How many people agree that many people and our society are way off balance? Is this chronic problem

Yes.

Most of the reason is sthe sick mainstream media and what they pump out how a human she act and be happy.

That is the main issue with society today. No one thinks for themselves or listens to their heart and soul. They listen to electronic signals.

I had two personal friends that killed them self, and i know of several other people to. It came like shock and a suprise to everyone. We all thought they where happy, because that is how they looked on the outside

We can not know what is going through their heads because they dont say what is wrong. They keep it inside them. Usually they go to a psychiatrist to deal with their issues.

But instead of talking with their pasients they give them drugs as quick fix to the solution because they read good reviews about them. But in reality drugs only makes the problem worse.

I can not see how drugs that where produced in a lab, can make a person happy.

Your best friend can hang them self the next morning, and you will spend the rest of you life wondering why. So make sure you talk with you friends, get close, sometimes people just need to talk with someone, and have someone to listen.

But i don't think you can blame the society, media or anyone else, but the person that took suicide.

hello,

as a few days ago when the news first hit i said it hit close to home .. when the details of how he did it came out .. it was pretty much the method i tried the one time i attempted . "i just had a little voice in the back of my head pop in and say no it will get better " about twenty seconds later would have been to late.

there is a reason i argue against many of the dogmas of the success crowed ..because it is the very forucs on needing to achive success or get stuff .. or be something .. or work work work.. that make this imbalance worse.

how greate and wonderfull is it when as a society 70 percent of people are on either an anti anxiety an anti depression. or both .. and 60-70 percent are obese ..forget all the other problems .

when the focus is always ln getting more.. and you ignore what you have and it become the way of society to drive you mad based off what you do not have .

when to be in a comfort zone is considered a negative thing .and society seems to have to make you uncomfortable about everything .. what you eat what you sleep .. if you are sitting to much driving to much .

I have crawled and dragged myself out of deep and biter depression. and lont term emotional based abuse from my family. ..from helplessness helplessness ,apathy, this wasn't somthing that lasted a few days or weeks but years .. and ever day i woke up i was waiting to be taken out by something.

there are a lot more people waiting for the buss to hit them then you may guess .

Robin william ..fought these demons longer than i have been alive .. that was part of the drug abuse .. but there is no amount of success or money or achievement .. that will ever make you wake up in the morning look in the mirror and be happy to be you.. you can get real good at being someone who makes other people happy .. but if you can't find your own happiness.. you can be the richest person in the world and it would not matter.

my life completly fell apart after i chose not to kill myself ..there where many times i got angry with that little voice over the last 6 years of absolute misery..

and it is acctaullay only the last three days i have said anything about the details to anyone sence i drove to the hospital that day and checked myself in .

you can chase success while you are running from the deamon and trying to hide from the darkness ..but nearly everyone has their peak of success andthere is no where left to run .

find you happiness and what bring you joy first ..then build a life that supports that .. trying to make a bunch of money then spending it to make yourself happy.. can lead to some self destructive habits

monkey, the world is changing fast . and there are tens of millions of people awakening ..but it's not the same type of awakening as has been going on with the masters for thousands of years .

A not to long ago we stopped killing the teachers of this stuff..india was the only place that they allowed these teachers to teach without eventually killing them .

and B .. Awakening is no longer about acending/ leaving the body and never being human again .. it is now about learning to better live in the body and having a great life ..so there is really no need to take on a holier than thou persona ..just enjoy life in ways that do not harm you or others and serve as an example for others .

the current imbalance in the Us is based of the economy and the way it has been grown for the past 200 years ..happy healthy people are not very profitable ..

also depression and bi polar disorder are traditional the first steps to awakening ..but the use of medications tend to supplant the self discovery process .

Our world is so severely out of whack! People's focus is far too often on making money to be happy. When will people learn that money really does not buy happiness. It can buy you distractions from the things that haunt you and make you unhappy. We all need to learn to stop and take a look inside ourselves. We all have talents and can accomplish great things if we allow ourselves to. We need to stop thinking that one person cannot change the world. Because if we all start changing ourselves in our own little world to be happier, more loving, appreciative of the world around us we will be changing the world one person at a time, even if it is just our own world.

The next great evolution will be an evolution of the mind, the way we think.

monkey,

one of the things that has to change is the seeming perception that it is ok for bad people to get rich doing bad thing..because they will get punished some how .

but when people who do good thing try to make money from them..it is seen as dirty and that people who do good thing prove they really are good people by staying poor ..

it makes me want to choke people when i run into that ..because there are a lot of people who are doing good things ..but are not getting paid what they should and there even more who could be doing good thing ..but are chasing money in other areas .

do you see this too where you deal with people ?

Another thing I would say before changing the subject is expect your miracle NOW. Because miracles are happening NOW! It's very wrong to think well this guy can do it. But little old me, I will have to wait 30 years. That's what that other guy said.

Very wrong to think like that. That's why I don't like this topic of 30 years. Because I am not saying it's going to take that long for the rest of humanity to catch up and create their paradise. Because millions of people are making huge advancements NOW! The energy momentum is such that if you start now, you can make huge advancements immediately! Maybe this year! Maybe this month! That is the huge energy momentum right now!

