Negative Emotions are Necessary
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Welcome to Awareness for Everyone, an exploration of Conscious Reality Creation, and living the best lives we can for ourselves. I am MJ Blehart, writer, blogger, editor, and 21st century philosopher. Episode 54 – Negative Emotions are Necessary
Negativity is a fact of life
Without negative emotions, we cannot experience positivity. While it is important to find positivity and to feel positive as you go through life, denying the existence of the negative is an unhealthy option.
There are always extremes and extremists in the world. Good and evil, light and dark, tall and short, old and young, and so on and so forth. Most of us will live between the extremes. We live in the grey area, the middle ground, the multitude of colors across the spectrum and such.
While for the most part negativity is undesirable, largely because it will not make us feel good, sometimes it is still necessary.
Sometimes we need to experience the negatives to know that a situation is not good for us. For example, that a relationship is failed, that the paths we have chosen for our lives are sub-optimal. For these reasons the negativity is in fact a positive thing.
Don’t feel bad about feeling bad
You are being inundated by insanity, madness, and some pretty ludicrous stuff. Of course you will be feeling bad.
A negative experience can spur you to find and/or create something to counter it. It opens you up to making something better.
How long you feel negative is up to you. Awareness of this through practical mindfulness can help you deal with it.
There is power for good in the bad of feeling negative
While for the most part negativity is undesirable, largely because it will not make us feel good, sometimes it is still necessary.
Kindness, generosity, and empathy are all a lot easier to practice when you are self-aware.
Closing:
Thank you for listening to Awareness for Everyone, a discussion of Conscious Reality Creation and living the best lives we can for ourselves. If you have questions or comments you can contact me via Facebook at blehartmj, on Twitter at mjblehart, or email me at author@mjblehart.com. I want to thank Fe Mahoney, the awesome artist who created my cover art. If you would like to commission work from her, contact her at veinsofink2017@gmail.com. Please take a moment to check out my blog, The Ramblings of the Titanium Don, at titaniumdon.com, as well as my articles on Medium.com as MJ Blehart. Thank you, and I hope you are discovering how awareness for everyone really is something that you can practice to improve your life.
