Positivity: Helping Others

We all need help from time to time. So, too, do other people around us.

The incredible amount of Positivity that comes from helping others is tremendously powerful.

Whether you are lending a hand to a friend or a loved one or a total stranger, the power of giving can create a huge cache of positivity.

There are a couple key things to keep in mind when it comes to giving. First – know the difference between giving and sacrificing. Giving is an open idea, whereas sacrifice is closed. Giving comes from abundance where sacrifice comes from lack. Positive giving should not require you to sacrifice for another.

Second – know the difference between giving because you desire to be helpful and giving in the expectation of reward. When you give because you have plenty and want to share you will generate nothing but positivity. When you give because you expect to receive back something for what you have given, you could actually create negativity if there is disappointment.

Yesterday, following a rather impressive blizzard, I helped several of my neighbors clear snow. I shoveled, I brushed off cars. For a handicapped neighbor I even moved her car for her so the plows could clear the lot. I could have just taken care of our cars and our portion of the lot, but chose to help out my neighbors. No reward, nothing but the positivity of assisting other people around me to ease their burdens.

I was not sacrificing my time, my health, nor anything else in helping. I was offered a reward for helping the one neighbor, but turned it down because I didn’t help her for anything other than to provide assistance.

I am not perfect, I am not holding myself up as any pillar of the community, I just wanted to share this particular example because this is positivity generating help for others.

The third thing to note when it comes to helping other people – be mindful of takers. We all know those people who take and take and take and never show gratitude and never give back. They do as little for themselves as they can, and they try to take a mile for every inch given. I am not suggesting that you don’t give for the sake of giving to these people, just that you be aware that you will receive no thanks and expectation of sacrifice for the other’s sake.

Everybody needs help from time to time. But when you can give help the positivity it builds spreads, and as such builds more positivity.

Finding positivity is not hard, it just requires action. Knowing that giving aid and assistance and helping others can build incredible positivity, we can strive to be helpful. When we give from a place of abundance and expect no reward nor make any sacrifice, we empower those we assist, and further 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 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.