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Always Positive is Impossible

How long you remain in a state that is not positive is a choice you get to make.

Murray "MJ" Blehart
4 min readFeb 10, 2020

Many people dislike any push for positivity. Why? Because they feel it’s artificial. You are ignoring major issues both with yourself and the world at large. Positivity all the time, they will argue, is impossible.

On the one hand, they are correct. Always positive is impossible. As a human being, you will have experiences that are bad. You will have negative feelings, bad things happening to you, and other things that will occur well outside of your control that are going to be negative.

On the other hand, they are incorrect. Feeling positive and being positive do not ignore major issues — nor are they artificial. This is because the overarching concept behind positivity is the choice over negativity.

Abundance vs lack and scarcity

The world is full of people fighting perceived lack and scarcity where none truly exists. For example, immigrants, women, people of color, LGBTQ peoples are not taking jobs, opportunities, space, or what-have-you from a limited supply. Any and all limitations in these things are artificial.

This is a world of abundance. Besides the vast size of the cosmos itself, look at money and the…

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Murray "MJ" Blehart
Murray "MJ" Blehart

Written by Murray "MJ" Blehart

I explore mindfulness, positivity, philosophy, & conscious reality creation. I love to help & inspire. Also, I write sci-fi/fantasy. http://mjblehart.com

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