Simple Swedish Podcast - #326 - The Backwards Law

Episode Date: May 18, 2026

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Tiena Welcome, welcome, you are to Simple Swedish Podcast. And I will talk

about a little philosophist concept today. I'm about the backwards

law. On what's it will maybe it is the backvended lagen and it

is something like Alan Watts talked about. Interesting, killer, that Alan Watts. So,

and this is something I have taken a deal on the last thing. So I think it would be interesting

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so see we we're going to talk about the backwards law or the backvended lagin' so what is the backwards law so it says that

strife an after a positive uplevance is in itself a negative uplevel so what it means that

to strife after something. Yeah, it means that you that you're to work to upn't something, or you're trying to

get something, I'm, you know, you're, you know, you're, you know, energy, you know, and you're for,

to upnour something, or to find something. It is to strayva. You're after something. You're trying

get or something, job for to upn't know something. And this strifean after an positive

uplevance is in a negative uplevance. Okay, I can for clarer this here

more. But it says also that acceptance of a negative uplevance

is a positive uplevel So I'm going to So I'll say this Little more So it's also that often so

Strathar we After something positive We strife, to example, after Luka Also, to be Lickly, it It means that

you're glad and Nod with life, I mean, it feels good. You're lucky, it You're, you're

Nried and glad With Sitt So And it is positive, To be happy But,

But, that strife after luck It's the strifean That's a negative

Uplevance For that We Fucucer on That we not are lucky

just now and when we focuser on the bristen also a brist that is

something something that you not something that you want that you have

not not not that is a problem it is a not

not I have to I have not with my I'm a mat,

my kilskope, a tumm't. Then I have a brist on the part of that I have

not too not quite. So when we strife after something and focuser on something

we will have, then we focuser we on that we not have it just

now. We focuser on a brist and so and then then then

of the brist than brist The more we focus on that we not have anything the more we know we that we not have it and that is a negative uplevel so to example

if I know that I have not not enough with money the more I strife after to get more money The more I feel that I will have more Pemgar,

the more strew better than the feeling of that I don't have Pemgar so the this feeling of my brist it will be a negative uprevealce so the this is the

this thing after a positive uplevance that positive uplevance I know that I have much Pemgar I'm a lot, I know me rich. That is a positive uplevance.

But the more I, I like, I, like, I, like, And I'm trying know that's the more

I'm not that I don't know there okay and that is a negative uplevance so that

is the backvenda the and the other the other the other is that

they accept a negative uplevance is a positive uplevance so You also, you know,

to accepter that I not are rich, to example. It is a positive uplevelness. So it is also a of the backwards law, the backwenda law. And we can talk

on, to example, from-gong. the more I I feel that I will have a framegown the more I know me

desperate after fromgong desto more offgrimgrimpsrick I'm my, of an word

or so or if I know, I'm I'm single I'm am, I'm can't me

ensam I know I'm I'm I'm and the more I know

I of friends and the more I strife after to get more friends, the more anson, I'm for that I'm focusing on what I not have.

And, and sometimes, if I accepter that this is the reality just now, it a befriels

and it is a positive uplevance it is a positive uplevacy you are a positive

upbleries so this is a sort of paradox like so say that

I say that I stravar after to get more more I'm saying it's normal that

to example, at will you have more more money, to example. The most maybe know that it should be good with little more

more money. It is normal that you want to have something, you know, so paradoxing is that

if I if I strife after it, so is it a negative so, so,

so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so,

so, strife after something here in life? Is I not to try upnour

something? Shall I not will you have something in life? Are it

that is that is that does that does that you are that you

make that you this so it is a paradox So if I have a situation and I will forbettrable my situation,

also, I don't do that? So, and this is very interesting, I think I, for that I, I have had had uplevelsers in life where I have tried very, very

hard, can you say that you know, that you know, that you know, I'm, you know, that I, I'm really, this for

to accepter the life. So I accepter not as, as it is just now, but I We have this for to accepter

life. And you're and you're, you, and you're trying, and, and, and,

and it can't, you can't be able, or not, but it can't always always very good.

But, when when you accepter the life as it is, You can still

will you have things and you can still forever and you can try to do things and try to

do things and try upnow things but it is the here that you are that

you're hard you have the desperation and you can accept not the situation

that is you're not accepter not the reality that and it

that I, I think I that is the because

I can I can accept verklhetel that it is accept me

myself as I am I can still want I have

things in life and I but it is when I

actually accept the reality that it is, and then then it, then,

it's very, much, much lesser to get what you want to be that's what you're, it's the paradoxen, when I, like, I, like,

I, like, to have this, oh, I must have this, I must... It's, it's, it's then you actually can be,

so, so, it's like, if I can feel that I actually know that

I have, so must I sluter to know that I must have it.

I must accepter first, that I not have that I and be okay

with it. And then it much better to get it. So it

is this is really interesting. And it is it is like a befriels also when you

know, but I must say I have still far many problem with this I know that I

know that I have that I have to accept to accept all different things in life.

And I have actually a great good life but it doesn't so much about what

you actually have but it It's insistelning, an attitude, so. And I

know always that when when accepter the reality so it will be all thing

much less it. It is that you can, you, you,

you, you, my, smiths instead for motstrums. Okay?

to swimmer with it's, it means it means it's, it's with strummen

so if an flood rinner in a direction so simm not not

not with the but swim with storm or you can also have

a metaphor to to job in upfurs backke upfersbke is an backe

upot that you job, I'm up for backin instead for ned for backen.

So you can try to work in nefer's backe. I'm, I come

to think, on think, on my favorite citat, actually. I don't if it

has a much to do with just this but one of my favorite citat

are is, take the hand that nature gave you and played as your own. What say you? So, say you on the Swedish. Also, take hand the nature gave you and play it as your own.

It can't relateer to this that you must accepter the world that it is, and the more you can do it and, and not to feel, that you know, that you have something else for

to accepter things that are the stollettar it will be to actually get the things. But it's

like a catch 22 and moment 22 is that you're to have it, but for to get

it, but for to not know that you want to that you so much and then

can you get it. So tell yeah what you think about this

so comment this this this If you are a medlen on Simple Swedish Centre, then you can you commenter all offsnit and discusser.

So do it. I'm really newfiken on what you think and think about this. So, yeah, it was that. Hopas,

it was a cool offsnit to listen on. So, we'll soon.