How Negative Energy Affects Your Life and How to Clear It

You know that like attracts like, right? So here’s the deal: Positive people are drawn to positive energy; negative people are drawn to negative energy.

We tend to perceive negative energy as something other people have. Sure, sometimes we feel negative – as in, “go away and leave me alone, world!” but did you know that negativity can be so ingrained in you that it goes unnoticed?

That’s because negativity sometimes wears a disguise called ‘reality’. It’s easy to rationalize that you’re ‘just being realistic’ in not daring to act on a dream – and believe it!

You may assume that positive people are not being realistic – that they’re being naive, that they are in denial with their heads stuck in the sand, that they put on fake smiles in the face of difficulty and so forth.  But are they really happy idiots or is there something to their positivity?

Consider this: since when does ‘being realistic’ necessarily mean that things will go wrong and that you have to accept that as the truth?

That doesn’t mean that being realistic is automatically negative. When you view the world from a ‘realistic’ standpoint, you can’t help but be negative IF your version of reality is negative.

If your version of reality is negative, you are conditioned to believe that whatever can go wrong, will go wrong and whatever can go right, will probably go wrong too. Your unconsciously held beliefs make you into a negative person without your being aware of it!

So – if this negativity is so ingrained in you that you don’t notice it, how do you determine whether you’re stuck in a cloud of negative energy that is attracting the wrong people, wrong situations and wrong feelings? And how can you be sure you’re not perpetuating that negativity?

Here’s a quick quiz to gauge the level of negative energy within you:

• Do you complain? All the time or just sometimes?
• Do you often discuss what’s wrong in the world more than what’s right? This includes the ‘terrible’ weather, ‘horrible’ traffic, ‘idiotic’ government, ‘lousy’ economy, ‘stupid’ in-laws, etc.
• Do you criticize? All the time or just certain people?
• Are you attracted to drama and disaster (can you unglue yourself from the TV when there’s a news story of a disaster and can you avoid getting involved in the lives of dysfunctional celebrities?)
• Do you blame? All the time or just certain situations?
• Do you believe that you have no control over most of your results?
• Do you feel like a victim? Do you talk about people doing things to you?
• Are you grateful for what is or will you be grateful when things finally start going right for you?
• Do you feel like things are happening to you? Or do you feel that they are happening through you?

This last two points are important:

If you’re not grateful except when things go right, you are negative. Gratitude is positive. If you are grateful for what is (including the unpleasant school of life lessons, then you can invite more and more positive energy into your life.

Believing that things happen to you puts you in the role of victim; then it’s easy to be negative because it’s convenient to give up that power. So consider this alternative: who or what is to blame when GOOD things happen to you? Do you acknowledge that you are responsible for the good things – as in, you worked hard, you earned it, etc… but blame external events or other people for your failures? So how come, when good things happen, they are a result of what you do, but when bad things happen, they are not your fault?

Nobody likes to hear that. It takes courage to accept that you create your life experience!

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you are holding on to negative energy to some degree! To clear your negative energy and raise your vibration, you will need to retrain yourself to choose a positive attitude.

Here’s another interesting idea to consider: have you noticed that positive people seem to get what they want out of life, and even if things don’t go their way, they still enjoy their lives… while negative people whine and moan about their misfortunes and even the good things in their lives?

To clear negative energy, try this 3 -step process:

1. Take ownership:

“When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.” – the Dalai Lama

2. Cancel negative thoughts and replace them with positive thoughts.

This takes practice, dedication and making a decision to see the world through the eyes of “what can go right” instead of “what can go wrong.” You’ll have to catch yourself anytime you are acting out or speaking out your negativity, and immediately change your tune.

3. Use the Love or Above Spiritual Toolkit to clear your energy and bring more light and love into your life;  visualize the positive instead of getting sucked into negativity; overcome past conditioning; think intuitively from the soul instead from ‘reality’; create a new, desired reality in your imagination and manifest it in the outer world. Nobody wants negative energy to permeate their lives, yet many of us allow it. But we allow it unconsciously, based on past conditioning that suggests an inevitable outcome to certain situations. When you overcome that conditioning and realize that the future is NOT cast in stone but that you have more control over your circumstances than you believe – then you can begin to consciously design your life.

