Blog #69: Jinx: Correcting Incorrect Assumptions

I shared numerous nuggets of wisdom in my book “It’s a Secret, So Pass It On: a Toolbox For Life.” In most cases, I have expanded on those topics or provided new information in my blogs.

However, there is a subject I feel needs repeating since so many people misunderstand it. Even if a million copies of my books are sold, it may still take a century or more before a majority of humans understand and accept it. I hope to speed up the process.

We often assume we can jinx ourselves or others, causing bad luck. While the word hex is considered a synonym for jinx, I wish to distinguish between the two. A hex is a negative prophecy of future events designed intentionally to cause harm to someone else, while a jinx is some vaguely defined energy which causes bad luck unintentionally.

There may be some truth to the concept of a hex since it is accompanied by an extreme amount of negative energy such as hate or vengeance. Thought forms remain in the environment long after their introduction; extreme negative emotions can be unsettling for those exposed to them. If the subject of a hex believes a curse’s potency, the resulting fear alone can produce harmful side effects.

But the word jinx is often used frivolously to lay blame for an event that is opposite of one’s assumptions or preferences. For example, sports commentators often credit themselves, sometimes quite seriously, when they make a comment that precedes an opposite result. An announcer might brag how good a basketball player is at shooting free throws or comment on a player’s consecutive streak of successes just before he misses a free throw. The announcer then says, “I jinxed him.”

Nothing could be further from the truth. No one has the power to make someone at a distance do poorly, especially by stating the opposite. One could just as easily blame others at the event for the missed free throw, and they’re not the cause either. Even if every fan of the opponent prayed intensely for a miss, or every fan of the shooter prayed for a make, there is no guarantee the player will cooperate. These events are beyond our ability to control.

My mother loved her college’s sports teams and hoped they would do well, but she was convinced she could not watch or listen to their games for fear of jinxing them. She would turn on a game and find her team beginning to do poorly, so she took credit for their failures and stopped tuning in.

Of course, she often saw or heard her teams doing well, but negative memories took precedence in her mind. Thus, the jinx concept made logical sense to her. Of all the people paying attention to the game, somehow her energy alone was responsible for their losses. That is certainly not logical, especially since she wanted them to win.

There is a valid reason why we so often say or do the opposite of what will soon happen, like washing our car just before a rain or carrying an umbrella on days with no rain. There is an explanation why some announcers brag about a player before a mistake or make a negative assumption prior to a success. But we must first understand how our minds work.

Our brains have two opposite aspects. While the two overlap many functions and communicate back and forth, in general each side represents a reverse mirror image of the other. The left brain is the logical, rational, direct, dominant side, and the right brain is the illogical, irrational, indirect, submissive side. The right brain has intuitive and psychic gifts we can utilize if we know how, but they manifest through feelings and images in our minds rather than direct statements.

Our left brains receive a psychic impression or prophetic image coming from the right brain and then state the exact opposite of it. If we listen to an announcer who consistently gets predictions wrong, we can assume the truth requires a reversal of the announcer’s comments. For instance, if a baseball announcer says directly, “He is going to break his slump this time,” rest assured the batter will make an out.

A more right-brained person must still use part of his or her left brain to make a statement, but the resulting statement will be more indirect. For example, a baseball announcer might say, “He has a six-game hitting streak” just before the streak ends. Or he might say, “George has been in an extended slump” just before George breaks out of it with a home run.

My mother had intuitive skills; she tuned into games when she sensed a downturn in her team’s fortunes and then blamed herself for their failure and stopped listening. Announcers sense the future but then distort or reverse it for public consumption.

People who are predominantly right-brained can sense upcoming events accurately most of the time, as long as they have no vested interest in the outcome. The best psychics are usually right-brained. But even when highly accurate about a client’s future, their comments will likely seem vague and confusing because they sense things from an indirect perspective. Thus, they give clues to events but may not provide precise details.

Doubters find it easy to discredit psychics as frauds, when in reality it is often our inability to interpret messages correctly and/or our resistance to hearing about events we don’t want to happen that make understanding difficult. Some psychics are frauds, but others can be highly accurate if we keep an open mind regarding what they share with us.

Possibly the biggest reason of all for why we refuse to consider the viability of psychics or the statements of announcers, others who make statements in our presence or predictive thoughts within our minds, is our ego’s reluctance to admit the future cannot be changed to our favor whenever we wish it. We prefer to believe the future can be molded to give us what we want; admitting the future is predictable disproves our self-interested wish. That is a tough nut to crack for any ego.

So we meander through life misunderstanding our own abilities and potential. We believe either in good luck or bad luck, but we rarely accept that if we have one, we must have both. We credit or blame ourselves for one while looking to credit or blame another for the opposite. We either believe things that are incorrect without question, or we discount truths that don’t fit our preferences. We give ourselves credit for events outside our control or refuse to ask “why” when a little careful thought might reveal the reality of any situation.

Fortunately, at least a few of us care more about finding out the truth of how our minds work and how we fit into our creator’s grand scheme for the universe than perpetuating concepts that have proven repeatedly to have no functional value. The truth is, we are psychic and prophetic. There is no such thing as a jinx. All we must do is learn to recognize truth when we hear or sense it in our minds, and to reverse thoughts that are opposite of reality. It’s easy and kind of fun, once we get the hang of it.

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