You can start becoming more better from now and improve your life now onwards by avoiding negative activities. Negative activities, whether tangible or intangible, can create disharmony in you and make you unwholesome for the world.

You can avoid negative activities by living and acting mindfully. To be mindful is to be heedful. Mindfulness is mature psychological process of life. Main reason 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 conflict, whereas positivity is virtue that harmonize leading 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 in form of virtues is reward in itself. Practice mindfulness and cultivate positive virtues for the sake of it.

As classically said, a virtuous mind that is positive, ethical and well-trained, is your best friend. Whereas a defiled or spoiled mind that is negative, unethical and undisciplined, is your worst enemy.

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 like a gatekeeper, vigilant and aware of what you consume, what you create and what spreads out from you through impact of your tangible and intangible actions. Mindfully, you can remain vigilant and aware of negativity arising in you, root cause of negativity and how you impact. Thus, by living mindfully, you can recognize and cure, shun or escape negativity before getting impacted by it or spreading it out.

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 and conflict in you instead which can make problems worse.

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

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.

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

By giving up negativity, you become harmonious and wholesome, thus attracting welfare and happiness. Negativity is like a burning coal hurting the 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 can cultivate physical positivity in form of virtues like cleanliness, orderliness, tidiness, minimalism, nonviolence, truthfulness, natural richness, skillfulness, suppleness, sensitivity, flexibility, strength, speed, stamina, activeness etc.

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

By giving up negativity, source of negativity and stop spreading out negativity, you become better, make the world better to attract welfare and happiness for yourself and for everyone.