Determination, if carried to one extreme makes me so stubborn I would never risk a change. On another note the same determination makes me stubborn to reach a goal I would risk everything to get it. It’s not about determination- its energy. Energy is neither positive nor negative – but solely how we utilize it. Any energy is neutral till we personalize it, and this personalization gives it a positive or negative form. And I’ve realized negative energy destroys the spirit, soul and body- an all consuming hunger, feeding on life- adjectives like sad, gloomy, depressing, dark, dull, heavy, irritable, touchy take dominion.
I learnt we get into this negative energy trap in pessimism … Pessimism can be damaging- constant pessimism brews a negative whirlwind inside us. When something negative happens, how about mitigating it rather than dwelling on it. How about keeping the subconscious clear and practicing random acts of good will….anyways responding to negative with negative doesn’t help, it only doubles the negative levels. If someone threw a porcupine at us, would we catch it?? Then why do we catch the negative energy directed to us? We are solely in charge of what goes into us. Read this quote somewhere, written by a famous stoic and it makes perfect sense….
The mind in itself wants nothing,
Unless it creates a want for itself;
Therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded,
If it does not perturb and impede itself.
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