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This week’s focus is negativity.

We all experience negativity, many of us on a daily basis.  We forget things, we lose things, we break things, we get angry, we get frustrated…the list goes on and on.

It’s how we deal with this negativity that matters.  The easy way to deal with it is to project it outward toward others, letting your negative energies affect the people around you, bringing everyone down.  That’s not how we need to deal with those energies.

Another easy way to deal with those energies is to bottle them up inside, pretending that there’s nothing wrong and moving along through your day.  That isn’t a good way to deal with those negative energies, either, as it doesn’t take long for those energies to build up until they MUST go somewhere, which is when they push you to what is called a nervous breakdown, or even worse, push you toward releasing your negative energies in a way that can be physically and emotionally devastating to others.

Take a few minutes a day for meditation.  Settle into your comfort zone, light your aromatherapy candles, take a deep breath, shut your eyes and relax into a gentle mantra.  Let the negative energy vaporize as you accept it and then release it.

This week’s mantra, (again, this is only a suggestion.  Feel free to use whatever calming mantra you may prefer):

Negative out, positive in

Letting go, cleansing me

Feel peace, love harmony

Negative out, positive in.

One final note:  Many will find themselves crying as they release negative energy.  This is perfectly fine and does indeed help the cleansing process.  Let it out – keeping negative energy inside does no one any good, and the sooner it is released in this effective and safe manner, the better you will feel.

Serenity be yours.

**Note: You can also hear this meditation by heading over to SelfSpirit’s Keen listing.**

Our meditation focus this week is Finding Peace.

In our mad rush world, it is often difficult to find a moment to call our own.  There are so very many things to get done that we often forget to take time out to recharge our energies when they become sapped by our day to day stresses.

However, too much of this stress can cause serious physical and mental problems.  When we allow ourselves to become too overwhelmed with work and other stresses, we use all of our stored energies, leaving none within to sustain us when we truly need it the most.  Most people define the loss of those energies as a nervous breakdown.

Instead of saying to yourself, “I just don’t have the time,” try making some time just for you.  Many fellow SelfSpirit path walkers find that time by going to bed a little earlier and getting up a little earlier, while the rest of the household is asleep.   Some retreat for a brief five or ten minutes to their personal meditation space, blocking everyone and everything out for a short while in order to meditate.

No matter how you choose to regenerate some positive personal energy, try to make time each day to do so.  Even if it’s only five or ten minutes.

Our mantra this week:

(Remember, this is only a suggested mantra.  You are welcome to use whatever comes to your mind.)

Regroup, recharge

No rush, no stress

I am, I can, I do.