TL;DR: The author argues that media-driven fear distorts reality, but embracing positivity reveals a bright, promising future. Shifting perspective, they say reduces stress, fosters clarity, and aligns with evidence of humanity’s ongoing positive evolution beyond mainstream narratives.
A lot of media-fueled panic is happening. Especially with Liberals. I’m a progressive, just so you know.
But it’s interesting to see how much people on both sides of the spectrum, particularly the extreme edges, have in common.
People on the left are going as bat-shit crazy as those on the right when Obama and then Biden were in office. The only difference is, with the current administration, an EXTREME level of goodness is unfolding. Not because of what Trump is doing, but because of what he triggered.
Without the bigger picture, however, it’s really easy for people to lose themselves in the weeds, feel powerless and, thus, cut themselves off from the joy right in front of them.
And there’s a lot of joy there. I feel it. My clients are increasingly feeling it.
We have two options: One, stop being realistic, which keeps people glued to bad news stories, and embrace positivity. Or two, keep being realistic, which keeps us hooked like a fish to fear, and get cut us off from the joy I assert is there. Embracing positivity, we see the bigger picture. Staying in fear, we lose sight of the promise.
Either option is going to get us to the glorious future I see. The only question is, will we as individuals travel that journey in fear, anger and hate, or in joy, empowerment and eager anticipation?
I choose the latter. Here’s why.
One: It feels better
In seeing the bigger picture I can relax. I don’t, for example, succumb to irrational fears. We’ve seen so many such fears perpetuated by experts. It’s no wonder the right strongly critiques such people. Nuclear annihilation, acid rain, all the bees dying, peak oil, an impermeable ozone layer choking the planet to death…these are some past claims our experts said would doom humanity.
Today, the right has their experts saying Biden and Obama before him would ruin America. Now we have experts on the left saying the same thing about Trump. How long will people keep listening to such people?
I stopped listening to them decades ago. Instead I focus on what I know about where physical reality comes from. Because of that, I feel optimistic about the future. Not simply because I know where reality comes from, but, because I embrace positivity, I can see the bigger picture.
That bigger picture tells me what has always been true: that humanity is eternal, all is well, and the future is bright. Bright in the extreme. Yes, even with Trump doing everything he’s doing.
If you don’t agree with this then fine. You are just like those who thought the world was flat.
Change perspective and see clearly
But when a person chooses positivity they can see the world for what it is. Just like those who discovered that the world was round. Even though humanity thought the world was flat, there was a TON of evidence showing it was not flat. It wasn’t until someone decided to look that humanity saw the bigger picture.
The same is true for what’s happening today. All it takes is lightly changing one’s perspective. Change perspective and suddenly an enormous amount of evidence will prove to you that the world is getting way better than it seems when you’re plunged into the mainstream media. It doesn’t matter if you’re listening to the left wing media or the right. You’re not getting the bigger picture.
For example: Vice President JD Vance recently made the bold face lie that Artificial Intelligence is NOT going to take anyone’s job. He should know better because many people advising President Trump know good and well AI is going to destroy the job-based global economy.
But for those who believe every word said by right wing leaders on media outlets, those people are in for a rude awakening. Because evidence already shows that AI is taking jobs. And AI is getting better every week too. So its path is clear. Jobs are over.
Distorted opinions
Left wing leaders and the media are no better. Last January, the New York Times Podcast, doing a show on the Bitcoin phenomenon, declared a US Federal Bitcoin Reserve to be a “Crypto Bro Pipe Dream.”
First of all, that kind of opinion-ating is not journalism. More important though, opininating has a HUGE influence on how moderates and progressives that read the New York Times and listen to the podcast think about the future and important technologies such as cryptocurrencies.
Cryptocurrencies are far more than just digital money. They underwrite huge projects offering tremendous advantages to us all. Ones that are taking humanity into a future where people don’t have to rely on centralized organizations such as governments, banks and more. Crypto is revolutionizing the world right alongside humanoid robots and AI. It’s not just making some people rich and others broke.
And, by the way, the president did actually create the Federal Bitcoin Reserve through an Executive Order.
But if you swallow mainstream media characterizations like the New York Times’, you come away with opinions like Jody here:
Feeling chill is best
Another benefit of seeing the picture, aka embracing a positive perspective, is you not only feel better about what’s happening, it also allows you to relax. Getting angry and stressed over a future that isn’t even going to happen has serious implications for your health. It also makes you very unpleasant to be around. A client during COVID can attest to this.
He was a rabid anti-government, anti-vaxer. He also believed it his mission to save Americans from the poisons in COVID vaccines. Of course, he consumed all that doom and gloom information offered by fringe online personalities. This was well before he discovered that he creates his reality and that nothing can harm him, or anyone else, unless one is a vibrational match to the harm.
The more stressed he got about people taking vaccines, an interesting thing happened: he became more and more isolated. People stopped wanting to be around him. Then his business started failing. Then he started getting depressed. It’s no surprise he seriously considered suicide and that’s when he turned to Positively Focused for help. That was after he saw his older sister, who also is a client, turn her life around.
The best emotional place to be in today’s world is in a place where you feel chill. In that chilled place you will, just by chilling, draw to you evidence of exactly what I’m talking about in this post. But you have to be sensitive to the evidence so when it shows up, you can see it.
I help people sensitize themselves to seeing the amazing future that’s coming to us. Want to see what I see? Become a client. I offer 1:1 sessions and also a new, affordable approach, with Cohort 001 open now.