How to Have Positive Energy in a Negative Environment

It's easy to be positive, when the circumstances and people surrounding you are all positive; but what if you're surrounded by negativity? How do you then stay positive? This is an issue that everyone who values their feelings and emotions will come up against.

How's Your Perception?

It really all comes down to what's going on in your head: your thoughts, perceptions and beliefs about the situations and people surrounding you. When you look around different people often respond very differently to similar circumstances and you will note that they experience different outcomes. So maintaining positive energy in a negative environment is about how you perceive that environment. It's your thoughts that cause your feelings, and also the stress reaction in your body.

Look at the Big Picture

Really any situation you can name has positivity in it if you look at the big picture (and I mean the cosmic picture!). It's really difficult for humans, living a physical, earth-bound experience to see the positivity in things like natural disasters and terrorist acts; but if nothing else, these happenings give many the excuse they were crying out for to release resistance and return to source. Many have not yet learned how to release resistance while remaining in their physical bodies.

Your Inner Being is Positive

It's important to realise that your default setting is positivity, that is, the default setting of your inner self is pure positive energy. Your physical self is actually more prone to negativity as part of the survival mechanisms wired into your brain. So the more you plug into your inner being and turn off your auto pilot, the more positive you will become. It's like tuning into a new positive vibe radio station more often and tuning into the bad news channel less often.

The Breathing Space

Simple breathing techniques are an amazingly powerful way to relax and quiet your mind, and therefore release negative thought. The 'breathing space' technique is a wonderful quick fix that you can use easily wherever you are. Bring your mind to focus on your body and sit up straight. Become aware of the thoughts flowing through your mind, the emotions you're experiencing and the sensations in your body. Accept yourself exactly as you are in this moment. Now bring your attention to your breath, simply watching it in your mind's eye, flowing in and out in its natural rhythm. Now bring your attention to any sensations in your body and the space around your body, again with full acceptance.

This process brings you back into the now and switches off the autopilot, and helps you to know that all is well.

Understand the Creative Process

It helps to know the universal laws that govern our lives in order to see positivity in everything. The creative process is the process by which we create (either consciously or by default) our life experience. When you decided to come into a physical body, you knew you would experience great variety, more in this era than in any previous time in history. You knew that by experiencing what you don't want, you send a vibrational request to source for what you do want, and that is created. Then you just need to get in sync with the vibration of what you do want by focussing on that, instead of on what you don't want.

Focus on What You Want

Basically, whatever you give your attention to, you get into vibrational sync with. The thing is if you get stuck in this first phase of the creative process, you just keep manifesting more of what you don't want. Once you have experienced the unwanted situation, you need to consciously turn your focus on the opposite of that and believe that it can be true for you. So any situation is positive, because it causes you to create a better situation, you just need to get into sync with it so you can experience it.

Frances Copping