Negativity Breeds Negativity

“One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counterforces, like love and compassion.”
—Dalai Lama

Having found myself swirling in a cesspool of negativity too many times I made the decision to avoid the undertow in the future.

Sometimes we find ourselves in the middle of something negative, usually focused around someone. We gossip with others which leads to more gossip and soon we find we’re talking about another person, and on and on. We get sucked into the negativity and soon it has taken over our whole being without us being aware of it.

I can remember this happened many times at several different jobs I’ve had. And I’ve experienced it with circles of friends.

It makes us feel better at times to put someone else down, but it really isn’t the best way to boost self-esteem. It’s better to find something good in the person we are negatively discussing or just don’t gossip at all.

The more time we spend in negative thinking and acting, the more it becomes who we are until we find ourselves overwhelmed by it. It takes on a life of its own in us and produces anger and resentment over things that normally we might not even notice, and things that are certainly none of our business.

If we stop this negativity and start trying to be positive we can pull ourselves out of it. Soon we’ll realize just how heavy the cloud of it was and things will start appearing more pleasant. We’ll appear more pleasant.

Stopping the negative spin leads to peace.