Does Your Brain Go To The "Negativity Playground"?

Does your brain go to “the negativity play ground”?

Every day is full of new discoveries.  The possibilities are endless.  Some discoveries are exciting and some are enlightening.

We strive to live a positive life.  We do our best to keep our minds on a course of prosperity, health and wisdom.  Everyone know that nothing is perfect and that now and then a “little negativity creeps in”

I often wondered where it came from, was it lurking around the corner laying in wait for the right moment to spring a thought or idea on us that is less than positive?  Have we not “beaten” mostly all of the negative thought processes out of our being?

I made a discovery this morning that was rather enlightening about negativity. 

Each month I pay the bills on our 12 rentals (it’s a necessity not a joy).  All of the units are rented and the tenants are all pretty responsible with just typical renter’s problems.  In the past we have had people move in the middle of the night, taking anything they could with them including the appliances that we provide.  Not pay rent, not pay utilities, leaving huge messes.  However we are NOT experiencing any of this right now.

As I look at each invoice and matched each account number with the address, I realized what was going on in my brain.  I would come to an address that in the PAST had a less than desirable (putting it kindly) tenant and this is what my brain would say, “address 1455 Gina, what a crook”, address 1463 Ephrem, that nationality can’t be trusted (we had 4 of that nationality rent from us and all 4 did the same thing).

Do you see what is going on here?  My brain is having this negative conversation and I didn’t even hear it until I was on the last invoice.  Then I had to yell back to my brain that those people don’t live there any more. (by the way, it already knew that)

Why is it that I don’t know who lives in what unit right now when things are good but I can remember who lived there a year ago?

Do you see how past evens frame the life that you are living right now?  It doesn’t matter if the past evens are negative or positive, the event have an impact on us that is hard to deny.  They form the person that we are.

What I am saying here is that YOUR brain doesn’t need any help heading off to the “negativity play ground”.  What it does need your help with is keeping on a positive track.  Give it some help and when the lurking negative thoughts jump out to surprise you, bring some of your fight to the game and duck, swerve or what ever is necessary not to let it take over and move into your brain, because negativity breeds negativity and when it multiplies it is a hard thing to chase down and get rid of.

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