What does negativity hold for you?

If you can't find joy in the path you're on and what you are working towards now, how do you expect to find joy once you get there?.....................Ashley Turner

Have you ever been around someone so joyful it's infectious? You find yourself smiling and laughing with them; even smiling just thinking about them right? If joy is infectious, so is anger, sadness............. and negativity. All of these things serve us in some way. Often anger, for instance, can be a call to action; we realize we're unwilling to accept anymore of whatever the situation is and we need to do something about it now. How does negativity serve us and call us to action?

Perhaps part of how negativity serves is by merely being able to feel more clearly and deeply its opposite. Perhaps there are other ways negativity serves if we were to examine it more closely. Negativity in of itself serves as a reminder of what needs attention in our lives. If I'm being negative on a regular basis, I find I have to ask myself some very important questions about what I surround myself with daily and who I choose to be around and connect with. Negativity is a wake-up call for what needs my attention: where am I putting my energy and what am I missing? If negativity pops up consistently about the same issue, then what about that issue do I need to address? If negativity is an overarching energy that consumes me, then I've probably fallen into a habit of unbalanced focus.

We're all here to serve in some way: whether it's our family, ourselves, a cause, a career, or the world at large (or any and all combination of these and much more), and we have to ask how our energy we put out serves our lives and those we're here to serve.

 So what can you do when you find that you're out of balance and negativity is consuming your life?

 Here are a few questions to ask yourself:

~ What is it that needs attention in your life?

~ How much energy has that been taking up?

~ What type of people have you chosen to surround yourself with regularly?

~ What do those people bring to your life and what do you bring to their's?

~ How is your negativity serving you and how is it serving the world?

What does all this have to do with my opening sentence about joy? Well.......Once you've asked the questions and connect with your answers, you'll have in your hand exactly what it is you need to do to bring about more joy in your life. Just try it, and tell me what happens. After all, if we keep denying the lesson in what we're living, we can never get to the next step!

With love,
Angela

---