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Whether it is the people you are watching on TV or the people in your lives — ensuring they are people that inspire versus people that drain is key. We all know a complaining friend, relative or acquaintance that James Ray calls the “Energy Vampire”. Try to be a positive influence for this person and share your learnings on the Law of Attraction and the act of being positive with them — but don’t exhaust yourself or try to “change anyone”. You have to want to change to facilitate change. Limit time with people that suck your energy away from you and try and be aware of your feelings during your time with them. Make sure after you spend time with someone negative, if you do feel drained, do something positive to “lighten” your mood.
I have written about the news being negative and that there are better options for media to surround yourself with. Listening to or watching negative news can exhaust you and make you feel hopeless. The traditional news tends to focus on all the bad things happening in the world instead of the positive. There is a LOT of positive growth and news being made — you just have to look a little harder to find it. Happy News is a good option. Also KNOWING how many people are working to make the world a better place helps as well. I listed a bunch of social networking sites that do a good job of this. Another example is the people involved in the movie “The Shift“. Watch the trailer below to be blown away and if you can figure out a way to promote or help finish it being made — please do so.
Do you like where you live? Is your house filled with stuff? Do you enjoy where you work? All of these things influence your happiness and how you see your world. Home should be an oasis in every sense of the word. I work from home and know that things pile up fast and that having kids makes it near impossible to keep my place truly spotless the way it is in my mind’s eye. My house is very comfortable for me though. When I see it getting overcrowded with “stuff” I KNOW it is time to donate, sell and give away things. According to the Law of Attraction if you have too much stuff you are sending out signals that you have more than enough. Look around and ask yourself how much of the stuff you actually NEED. Clean off one drawer or dresser top a day and see how much better and powerful you begin to feel within one week. Messiness and being unorganized contributes to feeling out of control and unwell.
Along with your home is the area you live in. Are you happy where you live? Do you enjoy walking outside? Is there a place you can go nearby (park, museum, village) and enjoy “being”. I grew up in NYC and LOVED walking around the city. Now I live in upstate, NY and absolutely love looking out my windows and seeing mountains as well as walking to my nearby park. I walk there most of the year and cross country ski in the winter. I love the “downtown” area and enjoy walking around there. It is so important to get out of the house and explore other places. Make sure you have a few favorite places you can go that will bring that smile to your face.
Work is another place that you should be happy. Lawrence Cheok of “A Long Long Road ” has a wonderful series of posts called the “The Career Lover Series” in which he gives suggestions on how to turn your passion into a money-making career. If you are at a job that you don’t like you need to find some things positive about it until you can make that leap to doing something you love. Whether it be a positive person to have lunch with, the fact that you are making a salary big enough to put some away for when you will venture out and try something else….whatever it is be GRATEFUL for the things that are good about that position while you are figuring out “what’s next”. Concentrating on the bad at your job will only make it worse. Instead start looking into how you can make money doing something you love and be thankful you have some stability while you do that.
THINGS
Movies, books, television, songs, hobbies – all of these “things” influence our lives. Once you start to pay attention to what you are watching, reading or surrounding yourself with it is important acknowledge how those “things’ make you feel. Watching or listening to materials that make you laugh instead of feel negative or “down” is an easy way to change your mood. Chuck at “Personal-Development” has a post that goes deeply into all the “benefits of laughter“. Eckhart Tolle has a great video on “Your Pain Body is Very Seductive” below that touches on what watching violence does to your body and the importance of becoming aware of it.
There is a very good video by Judith Orloff M.D. on YouTube about energy vampires and how negative people affect us. Perhaps you will find it as interesting as I did.
Thank you Susan. I LOVE Judith’s talk on energy vampires and am sure my readers would enjoy it as well. Thank you for commenting and sharing the link. Gratefully, Jenny