The question as it is posed; I know I'm not the best person in the world, but why do bad things keep happening in my life? It seem like I just get over one crisis and another one occurs.
I wanted to address this question in light of the fact that many people not only seem to have an occasional unfortunate incident in their lives, but reoccurring negative events.
It is hard to convince someone that they are creating the events that they consider negative because who in their right mind would punish themselves in this way.
I have other material in this site that deals with the creative process so I am not going to go into a lot of detail to explain it other than to say that emotion, idea, desire and expectation are the propellants that forces a breakthrough of thought into physical matter.
Of course, you don't know that at this time, otherwise you would not be experiencing your life in this earth/world system.
That is the main lesson of "earth" experience, is to finally learn that you are the creators of not only your personal reality but also the mass reality of the world in co-operation with all other consciousness.
Co-operation is one of the main attributes of consciousness as it joins with other consciousness to form and maintain a cohesive reality that all can agree upon and experience.
I realize that it is almost inconceivable that you could have reached this point in your evolution and not realize that you are actually responsible for everything that occurs within your reality.
No god imposes anything on you, so you can only blame yourself if your life isn't what you would like it to be.
You planned it, you created it and there are quite valid reasons why your life is as it is.
There is some good news here and that is that if you really do create your life and its events as I have been saying all along, then you can change it.
That is the lesson you are to learn, and that is to create responsibly and do no harm to others.
You are not held hostage to what may be unfortunate events in your life that seem to be some sort of karmic payback from a previous life.
You cannot blame some imagined god who has nothing better to do than hang around on a cloud, scrutinizing his subjects in order to judge and punish them for their sins.
You can't even blame your neighbor with the loud barking dog and you can't blame your inconsiderate boss for firing you.
The universe is built upon the premise of change, and if the universe can change, can you not change too? Nothing stays as it is, and if you can agree that change is inevitable, then all you have to do is steer the coming changes into more favorable channels in your life.
The processes involved in consciousness thrusting subjective thought into objective objects and events is as natural as it is for the physical body to breathe.
In a way this exuding of reality by your inner self in response to physical stimuli can never be diminished in the same way you cannot hold your breath for very long without expiring.
All consciousness naturally emits non-physical electro magnetic particles that eventually gather enough impetus, attracting others of like characteristics, swarming and then coagulating to form energy gestalts and then to break thorough the barrier from the unseen into the arena of physical materializations.
It is here where there is much misunderstanding because this process is neutral and it works to form what you would call both good and bad events and it does not judge.
You create your reality whether you know it or not and you are doing it in every aspect of your life day and night.
If you are already doing it automatically, you might then ask, what is the point in learning how to do something you already know how to do? And here is the answer; you are learning how to discriminate and create exactly what you want instead of taking it "pot luck", thereby enhancing every aspect of your life immeasurably.
You are learning to be a conscious creator and get what you want instead of bouncing off the wall from one calamity to another.
Everyday happenings in your life follow certain rules of this automatic creative process, which you have little control over at this time, but you can learn to gain control.
Your physical reality that includes everything around you, your house, your car, your health, your natural environment, your graduations, friends, marriages, bodily health, your successes and failures are the result of this creative process carried out by yourself and your contemporaries.
There is nothing that you can perceive that you do not have your part in the creative process.
The problem is that if you don't know that you are creating your reality, this process gets out of hand, runs wild and sometimes instead of getting what YOU want and create, you are influenced by and accept the beliefs of others and then they get what they want of YOU.
When you don't take assertive charge of your own life and create what YOU want, then there are countless others that will gladly create what they want in your life.
In a sense you are then abdicating this responsibility to others.
These people are called doctors, clergy, scientists, drug companies and used car salesmen.
Now this is not as funny as it may seem, because of one thing or another, some people have learned how to project their beliefs to change and manipulate your beliefs and the beliefs of others, either consciously or unconsciously and for this reason, they can seem to be quite successful in life.
The first thing you need to do is begin the task of creating your reality for your benefit and in that way it will also benefit others.
What does this give you? It gives you control.
Does your life sometimes seem like it is spinning out of control, and everything that is happening to you is bad? It doesn't have to be that way if you are willing to take responsibility for your life.
You have been given the gift of the gods, in that you are a creator of your world and your environment, and you don't even know it.
You live forever, and you don't know that either.
First of all, nothing happens TO you, everything happens BY you.
You created all events in your life, both good and bad, from your perspective, but at this stage of your development, it seems like you have no control over the events in your life.
Fortunately for you, this is not the case.
Your immediate environment is a result of unknown processes that bring about an exterior representation in physical reality of inner state of your being.
