Month: March 2017

The Mirror For Angry And Overly Negative Type Of People

Have you ever spent time with someone who just seems to always be so angry and overly negative about everything? It’s rather draining, isn’t it? I used to wonder why people avoided me until I discovered that this was one of the biggest reasons.

I discovered along the way that being angry all the time and overly negative didn’t just drive people away, it also created an unhealthy mind and body, it blocked God’s sunlight from reaching my heart and soul, and it fed upon itself so much so, until my only outlook on life was so bleak that I became filled with nothing but a ton of resentments.

Unfortunately, until I clearly saw this behavior within myself and became willing to do the necessary work to change it, I remained relatively alone and regularly felt sorry for myself. Well in all actuality, that’s not totally true.

As the saying goes, misery seeks company and for all the years I was that angry and overly negative type of person, I did have some company in my life, except they were exactly like me, meaning individuals who were just as angry and overly negative as I was. And sadly, it was easier for me to point the finger at all of their angry and overly negative behaviors each time they acted that way instead of ever owning up to my own. Thus, my friends simply became my daily punching bags, constantly being cited out for the very same behaviors I myself was doing.

In fact, I used to surround myself with so many people like this, that it actually became quite normal for me to see the world in this angry and overly negative tone. In other words, I became totally blind to the reality that the world actually had plenty of positive people as well. Instead, I continued to either date or befriend one person after another who were just as angry and overly negative, until I finally woke up and realized the only reason why I kept doing this was because I was attracted to the very thing I had become.

Thank God, I’m not attracted to this anymore nor am I surrounded by people like this! Maybe that’s because I’m not an angry or overly negative type of individual these days. I really work hard now to not be that way and let any of that low vibrational energy ever leave my mouth. I also practice forgiveness all the time with others and with myself and I do my best to stay away from those who are still like this because it’s extremely easy to fall back into that old pattern. But more importantly, I realize now how toxic it was to my health, especially on the spiritual level, the more I became that angry and overly negative type of person.

So, if you happen to be someone who always seems to see others being angry and overly negative, I encourage you to take a moment, breathe, and then look in the mirror. As there, you might just find what I found not too long ago, that being the true source of all that anger and negativity. And if you do start seeing it within yourself, work on changing it and start by asking God for help in the matter. I promise you that if you do, you’ll begin to draw much greater Light into your life, because your own Light will become that much brighter in the process…

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson

Daily Reflection

“Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.” (Benjamin Disraeli)

Who would have thought that a little inspiration for my ongoing journey to spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical well-being would have come from a video game? I sure didn’t. But in fact, that’s precisely what happened recently while playing a game called Bean Dreams on my Iphone. If you’ve never heard of this game, it’s essentially about a jumping bean that never stops jumping and for each level of the game, the player must guide the bean to the exit in a certain number of jumps to fully complete it. Basically, each level is somewhat of a puzzle, which normally I’m pretty good at solving. In this case though, I hit a level I just couldn’t get beyond, one where I needed to do it in 7 jumps, but could only manage 9 at best. I kept trying over and over again until my hands, fingers, and wrists hurt so much that I had to put the game down until the next day. Unfortunately, I experienced the same lack of success once again, having to put the game off in total pain for yet another day. Day after day I repeated this and kept coming up short. I began to think about giving up, even making ego-based assumptions that the creators of the game must have made a mistake! The nerve of them! But then one day, after what most likely was over a thousand attempts to solve this level, I accidentally sideswiped my finger on my phone’s screen and watched the bean suddenly do a new move that I didn’t know it could do, thus changing everything. And wouldn’t you know, within minutes after that I had finally solved the level! I think life is sometimes like this, that when we encounter those trials and tribulations which feel completely impassable, that so long as we continue to persevere through them, our Higher Guidance will eventually provide us with a way to transcend beyond them. So, I give thanks to God for a silly game call Bean Dreams, that truly helped to remind me that success can be achieved through perseverance, even when things seemed destined for certain failure.

I pray that I will always persevere through all the trials and tribulations I face in life, even when it may feel like the odds are stacked against me and that I’m destined for failure, because I know that through my perseverance, God will always provide a way for me to achieve success.

Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson