I’m back in Loveland, Colorado. After over a month on the roade, I’m back at the Rocky Mountains High. What a good feeling.
I told you a few days ago that I’ve been camping in a beautiful forest in Pennsylvania for the last couple of weeks. But I didn’t tell you about the highpoint of the trip.
I was greeted by a real black bear!
Every once in a while on these camping trips, we see a bear from a distance. But never have I been so close that I could almost touch him.
I was walking alone pretty deep in the woods when he came galloping towards me. He obviously didn’t notice me till he was around 30 feet away from me. When he did, he completely stopped and looked me straight in the eyes.
Let me tell you something about black bears. They look so real, they almost do not fit into their surroundings. Remember the old 50’s movies. The background was often pasted in in such an obvious way that the characters didn’t really fit in there.
It was a little bit like that with the bear. He was more real than the trees around him. I know this doesn’t really make any sense but that’s the only way I can describe it. His black shiny fur was darker than anything I’ve ever seen before. Darker than a night.
So what do you do when you’re faced with a 560 pound black bear?
Well, as you may have surmised, I was fascinated, not scared. Black bears are not dangerous at all, unless you threaten them. So what did I do?
The same as I do when greeted by a good friend. I said “Hi, how is it going!”
The bear looked at me for about a minute and then galloped away. Didn’t say a word 
End of story… almost end of story!
When flying back to Colorado today, I began to think about this experience. And as I thought about it, a new idea crossed my mind. An idea that could maybe help eliminate worries and depression and also insomnia.
I’ve been studying these conditions a lot throughout the years. They are of course closely related to many of the issues I address in my health guides, such as snoring and sleep apnea, TMJ and bruxing, stress and hypertension and other conditions.
Those of you that have read some of my posts and used my programs know how much believe I’ve in positive thinking. And how the mind creates either positive or negative health flow in the body.
Your body, for example, takes in and processes many times the amount of oxygen when you think positively versus negatively. This is one of the key factor in curing Fibromyalgia.
Anyway, the idea I got to day is totally different from any positive thinking exercise or visualization method I’ve ever heard of before. It forces the BODY into a positive flow, which then changes the mindset. Hard to explain, especially since I haven’t really understood it completely myself.
But if it becomes a reality, it could drastically change how people deal with depression, worries and the tension that keeps millions of people up all night, every night.
You’re at the grass roots.
I’ve never shared an idea at such an early stage before. It’s only because of the positive vibrations I’ve felt from everybody reading this blog that I’m mentioning it so early. I would love to hear where YOU would like me to focus this method on. Please comment below.
Plus… have you ever seen a bear?
Warm regards,
Christian Goodman
Hi Ms. Goodman
I have never seen a bear before and I pray that I never do. He probably would have torn me from Philly to Mississippi. I am glad that you had a great trip. I wish I could just pick up and go on any trip I want to. The first place I would go to is the mountain. I hope I don’t see any bears though. I am still battling with my tmj. This is a hard thing for me to kick. Sometime it hurt so bad I can not even do the exercise. But I will try harder to do them and pray that I will get better. Prayfully yours.
Christian,
I live near Denver, Colorado and have seen black bears many times while hiking in the Rocky mountains. They never threatened me in the slightest way. I just stop and wait for them to move on. I once came around a tree and almost walked into a very large black bear. Within one second it started running downhill at full speed and disappeared into the forest.
Ira
Hi Christian,
Haven’t seen any bears in person, except for zoo bears, but I can imagine that it is an electrifying event when it happens in the wild.
I am quite interested in your thoughts about creating a positive mindset by forcing the body into a positive flow. I could definitely use such a technique. I have been working within myself to change my internal landscape into a more loving and positive state. The main method I am using is the Hawaiian technique called Ho’oponopono. Part of which involves repeatedly saying to yourself “I love you”. The idea is to do this under any and all circumstances and it will not only cleanse your own internal environment but also can have profound and wide reaching effects on the external environment.
If you would like to purpose some experimentation, I would love to hear about it and participate, if possible.
Ken
Hi I love the story about the bear, I think I would be scared, but hope that I could be as calm as you.
I need positive thinking, I suffer from TMJ and PET, PET is patulous eustachian tube which means it stays open and causes autophony which is your voice amplified in your head, this stops you from wanting to talk, it’s very psycologically damaging.. The worse it is the more negative you feel and then the worse it gets… I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on positive thinking.. I have downloaded the TMJ ebook and will start the excersised soon.. Thanks
Nicky
hi christian,
love your blogs and passion, i was bedridden for several years because of tmj and other inflammation disorders. today my tmj pain is very rare and i have begun working again after years of constant agony i cured myself. i want to talk to phyllis m. lowe. i want to help her. see if you can get her to email me. paulneedsafriend@gmail.com .. you can also contact me if you want.
thanks paul
I’m tempted to order your book of exercises for the above condition. I have suffered since my son was diagnosed at 2 with cancer of his bladder. He died last year after a year on treatment, when he relapsed after 9 years in remission.
My condition continues and sometimes it is almost too much to take on top of my grief for my only child.
Please advise me I’m desparate.
I’m sure we saw a black bear in Canada, although when we went back no sign of him he didn’t want to be disturbed. We had three weeks in the rockies with Jack when he went into remission when he was three. We loved it and so did he
SORRY MY PROBLEM WAS MYOFACIAL DYSFUNCTION