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The problem is our ego, as it ‘believes’ through negativity that it can
manipulate reality and simply get what it wants. Our ego ‘believes’ that through
negativity, it can attract a desirable condition or it can remove or rid itself of an
undesirable one. Unfortunately, this is just insanity, as unhappiness does not
create happiness. So why ‘try’ and create unhappiness in the pursuit of
happiness? But that is what negativity directly does…if that isn’t insanity then
what is?
This is why a logical mind, or just one that is trying to become
conscious, automatically turns away from negativity. Our sub-consciousness
instinctively tells us that we are heading in the wrong direction and we need to
turn around. The truth is of course that negativity does not work or deliver any
real benefit to us. Instead of removing something we don’t want, it keeps it in
place and instead of attracting something we do ‘want’, it keeps it away. There
really is nothing clever at all in negativity that can be a benefit to us.
In fact the only useful function of negativity (though not to the people
studying the way) is that it strengthens the ego, which is of course why the ego
loves it. The more negative the person, the bigger the ego and obviously the
more deeply insecure the person. The problem is that negativity is like drug food
in that it’s addictive.
Once you’ve identified with it, you don’t ‘want’ to let it go. And what’s
more, on a deeply unconscious level, you do not ‘want’ positive change. As
positive change just threatens the identity of your ego as a depressed, angry, or
hard done by person. This is quite common, and unfortunately quite normal
behaviour in everyday negative people…it is also insane.
Now, there is nothing natural in negativity. It is like a disease in the body
and just because we all accept it in people, does not mean that they are not
suffering from a disease. Just because they are not coughing or running a
temperature does not mean they are not sick. Negativity is a disease that kills life,
it kills it every moment it is allowed to persist and it prematurely ends life.
But most importantly, it is not natural. Negativity does not exist in any
other animal, in any other plant, in no other life on the planet…the only place it
exists is in the minds of humans. Have you ever seen a negative Tulip? Or a
dolphin that has low self-esteem? There is more that we can learn from watching
a cat relax or a flower just be, than we can ever learn from the mind of a
negative person.
Ok, that’s enough negativity bashing…it is really difficult for me to not
look at negativity and not find it funny, because of its pure insanity! To remove
yourself from negativity is the very first step that must be taken if you are ever
going to be truly happy. And as I will cover in much more detail later, every