Be Aware of Your Personal Emissions

Over the past few years, like many people around the United States the throughout the world, I've become more aware of my own consumption, my use of resources, and how what I do impacts the planet. Thankfully as a nation and a world we're beginning to wake up more and more to the impact we have on the planet and the importance of each of us doing our small part to conserve the finite amount of natural resources we all have to share.

Whether it is driving hybrid cars, recycling more, buying environmentally friendly products, letting our business and political leaders know how we feel and that this is important, and more - there are lots of things we can do and that many of us have started to do based on the increased awareness of the situation with our environment. With all of this raised awareness about the environmental impact of what we do, use, and how we live...I think we might also want to consider how we feel, the thoughts we have, and what goes on within us as well.

What kinds of "vibes" are you sending out into the universe, towards others, and in general? When we live with a lot of unexpressed emotions and negativity within us we are contributing or even "polluting" the collective consciousness with all of this. We are "emitting" a lot of toxic personal and emotional energy into our relationships, families, work places, environments, and to our overall society. We don't usually think about it like this, but it's true. Twenty or thirty years ago, not too many of us thought that how much we drove, what kinds of products we chose to use, or where we put our waste made all that much difference. Now, thankfully, we know better.

This same thing is true for our thoughts and feelings. I am not advocating or even suggesting that we have to be happy all the time and that we should feel guilty for our negativity, quite the opposite in fact. I am suggesting, however, that we become increasingly aware of our internal state and begin to take responsibility for the fact that our thoughts and feelings not only impact our lives and goals, but the people's lives around us and the overall world as a whole.

When we each do our own part and begin to wake up, deal, heal, and let go of the toxic stuff within us - we can become a catalyst for positive change and also we do our part to cleaning up the emotional and energetic environment of the planet. What are you willing to let go of, deal with, or transform in your life today?

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Comments

[Jonahson]

How to dissipate those collective consciousness or memories? There is a process but I wonder how many people are interested.

[Jonahson]

Guess not.
"The Bodhi Darma goes back to the cave for another ten years."

[lovingkindness]

Reminding people of the consequences of their outpourings and that they have responsibility for their actions is a good thing.

However, re establishing a healthy "social contract" is only a fragile "fix" unless the roots of negativaty are addressed. There is a reason that people act out. And it is not altogether negative!

People need to feel secure. These tactics of negativity are what they have been taught. And now they have become an addiction. Addicted to defending onself with self defeating tactics.

Your advice is a good first step, insofar as it could create a space for people to go further and get to the roots of this "emotional plague" .

On the other hand, just "shoving it down and acting nice" is only a temporay fix. This is how your advice could be construed. Or misconstrued.

I look forward to your future posts, which, hopefully will address techniques to allow people to break free of this addictive behaviour.

[lovingkindness]

Thanks for this.

These patterns of negativity are not easy to break, without a fundamental insight into why one acts them out. It turns out usually to be grounded in a misguided sense of protecting oneself. This is not a bad thing, in that people need to feel secure.

These negative states are learned, and addictive. Fear being a contageous addiction. Witness the world situation today.

When guided to explore in a compassionate way ( compassionate to self and others) the nature of these feelings, folks discover that these states actually bring on what they hope to avoid: more pain, more struggle,etc, not less. And that they are not even "my feelings"....having been instilled by other folks infected with the " emotional plague" that fills the world.

It is not as simple as willing it to be otherwise. We have all had the experience of watching, or attending a "peace rally" to see negative emotions unleashed...often by the "leaders" of such endeavours.

I hope you are not just asking people to "shove it down". There is a fundamental difference between "acting" and " being" .

[Jonahson]

Old chinese proverb, "You can change a mountain but it is difficult even to budge a person's character."

Greed, hatred and delusion are in- built nature of life preservati­on/existen­ce. From these three basic instinct grow the gathering of experience and hence clinging to mine, me.
If you are unselfish enough to overcome your self cherishing mind then you won't fall into endless emission of toxic emotions.

[eeVas]

A few years back I took my sister-in-law to the grocery store. I went to get some items and met her back in the produce section. What struck me was how normal she looked. In reality, she had been diagnosed with cancer, and given only a few months to live. It was one of her last "good days."

But what I have always remembered that day was the realization that you do not know what another person might be going through. I always try to be nice and friendly to anyone I meet, most likely they are having a much worse day than I am.

[DennyCrane]

Thank you for posting this. We all have our bad days and bad moods, but it's important to remember that how you're feeling can be contagious. Ever been around someone who's unhappy? You try to cheer them up and not only do you fail, but you start to feel bad as well. That's why I try to pay more attention to how my moods affect others. I may have a bad day or a bad week and be in a lousy mood, in which case, I need to keep it from spilling over onto everyone else. Maybe I need to wear a sign that says "Stay away." Maybe if more of us were aware of how our bad moods affect those around us, we'd be a little more sensitive to the damage it does.

[nogimmicks]

The damage is a product of the number of people on this planet multiplied by their energy/was­te/damage-­footprint. The latter can be modified by regulations, infrastructure and, somewhat lame calls to be nice, but the main factor is simply the exponential growth of the number of people on this planet. The very first order of business is to create birth-rate-reducing economic incentives and measures to start the process. The most stunning fact is that nobody is even talking about it!!!

[energiaeinformazione]

Great post!

Thank You!