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Showing posts with label negativity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label negativity. Show all posts

11.08.2012

Eliminate Negativity

We should all always have AT LEAST one way we are trying to better ourselves. Here is something I’ve been working on, and I can feel the difference in my life, a lot.
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You know how when your at a restaurant sometimes the waiter will come and fill up your water cup? You know how sometimes the waiter will come and fill it up after every time i make a sip? Yeah that drives me insane. And I always point it out to whoever I'm with....because it drives me insane.
Well this inspired a thought in my brain.
Just because I point out that the waiter comes to fill my water cup much too often doesn't mean that I'm not having a good time. But it's a negative comment. And any kind of negativity is just that- negative. And positive energy cannot exist when its little negative friend is stealing the attention. A little while back I realized this, and decided that I was going to try to be more positive in the tiniest ways such as this waiter with the water example.
At first I was obviously still being silently annoyed, but I would think this negative thought, decide not to voice it, and then i would either keep thinking about it and being slightly annoyed, or i would slowly forget about it and that was the end of it. Either way, I wasn't bringing negativity out into the open, where it seems bigger and more real.
After doing this for a few weeks, I think that I don't even have nearly as many of these tiny annoying thoughts as I used to. And if I have them, I don't associate them with negativity, just observations, and I'm definitely happier for it. I feel overall more positive in my daily goings on. My eyes seem to just look over these "annoyances" and not register them with my brain. I'm a happier, more positive person this way!
Something else I’ve been doing, is when I do have a random, positive thought- go back to the waiter with the water example- amplify that positive thought.
The waiter brings the water. Its good timing, I’m ready for more water. I tell the waiter, thank you so much that was perfect timing! He is happy because he came with perfect timing and is being appreciated for it, and I am happy because I made someone else happy. It’s the little things in life right?
Although I’m still working hard on this, I like to think the proton cloud circling my head has increased in size.
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