Are you struggling with getting rid of negativity? Do you want to start feeling good and positive, so
badly, but you just can't seem to make it happen? Also, how do you exactly use indigenous teachings
to attract positive energy? In today's video, I'll talk about the biggest mistakes when trying
to use indigenous to attract positive energy. Hi there, I'm Mallory. Welcome back to the Tribal
Trade channel, where we share new videos every single week about smudging, indigenous teachings
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There are many ways that you can attract positive energy using native of teachings.
Here at Tribal Trade, we love to talk about all things, smudging, sacred medicines,
and attracting the kind of energy that can dramatically improve and even change your life.
We've helped tens of thousands of people in using indigenous teachings to get rid of negative energy
and invite in positive energy. We'd like to help you to do that too. If that sounds good to you,
then by the end of this video, you'll know exactly how you can avoid this mistake when using
indigenous teachings to attract positive energy. There are three big mistakes when using indigenous
teachings to attract positive energy. They are; having unclear your intentions for reconnecting,
smudging or any other indigenous practice. Two, not valuing the importance of balance or knowing
how to regain balance. Three, not practicing with enough thoughts and feelings of gratitude. In
today's video, we're going to focus on practicing with enough thoughts and feelings of gratitude
and to not focus on negativity. Let's get into it. First, let's talk about what we mean by
negativity. Some of our negative emotions, that we're talking about here,
are things like; anger, frustration, loneliness, anxiety. These are all negative emotion.
Other emotions like inadequacy, depression, guilt. These are all feelings that you,
or your loved ones, or anyone that you have in your life are likely feeling at some point. Now,
this is what we're talking about here about negative emotions. Other things like emptiness,
helplessness, fear, fear is a really big one, jealousy, aggression. Now, these are
some of the big negative emotions that people are feeling. What happens if you can't escape them?
What do you do? The first reason why it's so hard to escape negativity is because thinking about
how you can't escape the negativity will make it even more difficult to escape it.
I want to talk about why it's so hard to escape negativity. This is important just to understand,
so that we can get to the root of why this is happening. Why is it so hard to escape negative
energy? First, it's because your thoughts are creating your feelings. In the medicine wheel
teachings, check out this video right here, we talk about how to connect the four states
of being and what the four states of being are. When your thoughts are creating your feelings,
that's what makes them even harder to escape. Your feelings are connected to your thoughts
consciously. When your thoughts are creating your feelings, that's what's making it so much
harder to escape them. Your feelings are connected to your thoughts continuously.
IF you're thinking negative thoughts and how you can't escape from them,
you're not going to feel good. You're definitely not going to be able to escape from them.
This is one of the big reasons why it's so hard to escape negativity, it's because your
thoughts create your feelings. When you feel super negative, it's just going to be that
much harder to get out of that feeling. You're not going to be able to escape it. Because your
feelings are connected to your physical being. It's all connected. That's the first reason.
The second reason why it's so hard to escape negativity is because your thoughts multiply and
create more thoughts like it. Now, that's the way that our brains work. When we think thoughts
about something, for example, when we think about how negative our one aunt or uncle is,
our mind is naturally going to dive deeper into specific memories that happened when our aunt or
uncle was negative. Maybe more examples, and then maybe compare it to another example where someone
else was negative. Then try to decide between which of the two was worse. Before we know it,
we have a million thoughts and a million examples and situations that are fresh
in our minds about negativity and make it even deeper and more difficult to escape
from that negative cycle. That's the second reason why it's hard to escape negativity.
The third reason why it's so hard to escape negativity is because your environment is likely
negative and you can't escape from it. If you're often having negative thoughts and feelings,
you're likely living in a negative environment. This could be your home,
your family, your workplace. The general vibe or energy that you're feeling is likely not positive.
If you're even thinking about this at all. Unfortunately, it's a really common thing.
