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Have you read, or heard New Age philosophers speak of focusing on the positive? Have you heard them discuss not entertaining any negative thoughts? Have you tried that, only to get even more frustrated, even more angry and worst of all more negative? You may have even read my own articles and found it there as well. It is not an easy thing to just do what sounds easy and simple: focus on what you want, and focus only on the positive. That is supposed to be the way to success. However, those negative messages from society, from those others around us, and even from within us, have their way of surfacing over and over again, seemingly preventing us from being positive so that we can, according to the philosophy, get what we want.

So how do we get to Nirvana, the place where we have the beautiful body, lots of money and all the time in the world to spend it? Does that sound like heaven (or The Summerland if you are, like me, Pagan) to you? Can you even identify with it? Perhaps you have transcended that beautiful slim body that we see defined by Hollywood Celebrities and know that your body is already beautiful. Or perhaps you realize having a healthy body and a solid financial situation doing what you love is the best goal. If so, that is wonderful, but so many of us still haven't achieved that.

Wherever you fall on these kinds of questions, it is a rare person that does not want a healthy body and lasting prosperity. There are many who already have this, but why don't we all have it? In fact, most people in the USA are overweight and most are struggling with finances currently. Are we to pretend that doesn't exist? Do we just put on our blinders, pretend everything is beautiful, maintain a happy feeling and then all we be well?

No, I am not one of those people who believe that you ignore everything except for positive and nice thoughts. Sh$% happens . . . to us all. And it even happens to the new agers who seem to pretend that only good things happen to them.

We cannot ignore what is going on around us, right in front of our eyes, as well as what is happening within ourselves. We must deal with all that dust that forms from us being alive. We must get out a vacuum cleaner sometimes, because wishing it away won't happen. In other words, we must do the work of life, the chop wood, get water, part. But we do have time, if we really look for it, to do the work we really want and to develop our passions.

We must first discover what our passion

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