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Chapter One Live Reading of: The New Nobles, Book One of: The Biella Series Oct 27 2019

Live reading of Chapter One of: The New Nobles, Book One of: The Biella Series
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Responsibility of Attention

"So what exactly IS happening from your perspective?

23 Ask Biella: - "What is a good example of turning a negative situation into a positive?"

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Positive Failure"What is a good example of turning a negative situation into a positive?"
Dear Ashley, a quote from the Young Man came up as I was thinking about a particularly good example of turning a negative situation into a Positive: (There are so many.)

"If we approach so-called failure or mistakes a little differently we can find persistence, determination, tolerance, patience and forbearance. (To name but a few!) Haha, after a while of this there is no failure, just alternative successes."


At one time, the Young Man and his Heart transitioned to a new business. They did their homework, scrupulously researching the new business. It was connected to another company from which their contracts would mainly come. This company they had checked out by a prestigious and expensive law firm. Doing everything they could in the circumstances, they were impeccable in their diligence.

But, nothing came of the venture. Absolutely nothing. Beyond exceptional, this utter failure of the new business was remarkable. When their existing finances came to an end, they had nothing. Forced out of their offices and where they lived, a re-assessment was needed. They had nothing but their focus on Positivity and their insistence on Learning and Growing.

Looking at the situation "objectively," conventionally, they could have accepted the negativity of the situation. They could have retreated from the path of independence they had chosen. They could have gone back and started all over again, getting jobs and so on. Which in itself is not a negative, but at that time it would have been a retreat, a going back, a giving up on their dreams of independence.
Alternative ObjectivesThe "failure" of their business did not to them mean they had to fail in their quest, their path. This they refused to do. Thus they took the lack of business in stride, insisting that it had to be good in some way. A way they did not yet perceive. They utterly refused to see the oddity of that complete lack of business, the total failure of that business, in normal or negative terms. They were determined to turn it into a Positive.


Their choices were either to turn back on their Path, to give up their dreams, or to take the only option open to them, which was to venture into the unknown. Because they refused to see the business failure as a negative, it kept them open to opportunity, to possibility. At the time, that option meant selling most of their possessions and hiring two guys with a small moving truck for a one-way trip to a remote farm owned by the Young Man's father.

There was no-one there, nothing really except the possibility of continuing on their Path. They refused to even consider that this peculiar opening, their only option that did not mean giving in and giving up, was anything but the way to proceed, that it would be Positive. Positive in ways they could not yet see. But they insisted on Trusting that it would be so.
Embracing The UnknownOff they went into the unknown. They took that one-way trip. It ended up being into the desert, to a deserted and long-abandoned farm. No electricity, no phone, no running water, no nothing. The abandoned farmhouse had its roof blown off, only a thin ceiling still in place.

Here again, they could have seen this as a "failure" of choice. But they were determined to turn that odd business failure into a Positive. This meant that being there in the desert had to be transformed from the apparent negative it seemed to be, into a Gift.

They set about dealing with their new circumstances as best they could. Determined to Make-The-Best-Of-It. Their adventures there in that wonderful desert are too long and many to recount here. After a while of insisting on turning their potentially negative experiences into Positives, they sat down and made a list. They asked themselves: "What have we been forced to Learn." To them, Learning was always Positive. Learning and Growing was their focus and Intent, always phenomenally Positive.
The ListThirty-one profound lessons made their rigorously compiled list. They were rigorous in the making of that list. They focused on lessons which were not only significant, but which had actually changed them. Many in deep and profound ways. Changing them in ways they had not until then realised needed changing. They had not been in circumstances before where those changes were needed.

That list was a big deal, representing the totality of their insistence on applying Positivity and learning. Every item on that list showed a transformation of a negative into a positive. Like dealing with isolation, being alone. Handling the profound silence of the desert was another. Using the ever-present dangers of living there as a Positive for enhancing their Awareness.


Making the list itself was a massive act of Positivity. It brought home to them the fullness of the power of their insistence on turning negatives into Positives, and that this practice of theirs was not really an option, but a necessity, yet a choice nonetheless. The list represented a confirmation of their life-choices, their underlying personal-philosophy and the resulting attitudes and mindsets. Primary among those was the deliberate choice and decision to find the good in everything.

