Positivity: Does Negativity Serve Us?

What does negativity get us?

Think about it a moment. Looking at the world as a desolate, distressing, dark and unhappy place feels awful. Focusing on corruption and greed and acts of violence and intolerance and hatred is disturbing. So why do we do it?

You cannot focus on undoing a thing once it has come into being. But that’s exactly what we do. We focus on the things we don’t want, we focus on how to stop them…and yet they persist. We fixate on negativity and continue to draw more to us.

We all get tired. We all get drawn down and overwrought and lose our energy. It is easy to leave behind days of leisure and feel bad to enter into days of toil, and so we complain about it and expect nothing good of it. This is not a good way to feel.

What does negativity get us? More negativity. So we have a chance to make a choice. Do I choose to see the world as a dismal reality, or do I choose instead to seek possibility, see the beauty around me, and see the world for all its potential?

I need to stop trying to undo what is already done, and instead of lamenting terrible things, find new things to support.   Rather than let the negative things have more power, I will work instead to find positive things to give my energies to.

That is why I started this process. This is why every week I share this concept, and work to spread more positivity. This is not about me, this is about all of us. We need collectively to be in a more positive frame of mind if we are going to change the world for the better. Every great and glorious idea started as a small notion. One person conceived of any given invention that improved the world, so one person is still significant to make the world more positive.

Nobody wants to live in negativity. I have never met anyone who truly wants to live in a dreary, dismal, depressed state of being all the time. Negativity breaks us down and destroys potential and possibility. Positivity, however, is a tool for bridging gaps, constructing new ideas and building a better, happier, more equal and empowered world for me, for you, for everyone.

What do you want to see in the world, greater negativity tearing us all asunder, or greater positivity building stronger, happier and healthier lives?

Finding positivity is not hard, it just requires action. Knowing that negativity does not serve us to better the world, we can make better choices for how we approach the challenges we face.   By not feeding negativity, we can choose positive approaches to issues, and thus 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 fifth 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.