An instant technique to protect yourself from negativity

It’s the first of December and day one of my advent calendar!  To get the month off to a great start I want to share one of my favourite techniques for staying focused and positive, no matter what’s going on around you.

Have you ever found yourself in a pretty good mood, feeling positive and generally happy with the world and your life, only for someone else to come along and try to spread a whole lot of negativity?

It might be a friend or colleague complaining, it might be a couple breaking into a screaming argument while you’re in the room, or it could even be a relentless stream of bad news coming from the TV.  It might not even be aimed directly at you, but nevertheless you find yourself impacted by the negative energy and suddenly you’re not feeling quite as chirpy as you were.

This happens because our emotions are contagious, and nothing seems to spread more quickly than someone else’s bad mood or negativity. 

You can choose to remove yourself from the source of negativity, or call them out on it, or turn off the TV.  But sometimes you can’t avoid being around it so you have to act fast to prevent these ‘germs’ of negativity affecting you.  That’s where my simple technique comes in, and you can use it instantly, anywhere.

Allow me to introduce you to your very own protective glass jar.

It’s a jar with pretty impressive properties. 

•       It’s big enough to cover you, with a few feet of space all around you. 

•       Its walls are very thick, yet completely transparent. 

•       You can still see through it and you can still hear what’s going on outside it, but negativity can’t get in. 

•       It’s incredibly protective, but you can still breathe and do everything you normally do.

And of course, the jar exists entirely in your imagination.

Here’s how you use the glass jar technique (I recommend you practice this now so you can use it when you need it):

1.         As soon as you feel the need to protect yourself, imagine the jar descending from above and coming down around you.  It doesn’t have a lid so the open end comes over you from above, and you find yourself inside the jar.

2.         Now imagine every negative word, every raised voice, every complaint, every smidgen of               negative energy on the other side of the jar just bouncing off the glass walls.  They can’t get through at all, so you’re completely protected.

3.         You get to keep doing what you’re doing, breathing easily, feeling as happy and content as you were before.  You can still interact with what’s happening outside the jar if you want to, but the negative vibes can’t get to you.

That’s all there is to it.

If you want to make this your own, allow your imagination to run wild!  Perhaps it’s a blue crystal bubble rather than a glass jar.  Maybe it’s a futuristic curved dome that rises from the ground below you rather than coming down from above.  Make it whatever you want it to be, as long as it is invincible to anything you don’t want to take on from others.

It might sound a bit wacky but this technique works beautifully to protect yourself from drama, negativity, complaining, low vibes and anything that’s trying to mess up your contentment. 

It allows you to stay detached and to protect yourself. 

It stops you getting sucked into other people’s stories and issues, if you don’t want to.

And nobody needs to know what you’re doing; you can get into your jar instantly without saying a word.

The ability to protect your own emotions is a wonderful gift to yourself and will support your resilience and wellbeing.  Let me know how it works for you!

Go well,

Ruth