Diffuse Negative Energy Before it Becomes Your Reality

3 steps toward discerning and saying goodbye to negativity.

Rick Knight
3 min readDec 8, 2020
Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

Even without a pandemic, (which I refuse to refer to as the new normal), there is an abundance of negative energy in the world. Do you find it surprising when a perfectly good day is ambushed by one negative innuendo. It seems to attach to you and burrows down deep into your subconscious, infecting you with its toxicity. The symptoms of infection are sudden introspection; judgemental thoughts; simmering anger; heaviness or depressive thoughts. Boom. You have been attacked!

There is a place where negative energy is at it weakest. That place is, well, here. In this moment. I like to call it the Eternal Is. The last moment is gone, the next moment is not here yet. All I have is this moment, and believe me, it is enough! I have been studying my moments for the past year or so. I have discovered that there is much there, in each moment. There are beautiful things, peaceful, wonderful, playful, even silly things. I am finding out that I have to watch for them, like a boy watching his fishing line for that little movement of a nibbling fish. Yes, paying attention to the moment!

“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the…

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Rick Knight

Husband, dad, grandpa, educator, and missionary. Now I write what I’ve learned about people, life, and being connected spiritually.