Positivity
Being positive, staying positive is really challenging. Yet, if we allow ourselves to entertain negativity we become depressed and not able to function at our highest potential. Living can become unbearably stressful. Negativity denies the ability to enjoy pleasurable experiences, to feel gratitude and happiness.
Learning to achieve and maintain a positive demeanor requires more than meditation, prayer and positive affirmations. It demands action. We must act to make changes, take action to stop doing whatever it is that is causing the stress.
“To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.” ~Helena Blavatsky
I like the following quote from Gore Vidal, for, in my mind, I perceive ‘decadent’ as ‘negative’.
“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
In her book, The Journey with the Master, Eva Bell Werber writes in the section ‘BE POSITIVE’, “Man often thinks that it is he, himself, that is good and generous, not knowing or caring that it is the Great Spirit of all good which is back of his acts. Then he fluctuates from day to day, and it is easy for him to change from good to evil if it suits his purpose best. He feels that the power is his, and his alone, to determine his actions.”
Maintaining a positive attitude, a positive outlook, has so many benefits; contributing significantly to good health, general contentment, peace of mind, and joyful living.
The primary action required is aligning the indwelling spirit of man with the Great Spirit of pure Love and Positivity. It is indeed hard work. Work which holds mighty rewards beyond our imagining.
I invite you this week to keep the positive energy flowing!
