Positive and Negative
Every opportunity to be negative is also an opportunity to be positive. An opportunity to be fearful is also a chance to show courage. An opportunity to show prejudice is also a chance to show tolerance. A chance to become angry is also an opportunity to be forgiving. To a large extent, we decide which it will be.
It's easy to be negative. The negative response is usually automatic if we just let everything happen. It takes a little effort on our part to respond positively to these situations, but when we make that effort, it than become easier in the future to respond positively until eventually, the positive response become the automatic one.
So why should you respond positively? There are several reasons:
It's easy to be negative. The negative response is usually automatic if we just let everything happen. It takes a little effort on our part to respond positively to these situations, but when we make that effort, it than become easier in the future to respond positively until eventually, the positive response become the automatic one.
So why should you respond positively? There are several reasons:
- When you are positive, people will respond to you in a more positive way
- Negative emotions increase blood pressure and damage the immune system resulting in health problems
- When you send negative energy to others they will often send negative energy back and that can be harmful also
- Emotions can effect your energy centers and, if you want to develop spiritually, you want them to have a strong positive charge.
I can personally say this is true and understanding this can literally change your life. I was brought up around a lot of negativity so thought that was normal, how you talked, acted and did things. I was always ready for a fight or a reason to complain...and I was always miserable. I had never been taught or shown other ways. Life felt heavy and difficult and painful all the time. I was loud, demanding and rude and got the same in return. Then back about 10 years ago I went through a very painful and shocking divorce that caused me to loose not only my husband but also my house, my friends, my planned early retirement, my lifestyle etc. The rug was pulled out from under me, my life was devastated, I was hurt, traumatized, alone, scared etc. I also almost lost my business but with your help pulled that through. I first went into survival mode and worked all the time as to not feel anything. But as time went by and I started to feel a sense of safety again and started to live again I looked at what happened and instead of blame I saw the truth. I saw that my negative attitude brought negativity to me, I attracted it like a magnet. I created what happened, I wasn't a victim, I was the cause. Not a pretty thing to admit to yourself. It was the beginning of a changed life and a new me. I spent a few years alone discovering who I am underneath the negativity that I was brought up with. I discovered myself and I learned that having a positive behavior, outlook and attitude will attract positive to you. I worked hard on myself, healing the pain, transforming the negativity and learning to look for the positive in things. I immediately saw the difference in how people respond to the loving positive attitude and how different everything in my life was becoming. I didn't feel stressed and angry all the time. I learned to relax and not worry so much and not look for things to complain or fight about. We create cycles in everything we do. We all choose to start a negative or positive cycle. I've learned to look at situations with love and peace and it does make a huge difference in how people respond, how I feel and how the situation turns out. Of course you do have to take into consideration how other people involved look at things and sometimes no matter how much love goes into something or someone they are not ready or willing to accept it and you just have to step back and let them go through their own process but even in those cases just stepping back is taking the positive route rather than getting caught up in the negative. I am now a different person than I was 10 years ago. Life still gives me challenges but I handle them with much more integrity than I formerly did and go to bed with peace in my heart at night.
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