There is a lot of negativity swirling around right now

There is a lot of negativity swirling around now. Dark yet subtle energy that is so persuasive that it is almost intoxicating because it comes in the guise of supporting us. Enticing us to its side because it makes us believe it is there to help us feel better about ourselves by engaging in negative chatter and destroying others. It snakes its way into our space when it sees and feels the slightest crack of vulnerability. Taking that as its invitation to find its way into our hearts. Encouraging us to fill ourselves with what we believe to be its acceptance. Allowing ourselves to become ensnared in its comforting embrace. Tempting us to spread its darkness, its tendrils into the hearts of others.

Pulling us down into its darkest depths. Shrouding us from seeing the light. From accepting we are the light. Blocking us from feeling the light in our souls because we begin to believe there are more negative people and events in this world than there are positive. Because we can't see that negativity only begates negativity - and if we are negative that's all we will attract. We falsely believe that being positive is a constant state and when we can’t hold on to it, we become frustrated. And take the path of least resistance - believing the only path is darkness.

In doing so, we go outside of ourselves for answers. Going where those dark tendrils want to lead us - seeking the praise of others, seeking to please others, seeking to be found.  Because that’s what darkness does. What negativity does. Alluring at first until all we can see is the dark. All we can feel is negativity. And then we can’t breathe. Can’t see. Can’t find our way out of the darkness because we feel so weighted down by the guilt, fear and the insecurity that come with hanging out in the dark. As they are the constant companions of darkness.

And the more we try to find our way out, the more negativity we attract until we realize the only way out is to accept we  have to be able to praise ourselves first, please ourselves first and to accept we are never lost. We are always found because we always know where we are even though we pretend that we don’t.

It is so much easier it seems to be negative because then people run to our sides. They whisper with us about the injustices of the world. They spit angry thoughts out so that we can join them. But what we don’t realize is when we are intent on keeping others down, the only people we truly keep down are ourselves.

And the only way we can find our way out of the darkness is to accept being in the light is a journey, a process not a destination. That the light is with us all the time but we have to be willing to step into it. To be it even when we are tempted by the dark side. Even when we fall to the dark side. Vulnerability comes to help us to be the light we are meant to be by exposing our flaws so we can grow not hide behind them by pulling everyone else down to the depths of darkness.

Accepting our vulnerabilities, our trials allow us to know and accept life can be hard sometimes. Sometimes it will knock us right down but we have to be careful that we do not allow ourselves to believe that life is hard, that the world is dark and against us because when we do, that becomes the world we live in. The world we inhabit. So it is totally us to us to be the light we want in our lives in order to attract more of it into our lives.