Resonance
LXVII — Resonant Affirmations – Introduction
Resonant Affirmations are positive seeds of energy you can plant every day in the landscape of your mind and reap the fruits in your life.
'I'm grateful to love and accept myself the way that I am.'
Imagine a life completely devoid, detached, and absent of any encouragement in oneself. Throughout our lives, we have all faced, to some extent, brief bouts of this deficiency, especially as children.
'You're not good enough to do that. You're too simple to understand it. There's no way you can beat him in the race. She's much prettier than you. You won't have a chance of getting it, so why waste your time.. –' ad infinitum.
There are some young adults, barely beyond the age of twenty, who are completely bereft of confidence; so much so that they don't even have the ability or motivation to go out and get a job. They have absolutely no belief whatsoever in their lives. They've only just begun their existence, and they've already given up on their life, deeming it 'not worth it.'
This is not a criticism of them, but merely an observation, and it will provide a study of what actions and circumstances were the architects of their present state of doom and fear of achieving.
When we are born into this world, we only have two fears: the fear of loud noises and the fear of falling. All other fears are learned. We are completely innocent beings, open to every act of encouragement and every act of discouragement, too. In a perfect world, we can choose to receive only the former and have the latter banished for all eternity. But life is different, and often we don't have a choice, and we have to face the acts imposed on us by others in the past.
On a resonant level, the child, hitherto mentioned, is drilled with negative vibrational energy, which contributes to the erosion of their confidence and the natural belief in themselves. The negative energy travels from the insensitive person delivering the negative vibration through to the child and into their beings, where, if the child is bombarded enough with negative vibrations, the energy becomes an experience, and it takes up its abode in their mind and heart, both on a conscious and on a subconscious level. The result is their self-esteem suffers, their level of motivation is lowered; they don't have the ability to feel inspired, or even dream of achievements beyond their present state, and they exist only the world created by the negative energies of others.
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About Karl Swainston
Karl Swainston is a writer and storyteller whose work is forged from a life lived across the North of England and far beyond. Growing up on a Leeds council estate in the 1960s, Karl's journey was anything but linear. By the age of thirty, he had already lived a dozen lives: from the rigors of grammar school to a degree in Latin, a stint as a fishmonger, a period of discovery living in Marseille, and a return to the hustle of London. Whether working as a postman, a builder, or competing as a county-level chess player, he was, above all, an avid reader—constantly documenting the world around him. This restless spirit continued into his professional life. Karl later taught in Bradford, where he ran a specialist unit for 244 of the most excluded students from across the region—young people whom even the local Pupil Referral Units could not accommodate. Working alongside his old friend Malcolm, Karl spent his days navigating the volatility of Bradford's most aggressive and dysfunctional teenagers. Throughout his life, Karl has been an avid runner and has always shared his home with a rotating cast of beloved dogs and cats—companions who have been constant witnesses to his work. As a writer, Karl's range is as expansive as his history. He works across a wide breadth of genres, including fiction and short stories, autobiography and memoir, biography, non-fiction, and metaphysical writing, as well as providing sharp commentary, opinion, analysis, and essays. Whether writing about his years managing the Harrogate Arms or offering insights from his current adopted home in South East India, where he lives in a simple village with his dog, Bambi, Karl's voice reflects the full, untidy, and deeply human breadth of life. He continues to draw on the rich, decades-long tapestry of his experiences to tell stories that matter, proving that no matter where you live, the human story remains the same.
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