Mindfulness is liberated awareness, a matured phenomenon of knowing. Practice of mindfulness is essential in order to detect and stay away from negativity to cultivate positivity within and without. Mindfulness is natural human ability. Mindfulness is vigilance and awareness, due to which you know correctly in the right context as it is. Mindfulness is antidote to ignorance.

Mindfully, you are your own gatekeeper who is vigilant and aware. Mindfully, you can remain vigilant and aware of what comes in you, what arises in you and how you are affected. Thus, by living mindfully, you can recognize and shun negativity before getting impacted by it or spreading it out.

Mindfulness acts like a pause in which you can weed out negativity and cultivate positivity in you and in the world around you. Negative activities, whether tangible or intangible, can create disharmony in you and make your impact unwholesome.

When you are negative, you get clenched. Unwholesome thoughts and actions first affect your breath and physiology negatively. When you are positive you bloom. Wholesome thoughts and actions maintain order in your breath and physiology.

You can avoid negativity and cultivate positivity by living mindfully. To be mindful is to be heedful. A positive attitude and mindset is not only hopeful but also ethical and benevolent or compassionate to yourself and to others.

Mindfulness is result of healthy psychological processes of life. One of the reasons for mindful living is to shun negativity and cultivate positivity through right living, right actions and right effect of actions.

Negativity and positivity arising in you can spiral into chain of bad and good cause and effects within you and through you into your ecosystem.

Negativity is defilement that create disharmony leading to disorder, whereas positivity is virtue that harmonize leading to order. Disorder gives rise to conflict whereas order gives rise to wholesomeness.

By shunning negativity and cultivating positivity, you can become virtuous, act harmoniously, and impact wholesomely. By shunning negativity and cultivating positivity, you not only become better and happy but also spread goodness that can echo back into your life from your ecosystem. Practice of mindfulness and cultivation of positivity is reward in itself.

About Negativity

Negativity can arise in you and spread through you if you do not respond correctly to the internal and external cause, conditions and circumstances that give rise to negativity.

Do not allow any cause, conditions and circumstances to distort you, no matter how poisonous or painful they are. Holding on to negativity, whether physical or psychological, will not improve anything. It would bring disharmony, disorder and conflict in you instead, which can make problems worse.

By becoming negative, you may spread disharmony, disorder and conflict through your tangible and intangible actions. By spreading disharmony, disorder and conflict, you may draw suffering on yourself and onto others.

By giving up negativity, you become harmonious, orderly and wholesome, thus attracting welfare and happiness. Negativity is like a burning coal hurting beholder the most. If you hold negativity, you will get hurt first, knowingly or unknowingly.

You may hold physical negativity in form of defilements like contamination, pollution, toxins, hoarding, uncleanliness, rigidity, insensitivity, filth, laziness, untidiness, disorderliness, violence, stress, lies, etc.

You may hold psychological negativity in form of mental or emotional defilements like emotions, jealousy, covetousness, laziness, hate, resentment, ungratefulness, lust, greed, superstitions, ignorance, wrong beliefs, evil intensions, motives, unwholesome thoughts etc.

About Positivity

You can cultivate physical positivity in form of virtues like cleanliness, orderliness, tidiness, neatness, minimalism, nonviolence, truthfulness, natural richness, skillfulness, suppleness, sensitivity, flexibility, strength, speed, stamina, activeness etc.

You can cultivate psychological positivity in form of virtues like awareness, knowledge, compassion, gratefulness, friendlessness, kindness, helpfulness, forgiveness, empathy, compassion, truth, love etc.

You can cultivate positivity by cultivating cause, conditions and circumstances that give rise to positivity. Cultivating positivity will keep you harmonious, orderly and virtuous even in adverse situations.

Best way to cultivate positivity is to be, act and impact positively even while confronting negativity. Cultivate the positive while reducing the negative. Focus on the positive while confronting the negative. This will strengthen your positive nature and weaken your negative nature. Make use of the negativity to exercise and strengthen positivity in you.

By remaining positive and harmonious, you can overcome any adversity without becoming contentious. By remaining positive and harmonious, you can create a future while remaining wholesome.

You are on a journey of life and not conflict. As a good human individual, shun negativity before it impacts you and spreads out from you. Shun negativity by stopping consumption of toxic content, even if it means shunning the toxic society and living alone as your own good companion, as classically said, “like a wandering rhino”.

You continue and shape your ecosystem through the impact of your tangible and intangible actions. When you cultivate positivity, you act in a way that is good for you as well as for everyone. When you cultivate positivity, you effect in a way that is benevolent for you and for everyone. This can be done by living mindfully.

When you cultivate positivity and shun negativity you can become good and spread good. By being good and spreading good you become like, as classically said, “a tree giving sweet fruits”.

Shun the negativity, the source of negativity and the spread of negativity.