How much of your life is wasted by negative emotions?

Have you ever considered that every time you worry or become angry with someone or something, that you are wasting away that precious gift called life. It is a sad fact that most of the population of the world waste a great deal of t

Negative Emotions

heir lives on negative emotions that serve no purpose. Financial concerns are one of the major emotions that cause great suffering to humanity ; but in the same token, other emotions are just as destructive. Your negative emotions are also the catalyst to illness – believe me, I know, and like you, I am trying to get to grips with a modicum of control – my emotions. But before we can get into the ins and outs of dealing with your emotions. Let me show you how much time that we waste.

Your wastage

If we say that you are worried 3 days out of a week, that’s 48 hours and 2,496 hours in a year, which is 208 days. Quite a wastage, don’t you think? Now if you harbor anger with someone for no particular reason or because you have judged the person wrongly, this would mean that you would keep that negative emotion within you all day. I will forget the time you sleep and calculate this at 4,368 hours in a year, which equates to 364 wasted days. I could continue to show you that each negative emotion you employ within yourself – could in fact waste most of your precious hours in your life that you can be more positive and productive. Now imagine how many hours of negative energy that work its cancer into your own energy field. Perhaps this would serve as a hypothesis for why negative emotion can be the catalyst to disease within the physical body.

Awareness

The first step to dealing with this, is awareness and mindfulness. You have to be aware of the emotion in the first place and find its root cause. Mindfulness can be the tool to recognizing the power of awareness and allowing the positive energy to induce the positive changes that are necessary. If you suffer from anger, resentment, jealousy or any of the other negative emotions. You can take the time to recognize them, and in a mindful way, say that you are aware but these emotions do not serve your higher purpose and allow them to leave with love and compassion. This energy of the spirit will surely work its way into the physical manifestation of positivity within your personal life, which in turn will affect others In a positive way. In a sense, it is rather like throwing a pebble into a pond to create a positive ripple, which will, in time, be carried throughout the whole pond. So you see how you may positively affect yourself and those around you.

I think it was the Buddha who said that “if you can change what you have done, then do not worry about it, and if you cannot change the circumstance or what you have done, then don’t worry about it.” From this statement, you might deduce that worry is something you should not worry about, which seems quite paradoxical I suppose. We do waste our lives worrying about frivolous things or things we cannot change – so what’s the point. It is of course not easy to control the negativity in an instant, and this is a work in progress but each step becomes a step closer to peace and happiness.

Become aware of suffering

The truth is that we all suffer, in different ways, but we all suffer nonetheless. Anyone who is negative towards you Is suffering. The way that you suffer is caused by yourself allowing your suffering to take hold. You can change others suffering but showing love, compassion and understanding and perhaps that will help the one who is suffering to show the same. In this way, we help each other to end suffering. No one deserves to suffer and those who judge are already suffering from negative emotion. If you do not wish to end up in an early grave, you should become aware of your emotions and your suffering as well as others. Each step in a positive direction is a step towards enlightenment.