Overcoming Negative Energy and Negative Thoughts

As a rational person, you have a difficult time believing that negative energy impacts your life. The truth of the matter is that scientists have done research on the topic and they’ve come to the conclusion that negative energy can have a detrimental effect on the way you feel and the things you do.

​From your health to your relationships with others, energy will impact just about every aspect of your life. You can learn to control the negative energy for a more meaningful and fulfilling existence.

How Negative Energy Affects You

Negative energy and negative thoughts, whether coming from within or directed towards you, can have numerous serious effects on your life.

• A self-fulfilling prophecy: if you believe that something will sooner or later go wrong, chances are that you’re sabotaging your own efforts to achieve a positive outcome.
• Negative energy affects your relationships with others: negative energy can affect just about every relationship from friendships, to family ties and the relationship you have with a significant other. Criticism, contempt and avoidance are all common consequences of negative thoughts.
• Stress and anxiety: negative thoughts that go round and round in your head can make you feel stressed out, angry, anxious and even depressed. 
• Bad impact on healing and recovery: research suggests that people who are positive about their recovery deal with medical conditions faster and require a shorter recovery period than the ones that are negatively predisposed towards the process. Some research even suggests that positive thoughts improve cardiovascular health and strengthen the immune response.
• Self-limitation: the negative energy that we produce or that surrounds us will often make us think that we’re incapable of certain accomplishments. As a result, people that have negative energy in their life tend to set smaller goals and limit their growth in life.

Detecting and Overcoming Negative Energy

In order to overcome the impact of even a medium amount of negative energy, you’ll first have to learn how to detect it.

Very often, blocks and hindrances that have a negative impact on who we are and what we do are related to past experiences and negative occurrences in life. We have certain “shortcuts” for processing information and these are based on what has happened to us. If you’re getting in a situation that leads to pessimism and an immediate negative response, you’ll need to think about the factors that contribute to the specific way of handling the issue.

Detecting the signs of negative energy and thoughts coming from other people is a bit more challenging. Usually, you’ll feel unsafe and troubled in such situations. Off-putting vibes are connected to the negative way in which others see you or the world that surrounds them.

Negative energy is also the cause of sluggishness and lack of focus. Here’s a simple example – if you don’t like your job or the relationships that you have with colleagues, chances are that you’ll have no desire to get up in the morning and go to the office. Everyday work activities will be connected to anxiety and it will be so difficult to complete the process quickly.

The Best Ways to Get Rid of Negative Energy

Now that you’ve identified your own bad thoughts or the negative impact that other people have on your life, it’s time to come up with a strategy for overcoming those influences. Here’s how to do it:

• Learn to laugh and be a bit more lighthearted: laughter and humor are some of the best coping mechanisms. Laughter lightens up the mood and creates positive vibes. The more you find it difficult to laugh about challenging situations, the more menacing they’re going to become.
• It’s not about you: the responses of negative people often stem from their own insecurities. It’s not about you and it’s definitely not about the things that you do.
• You’re entitled to happiness: if you believe that you don’t deserve to be happy, you’ll allow negative energy to control your life. Start believing that you deserve happiness. Negative self-talk stems from an inherent belief that you’re not good enough and you don’t deserve nice things.
• Practice gratitude: being grateful for every little thing that has happened in your life will invite more positive experiences in your life. The mindful practice of gratitude can be as simple as starting a gratitude journal.
• Help others without expecting anything in return: people that want to get positive vibes in their life are willing to help others and be involved in dealing with challenging situations (even if they affect somebody else). Negativity and selfishness are related to each other and they will become your life companions if you don’t want to get involved and assist others.
• Surround yourself with positive people: you may want to rethink some of the relationships that you have. Keeping negative people in your life is one of the best ways to feel down all of the time. This doesn’t mean discontinuing relationships with friends and acquaintances who are currently experiencing a hard period. The tip refers to people who have a negative perception of life, regardless of the things that happen.
• Professional help: it can't be said enough that it is OK to ask for help when you need it. Psychologists or child psychologists, dieticians, coaches, etc. can help you and your family manage negative energy.

Positive energy can be cultivated. It’s very important to understand the fact that you’re the person who’s ultimately responsible for happiness. People can’t make you feel a certain way if you don’t allow them to. A couple of mindful changes will make it much easier to keep negative energy away and to prevent it from affecting your life.

Of course if negativity moves into depression, it can be helpful to seek the help of a psychologist or if you see this in one of your children, a child psychologist. Having an outside perspective can help you evaluate your thinking and bring a new perspective to your situation.