You Can Choose to See the Dark or Seek the Light

The decision is yours.Photo by Dyu – Ha on Unsplash

Everywhere you turn, there’s doom and gloom. All across social media, new reports, conversations with friends and family, it’s like a cloud constantly hovering above you.

None of this is normal. The sense of fear, uncertainty, and hopelessness dominating it all? This is not normal.

Then, to complicate matters, finding the balance between knowledge and being informed versus oversharing and being inundated is always challenging. You can’t ignore what’s happening, wear blinders, and pretend this isn’t happening. Neither can you give it all of your focus and attention without making yourself utterly miserable.

Moment to moment, whenever you are consciously aware, you can choose to see the dark or seek the light.

The argument to be For rather than Against

In my home state, there’s a contentious race for governor going on. The thing is, I don’t think it would be so contentious were it not for how both sides are approaching it. Both are on the attack, each telling you why you should be against the other. Yet, because of the focus on standing against, the obvious problem candidate has traction.

The collective consciousness is under a constant attack by those telling you who and what to stand against. While I agree that we need to put up a united front against things like tyranny, hate, and greed, being against them often gives them more. Why? Because they are what get all the focus.

Consciousness creates reality. That’s not just some hooky-spooky idealism. It’s a law of the universe. Even if you stand against something, that something is still getting all your attention, your energy, and focus.

That makes it stick out like a sore thumb. And that, in turn, gives it more power. Why else is so much advertising and news about negative things? Because standing against sells.

What you focus on, you attract. Hence, pausing to reflect and then shifting your attention to what you’re for rather than against helps give that which you are for more power. But that’s not all. It also empowers you.

How do you feel when you give your time, energy, and attention to things that upset, anger, and scare you? You feel worse. That lowers your frequency and spirals you down to keep you feeling worse. And when you feel bad, you’re disempowered.

You, however, have the power to change this.

You can choose to see the dark or seek the light

I am in no way, shape, or form advocating for ignoring, disregarding, or pretending the bad things happening out there aren’t happening. Doing that robs you of your ability to make informed choices and decisions. It leads to entropy, disenchantment, and disconnection. Why do you think the majority of registered voters in the USA don’t vote at all? Apathy born of willful or despondent ignorance.

You do get to choose to see the dark or seek the light. It’s wholly in your power to decide to be present, here and now, and apply mindfulness. When you do that, you open yourself to finding and creating better.

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To seek the light is not to disregard, ignore, or shunt away the dark. They are yin and yang and need one another to both exist. The dark and the bad often inspire the light and the good. This is awful, what can I do about it? is a lot more powerful than This is awful, I see no options.

You might, in the immediate moment, see no way. That’s no surprise, given the constant barrage of doom and gloom hurling toward you all the time. Yet a way can be found. You can seek the light.

Make your choices and decisions

You are empowered to choose and decide what you do. To see the dark or seek the light is in your power. It just might take a lot of effort and energy to rise out of the deluge of negativity.

I believe that much of what ails the world today is the result of weaponized fear and implied disempowerment. The invisible, ever-present “they” love to tell you that you can’t do anything for yourself, but “they” can make it all better for you. Just cede control and let them do it.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Know why? Because you’re the only one inside of your head, heart, and soul. Ergo, you alone can know what you’re thinking, feeling, and intending. Only you know the positivity or negativity of your approach and choice of actions or inactions. No matter what anyone else might say, nobody can make you think, feel, or do anything – only you can think, feel, and do for yourself.

Empowerment is the recognition and acknowledgment of you being the only one in your head, heart, and soul. Then, from that, making consciously aware choices and decisions, here and now, to do something. Or not.

You can choose to see the dark or seek the light, no matter what is going on around you. That can change your life experience. When you do that, and you’re empowered, you become a beacon to help others find what to be for, and to seek more light to overcome the dark.

More power to you.

Choosing to seek the light when you see the dark isn’t hard

It’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 you are the only one in your head, heart, and soul, you can make choices and decisions to seek the light, take a stand for rather than against, and become more empowered. Knowing that you ultimately choose and decide what you see and do in this life, you can take action to work past the ongoing hail of madness of the world around you for yourself as well as the greater good.

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, it can spread to those around you and empower them as well. That is an amazing conduit to help reason to overcome fear in the collective consciousness.

Thank you for coming along on this journey.

This is the six-hundred-ninth (609) 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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