Positivity Is Not Pointless
Photo by Arafat Khan on UnsplashUnless you’ve been living in a cave or otherwise off the grid, you probably see the insanity that is the state of “reality” today. Distressing policies and laws being made, undoing environmental protections and civil liberties, increasing stances against science and reason, and other unfathomable matters are bombarding us daily.
It can start to feel like it’s all going to come crashing down. It’s the end of the world as we know it, and so on. Doom and gloom. It makes positivity look completely pointless.
The truth is, however, that positivity is not pointless. Not in the least.
Chunk down realityReality as we know it exists on 3 levels.
Level One Reality is usually the most obvious but also the most abstract. This is where society is. The collective consciousness is part of this reality. In level one, you get demagogues, gurus, celebrities, and all sorts of influencers that you likely have ZERO actual, factual contact with.
Level Two Reality is the world immediately outside of yourself. This is where your home, family, friends, and all the things in your life, externally, exist. The collective consciousness is also a part of this. That’s how the people around you, together, accept certain things, including the color of the sky, laws of the land, and such.
Level Three Reality is the most personal. This is you and your internal workings. Level three reality is where your subconscious and conscious mind collaborate or fight one another. This is where you can apply active conscious awareness. You know, mindfulness, to be who, what, where, how, and why you desire to be.
The only level of reality where you can exert control is Level Three. You. Yourself. That’s it. You have ZERO control of the abstract world around you, and maybe influence, but no control of the world immediately outside of yourself.
Because level three is the only place where you have genuine control of any kind, positivity is applicable.
Positivity is not pointlessWhen you choose to allow yourself to doomscroll and spiral down a dark and dismal path, you’re choosing negativity.
It feels all too easy, I know. But it IS a choice on your part. Allowing the fear, cruelty, and overwhelming negativity to dictate your life experience is a choice on your part.
The thing is, genuine positivity is not pointless. That’s because true positivity is nontoxic.
Toxic positivity tells you to ignore, disregard, and avoid negativity. It tells you to put on blinders and pretend everything is just fine, and the negative is nonexistent. This, however, is unhealthy and unrealistic.
Genuine, nontoxic positivity recognizes AND acknowledges negativity. Because you can’t deny, disregard, ignore, or avoid it. However, you can choose what to do in the face of it.
This is where positivity is not pointless. You can learn from negative happenings to make choices and decisions that will positively impact your life experience. Recognize the bad things but seek out or create positivity to combat and/or counter them.
This can only begin, however, at level three reality, in and for you.
Photo by Tim Mossholder on UnsplashThis is not selfishIt can feel wrong to seek and/or find and/or create positivity during this insanity. This can feel disingenuous and selfish. People are hurting, suffering, and being harmed.
Sadly, that’s never untrue. Right now, however, it’s a lot more blatant and obvious. Yet there are 8 billion people on Planet Earth. Some have been born in abject poverty and must struggle to live, let alone make any choices or decisions to be who, what, where, how, and why they desire to be.
When you have privilege to any degree, I think it’s important to find ways to use that to be the best you that you can be. That’s not selfish, because the best people employ kindness, compassion, and caring all the time. They say please and thank you, tip waitstaff well, strive to give time, energy, and/or money to worthy causes, and care about others they know and don’t know.
Nobody is more worthy or deserving of living their life on their terms and finding and/or creating positive experiences than anyone else. When you utilize nontoxic positivity to grow and change, you’re not hurting or harming anyone else. It’s not selfish unless you intentionally cause hurt and/or harm.
Positivity is a product of abundance. In a world overflowing with false notions of lack, scarcity, and insufficiency, finding/creating positivity is a tool that can help you. When you have that help, you are empowered to help others. That’s why, even in the face of the madness of the world today, positivity is not pointless.
Recognizing that positivity is not pointless isn’t hardIt’s all about practicing active conscious awareness of your thoughts, feelings, intentions, and the positivity or negativity of your approach to direct your actions.
When you recognize and acknowledge that there are three levels to reality, and you can only control the one that involves your inner being, you can see how nontoxic positivity is not pointless for you to grow and change. Knowing that it’s not selfish to employ nontoxic positivity to make choices and decisions, in abundance, to combat all the artificial lack, scarcity, and insufficiency, you can use what you have to better yourself. From there, you can expand that outward to potentially assist others.
This empowers you, and your empowerment can empower others around you.
Consciously choosing your approach to life towards positivity or negativity — from the vast cylinder that exists between them — shifts life in a way that opens greater dialogue. From that dialogue, you can recognize, explore, and share where you are between the extremes and how that impacts you here and now.
Choosing thoughts, feelings, actions, and intentions for yourself opens the way for a positive approach and attitude via your actions. This can lead to realizing amazing potential and possibilities for your life.
The better aware you are of yourself here and now, the better you can choose and decide what, how, and why your life experiences will be. When you empower yourself, that can spread to those around you for their empowerment.
Thank you for coming along on this journey.
This is the five-hundred-and-ninety-ninth (599) entry of my Positivity series. I hope that these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, reblog, and spread the positivity.
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