the movement within the soul of every person that contributes the most to the collective consciousness and the quality of life on this plane.

Don’t Let Your Clothes Speak For You

4/27/2021

A most interesting paradox in our culture is connected to fashion choices, especially those made by teens and young adults. Everyone wants to be in fashion. So everyone hurries out to buy the latest fashion. Yet the driving need to be different, to be special, can’t be ignored so someone adds an extreme element to the current fashion. It catches on, and now everyone, at least in that age group, is doing it.

What’s the problem here? In trying to fit in, you become mediocre. Then, in trying to be special, you simply lead the pack into another mediocre expression. In other words, trying to fit in or to be special through fashion or any other outer means only winds up making you seem just like everyone else on the surface.

Wear what you like, but don’t let your clothes speak for you. Be yourself. Step up to the plate and be a responsible, compassionate human being. Think for yourself. Never judge others by what you see. Give them the same benefit you would want: look beyond the surface for the wonderful person whose clothes don’t even come close to expressing their beauty.

Is The Brass Ring Always Out Of Your Reach?

4/23/2021

Do you feel that no matter how hard you try, you will never succeed? That someone else is always one step ahead of you, and there’s nothing left for you?

These sentiments are more prevalent than you might imagine. They echo in the minds of men, women, and children of all races, all cultures. The vulnerability of the human spirit is impervious to skin color or social mores.

Are these sentiments actually true? If you feel this way right now, no one will be able to convince you otherwise unless ... you don’t want to feel this way. Then it’s possible for the door of your mind to ease open slightly—just enough to check out some new ideas. If you are willing, let’s try a different approach to your life: past, present, and future.

Is There A Reason You Fail?

You Are Unique!

4/20/2021

Move It! Move It! Move It!

4/15/2021

Polarity is the universal stressor. If nothing is happening in your life and you seem to be experiencing the same day over and over, you are not using the power of polarity. If you find that your dreams are not manifesting, you are not utilizing one of your greatest creative tools, the power of polarity. The deliberate application of this Principle to your life will enhance and energize you and your experiences beyond your wildest dreams.

Einstein said, “nothing happens until it moves.” He was referring to the idea that you are surrounded by an unlimited potential that lies dormant until it has a reason to move. Although I am not being presumptuous when I say that this possibility is waiting for you to move it, the question is, “how do you move this possibility into your life?” The means for this migration is given to you in Genesis when God separated the light from the darkness because this was the act that created the Principle of Polarity. The prevalent thought is, that God created night and day in this stage of creation. Rather than night and day, He created the polarization of energy necessary for light to happen — the Principle of Polarity upon which the idea of light, or illumination, is founded. Without this Principle of Polarity, there would be no light, no new understanding. Without polarity, nothing happens; nothing moves.

Feeling Inadequate?

4/7/2021

Decades ago, a person sent me this question: “How would you explain my feelings of inadequacy when I have been very successful at every job I’ve taken on and I made excellent grades in school? It doesn’t make sense to me.” Below is how I answered her.

First, I would say you should not judge yourself by the world’s standards. You’ll find they are very fickle. No matter what you do, there will always be someone who can do better. There will likely be someone who can’t and despises you for it. Whose standards are you going to live by? The guy who is more skilled than you or the guy who isn’t? If you choose either one of them, you’ve made an unfortunate choice for many reasons.

You create your own life. No one can feel for you, no one can think for you … unless you let them. Allowing yourself to use other people’s standards as your own is like trying to wear hand-me-downs. It never looks quite as good on you as it did on the original owner.

So, why do you feel inadequate? ...

In Good Company

4/2/2021

Linda Lee Greene graciously posted about my evolution as a writer in her blog titled "In Good Company." Click on the link at the end of her lead-in to view the actual post. Thanks again, Linda. ♥

Memphis, Tennessee author, editor, and ghostwriter Dannye Williamsen talks about the evolution of her writing career on my blog today. It is my great pleasure to welcome her. - Linda Lee Greene

https://ingoodcompanyohio.blogspot.com/2021/04/dannye-williamsen-memphis-tn-author.html

We Never Leave The Classroom

3/31/2021

Do you ever feel like you are caught between two worlds? One day everything is going swimmingly. The next day, the so-called other shoe drops. Do you ever look around at other people and wonder why they seem to have some personal kind of magic that keeps them in the flow and wonder why you can’t seem to get hold of it for yourself?

When I first started to feel this way, I knew something was off, but I never made the connection between my thoughts and feelings and what was happening in my life. I mean, why would I possibly choose to be on the wrong side of life? Then I learned that I have the power of choice, and I’m not talking about choice out there in the world as much as I’m talking about the choices I make in my mind. I was taught that living on this planet is how we learn to deal with and appreciate the resistance we encounter. When you understand that resistance is a natural part of the process, that it is necessary, it takes on a whole different meaning for you.

Being here on this earth is indeed the same as being in a school room. We can sleep through class, or we can pay attention and learn. We can study and overcome the obstacles, the resistance, so that we can move on to the next class or lesson, all the while increasing our understanding. Each experience we have is unique to us. Nothing is by accident, and in some way, we have given permission for all of the relationships and experiences we have. Each of them gives us the opportunity to break down rigid habits and challenges us to change our thoughts and feelings.

