Be positive is a common terminology for a desirable constructive quality or attribute. This means many things like being constructive, practical, useful, pragmatic, productive, helpful, worthwhile, and beneficial, effective etc…Looks like being positive to be the only way out to have a desirable attribute, hopeful and confident. Lots of quotes and themes are around these and lots of professional courses are available on how to “be positive”
Obviously there is no one recommending “be negative” as these are the exact opposites of “being positive”. Yet there are equal numbers of negatives available to perfectly fight against or oppose the positives. But the common advocacy is always towards being positive
Since there exists both positives and negatives, relative to each other, both these states cannot be of equilibrium and hence either being positive or being negative can be stressful as these quite don’t seem to be natural states in relative world. Being un-natural is always going to be stressful.
Consider an Atom, the building blocks of elements, building blocks of every matter. Atoms are always neutral with equal number of protons (positives) and electrons (negatives). Few atoms also have neutrons within the nucleus along with protons. Neutrons by themselves are neutral, neither positive nor negative. Hence an atom is always neutral.
If an atom looses an electron then it becomes a positive ion. If it attracts an electron, it becomes a negative ion. In both these cases, positivity is always there. Only either the electron is lost or gained. Hence “being positive” means loose negativity, discard negativity and being negative is adding on to more negativity. In other ways we can interpret the same thing as addition or deleting the protons. End result is one and the same as both compliments relatively
But an ion is always not stable, be it positive or negative, it’s just not stable. It tries always to become neutral balancing the positivity with negativity.
When nature’s law doesn’t permit an atom to “be positive” (or negative) forever, is it possible for us being built by these atoms to be positive (or negative) forever? Doesn’t look quite possible. To “be” something else other than what we are in itself a state of un-equilibrium. It is just not possible.
Then how can we be positive always in this world of relativity? It is only possible when we rise above relativity. A crude example below may help us understand the same.
Imagine a fertile land. A fruit yielding crop (positive) or a poisonous weed (negative) can be grown in this. But the land is neutral to both, unaffected, ever existing. The land doesn’t get attached to either positives or negatives as these two are only offshoots. Anything of these can be grown again and again and hence a fruit yielding crop (positive) can be grown on this forever. It is our choice to grow positives or negatives.
Hence what we choose and from where this choice stems from becomes of utmost importance. Our choices can emerge from ego (material desire or creation or relativity or captive energy) and from intuition (soul desire or creator or absolute or infinite energy). If from ego, ultimate result is negativity and misery and if from intuition, the ultimate result is positivity, joy, bliss, peace. Only way to be positive is being with the creator and not with creation, being with soul and not with ego, being with God and not with Maya.
Don’t bother too much if ego takes over. It’s quite normal to get entangled into relativity and it’s our choice. In this path, try first to achieve being neutral (neither positive nor negative). This is the only chance you create for yourself to move in the positive direction always.
Thereafter, choose to listen to your inner voice and the same stems from neutrality, calmness, silence, tranquility. Baby steps “to be positive”, is to be calm first, then listening to your inner voice, henceforth it knows only one way, which is to be positive.
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