Can positive energy have an effect on the world?
MusEditions had me thinking about this once again when she wrote this post. She had also told her reader’s about this group. Check it out, it is way cool! When I read about this project. It had me thinking about my upbringing. For those who know a little about me, know that I was raised in a home that believes in mind over matter, and energy being a powerful thing, both positive and negative.
When my cousin stayed with my Grandmother one summer, she accused him of killing some of her house plants. How? With his heavy metal music. The plants were on each speaker and had been healthy for
years. She said the negative energy from his music had killed them.
As children, we really did believe in this. That negative energy made us sick. If we did get sick, it was because we were holding something in or we were thinking things we shouldn’t be.
We also believed in the power of positive thinking. That it keeps you healthy. That it could help us attain things we wished for. Kind of like Karma. Do bad things and bad things will happen to you, the same
for good.
As I grew older. I still carried it with me but didn’t think that it may possibly change the world. Or heal. I questioned my belief more and more. I mean really, can thought heal? Isn’t it more likely that staying positive keeps you happy, and smiling, which makes you seem like you are getting better to those who see you? And if you were being negative, you look miserable, and start feeling miserable, and you look it. Which means you look under the weather. And you are less likely to fight illness when you are depressed and miserable?
Now for the confusing part. If the above is true…then it doesn’t that just prove the energy you give out does make a difference? Don’t medical doctor’s tell you to think positive for that same reason?
But can that same energy have the same effect on you sent from someone else? I never used to think so. But years ago, (I am so ashamed to admit this) a friend of mine used to visit with her son who was a toddler, about 2-3 years old at the time. She also had a daughter. For some reason she spoiled him rotten and he was a little brat. Always screaming and taking temper tantrums. Yet the girl was for the most part well behaved and not spoiled at all. And she was clean. The boy always had this runny nose, which he would wipe on anything he pleased. It grossed me out, and I tried to be polite and say she could use my tissues. She didn’t. So, I’d wipe this snotty nose, trying not to gag because I didn’t want it all over my furniture.
The terrible thing is, he knew that I wasn’t really keen about him. Not that I was mean in any way. But he sensed it. And I don’t think he was very keen about me either. I was blaming him for acting the way he did, and for having a runny nose 24 hours a day and a dirty little face.
When I realized this, I felt terrible! I decided that I had to change my attitude. The next time they came over, I opened the door with a smile and said hello to him, made a few rhymes with his name and touched the tip of his nose with my fingertip. He started laughing. I made a special effort to bond with him as I had with his sister. The effect was immediate. A complete change in his behavior! Not over a period of time. But within minutes. The entire visit, there wasn’t one outburst.
Was it the negative energy I had been sending out that made him act out? I wasn’t sure at first. But over the years we became chums and he rarely ever took tantrums unless he was tired. I got used to wiping his nose and face. It had been me, and my attitude that had made him act out. It had also been my change to a positive attitude, or energy, that changed his behavior for the better.
In a sense, positivity or sending out positive energy had made a change in another human being.
I think back now when I used to work with the public. I take any job I’m paid to do very serious. And if you work with the public, that means being nice and keeping a smile on your face, regardless how cranky you feel or how rude the customer is. I had people who never talked to anyone, chatting up a storm. People who were thought to be cranky and miserable, smiling and happy. I did that. What if we all did the same?
A smile is contagious. It sends out a positive vibe or energy. Try it on a stranger you pass. Say “hello”. It works wonders.
So can this work on a larger scale? A global scale? Why not?
Ill will to good will. Negative to positive? Call it what you want. But it IS a form of energy.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could send out postive energy to the Middle East? To World Leaders? If everyone created a ripple that turned into a huge wave of peace. Words not war. Compassion,
understanding and compromise.
It would be…Utopia?
While it may, one day, be possible. And there are people who actually work towards this, thank goodness, I don’t think there are enough of them to make the changes we need to make right now. But if they persist in attaining this goal and the more people who join in say, why not, it can’t hurt? Maybe, one day, we could see changes.
For that reason, I believe we still need people who take action. Who are not content with hoping everything will work out in the end. We need people to watch what is going on in this world, our government and educate people on these matters.
Why? Because innocent people die everyday. Because with power, there is greed and corruption. That isn’t going to change anytime soon. If we sat back and ignored these things, they would only get worse.
I cannot believe what is happening in Palestine is meant to be. I cannot believe that their life is worth any less than anyone else’s in this world. I cannot THINK our World Leaders into helping them when the media distorts the truth. When our leaders ignore the truth. If we don’t talk about it. More houses will be bulldozed, more crops destroyed. More people will die of hunger and lack of medical care and lack of basic human needs. Land is being stolen. Families are being driven off their land everyday. But for some reason it is all good. Our governments never say a word against this. But look at Russia is doing! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
See? Even I, a believer find it so hard to remain positive.
That is why we need people who take action, to educate or people who work in Human Rights groups. People like this, who want to bring aid to the Palestinian people.
Maybe, one day everyone will have caught the positive energy bug. A global attitude change. Until then, a balance between both is needed.
As my Grandmother has been telling me my entire life:
“You just wait until the Earth turns on it’s axis and all the riff-raff is gone. Only people willing to work together will be left.”
I remember it being a scary thought. I wondered when it was going to happen. Imagine a world that lived in peace? Would I be good enough or would I perish with the “riff-raff?”
Or did I just grow up in some kind of freaky “Adam’s Family” type of life? Who knows? But I wouldn’t change a thing. I think we all turned out relatively sane. A little quirky. To me it was just normal.
If you have made it this far, and haven’t been scared off, just do me one small favour. Throw out some positive energy at something negative this week. See what happens. Maybe, let me know if you notice anything.
