A Formula for Positive Action

A simplified formula to help us achieve the things we really want:

- Notice whenever your sense of peace or serenity is disturbed.
- Become aware of any irrational behavior, thought, urge, or feeling you have that might be the cause.
- Look inside for the false belief, destructive desire, or negative intent that is the cause.
- Embrace the negative - fully express the negativity - exaggerate it, vent it, talk it out, express it physically
- Look for your true desire or beliefs within.
- Embrace the positive - fully visualize, express, or act out your positive intent.
- Choose.

Embracing the negative is a hard step, because our instinct is to suppress the expression, and even the knowledge, of our negative feelings and desires. It is through feeling it fully and expressing it fully that we come to full awareness of what energy we are working with. Avoid the shame that comes from placing judgment on yourself for having those feelings. If you feel ashamed, you're not paying attention. You are focusing on the judgment, on your desire to be different than your are, instead of what is at this moment. This is what mindfulness meditation teaches - to focus on what is, not on what we want or don't want to be.

The more we get to know the negative within us, the less it acts independent of our will, and the more we are able to choose the positive.