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Every Thought and Feeling Attracts Like
Like attracts like — whether you believe in the Law of Attraction or not.
The past couple of weeks have been personally rough for me.
The air conditioner in my car is not working — and we’re having an ongoing heatwave. A plan for additional financial stability fell through. I got to take a literal and metaphorical guilt trip that took up a lot of mental energy. A nerve pinch in my hand forced me to stop fencing mid-practice. My book sales are flat. A message thanking certain people for contributions that I also made excluded me.
All of these, in the grand scheme of things, aren’t terribly important. But compounded together over 2 weeks, they have taken a toll. As such, I’ve been contending with numerous negative emotions, unhappy thoughts, and a general sense of anger, ire, and annoyance.
That, in turn, feeds my depression and stirs my fears. Before me, a chasm has opened — and if I stare down into it I know it will swallow me whole.
All the present situations created new bridges to past experiences, happenings, and matters that were not the best. If I allow this to go on, I will be facing an intense period of self-pity, self-recrimination, and land in a depressive cycle.
