Recently, I was thinking about our energy,  how negative energy affects your life and how to clear it. We’ve all been around negative people who zap our energy and in essence zapping their own energy because it takes far more energy to be negative than it does to be positive.

People with positive energy are drawn to positive people and people with negative energy are drawn to negative people. We tend to think others are negative, it is never us. Sometimes we feel negative if we’ve had a hard day and we want people to leave us alone.  Did you know a lot of negative energy goes unnoticed in us? It’s because sometimes negativity is disguised as ‘reality’. It’s easy to rationalize that you’re ‘just being realistic’ in not daring to act on a dream – and believe it! Sometimes we think people who are overly positive and optimistic are naïve or not being realistic.  The person is in denial, their head is in the sand; all sound familiar. Are they really happy idiots or is there something to their positivity?

Being realistic can sound like negativity but is it? When you view the world from a ‘realistic’ standpoint, you can’t help but be negative IF your version of reality is negative. So if your vision of reality is negative, you can be conditioned to believe whatever can go wrong, will go wrong and whatever can go right, will probably go wrong too. Your unconsciously held beliefs make you into a negative person without your being aware of it! Boy this is deep, if our negativity is so ingrained in us, how do we see it in ourselves and how do we change it around to draw on the positive, thus attracting other positive people to be around us.

Here are some quick questions to ask yourself: Do you complain? Do you often discuss what’s wrong in the world? Do you criticize and judge? Do you dramatize? Do you blame? Do you feel like a victim? Are you grateful for what is?
If you’re not grateful except when things go right, you are negative. Gratitude is positive. If you are grateful for what is including the unpleasant school of life lessons, then you can invite more and more positive energy into your life. Just another thought who do we blame when things are going well and who do we thank?
Do you thank yourself when you’ve done something good.  See I’m a big fan of being proactive and in generating positive energy.  We have the option and the know how to choose a positive attitude.  We can get up each day and say: I’m going to be positive today. Here’s something interesting, positive people seem to get what they want out of life, and even if things don’t go their way, they still enjoy their lives even with the bumps in the road.  They have a positive attitude towards sickness and suffering.  It’s something that happens to everyone yet they seem to get through it with ease.  Most positive people do not whine and moan about their misfortunes. To clear our negative energy, we need to do three things.  Take ownership and stop blaming.  “When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.” – the Dalai Lama Change negative thoughts into positive thoughts. It takes practice, patience with yourself and a decision to choose the good, positive energy we all have.

Change your heart to love and find your spiritual energy.  Try to bring more light and love into your life; visualize the positive; overcome your past; think with your heart.  So choose to change your inner light and let it burn brighter.  Find people who support your positive energy and your spirit; trust your gut more and spread the love.

What happens now is your positive energy permeates to others and all things become better.  There is a great happiness and inner peace which you will feel.

And when someone is being negative, let them know, hit the high road, find commonality and don’t ignite the fire of negativity.  Spread the joy and smile. (Resources: Beliefnet; Signs of Positive and Negative Energy and Social Consciousness.com; How Negative Energy Affects Your Life and How to Clear It, 2013)

Let us prayer for all those who are negative, may we show by our example of positive energy how one is to live.  Live in harmony with each other because of our love for each other.  Let us help others to change their light so they can shine brighter and have inner peace.  Amen.