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Ask and Ye Shall Receive
Negativity or positivity — you receive what you ask the Universe for.
True fact: Spend 2 minutes scrolling through Facebook or Twitter and you will find bad news.
Some will be deeply personal. Someone passed away, a relationship ended, a job was lost, and so on. Most, though, will be broad and utterly impersonal. Politics, the ongoing pandemic, global warming, and on and on.
This can very quickly become overwhelming. I get it. Part of why I have been working to limit my time on social media is to stop myself from doomscrolling. Doing so can be both tempting and addicting.
I work hard to be an optimist. To do so, I’m constantly working to overcome inherent skepticism. The whole reason I started writing weekly on the topic of positivity was to put some more optimism out into a pessimistic, cynical, skeptical world.
Why? Because what you focus on you get. Like the Law of Gravity, the Law of Attraction is a natural law that works whether you believe in it or not.
Ergo, if you focus on the negatives of the world — that’s what you will see. It will confirm your belief that the world is a shitshow. Conversely, if you focus on the positives of the world — that’s what you will see.
