How Can Negativity Possibly Be Empowering?

Negativity is an unexpected teacher.

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Positivity, the opposite of negativity, is empowering. In a fear-based society, overloaded with fake lack, scarcity, and insufficiency, positivity is necessary. There is, however, a catch. You can’t have positivity without negativity.

The mistake that toxic positivity makes is its utter denial of negativity. Toxic positivity tells you to blot out negativity, ignore it, put blinders on to it, avoid it, and disregard it. That is, however, impossible. Shit happens. No matter who you are, you’ll experience loss, grief, pain, suffering, and all the negatives you can conceive of.

Genuine positivity recognizes the need for negativity. Yes, you read that correctly — positivity needs negativity. You and I live in a universe of paradoxes, opposites, and nuances where you can never eliminate any one thing for another. Thus, positivity does, in fact, need negativity.

This is because positivity is a creator to negativities destroyer. It’s about high and low frequencies, which all energies vibrate at. There will always be a range of frequencies from low to high and everywhere in between.

The black and white of extremes and opposites gets most of the focus in our society. They are, however, extremes and opposites. They don’t…