Humans have been making themselves victims and little ol me's for far too long! RIGHT NOW is the time of miracles! I feel that very strongly! Your miracle can happen today, this moment!

You are not little ol me, regardless of what you've gone through in the past! I have gone through a ton of garbage! You are a spark of the most high! A child of the Infinite Consciousness! Anyone can call on the Higher Power NOW! It's your birthright to do that! So now I will get off my lecture mode. But I had to say that and make that point clear! Exercise your FAITH NOW! Do not put it off even one day into the future! The point of power is NOW!

Stay in the present moment. Expect miracles! Keep a gratitude journal!

all i know .. is right know i am in a poor farming area of the Philippines. living in a nice little comfy house , while chatting with you through these forums whil you are in India. and Dain is in canada ..and people on these forums from all over the world ..able to talk about our different view of things .

and this is becoming more comon for all of humanity ..or will become more and more common .

and going into the future many of the thing that put and kept people asleep are disappearing..

so not only are tens of millions going to awaken ..but the conditions that caused all of humanity to be in this state are being removed ..slowly

those who awaken first and now need to create there lives they way they want them to show those wo awaken later what can be done ..

The person who voted don't agree, I would sure like to know their opinion! But they didn't leave any.

Ok, now I know what you're saying Odahh, regarding bad people get rich doing bad things. You're talking about the banksters and the monopolists. They buy up all the politicians and turn all the laws in their favor. So nothing is fair. It's like when you play a game of monopoly, you expect everyone to play fair and you expect the banker to play fair. What if one player made a deal with the banker to give him 10x more money and more buying opportunities? That's not a fair game. That's called crony capitalism. You're right. I totally agree. It's the same thing I said earlier. It's all smoke and mirrors. The people for the most part have been dumbed down, kept ignorant and powerless. The only solution is to empower the people and show them the truth. Or at least educate the people who are open to the truth. A lot of people can't handle the truth! Not open to be woken up from their deep slumber as yet.

monkey,

most people happily give their power away..it is not that they are powerless..they just give any power they may have away .. the law of attraction works for everyone .. the masses of people may be trained to act like victims ..but if they are going to act like victim.. others are going to play the part of those perpetrators..

if you remove the people at the top.. even the people no one sees ..the way society has been would cause new people to take their place .. even worse than the ones they replaced .

so the only way for everything to change is for every one to change and not support an oppressive system ..which is wha is happening and we are 5 years into what can be anther two decade of chaos .. or more like 15 years .

personally what i see happening is that we at every level we are handing more of the power of the day to day function of our lives and societies over to computers ..the stock markets are mostly run off high frequency trades ,,foreign exchange markets ..commodities .. soon we will have self driving cars smart houses ..

there will be no need for these big massive governments ..

if you look at the action of many of the most powerful they understand the game has changed and they are getting every last drop that can before the system collapses .

but it is happen both very fast but slow enough .. so that option are becoming afailable for those that fall out of the old system and have life left to live .. while many will pass on before the system is done with them .

there is a lot of bloodshed going on in the middle east that stem from problems that go back hundreds of years or more ..and need to be resolved now or at least in the next two decades ..

the young people of the middle east want what those in the west and much of the rest of the world have.. hospitals , schools , hopping malls music that doesn't have to be about religion ..

anyway ..

the very people who the masses have been giving their ppower .. are now both corrupt and totally incompetent ..or just brutal..

people cannot tolerate incompetence ..some amount of corruption.. but when people feel they are being forgotten by their governments.. they stop giving power to the government .

look at tax revenues in the US

i suppose the system just built itself ..and no one every got anything ..

lets take a very old story ill cut to the part that matter..

after eating the apple .. God find adam and eve hiding .. first thin adam does .. blames eve .. and she passes the buck to the serpent .

bte this all wasn't by accident it wasn't foisted on humanity turning them into some kind of slave race ..

just how will unlimited beings manage when you put them in condition that condition them to be extremely limited ..

just why are humans the most advanced life form on this planet ..the only lifeform thats has very little if no survival instincts when born ..while we are born half developed and completely dependent on others our first several years ...

so yes things are changing fast.. people through the law of attraction are slowly learning to stop passing the buck..and children are being born with a larger instinct set and less need and more resistance to indoctrination

the system was built by human nature other wise it would not show up so often in the history we can find out

so it is changes to human nature many starting just after WW2 and continuing now

yes the secrets where hidden.. but the secrets where also mainly used by those who wanted to dominate others ..