What’s going to happen then? Your positive energy will magnetically attract what you consider to be good and right for you: people, situations, things… and you’ll notice a huge, huge increase in your happiness and inner peace. Why not choose positive energy? Make some changes within, and you’ll quickly see positive changes in your life. Enjoy the good feelings and abundance!

3 Entrepreneurs Who Turned Easter Into Sweet Business

Easter time for most means an eclectic mix of bunny ears, colored eggs, candy and crosses that don’t intuitively fit together as a holiday. However, for a few intrepid entrepreneurs over the last century, Easter has meant a huge opportunity for big business.

Here are some interesting stories on the sweet success of a few Easter entrepreneurs whose confections you’ve likely sampled from your own basket on Easter morning.

Chocolate Easter Bunnies: The combination of bunnies and Easter has been around since the Middle Ages. Likely, Christians of the time borrowed or adopted some of the pagan symbols of spring and the season of fertility, such as the rabbit and eggs, and voila, a strange hybrid was born. Chocolate Easter bunnies have been made for centuries, but the credit of mass production for public consumption goes to The Bortz Chocolate Company in Pennsylvania. Founded in 1916, the Bortz Company started producing standardized, chocolate-formed bunnies to capitalize on the popularity of Easter candy. However, it was around World War II, when automation was becoming commonplace, that the mass-market chocolate bunny business started booming and parents started buying the bunnies en masse for their children’s baskets. 

The Bortz Company was already making standard chocolate bunnies, but they took this emerging craze even further when it started to give the chocolate bunnies personalities, making them more playful and collectable by children who would ask for their specific bunnies by name. By 1934 The Bortz Chocolate Company was offering children (or rather their parents) options such as the accordion-playing bunny and the car-driving bunny. Whatever the personality, chocolate bunnies were wildly popular with families and good business for The Bortz Chocolate Company. The family sold their confectionary business to a Canadian company, The Allan Company, in the early '90s, but the production of chocolate Easter bunnies carries on.

Peeps: Perhaps one of the most quintessential Easter treats, Peeps are a long-time staple of every child’s Easter basket. These crystallized sugar-coated marshmallow chicks were hatched by the confection company founded by Russian immigrant Sam Born. While the idea for Peeps didn’t come from Born himself, his son Bob is largely responsible for the sugary treat. In 1953, Sam Born’s company, Just Born, acquired the Rodda Candy Company. Along with the acquisition came its labor-intensive marshmallow products that would later become Peeps.

The original process brought to the Born Company by Rodda required workers to hand squeeze marshmallows through pastry bags to form and fill the shape molds. Bob Born saw an opportunity with Peeps when he joined the family business in 1946 and figured out a way to mechanize this time-consuming process to solidify Peeps as a mass-producible treat. Peeps are now made in a variety of offerings for holidays throughout the year, and no matter when you get your Peeps, they’ll always be made here in the U.S.A. by this family-owned company.

The Cadbury Crème Egg: John Cadbury began his confectionery shop in England in the 1824. He was creating all kinds of classic and experimental chocolate creations, when around 1875, the Cadbury shop decided to put out its own Cadbury-branded Easter egg for the candy-centric holiday. The original Cadbury “Easter” eggs were dark chocolate filled with sugared almonds instead of the crème. However, with advances in chocolate-making that included the ability to separate out cocoa butter from the cocoa bean, chocolate became a much more malleable art.

Able to press chocolate into molds to hollow out the middle, the Cadbury shop began experimenting with how the candy was decorated outside and what was put inside the chocolate shell. It wasn’t until 1923, long after John Cadbury’s death, however, that the first crème-filled egg was introduced to market. Perfecting the filling took time, but according to Cadbury, the Crème Egg we know and love today didn’t come to proper form until 1971. That, combined with the massively popular “clucking bunny” advertising campaign that began in 1982, turned the Cadbury Crème egg into an American favorite for Easter.

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