contagious negativity

Last night, I made a trip to Cleveland to spend the day with my friends at Journey Wealth. I’ve recorded a couple of podcasts with Adam Bruderly, and we spent the day comparing notes about how to bring spirit, mind, and body to financial planning. It’s really cool and refreshing to see a firm aligned with my own beliefs and visions and to hear about how they are changing what financial planning looks like and consists of. I hinted on the episode of LifeDesign+ with Adam that I saw the potential for more collaborative efforts to bring more awareness to how spirit, mind, and body connect to life and financial planning, and after today, I think there will be more coming soon.

I decided to take advantage of the time in the car to make some progress in The Power of Now and listened to a few chapters (I used to think listening to books was cheating, and while I prefer to hold the book, I’ve warmed up to audiobooks). Knowing that I had a busy day that was starting early, I made a mental note to come back to a section in the book I wanted to share.

The following paragraph discusses the contagious nature of negativity and will hopefully inspire you to change your default state to positive, or at least be more aware of when negativity creeps up and find your way out of it. If you don’t, as Eckhart shares, it will spread.

“Either stop doing what you are doing, speak to the person concerned and express what you feel, or drop the negativity that your mind has created around the situation and that serves no purpose whatsoever except to strengthen a false sense of self. Recognizing its futility is important. Negativity is never the optimum way of dealing with any situation. In fact, in most casses it keeps you stuck in it, blocking real change. Anything that is done with negative energy will become contaminated by it and in time give rise to more pain, more unhappiness. Furthermore, any negative inner state is contagious: Unhappiness spreads more easily than a physical disease. Through the law of resonance, it triggers and feeds latent negativity in others, unless they are immune—that is, highly conscious.”

The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle

Not only do you need to manage your own negativity but also the negativity of those around you that is looking to spread to you.

See you tomorrow and keep pursuing,

JC