Positivity: What you carry with you
What do you carry with you?
When you wake up in the morning, do you begin feeling renewed? Do you start out your day looking forward to what’s coming, or dreading what’s ahead?
We all carry different weights on our shoulders. We all have things we have to do, whether we are fans of them or no. The important part is what we choose to make of these weights.
Challenges or burdens? Problems or opportunities? Matters or issues? They’re going to be there no matter what we do, the question becomes how do we approach them?
We all have the power to choose. Do we carry around negativity or positivity with us? There are challenges that we face daily, but we have the option of choosing to face them as insurmountable or approachable. We are empowered to choose.
It is far too easy to just let them go. Go with it. Don’t choose, be carried by what we face during the day and whom we encounter and all we experience. Read about that death and carry the sadness and anger. Read about the moron politician and carry around the disappointment and rage. Read about the pain and suffering around the globe and carry around the feelings of helplessness and despair.
We get to choose. Of course we will find things that create negative feelings. It is perfectly normal to feel sad at a loss, anger at blatant selfishness, despair at oppression. The difference is feeling them, and carrying them around.
We are all really really good at holding onto things. Often we hold onto things long after they serve us. We need to feel negative emotions to appreciate the positive ones. That’s just the way it is. Human nature, welcome to it. What we do not need to do is to carry it around like an epic set of matched luggage.
Feel it. Experience it. But then let it go. Why carry around something that does not serve you or your greater good? When we leave our homes to go to work or school or just out, we leave stuff behind all the time. This is not really any different, we get to choose what we carry with us emotionally.
This is a matter of empowerment. We forget just how much of this is truly ours to choose, and we get too caught up in moments. I am sad at the loss, I am angry with the selfish self-righteousness, I feel bad for all those people being oppressed out there. I acknowledge how this makes me feel, but I need to choose for my own day, for my own actions to come to not carry that with me. If I do, it will color all I have to in my day, and while it may come up again throughout the day, I can pick it up and then put it back down again. I don’t need to carry it with me.
Feel the feels, but try to only carry around with you those which empower you and build positivity.
Finding positivity is not hard, it just requires action. Knowing that you can choose what to carry with you, you decide to carry along what you need. When we make that choice and don’t carry those negative things with us through the day 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 one hundred second 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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