The list was a confirmation. A few days after the making of that profound listing, a miracle happened. At least, in the context it most decidedly seemed so. They were visited. They knew no-one in the area, had no transport. No-one knew they were there. But they received a visitor. Not a random visitor either, but one on a mission to find them. The visitor had been dispatched to make them an offer! An offer to come to a mountaintop game ranch next to the desert valley they were in and set up a restaurant for the guests.
Positivity Out Of NowhereThey accepted. This led to even more wonderful and profound experiences, starting an extended journey of adventure and marvel. A new path which enabled them to continue following their dreams and in a fairly short time enable them to move to an entirely new continent where the continuation of their path awaited. For the Young Man and his Heart, that initial "failure" of that particular business represented a most magical change in their lives. A change which forced them onto a Path which was fantastic in every way. Had that so-called failure not have happened they could easily never have connected with all the magic and wonder which they did.

Always, whatever happens, "failure" is simply a choice of Perspective. If we choose, we can instead simply see it as Change, sometimes forced change, but change nonetheless. The issue is not failure or success, but how we choose to deal with change. That choice is one that's purely determined by our insistence on Unrelenting Positivity.

There are no mistakes, only Gifts-of-Learning.  
Biella

"If we are impeccable, our 'mistakes' invariably turn into Fortuitous Mistakes, leading to incredible Gifts we would not otherwise access." - Eluminia Noble  Nobelia.org - Ask BiellaAsk Biella - Gateway Gazette



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Oct 13 2019 Ch5-6 - Live Book Reading of OUT BS!

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Oct 13 2019 Ch5-6 - Live Book Reading of OUT BS! - Overcoming and Understanding Today's BullSh!t by Elevia DeNobelia and Syl Sabastian. An interactive reading where we read some and respond to questions and comments as they come. The FB Live took place in our Group: Self-Awareness Self-Improvement (SaSi) Self-Discovery Discussion Group on Facebook and on Zoom.


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Oct 6 2019 - A live reading of Out BS!! - Ch4

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Oct 6 2019 - A live reading of Out BS!! - Ch4 - Overcoming and Understanding Today's BullSh!t by Elevia DeNobelia and Syl Sabastian. An interactive reading where we read some and respond to questions and comments as they come. The FB Live took place in our Group: Self-Awareness Self-Improvement (SaSi) Self-Discovery Discussion Group on Facebook and on Zoom.

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2019 09 29 FB Live Book Reading of OUT BS! - End Ch3

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Sep 29 2019 - A live reading of Out BS!! - End Ch3 - Overcoming and Understanding Today's BullSh!t by Elevia DeNobelia and Syl Sabastian. An interactive reading where we read some and respond to questions and comments as they come. The FB Live took place in our Group: Self-Awareness Self-Improvement (SaSi) Self-Discovery Discussion Group on Facebook and on Zoom.



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22 Ask Biella: - "How do we remain positive when so much negativity surrounds us in our world?"

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"How do we remain positive when so much negativity surrounds us in our world?"
Dear Judy, we remain Positive by being realistic. :) Yes, this seems counter-intuitive. But, it's a matter of having an actual real appropriate perspective that takes everything into account.


We need to be fair to the World. Let's take the matter before the Courts of Conscience. Here, in our innermost being, where we have to be utterly honest and accurate, where we have to be scrupulously fair, where we have to balance everything and take all of what's involved into account, here we can come to a determination about our continued Positivity.
First item: Relative AmountsWhen you say "So much negativity" what do you mean exactly? Assuming you mean quantity, we have to enquire if this also applies to percentage. Understanding and being aware of the difference helps us gain Appropriate Perspective. A million Dollars is a lot of money. But, as a percentage of the world's money, it's a small fraction. Just so with negativity. It may be a lot relative to nothing, but it's a tiny amount relative to all the Positivity that exists.
Second item: Attention and AppreciationWhat do we notice? What are you noticing? We notice what stands out, what catches our Attention, we are drawn to the dramatic, the impactful. The negative stands out typically because it's different, unusual, not actually because it is common.

Let's look closely at what surrounds us. If I look around me, I have my house. Starting here, I look at everything. Is there anything negative in my space, about my surroundings, happening in my house? If we exclude people, in general most homes are positive in themselves. It's positive that we have a bed, blankets, we have clothes, we have a bathroom, kitchen, food and so on. Simple things yes, but all Positive.

