The Problem With Neutrality

Maintaining neutrality over positivity or negativity doesn’t serve you when it comes to choices and decisions.

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For years, I have espoused the values of conscious reality creation, mindfulness, and positivity in my Pathwalking philosophy.

When it comes to positivity, however, many quickly jump to toxic positivity. In the simplest of terms, toxic positivity is positivity used to disregard, ignore, and erase negativity at the expense of true awareness.

If the opposite of positivity is negativity — and it is — then between them is neutrality. Recognizing this, many people attempt to maintain neutrality in their doings. This is because they believe remaining neutral is safe.

To be fair, it is. But it is also utterly disempowering.

I believe there are three primary ways to live your life.

1. Let life live you. What happens, happens, and you take it as it comes. This is neutrality.
2. Curl up in a ball and await death. See the downside of most things, expect the worst, be the victim of life. This is negativity.
3. Take life like the bull by the horns. You make choices and decisions about how your life is to be. You act to drive your life. This is positivity.