Did You Know That What You Believe – Positive or Negative – Is True?
Positive or negative – what you believe is true.
Even if you don’t buy into the Law of Attraction – like gravity, thermodynamics, and other elements of nature – it still exists and does its work whether you are conscious of it or not.
This is why what you believe is true. At least, from your unique, one-of-a-kind perspective.
Every single person on earth has their own perception of reality. Ergo, we all have unique perspectives on life, the universe, and everything. Even given that, we all tend to hold multiple perspectives. So that means that there are at minimum 8 billion (8,000,000,000) singular perspectives and perceptions.
As Einstein said,
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
This means that reality is how each of us uniquely perceives it. While there are elements we collectively agree on – it’s still an illusion when all is said and done.
That being written – what you believe about yourself, other people, life, the Universe, and everything is true. But that truth is yours and yours alone.
Hooky-spooky mumbo-jumbo? Nope. Quantum physics agrees that this is so.
What does this mean to you and me? It means that we have far more power than we tend to realize or allow ourselves to enjoy and make use of.
But this can also lead down a messy rabbit hole or two.
Toxic attitudes can be both positive and negative
The notion of positivity has gotten used and abused to the point where just the word itself can be triggering for some. Mention positivity, and people automatically tune you out.
Why? Because of toxic positivity. Toxic positivity is abusive in that it neglects, ignores, and disregards negativity or anything else that’s not positive.
Toxic positivity puts on blinders to anything that’s not positive. Which is understandably disconcerting.
The Universe is made of yin and yang. We need the opposites to balance, as almost everything exists somewhere between given extremes. Good/bad, up/down, positive/negative, and so on coexist symbiotically.
Ergo, you must have negativity. Thus, ignoring it, disregarding it, and otherwise turning a blind eye to it serves nobody.
By the same token, toxic negativity is also a thing – and equally as dangerous as toxic positivity.
Toxic negativity is seeing naught but bad, misfortune, garbage, and awfulness in life, the Universe, and everything. It includes presumptions of worst-case scenarios, failure of good, and a general attitude of distress, unfortunate circumstances, and overall negativity towards everything.
We all know people who always see bad before they see good. They presume they’ll lose, be screwed over, and suffer endlessly. Some are more blatant about it than others – but we all know them.
Why are both equally toxic? Because they are the extremes that most of us exist between on the flexible cylinder. That’s where we get to choose which direction to face – positive or negative, good or bad, up or down, etc.
Toxic positivity and negativity exist directly up against their related extreme. That’s not where most people exist in any given reality.
What you believe is true is as you choose
Let me be clear. This isn’t literal. Because belief is seldom completely literal.
Thoughts, feelings, and intentions exist in each of us individually. You are the only one in your head, heart, and soul – just as much as I’m the only one in my head, heart, and soul. Thus, you alone think, feel, and intend for you.
Beliefs are created, maintained, and changed by thoughts, feelings, and intentions. Hence – any belief we have created we believe in – at least, in the abstract.
That’s why old, outdated beliefs still exist deep inside our subconscious long after they cease to serve us.
What do I mean by that? Let’s say, as a child, your parents presented you with constant negative ideas about money. Stuff like money doesn’t grow on trees, wealth doesn’t make good people, we never have enough money, and so on.
On the surface, most of these are rather innocuous.
But when they get drilled into your subconscious – particularly before you have the tools to be more self-aware – general beliefs around them are formed. Maybe they were stated without malice by your parents, but your subconscious mind created a belief that money is hard to come by and brings out the worst in people.
Now, as an adult, you desire to make more money – but keep running into roadblocks, obstacles, and other challenges. Maybe they seem out of nowhere – but they’re likely connected to the long-ago-formed belief that money is hard to come by and brings out the worst in people.
Because what you believe is true – money presents challenges in your life. This can also be applied to employment, relationships, politics, religion, and anything else we believe – consciously or subconsciously.
Our subconscious beliefs are why belief is seldom completely literal.
How do we take control of our beliefs and our truths?
The short answer is mindfulness.
When you are mindful, you become consciously aware of what you’re thinking, what and how you’re feeling, intentions you have, and actions you take related to it all.
With that, you gain the ability to take control of your beliefs and choose your truth for yourself.
Also, when you’re consciously aware, you gain the ability to reach into your subconscious to see and evaluate your beliefs, values, and habits within. And if you find they aren’t what you desire them to be – you can take actions and make new choices and decisions to change them.
Hence, if you believe in the negative – lack, scarcity, and insufficiency – that’s your truth. Conversely, if you believe in the positive – possibility, potential, and abundance – that’s your truth.
If you haven’t been making a consciously aware choice one way or the other, your subconscious is being allowed to do the driving. Your truth might not be truly yours. But if you desire to take control – you can make what you believe is true positive rather than negative.
Yes, bad things will still happen. That’s life. But you still choose if positive or negative is the dominant direction you face. That, ultimately, is your truth.
Thus, what you believe – positive or negative – is true to and for you.
Don’t like where that leads? All the power to change it is yours. Mindfulness is the tool to make it happen.
Seeing that what you believe is true isn’t hard hard
It’s all about working with mindfulness of thoughts, feelings, and intentions to direct actions.
When you recognize and acknowledge that many of your beliefs, values, and habits are subconscious and outdated, you gain the power to change them at will, looking towards the positive or negative of the cylinder as you desire. Knowing that conscious awareness via mindfulness puts you in control, you can see how what you believe is true – and if you aren’t enamored of that, take steps to change it.
This empowers you – and in turn, your empowerment can empower others around you. That can expand to change the bigger picture matters, too.
Choosing for ourselves employs positivity for realizing amazing potential and possibilities for our lives.
Taking an approach to positivity and negativity – from the vast cylinder that exists between them – shifts matters in a way to open more dialogue. In that form, we can explore and share where we are between the extremes and how that impacts us here and now.
Lastly, the better aware we are of ourselves in the now, the more we can do to choose and decide how our life experiences will be. When that empowers us, it can also open those around us to their own empowerment. And that is, to me, a worthwhile endeavor to explore and share.
Thank you for coming along on this ride with me.
This is the four hundred and fifty-fourth entry of my Positivity series. I hope that these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, re-blog, and spread the positivity.
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