How often are you feeling and acting offended ? What if, instead of bombarding your brain with the usual negative news stories and angry arguments on social media, you took a day or two to focus on more positive stimuli? Set a goal of a time frame to play with. Perhaps you’d like to start with a day. If you could refrain or limit yourself from following the news, dramas, and protests on the Internet or social media, you might experience a dramatic improvement in your mood.
You may have to take a small technology break if you are unable to set boundaries from upsetting news or offensive subjects. The idea is to shift some of the energy you may be using daily from stress, worry, and drama to love, joy, and peacefulness. Many people may not know how to create that type of day, but there are many ways to go about engaging yourself in more positive energy.
It takes a decision or intention. It takes being more aware of our reactions daily. When we are constantly filling our minds with the atrocities of many events in the world, along with worrying about stressful scenarios, you are contributing to and experiencing unpleasant energy in the world. As much as news reports focus on bad things, it’s easy to forget that good things are happening in the world at the same regularity. You may have to look for them and respond less to the negativity coming through your screens, but they are there nonetheless .
The energy you absorb and create with your feelings not only affects your experience in the present, it also has a large impact on what you attract into your life. When you take offense to the perspective of another, you attract more things to be upset or offended about. Are you praising and being grateful throughout your day? Or are you upset and offended by your surroundings? What energy are you a bigger part of? Once you are a bit more aware of how you are vibrating, you have more choices and control of what energy and emotions you want to dance with more in your life.
An easy start for receiving more positivity is doing some random acts of kindness. It can be random, or just taking the time to be more thoughtful or helpful to someone in your life. Not only will it uplift someone’s energy, it will also uplift your own. I’m not even sure if it’s a more joyful experience to give a gift from the heart or to receive one. I think it can be a close tie in many situations. As much as we feel good on the inside to give, some of us need to learn to receive as well. When you are not open to receiving help, love, or a gift from another, you are stealing their joy and opportunity they need to give as well. Many times we let our ego be more prideful and refuse help, therefore blocking love from ourselves and others.
To help another or execute an act of kindness, we need a giver and receiver. When you are always the giver and not the receiver, you set up an emotional imbalance. You block your own gifts of receiving and are less helpful with yourself and others. It helps to be more open with the energy moving in both ways.
Start with a list of things you can do in your day and upcoming week. If you have financial restrictions, you can do simple things like being patient and kind at the store, presenting the best version of yourself to anyone you come into contact with, holding a door for someone. You can do some simple things like…offering a smile, noticing an elderly person near you that you could run an errand for, helping with someone’s yard, or visiting someone lonely . Once you start thinking in small terms, you can come up with many little things you could do that would lighten another’s day and help your own energy.
Even more fun (if it’s an option for you) would be to make a care or gift basket for a friend who has been struggling with something. Buy movie tickets and babysit for some parents that do not get the opportunity to get to go out often. Cook dinner for someone’s family. Take a friend or a colleague some coffee or goodies on your way to work, or perhaps give those you work with something that lets them know they are appreciated.
Any of these things goes a long way. Doing them will allow you to uplift the spirits of others and perhaps inspire them to do the same. You may inspire them to continue to pass the kindness along, effecting more kind acts onto the world. All the while lifting yourself to higher vibrations. Those vibrations contribute to your experience and the world we live in. Ask yourself, what do you want to contribute to yourself, your friends, your family, and your world? It starts with how you use and consume your energy. Try for a day, or two, or a week to be less offended and more kind. See what it does for your life and joy.