The Ghetto of Mental and Emotional Attitudes

It is very easy to become a victim of mental and emotional attitudes that can have serious ramifications on one’s life. The desires for companionship, love and financial abundance can be hidden traps that lead one into unwanted stress as well as financial difficulty.

There are other pitfalls that effectively imprison one in this ghetto. The longer one is embroiled these negative mental and emotional attitudes, the easier it becomes to accept defeat and just become mentally and emotionally stagnant.

Our commercial system has become very impersonal and cold. It has become a system based on numbers and the law of the 1% to 5% making a purchase predicated on the appeal of the marketer. The greater the exposure the greater your sales will be regardless of the quality of your product.

One can but wonder when the breaking point of this impersonal and cold approach to the commercial enterprise will no longer be effective. It is this author’s feeling that this prevailing business attitude only serves to demoralize the public to a greater degree. And, thus, more people find themselves deeper in their negative mental and emotional attitudes.

This law of numbers also impacts the funding of medical and psychiatric programs as well. It costs less and it is easier and quicker to treat the symptoms of the disorder or disease rather than take the time and make the effort to effectively treat its cause. This is another way people are manipulated and held imprisoned in their mental and emotional attitudes.

Stated another way, it has been reported that many of the rehabilitation programs are designed to “keep the lid on the client’s behavior” rather than providing the support and encouragement they need to return to the mainstream of life. Many so-called advocacy organizations work in the short term, never daring to jeopardize their funding by pursuing the big picture, the their client’s dream.

When one thinks about it, whether going to the doctor’s office, the outpatient clinic, or the psychiatrist’s office, one is surrounded by others with similar disorders. Who was it that said ”Misery loves company.” This is certainly the place for plenty of company.

This becomes a comfortable place of refuge, friendships are made, there’s no challenge, and one will finds over time that they become nervous about venturing into mainstream activities, like interviewing for a job, or going back to their club. The longer one stays here, entrapped inside the ghetto of their negative mental and emotional attitudes, the harder it is to break out. Confidence disappears. People share stories of being victimized and discriminated against and this supports the growing sense that it’s too hard ‘out there’. One concludes they should stay right where they are.

Breaking out of any ghetto, whether it be one of financial poverty or of negative mental and emotional attitudes, takes courage and determination. It begins with accepting the responsibility to change your negative mental and emotional attitudes to ones that are positive. It requires identifying and discarding old beliefs that impede your path to balance and the peace of inner happiness.

You have this power to change your life by changing you mental and emotional attitudes. There are many free tools available on the Internet that will provide you with a good start on this path. Get motivated and take advantage of them.

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