In other words, your inner reality is projected outward perfectly mirroring your inner state of psychic health.
If your everyday life is not satisfactory, then you must look inward to find the reason.
The concept is almost too simple in the telling, but it is true that a balanced, sympathetic, inner state of being achieves a harmonious state of equilibrium projected outward into a healthy and value fulfilled life.
Reality is a result of inner manipulations of consciousness, it is a feedback system and by observing and contemplating the relative successes and failures in your life, you can get a good picture of your inner state of being.
You are the one in charge and you are the only one responsible for unfortunate things that seem to happen to you, but you created them just as surely as you created your successes.
The first step is "realization and acceptance", realizing and accepting responsibility for your life and all of its occurrences.
You cannot blame some unknown force like "bad luck", or the act of some capricious god figure, punishing you for past indiscretions.
Here is the attitude you need to begin; "I created it, I'm responsible, I am going to learn from it and begin this very instant to create it better next time.
" Remember YOU ARE IN CONTROL and you must learn to channel your positive thoughts into beneficial results.
Objects and events are the result of consciously directed energy, and under ideal circumstances, that energy flows freely, unobstructed by false and distorted beliefs.
Energy that meets with impediments, blockages and obstructions will always produce less than perfect materialized constructions and events, meaning that the feedback system must present you with evidence that you need to make changes in your belief system.
Illness is one of these feedback icons that will usually let you know that something is wrong psychically.
You must remember that BAD EVENTS are bellwethers of inner problems, they are the "canary in the coal mine", meant to alert you to inner inconsistencies and blockages of the free flow of energy.
This energy will always try to replicate as nearly as possible, your inner psychological state and project it into the three dimensional physical realm.
If your inner thoughts and beliefs are distorted, unhealthy or false, your every day exterior reality will be likewise and negative events will keep happening in your life.
So there is no confusion here, let me give you a few examples of the type of beliefs that could trigger bad events in your life, but I want to make clear first that religion does not play into this scenario at all and an atheist can be as proficient in creating beneficial, positive, GOOD events in their lives as the most pious Pope seated on a golden throne in Rome.
The creation of reality is not arbitrary; it follows certain rules equally for the pious or the pompous.
A belief that life is pointless and has no meaning, that despite all of your hard work, in the end you will die and your personality will be annihilated can be detrimental.
A belief that others are usually wrong and you are always right and you have trouble tolerating others actions can cause you problems.
Harboring bad feelings about others, perpetuating hate of anything, believing that the body is flawed and less than perfect, all of these can cause negative events to materialize.
I know I am being redundant here, but this is important that you understand this one rule, a rule by the way that permeates your universe, and that one rule is this, you get what you concentrate on, colored and tinted by your inner feelings.
You can concentrate on wealth, but if inwardly you believe that wealth corrupts, you will get un-wealthy.
You can concentrate on health, but inwardly if you believe that the body is inherently flawed and vulnerable, born in sin, you will get unhealthy.
Basically, if your inner belief system is distorted, you will be planting the seeds for future events in barren soil and they cannot grow and form beneficial events in your life.
Now, I know this is a gross oversimplification, but usually, and I emphasize the word usually, good things seem to happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people.
Of course this statement is inverted and meaningless because good events are created by people who have learned to react well and expect good events and bad events are created by people expecting less than good in their life.
Another general rule is that EXPECTATIONS RULE, if you don't expect it, don't expect it.
The terms good and bad in this description are arbitrary for sure, but generally, if you are in harmony with yourself, your contemporaries and your environment, your belief system will be in a natural state of equilibrium, the energy flow will be unobstructed by false beliefs, and bad events will be few and far between.
Also in this process, like definitely attracts like, and once you get the hang of it, just one good thing in your life will begin to attract other like good things.
Of course, you will find all of this hard to believe as long as you consider yourself separate from your contemporaries, your environment and its objects and events.
The ego loves its independence, so it blocks out much valid information that would alert you to the connection between you and your environment and as long as you believe you are totally independent from all that surrounds you, you will tend to believe that you have little control over your life.
Consciousness is above all co-operative and the statement "we are all in this together", all including both the seen and unseen, is very true indeed.
Your scientists know that elementary particles react differently when they are being observed, so why is it such a stretch to understand that there is an unseen connection between the perceiver and the perceived.
I know my scientist friend that comments occasionally will find this statement outrageous and scandalous, but I can tell you that you are connected in this complex, unseen web of consciousness to the most distant star in your universe and there is no empty space in between.
What you interpret as space is an illusion and is created by a lack of perception.
We will discuss this invisible connection soon.