I watched the thrive movie when it first became free .. i remember not liking the tone of it ..

we are not victims of this system.. we created it .. and before we incarnated we knew exactly what the probabilities where ..all of them .. of the life we would have when we incarnated..(again )

all the world is a stage .. and the people merely actors .

i remember thrive being based a lot on free energy and how the oil interests controlled the world..

the problem is cheep fissile fuels just enhanced humans natrual tendencies to be destructive ,, and we are not ready for free unlimited energy.. but we have a vast numbe of sources of energy available we are not using .

humanity tends to weaponize every new invention. so imagine what the world world have been like with tesala'a electric system ..the possibilities of weapons ..

free energy devices will not be available any time soon.. firstly because they are kept secret we do not know the materials that build them.

what we will see is a much different and broader use of different energy sources .. or way to create heat. we have fundamentally barbaric approach to creating and transmitting electricity .. when all the power you need can be harnessed from your body or the area around your body .

wearable computers are around the corner and soon there will be systems that can build a little charge while you move your body . so you can power your mobile devices from your own body ..

so imagine if before we tap into unlimited energy we first eliminate 90 percent of what we use/waste electricity to do .. which if you study permaculture and poly culture and anything the involves multiple uses or a waste free system .

the mindset of the west .. and china and asian cpuntries are not much better . when we eliminate the idea that anything is actually waste .. and we stop accepting process and system that create a lot of waste .. we will fine there is much more than enough for everyone

but human nature and the current system need lots of people suffering to motivate those working to keep working for the system or be plunged into suffering ..

but it is a system built by humans and we take part in willingly..

you went into the I am nation thing .. so i will go back to biblicle stuff.

moses was given the commandments ..and the name of god.. (I am that I am)

and the isrealiets quickly lost track of the arc of the coven and baned people from using the words I am .

if you real the bible not as a book to base a religion on .. but as a history metaphorical recount of how humans gave away their power ..and convinced themselves they where powerless

then the gospels of jesus figuring it out then trying to conceive others at the that had this power but failing misserable and getting executed by the people who where not ready to hear it ..

so i will recount what i have been saying.. There are now both more people ready to accept and work with it .. and because we no longer kill those who teach this more are waking up and teaching .. by example ..

we see the same things happening .. just from different perspectives ..

If there is too much depression to a man, then imbalance is threatening his existence. I believe this is what happened to actor Robbin Williams. Too much imbalance resulting to depression overpowered the fame and glory he has in the entertainment industry. There is a hidden side of his life that only him and his closest friends and family knew.

If someone decides to end their life, it is their choice and it is their right. You mention that Robin Williams was talented and rich. However, it looks as if what is going on in his head was too painful for him to live with. Most people wouldn't allow an animal to live in pain. However, when it comes to people, they seem to have a different attitude.

The other thing a lot of people don't get is that emotional pain is real pain. Most people understand that if someone is in physical pain that they might want to end their life. However, they don't get that emotional pain can be just as unpleasant. They also don't get that there might not be any cure for painful thoughts and memories for some people.

So, the question about society being off balance. My answer is yes. In your post, you mention that he was rich and talented. The implication is that this gives him something to live for. If you are depressed because you are under financial stress because you are in debt, money can help your depression. If you are depressed for any other reason, money will not help and neither will being talented. Many of us are brought up to believe that money or a great job where people will respect us will bring happiness. It won't in the long term. It might bring moments of feeling good when people look up to you. However, deep down, we all know that feeling good because people respect you is superficial. You can have money and lose it and you can have a great job and lose the job.

It's not our fault that things are out of balance. We enter the world and in most societies, we go to school. The first thing you are taught at school is to worry about future events and to almost fear the future - exams and future jobs. We are not taught to live in the present. We are not taught to understand ourselves and figure out what will make us happy in our lives. They teach us that money and a good job will make us happy. Why? Because the big corporations want people to mindlessly and unquestioningly work and to believe that they are doing this for happiness. Our education system is simply a brainwashing system. You need language skills and maths to survive in life. Other than that, the human being is capable of finding what interests them for themselves. It doesn't help that the people you instinctively trust most, your parents, have already been brainwashed by society.

I think if we lived naturally in terms of balance, we would all be happier. Cave people had a lot more time to relax than anyone today. Society has evolved into something that biologically, we have not evolved into. Our genes are similar to the cave person but our environment is completely different.
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"The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment." In a talk equal parts eloquent and devastating, writer Andrew Solomon takes you to the darkest corners of his mind during the years he battled depression. That led him to an eye-opening journey across the world to interview others with depression — only to discover that, to his surprise, the more he talked, the more people wanted to tell their own stories.

Interesting video. I would agree that the opposite of depression might not be happiness. However, loss of vitality is a symptom of a lot of things, including just about every illness. The main symptom of depression is supposed to be loss of interest or pleasure in things that you might usually feel interested in.

What was interesting was that the video game that the Andrew Solomon spoke about shooting the monsters. He said that the depressed people were more accurate in how many monsters they shot. The non-depressed people were overly optimistic.

So, who is to say that depressed people haven't also got it right when it comes to their perception of the world. Perhaps the world is a bleak place.

Yes, everything is out of alignment. Our government and economies are broken systems. We need to look back to our roots, and combine the old (& I mean way back) ways of thinking with our new knowledge and understanding of the world/universe around us.

I have joined the GiftEconomy movement which is heavily taking positive action to help get the human race back into alignment. GiftEconomy.ca if you want to know more.