Positivity: Understanding

I understand you.

We all want to be understood. We all want people to “get” us. That is how we find our friends and lovers and other companions in this world. They simply understand.

Maybe not the whole picture, of course. Very few people ever get the total and complete knowledge of a person. We are all complicated, multi-faceted, diverse beings, but for all that we still all want to find people who understand us.

I understand you. Even though I may not know you, I understand your desire to learn more, I understand your desire to find positivity in this world. I understand that you want to find inner peace, because the turmoil we face day to day can be often times be frustrating, infuriating, and unnecessary proof of just how few people DO understand you.

It is more important, really, that I understand myself. I find that I don’t always know or understand my own motivations, sometimes my own feelings lack in certainty and as such are not understood. But I can always find understanding, it is never lost and gone with a trace, it can be rediscovered.

Understanding leads to positivity because with understanding comes satisfaction, peace, ultimately happiness. Understanding allows us to have clarity, it allows us to release tension and misgivings and all other forms of negativity. Understanding opens pathways to other knowledge that can bring in positive feelings.

Being understood is always a positive. We all need those familiars, those people who simply “get” us whom we can turn to. Being understood means that we are not, ultimately, alone. We have somewhere to turn where we will be known, and our need to feel a part of something instead of apart from something will be sated.

I understand you. I understand that you want to be happy, that you want to know you are not alone – and I am here to tell you that you are not. You have understanding, and that is an incredibly positive thing.

Finding positivity is not hard, it just requires action. Knowing you are understood, you can feel secure in the knowledge that someone out there has got your back. With understanding comes contentment, peace, satisfaction, and more ways to further 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 sixty third 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.