Written by Mathew Naismith
I got some interesting responses from my last post Releasing
Negativity; they were neither negative nor positive just interesting. I’m going to share some of these interactions
with you in this post today.
Eddie
Any slightest or
subtlest movements of pushing the dislike and pulling the like creates a
resistance that forms dualities separating us and the nature of what is with a
boundary
Negative and positive motion and reaction is defined by this
push & pull effect, the more we react the more friction we incur, the chaotic
state this world is in I think mirrors this. How about if we were all positive,
there would be no negatives to contend with would there? Not quite, a positive
action is of the pulling effect but against what? Why would we be pulling or trying
to be positive when there is no negative to push away?
What I think is happening here is any reaction causes
another reaction which causes another reaction and so on within a cycle of
reaction, positive against negative. The
reaction of positivity instantly creates a negative, action reaction, push and
pull , what if we just stopped reacting to either negative or positive responses?
We would no longer be within this cycle or any other cycle. Not responding to positivity
& living to a cycle sounds unemotional but it’s not.
What would utter peace and tranquillity feel like? If you
have no push and pull, negative and positive, good or bad etc. you would have
to have peace and tranquillity. You can actually try this process with others
when in disagreement.
Recently I wrote what I thought was a positive post however
I ended up with what I deemed as a negative response to this positive post of
mine. Yes the person was meant to be negative within his response, put into a
number of words; I was dishonest and wrong period. The post in question was about honesty within
spirituality.
The discussion ended up with negative expressions being
thrown at various people involved in this discussion. What was deemed to be a positive
post by me produced native responses, this is a pull effect (positivity) creating
a push effect (negativity). Who would think something positive could
create a negative but that is what happened because I perceived my post to be positive
(pull) but others perceived it to be negative (push).
Banyan Tree Healing
Center
Personally, I don't
believe in trying to block out or put up walls against negativity. The real
mastery is to practice holding a neutral or compassionate consciousness in the
face of "negativity". Putting up walls is a form of denial, avoidance,
and arrogance. It says "I am above other people and their suffering".
Anyone can do that.
Me
I'm trying to be neutral & neither see a
positive or negative but boy this is so easy to say but not so easy to
accomplish.
I realise for one do
this one needs to be living within an environment conductive to this, most of
us aren't in that sort of environment I'm afraid so my best will have to
do.
Most people’s environment isn’t conductive to this process
of being able to release ourselves of this push
and pull effect, negative and positive reaction, but I think just by being
aware of our positive/negative reactions should be suffice in creating a more peaceful tranquil
life for ourselves .
Next time you become aware of a negative and/or positive
reaction, push and pull effect, try practicing in not seeing or feeling a positive
or negative. When this is practiced enough, you will begin to feel quite at
peace because of a newly found freedom. This freedom by the way is not just looking at
the ego as being negative and destructive but how the ego can be very
constructive. The destructive ego creates this push and pulls effect however on
the other hand the creative ego doesn’t have this effect to combat and this is
where I feel we get this feeling of freedom from. It’s not about combating (pushing) the ego
with egoless but sort of changing this destructive ego into a constructive ego from
within.
You could say by changing something that is still enacting a
push and pull effect but it’s not, all we have to do is stop/ease this push and
pull effect down a bit and the ego will quite automatically change itself. You
could say it’s truly magic and it certainly feels that way!!
