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    Emma Corcoran
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    So I’ve learnt through reading and experience that out thoughts and vibrations are what attract events into our reality. Therefore, is it possible to make a situation turn out OK by thinking positive only and imagining best outcome?

     

    I know it sounds farfetched in some contexts but when I cast my mind back to a relationship I runied via my jealous outbursts… I think that although I had cause to be a bit jealous, ultimately this person did not intend to hurt me and loved me but my behaviour pushed him and us in a different direction.

     

    The situation I’m dealing with right now does not directly apply to this past jealousy. But the uncontrollable scary anger is the same. But I put a lid on it remembering my past. You are I have been having a very shall we say, light fling with a man who lives in my town, It’s not clear what either of our intentions are, at first I wasn’t sure but I’ve come to like this aspect of our interaction, I am not wanting to jump straight into a familiar relationship territory but rather exploration, in a freedom sense over promiscuity, if that makes sense?

     

    Anyway it led to some funny conversations between us and late night encounters, he’s stayed over once, I think the jist is clear.

     

    But my room mate, is giving off these crude signals that she likes him. Since we met she has commented on his handsomeness, but always countering it with some joke or rude comment about his personality. I didn’t really take her seriously. I am only getting tonknow her as we have lived together, she made a good first impression but as she is a bit younger, she acts immaturily and selfishly sometimes, such as playing loud music and partying in the middle of the night even when I am working the next morning. Her behaviour has been a mix overall of insanely annoying, mean-spirited and at same time coupled with kindness and joy. I am used to having to adapt to different people and personalities, so I didnt get too angry about it before. I hold the view that getting angry allows a situation to take hold of you. Butbi has been frustrating because sometimes she’s like a good friend and other times she’s not. But this is a simple fact of living with someone, I think…

     

    She had this boyfriend, ended it with him and then slept with two of his friends. Since all 3 off these men have cooled off her she mentions the guy I have been hanging out with, asking me about him and telling me about times she has ran into him in the street. As far as I know they hardly know each other. But it’s making me anxious she is doing this. It’s not even that I wish to take possession of him or thst anything is even going on between them but I’m just angered at the prospect of it. I imagine how I will feel if they do end up together and imagine she would pursue him as she seems tobhave a screwed up moral code. It’s just putting me off what was once a funny little mini fling I had on the side.

     

    Should I get out of this situation entirely and move out, move on or do I completely obliterate all of these negative thoughts and try to go back to how I was thinking before?

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    Dear Emma Corcoran:

    The title of your thread: mind over matter- mind is matter. Our brain is the Matter and Mind (thoughts, emotions) are not possible outside the context of the physical brain.

    Thinking positively and expecting best outcomes does work at times. Not on the long run though. For example, if a non-friendly person acts friendly, smiling, ingratiating, it will attract others to associate with him/her. But once associated, the non-friendly person will find it difficult to keep acting-as-if, to keep acting friendly when the person is not so inclined.

    The “uncontrollable scary anger” you mentioned is scary when you feel it is uncontrollable. We are scared of what we cannot control. Fortunately, it is possible and doable to control the expressions of one’s anger, as you have done successfully.

    Regarding the roommate and fling situation: I am thinking that the light fling, as you called it, as nice as it has been, is not sustainable for you. The possessiveness expressed in your previous relationship (and I do share the sense of possessiveness of a love-object, as most women do, I think)- is in you, leading you to ruminate on the possibility of your roommate and the fling getting together.

    So, the light fling is temporary, already starting to lose its lightness, getting a bit heavy.

    Your thoughts?

    anita

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