Choosing how to feel about the ever-changing conditions of life is not easy. So how do we shift from being caught in this rollercoaster life? We acknowledge that life is a classroom. This earth experience allows us to be a helpless victim or to morph into a conscious creative being. Nothing happens to us unless it is especially designed by us to serve a higher purpose than just being a slave to circumstances. Shifting from being a victim to life’s circumstances provides a conscious shock. You see and feel life differently.

We all want things to be better. We go to great extremes to make more money and have better relationships with other people and our families. Yet even when people seem to have everything in the world, you often find them looking for things to complain about. This is because our life here on earth is not about the things. When you recognize you are in a classroom, it is like a mindslap! You wake up and realize what is really going on and the part you play in it. You take control of your experiences by viewing your choices from a spiritual perspective, and your understanding increases as well as the quality of your experiences.

Tired of Surviving?

3/23/2021

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.
~ Carrie Fisher

I have to say that Carrie Fisher's words resonate with me, and I'm sure they do with many others. If you've spent a lifetime "surviving," you feel that you can meet any challenge. Of course, this means that your mindset, your field of attraction, is about difficult situations—situations where you get to once again test your mettle. True, it can feel satisfying if you do survive, but what is the cumulative effect of all this struggling to survive?

Addressing Plastic Pollution Is Critical To Our Future

3/19/2021

Plastic pollution is on the tip of everyone’s tongue these days and well it should be. It is contributing largely to the climate change crisis. The global warming trend since the mid-20th century is attributed by scientists to the expansion of the “greenhouse effect.” When the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space, we experience the effect of greenhouse gases.

Why is plastic considered to be a major contributor? Over the last century the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil has increased the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is among the gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect. Although there are others, such as methane, nitrous oxide, and water vapor, the tremendous increase in the production of plastics has disproportionately increased the carbon dioxide being emitted. Although historically changes in CO2 concentrations tended to occur over hundreds or thousands of years, we have managed to achieve even larger changes than in the past over a matter of decades.

Why Faith

3/13/2021

The Pendulum

3/11/2021

Our Swinging Approach To Life

There is no other activity that contributes more to the negativity and suffering that a person experiences in this life than the inexplicable rush to swing like a pendulum through life. Opting to let the tides of opinion and emotion push you in one direction and then another, you quickly become oblivious to the movement. Even your heart conforms to the pace of this madness until it becomes the constant rhythm of your life.

Mindlessly allowing the world out there to punch your buttons pushes you into a reactive state, which is when your ego takes over.

Living On The Corner Of Happy And Healthy

3/4/2021

Walgreen's latest tagline may have a much deeper meaning than perhaps they intended. I was watching television one night recently, and my thoughts were running up and down the freeway of my mind, racing first one way and then the other. I was trying to pin down a direction for my life. Suddenly I saw the words form on the TV screen: Living on the corner of Happy and Healthy.

Everything in my mind came to a dead stop. Spirit had just nudged me. I realized that my dissatisfaction with the return on my achievements in recent years and the uncertainty about my future were holding me back from better experiences. They were taking over my Now, making my present less than desirable. [Click below to read more.]

Are You Proactive In Your Life?

3/1/2021

Are you proactive in your life? Do you take the initiative to make decisions about what you want to experience or do you just react to circumstances?
I hope you are because we are responsible for the conditions in our lives.

In other words, what we are experiencing is the result of the decisions, the choices, we have made. Of course, we can't control all the world "out there," but we can control the responses we have to it. This is an ability with which we are all equipped from birth — our ability to choose our responses to life.

When we use our response-ability to decide on how we are going to feel or think or act, we experience more peace, more harmony. Does this mean that everything will come up roses? No, it doesn't. It just means that we are learning how to dis-identify from those circumstances or people so that we don't hand over our personal power by letting other people or circumstances determine our choices for us.

So if we don't choose to be proactive, what are we doing? We are reacting to life. We are using yesterday's answers to today's circumstances. Why would we do this? Because we are not mindful. We are not awake and living in the Now. We have allowed ourselves to fall asleep on our spiritual journey by "resting on our spiritual laurels."

Our spiritual journey is life-long, 24/7. Our response-ability is one of our greatest tools. Using it wisely eases the pain we inflict upon ourselves and allows us to embrace all the good that awaits us.

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The Williamsens

My husband and I spent years in one form or another teaching spiritual psychology. My husband, John Dean Williamsen, passed away in May, 2020. I wanted to bring together many of the articles, poems, etc. that the two of us have written for people like you to enjoy.
All the best on your quest,
Dannye WIlliamsen

How Do You Deal With Paranoid People?

Your Soul Affects The World’s Progress

Don’t Let Your Clothes Speak For You

Is The Brass Ring Always Out Of Your Reach?

You Are Unique!

Move It! Move It! Move It!

Feeling Inadequate?

In Good Company

We Never Leave The Classroom

Tired of Surviving?

Addressing Plastic Pollution Is Critical To Our Future

Why Faith

The Pendulum

Living On The Corner Of Happy And Healthy

Are You Proactive In Your Life?

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