What if I am Just Not Feeling It?

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I’m doing all that I can, but I am just not feeling it.

For more than four-and-a-half years, I have written about Positivity here, every week, without fail. Over the past week a number of happenings have left me feeling mostly angry, sad, and not positive.

A madman shot up a synagogue, and the unsympathetic President blamed the victims. Another madman sent out bombs to prominent opponents of the President, but since they are his opponents, it’s no big deal far as he’s concerned. There was yet another madman who murdered two people because of the color of their skin. This level of hate and negativity is really overwhelming.

Find positivity? I am just not feeling it.

On a more personal front, there are loved ones of friends and family in pain and dying, and I am feeling for all of them. The anger, sadness, frustration, and helplessness of this is also contributing to how I am not feeling it.

I know that it is impossible to feel positive all the time. We’re human. Things will happen that will cause us to wind up not feeling it, and rather than find and hold onto positivity, we are going to be overwhelmed by negativity.

This is not something we can avoid, and as a part of the human condition, it’s not something we can, or frankly should, deny. It’s going to happen.

What’s important, however, is to acknowledge it, and not let it linger for too long. Be mad, sad, frustrated, hurt, and so forth. But don’t actively draw more to you…and don’t berate yourself when you do.

Am I the only one who does that? When I am not feeling it, and don’t live up to my ideals? I am guessing no. But if so…I need to quit that.

It’s ok if I am just not feeling it.

Plain and simple, it’s ok to be feeling this way. But so long as I recognize it, I can work to release it and move past it. That is one of the most amazing things about us human beings that there is. We are totally capable of shifting our feelings.

Just not feeling it There is a great deal of complexity associated with our feelings. Because of this, we are capable of changing our emotional state. So while it’s completely normal to feel negative emotions, we get to choose for how long we will hold onto them.

So maybe I am not feeling it right now…but that is ok. I need to accept it, not feel that I am failing because of it. Take a deep breath, and move past it.

This is me not being defeated by forces I cannot control overpowering those I can. I can accept it, then move past it.

Finding positivity is not hard, but it does require action.

Knowing that it is alright if I am just not feeling it, I can allow for it, and not get annoyed with myself for letting it happen. When we allow ourselves to experience the negative feelings we will have, we also give ourselves the chance to change them, and from that we empower ourselves. When we feel empowered, we often spread that feeling to others around us, and as such can build more positive feelings. We can use the positive feelings this generates to dissolve negative feelings. When we take away negative feelings, we open up space to let in positive feelings, and that is something we can be grateful for. Gratitude leads to happiness. Happiness is the ultimate positive attitude. Positive attitude begets positive energy, and that is always a good thing.

This is the two-hundred and forty-seventh entry of my Positivity series. It is my hope these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, re-blog and spread the positivity.

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