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Positivity: The Wisdom of Crazy Purple Knock-Out Gas

Pure, unadulterated joy. Don’t you love that feeling? The freedom, the release, the positivity? That feeling of comfort and warmth and bliss that makes you smile and remember what it is to be alive? We are so inundated with dread, with fear, with anger and hatred and division and harsh reality. We are constantly being subjected to grim news and intolerance and denial of joy. We are slaves to community, to jobs and finances and responsibilities that rob us of

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

Positivity: You are worthwhile

You are worthy of praise and love and understanding. I may not know you, but I can assure you that you do in fact deserve to have good things. You deserve to be happy, you deserve to be at peace, you deserve to be recognized and acknowledged for everything you do. You are going to have bad days. We all do. But despite that, you are worthwhile, and I am here to validate your extreme awesomeness. I know that you

Positivity: Positivity Matters

Positivity matters because how you are feeling will make or break your day. Some days it’s really hard to see how this can be done. When you are working on a problem with few or undesirable solutions or when you give too much focus to the news media and see a dark and dismal world it is difficult at best to find and feel positivity. Sometimes it just feels like it will take too much work, too much effort, and

Positivity: Today

Today is not yesterday. Today is a new beginning. Today is unique, and there will be no other day like today. You have an opportunity to do something new, something different. You have a new day with which to explore the world, to make time for yourself, for friends and family, to create something different. Yesterday is the past. It happened, it is done. It may have been a fantastic day, it may have been an awful day, but it

Positivity: Appreciation

Appreciation is an important aspect of gratitude. Yes, appreciation can be another word for gratitude, but it can also be a separate aspect of gratitude. While one can be grateful for things, having appreciation for them and being appreciated are amazing builders of positivity. What’s the difference? Appreciation is more specific than just gratitude. You can give and receive both, but there is a more focused understanding of appreciation. Feeling grateful is about expressing happiness with a person, a thing,

Positivity: Expectation

Expectation is a powerful means for positivity. If consciousness creates reality, than it goes to follow that expectation will create positivity or negativity, depending on what outcome you think will occur. A lot of people find the idea of “the power of positive thinking” to be hokey. Pie-in-the-sky absurdity. And if all you do is think positive, but you don’t feel it or act upon it, you cannot generate positivity. That being said, what you expect will often determine whether

Positivity: Lowering the Bar (Without lessening expectation)

Lower the bar without lowering the bar. We often read about or hear about how “the bar has been lowered” and “expectations are less” in regards to merit, to achievement and other things. We make jokes about how easy it is to “hurtle the lowered bar” to accomplish goals and receive accolades. While often times this does in fact mean we get less – just look at the American political landscape – this can be advantageous to our everyday lives.

Pathwalking 108

Expectation is a powerful force. What exactly IS expectation, anyhow?  Dictionary.com defines it thus: noun 1. the act or the state of expecting: to wait in expectation. 2. the act or state of looking forward or anticipating. 3. an expectant mental attitude: a high pitch of expectation. 4. something expected; a thing looked forward to. 5. Often, expectations; a prospect of future good or profit: to have great expectations. Looking forward, anticipating, waiting – and it is really great expectations that are what we all want to have when it comes to this action, this emotion. However, expectation can also be a crutch.  It can be a blockage for the actions in the here-and-now, as often it is something ahead of us, rather than

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