7 Ways To Cut Negativity Out Of Your Life
Let’s talk about 7 ways to cut negativity out of your life. Negativity is successes worse enemy. It has the ability to destroy virtually anything positive and prosperous. The truth is that negativity is only as dangerous as you allow it to be. Us as individuals have the ability to completely control and cut out negativity with just a decision and a few simple habits.
Let me put a little disclaimer here and let you know that the only way to effectively remove negativity from your life, is to change yourself, not anyone else. Make the internal changes and the rest will fall into place.
1. Change Your Environment
If you’ve been getting overrun with negativity, chances are you’ve been marinating in it, literally, and environmentally. Remove yourself from toxic social circles, or any place where you can see, hear, and or feel negativity. Find a peaceful, quiet place where you can focus on cultivating a positive mindset.
2. Keep Your Living Space Clean
Have you ever given your place a complete overhaul? I mean a thorough cleaning top to bottom, dusting, organizing,etc. How did it make you feel? Personally, it brought me great joy and clarity. I felt like I could breathe and get my life together. If you’re bogged down by negativity and need to feel that mental freedom and clarity, start picking up after yourself and get to cleaning. Let your living space reflect how you want to feel.
3. Start Working Out Daily
Endorphins are a type of hormone that causes a state of euphoria throughout the body. Things like sex and exercise are two of the main activities that can cause an endorphin rush. I recommend exercise here because unfortunately, not everyone has such a booming sex life.
A big part of shedding negativity is physical self transformation. People tend to have weight and body image issues which lead to low self esteem, and ultimately negativity. If you’re not happy with yourself, you may project those negative feelings onto other people, judging and criticizing them. Getting in shape gives us a sense of achievement, making us feel competent, resulting in positive self perception.
4. Avoid Negative Media
Everything we expose ourselves to will always effect our state in some way shape or form. Many of us have a tendency to gravitate toward drama, and violence in the form of entertainment. This constant stream of negativity shows up in our behavior. It effects our mood, our ability to learn, and our productivity.
Watch enough war movies and you might start to develop a fetish for guns, be desensitized to violence, or even develop aggressive behavior towards others. All the time we spend watching negative nonsense is opportunity we miss to engage in something positive like learning and working towards our goals to reach a sense of fulfillment.
Everything we partake in, comes down to making a choice between positive and negative influence.
5. Stop Participating In Negative Speech
We get easily sucked into a prolonged state of negativity due to the fact that words have more power than we realize. Hearing negative speech has the capability of reprogramming our thought processes over time. Whether its someone else’s speech or our own, it works just the same and needs the same level of vigilance. This means that you have to avoid entertaining the negative speech of others, and it also means, no negative speech from you either.
You can either give thanks for the good in your life, or you can complain constantly and be consumed by how bad you feel about what you don’t have.
6. Speak Positive To Yourself, About Yourself
No one is going to take care of you better than you can take care of yourself, therefore we should treat every morning that we wake as an opportunity to empower ourselves. Speak love to yourself, look in the mirror and speak words of confidence to yourself. “Nothing has the right or ability to defeat me!” “I am powerful, unique, and filled with greatness!” “I am getting everything I want out of life!” Repeat words like this to yourself daily and habitually without fail and watch your life change.
7. Listen To Positive Audio Everyday
Speaking positive to ourselves is powerful without question. Now couple that with the power and encouragement from others and you have the ability to completely erase and repel any negativity. To provide that external voice of power, very successful life coaches and motivational speakers have created audio books and things of that nature. In a world where negativity is so easily thrust onto us, empowering speech is mandatory for all of us, no exceptions. Even the most successful people on the planet abide by this rule and invest in positive audio. From personal experience I can tell you that applying this ritual everyday, is life changing.
Apply these methods and incorporate them into your daily life, and watch your life change drastically.
Drop a comment below and let me know which ones of these you see helping you.