27/04/2024
THE JOY OF THE NEGATIVE
There is no feeling that is inherently 'negative'.
'Negativity' is only superstition.
A feeling only seems 'negative' when it's being resisted, fought, denied, suppressed.
You call something 'negative' when you're trying to push it out of the light.
When you're comparing it with your dream of 'positive'.
When you're against it, psychologically.
A shadow is never 'against' light; a wave never 'opposes' the ocean; a cloud in the sky never threatens the sky.
So sadness, fear, anger... they are not negative at all.
Not against life. Not a threat to inner peace.
They are pure energy, neither negative nor positive.
But alive.
Worthy of love.
Full of intelligence, power, even beauty.
Strip away the words 'sadness', 'fear', 'anger'.
Come out of the head, and into the living body.
Feel the tingly, burning, prickly, pulsating, alive sensations,
in the belly, chest, throat and head.
Shine the warmth of awareness there.
Strip away the ideas of 'positive' and 'negative'.
Go beyond thousands of years of superstition.
Feel the life that burns, the amazing raw sensations of the body.
Breathe into these sensations. Oxygenate these tender areas.
Warm any discomfort with your tender presence.
See. There is no 'negativity' here.
Only neglected parts of you
longing for kind attention.
- Jeff Foster
