Negativity

Lately I have been very negative and it is profoundly effecting my life. I believe the negative people have added stress, die younger, are a burden to those around them and find no joy in this lifetime. The big question is how do you get past that fear which makes you negative and start focusing on the positive. Negativity is a self defense mechanism so that we don't get disappointed or hurt by failed expectations. Having expectations, in my opinion is the kiss of death, because most people are infallible and without faith in a higher power that I am in the right place at the right time and that my uncomfortable feelings serve a purpose and will pass I'd continue to stay stuck although I often find that I revert to my comfort zone of negativity because it seems safe to me and I'm trying to break out of that rut because it hasn't served me well. I know why I'm negative 75% of the time because me parent's were very harsh and negative and naysayer's although that's no excuse because it's a copout. We are in charge of our own attitude's and attitude can make or break a company a person or even a church and definitely a country.

The truth of the matter is that we can't live off of our past mistakes or misperceptionsn of how we got to be where we are now, they say that if we don't learn from our past we are destined to repeat it, I say otherwise, if we continue to base everything from past experiences we are only fooling ourselves, what's done is done and what will be will be. Acceptance has a lot to be said for it. Faith has power and believing that even if you've stepped out of your comfort zone that something great will come of it means that it probably will.

I remind myself lately when I'm blaming other's for my shitty attitude what Eleanore Roosevelt once said which is "Nobody can give you the permission to feel bad about yourself without you agreeing to them" or something to that extent. We are what we think, we are what we think, we are what we think and our futures are based upon what we think now and not what we have been like in the past. Take this from a negative, self-sabatoging person who is changing. We have the power to change our lives.