You eat right, work out, and try to do all the right things for yourself and those around you, but it can be extremely difficult to keep your thoughts positive, peaceful, supportive, or empowering when you find yourself surrounded by another person’s negative energy. If you don’t have the right mental and emotional immunity, that contagious bad energy can infect you too.
The strategies for dealing with negative energy may vary; however, the desired result is the same: to maintain an inner state of peace. If you can remain calm and peaceful, then you can respond in a rational manner rather than unconsciously react based on anger or fear. Meditation and inspirational reading can help you in developing and sustaining a peaceful and positive attitude. These powerful tools can help immensely when negative people and situations threaten to snuff out your positive energies.
It’s Your Choice
The fact is there’s an awful lot that we have no control over—it is a jungle out there. The one thing we do have control over is our attitude. The way you respond to negative energies directed toward you is your choice. Always try to keep in mind that you are the only one in control of your emotions. Don’t let them “make you” feel badly. Don’t “absorb” the anger they are hurling at you. You are in control, because you are the only one who can decide to react or not to react, to let anger and bitterness seize your heart, or to feel the calm of forgiveness and let it go.
Sometimes taking a moment to look at things from another perspective and trying to understand where the negative person is coming from can help. Most often, it is a place of hurt and anger, and quite often has nothing to actually do with you at all. They just happen to be trying to cope with their own emotions the only limited way they know how. But you can rise above that level—you happen to be a little more conscientious or you wouldn’t even be pondering any of this!
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