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How Do Positivity and Toxic Positivity Differ?
The difference in how each variant of positivity works comes down to reality.
I am a huge proponent of positivity. That should come as no surprise.
However, I also believe that you cannot just live on positivity. Bad things occur, shit happens, and you cannot just avoid, deny, or neglect that.
The notion of toxic positivity is to deny and ignore the negative. Gloss it over, pretend it is not there. But that’s not realistic in any way.
Life is a paradox. Yin and yang. You will always have a little of this and a little of that in your life. Sometimes there will be a lot of this, that, or the other thing.
Too vague? I cannot be more specific nor direct here because how I experience life is not going to be the same as how you experience it.
Positivity raises your frequency, which in turn allows you to draw more good things to yourself. Negativity lowers your frequency, which in turn allows you to draw more bad things to yourself. You can and will experience both.
Bad things can, will, and do happen. Many, even most of them, are likely totally outside of your control.
