Earlier today, someone posted a comment that I deleted because I felt it was in the wrong place. Nonetheless, I want to preserve and share it.

I think there is wisdom in it, as long as its wisdom is applied with intelligence rather than dogmatism. Bluntly: sometimes, complaint is appropriate. As a habit or way of life, it is toxic.

“Complaining is an unconscious mindset in which one makes oneself the central victim within one’s own drama.

Every time one complains, outwardly or internally, one effectively dis-empowers oneself.

The repressive nature tends to complain inwardly, taking a pessimistic view of life whereas the reactive nature tends towards finding a specific external target to blame.

When one gets caught in the frequency of complaining, one is caught in the net of the drama of life — the ‘maya’. The energy of the complaint itself serves to strengthen the illusion that life is so very hard.

Apart from reinforcing itself in this way, complaining also causes sustained general wear on our physical organism.

Freedom occurs when we see through our deepest unconscious patterns to the heart of this energetic conundrum.”

— Aksel Asap Lefthook-dickinson