Nothing about the facts of the existence of our house stands out. It's not dramatic, sensational, and thus we tend to overlook that simple Positivity. Same as we tend to overlook the simple positivity of nature, of life in general. That Positivity is just there. Not dramatic, not sensational, but still there. If we pay more Attention, we connect to the all of life, not just that which stands out. By doing this we connect to Appreciation, which we can use to Leverage our Perspective, allowing us to perceive Positivity and negativity in Appropriate proportion.

Third Item: Proportion

Make a list, an actual list, of everything surrounding you that's Positive. Add absolutely everything you are happy to have in your life, that you are thankful for, that you enjoy, like, and which in some way adds to your life, no matter how small. Start with your immediate surroundings and expand outward. Keep going until you run out of energy. It will be a long long long list.There's an incredible amount of Positivity in the world. We simply have to notice it, pay Attention to it all. That's the key to remaining Positive. Not to ignore or disregard the negativity, but to place it in Appropriate proportion to the Positive. We have to notice what's not particularly noticeable. We have to let go of focusing only on what stands out, what's dramatic. We have to realise it stands out because it is the exception, not the rule. We overlook Positivity because it isn't "newsworthy" or doesn't connect to our fears. We can't let those dominate our Perspective. We have to learn to see ALL of Life. And life itself is Positive. Things as a whole get better, despite temporary appearances to the contrary.
Item Four: TrustWe need also to Trust in Trust. Here I mean Capital T Trust. That Trust which is a power. A Trust that Transcends us, a Trust which connects us to the best of ourselves, a Trust which Leverages the Goodness of the world. We thus have to Trust in Goodness itself. We have to Trust that despite noticeable exceptions, the vast majority of human beings are good, are Positive, and wish to improve the world and all that's in it.

When we actually look around, look at all the people actively working to make the World a better place, making constant efforts to deal with the problems those exceptions create, or just improve because this is a good thing to do, we have much to base our Trust on.

We remain Positive by paying Attention to all the Goodness, by noticing all the Goodness, by keeping the Goodness and Positivity of the world as a whole, of Life in general, in the Forefront of our Awareness. We stay Positive by Leveraging our Perspective, by keeping matters in appropriate proportion, and by Choosing-to-Believe in the Goodness, creativity, ingenuity, and overall intent of people and the World to continually move in in a Positive direction, and to not allow negativity to dominate.

It doesn't really, it only seems so. We just have to make the effort to remember all the Positivity. And really, if we look at the negativity in terms of learning and Awareness, it's good for motivation, good for showing us what we need to deal with, what needs to change, what we need to work on. So even the negativity is Positive in those ways.

We remain Positive by insisting on Positivity and Appreciation. In this way we develop Unrelenting Positivity.

Biella
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2019 09 22 FB Live Book Reading of OUT BS!

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A live reading of Out BS! - Overcoming and Understanding Today's BullSh!t by Elevia DeNobelia and Syl Sabastian. This is an interactive reading where we read some and respond to questions and comments as they come. The FB Live took place in our Group: Self-Awareness Self-Improvement (SaSi) Self-Discovery Discussion Group on Facebook. (With Mary, Rachel, Ryan, Beena. )

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Sep 23 2019 Chapter 3 Cont - FB Live Book Reading of OUT BS!

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Sep 23 2019 - A live reading of Out BS! - Overcoming and Understanding Today's BullSh!t by Elevia DeNobelia and Syl Sabastian. This is an interactive reading where we read some and respond to questions and comments as they come. The FB Live took place in our Group: Self-Awareness Self-Improvement (SaSi) Self-Discovery Discussion Group on Facebook. (With Mary, Donna, Ryan, Beena. )

#OUTBS #Bullshit #Narcissism #BMN #Deceit #Abuse #Lying #Manipulation

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Chapter 3 Cont - FB Live Book Reading of OUT BS!

Youtube Vid: https://youtu.be/ihbrZlOSdIY
A live reading of Out BS! - Overcoming and Understanding Today's BullSh!t by Elevia DeNobelia and Syl Sabastian. This is an interactive reading where we read some and respond to questions and comments as they come. The FB Live took place in our Group: Self-Awareness Self-Improvement (SaSi) Self-Discovery Discussion Group on Facebook. (With Mary, Donna, Ryan, Beena. )

#OUTBS #Bullshit #Narcissism #BMN #Deceit #Abuse #Lying #Manipulation

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