And now, a word on “negativity.”
Of all the stupid, ignorant, misunderstood New Age thinking superstitions, this one takes the cake. And I’m going to try to explain it in English (wouldn’t matter what language), which is grounded in some of this same ignorant thinking.
Negativity is not “bad.”
Where would art, for example, be without negativity?
Oh, that’s different!
I can just hear you saying that. That doesn’t hurt anyone or isn’t (insert adjectives here, choose from: distasteful, impolite, rude, mean, angry, or choose your own).
Is it? Different?
Oh, sure, there’s a point of view from which it is all these things: bad, distasteful, impolite, rude, mean, angry, etc.
What is that point of view?
VICTIM
“Victims are violent people.” ~ Byron Katie
It’s true. Victims are always feeling attacked, therefore always on the defensive, which means they strike out at others, under the illusion that this is self-defense and they are striking back and, therefore, justified.
You know, I could write and write and write on these ideas, but without the experience of exploring our own thoughts to find out what is true, it’s all just so much air, pearls before swine, as they say. Clinging desperately to the lies that allow us to keep lying, none of it makes any sense at all.
“Defense is the first attack.” Yeah, Katie said that, too.
