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How to Release
Negativity Quickly
Just the other day I was flying from Zurich to Bangkok
and whilst reading a magazine giving advice on how to let
go of negativity I remembered a time many years ago when I
lived in Hong Kong.
This period of my life was often quite difficult and there
were a couple of things that I would do that would always
shift my state from a negative to a positive one.
I continue to use them when I need to change my state
quickly.
I thought I would pass them on to you, as they really do
have a permanent and positive effect.
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OK, so the first thing is simply to write. On numerous
occasions when I was living in Hong Kong and feeling down I
would go to a cafe, get out my journal and write.
This is no reflection of Hong Kong by the way, it just so
happened that I was living there whilst learning about some
of my deeper negative patterns of behavior.
I never wrote with the purpose of achieving anything, I
just wrote about how I was feeling, which was often quite
low at that time.
I would not hold back at all with the content of what I
wrote. If I wanted to judge another person or situation, I
would just go ahead and do it.
It was as if I was letting all my badness come out onto
paper.
So when next you are feeling really stuck or negative and
you can't seem to move it, get out pen and paper and start
writing. Remember you are not writing a book or an article,
you are just writing your feelings. Don't censor your
writing in any way, let it all out, judge, scream and shout
onto the paper.
Take as long as it takes until you start to feel better.
What you will find is that your creative juices will start
to flow again, you may see solutions, get new ideas or just
feel way more positive.
This is such an easy method of getting past your negative
blocks, you just have to give your self the time to do it.
The most difficult part of this technique is to actually
get your self to do it. When you are in a negative state,
it is more difficult to get your self to do anything, so
just remember not to listen to your negative self talk and
just go and write.
You'll be amazed at how quickly you can shift your state.
The second thing I would do that would always shift my
state from negative to positive was to dance or just
express through moving my body.
You don't need to be a dancer to do this, its very simple
and you can do it with our without music.
All you do to start is to find a private space that you can
dance in, then you dance exactly as you feel.
So for example if you are feeling shy then move your body
as if you were shy, if you are feeling angry then move your
body how you imagine angry would dance.
By expressing what ever you are feeling in the dance you
let it go and eventually you are left with emptiness.
Again from this space your creativity can then have space
to show itself to you.
Negative states of consciousness don't allow us to get to
our natural creativity, so whatever way you can find of
changing state from the negative to the positive will
always help you get back to your creativity.
There you have it, two very simple techniques to bring you
back to your positive state easily and very quickly.