Why and How Does Genuine, Real Positivity Build Things and Empower?

Because genuine positivity is a creative force that will build things and empower us.

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Positivity is not a permanent state of being.

That’s because, realistically, there is no single state of being for anyone. That’s just the way it works. We all go through various states of being depending on any number of circumstances both in and out of our control.

Toxic positivity tends to postulate that always being positive in mind, body, and spirit is the end-all-be-all. But that’s simply not true and totally unrealistic.

All of us live in this world of extremes. But the key there is IN the world of extremes — not AT the extremes. Sure, sometimes we reach an extreme on one end of the cylinder or the other. But for the most part — we exist between all given extremes.

And by extremes, I mean the likes of up and down, black and white, good and evil, dark and light, big and small, and of course positive and negative. These are extremes we tend to refer to as opposite sides of a coin. But in truth, it’s not the thin edge of a coin between these extremes — it’s a cylinder.

What’s more — it’s a flexible cylinder. It’s colored by each of us and our values, beliefs…