Positivity: Build Peace

Positivity is a key to peace.

Chaos, disorder, negativity are the weapons terrorists employ. They work to make us fear those who are different from us, to change who we are and what we do, they use terror and fear to sew doubt, discord and disharmony in the world.

Peace is possible. When we think, feel and take inspired action to create positivity we keep the fear and terror at bay, and as such we build for ourselves a better world.

We cannot allow the horrid things of a few fanatical whackjobs dictate policy and color our attitudes towards a larger group of people. We cannot let the hatemongers and warmongers run society. We have the ability to do better than this, and we can choose to make a better world for ourselves as such.

It can be very hard to find positivity in the face of almost overwhelming bad news. Natural disasters, horrific inhuman attacks on innocent people, people using these awful things to attempt political gain make us feel angry, sad, bitter, disconnected. How can we possibly find positivity in this?

We are here. We are alive, we have opportunities all around us. We have the chance to take the negative feelings we have and turn them around, find the things that make us feel positive. We can use attitude shifters and creativity and mood changers and gratitude amongst the endless tools available to us to rebuild positivity.

It is ok to feel these negative emotions towards the bad things we are aware of. But we have to choose if we want to be dominated by and languish in the negative or try instead to create positivity and work to improve our own lots.

It starts with each of us, on our own. It starts from within. I am the only person who can take the responsibility for how I feel, and I alone can choose to find things that make me feel positive. I can find things that will turn my mindset away from being focused on what I do not want and what makes me sad to what I do want and what makes me happy.

When we let hatred and fear and anger dominate our attitudes, no matter the scale, we only get more of these things. We have to seek out love and assurance and joy to be our dominant attitudes, and in the face of negativity this is particularly challenging. But we are all up to that challenge, and we each and every one of us can choose positivity.

Just like negative begets negative, and positive begets positive, war begets war and peace begets peace. The negative forces want us to react to them negatively, because then they are empowered. We ultimately have to choose if we really want to give them that power, or if we are better off empowering ourselves. Finding and creating positivity is one of the paths to peace.

Finding positivity is not hard, it just requires action. Knowing that positivity is an element of peace, we can use it to build a better world, and to disempower the hatemongers. When we choose to react with positivity instead of negativity 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 ninety-fourth 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.