If your environment is majorly positive, you likely aren't experiencing any of this negative
energy that you can't escape from. Likely, this is irrelevant to you. That's the third reason
why it's so hard to escape negative energy. The fourth reason why it's so hard to escape
negativity, is that negativity is louder than positivity. Negative voices are louder
than positive voices. This is what's called the negative bias. Negative emotions are more intense
than positive emotions. It's why we feel stronger about removing pain, than we do about attracting
positivity or moving towards pleasure. In psychological studies, for example, we talk about
the motivator for avoiding pain, is stronger than the motivation to seek pleasure. It comes back to
science and evolution, as well. As protection to keep ourselves alive in evolution, we don't,
for example, touch fire or else you'll burn your hands because you're afraid you're going to get
burned. It's a way to protect yourself. We avoid encountering a lion, because you saw a lion kill
someone else yesterday. It comes back to the caveman days. That's what negativity bias is.
Every passing experience that we've had as human beings has grown this as a protective
measure in our brains to prevent us from doing things in a strong way that are negative.
When anything is negative, it's going to stand out in our minds much louder than positive things.
This can kind of help us to understand why negativity is so much louder than positivity.
Have you, personally, ever had a hard time getting rid of negativity? Now we know why it's so hard
to escape negativity, but when you're trying to move on from this, when you're trying to be more
positive, some areas that you might get stuck with are, if your thoughts are affecting your physical
or your emotional states. If you're feeling physically bad because of your negative energy,
you may be starting to feel physical effects from the negativity like chest pains. Things
like that. Now, that's an extreme level. How do we fix this in order to attract positive energy?
The first step in escaping negative energy is by identifying places where you might be getting
stuck in. One place that you might get stuck in might require some physical trouble shooting,
like exercise. Another place that you might get stuck is when your environment is negative
and you can't really change it. One thing is, if your environment is really negative,
you likely need to create new influences and new circles for yourself, to interact
with people in more positive ways. If you have people in your life that are super negative,
you might need to spend less time with them if you want to see any real changes in your own positive
outlook on life. Another place that you could get stuck is if you're having someone else in
your life who's dealing with this by having a hard time, or just being motivated to get
out of that negative mindset, if they have a hard time, or if they don't have strong
enough reasons to change their attitude. Like if they're entitled or if they don't
have any motivation to seek positive changes, then that's when you could get stuck as well.
Now, the second and most important step in escaping negativity is to implement gratitude
practices. Gratitude, gratitude, gratitude. This is where you want to start. Here is why.
What does gratitude do for you? It's impossible to be grateful and experience negative feelings at
the same time. If you're really focusing on what you're grateful for and what you're thankful for,
and just really focus on that and in your zone of focus, you can't feel those negative energies and
the negative vibes at the same time. I want to display this in a chart for you.
We've got our negative emotions on one spectrum. This is things like suffering and fear. We went
over some of these negative emotions. We also have a positive emotion spectrum right here. If you're
experiencing negative emotions versus positive emotions, at the very top of the spectrum,
the most powerful emotion on the positive scale is gratitude. Okay? Gratitude is the king of
the castle. It's the strongest emotion that is positive. If you're going to want to pull out the
big guns here and counteract any negative spirals, you're going to want to use gratitude to do that.
Why is gratitude so powerful? It helps you feel more positive emotions, just in general, because
it's the king of positivity. It'll also help you relish those good experiences that you're having.
Any positive energy that you're having, being grateful for, it will help you relish them and
embrace them. It can improve your health. It's been scientifically proven that gratitude can help
improve physical, overall health as well. Your overall wellbeing. If you want to build strong
relationships, being grateful for the people in your life and the people that you love,
being grateful and being thankful for them can help you do that as well.
Gratitude also really builds resilience. It's one of those key components that can help you to build
strong, high levels of resilience. It helps us replace those pessimistic thoughts,
fight the negative the feelings and rebuild it with optimistic thoughts. It helps us to accept
our present situation, so staying grounded in the present situation, even if it's a harsh reality.
It helps us deal with the things that are good in front of us and accept our present situation.
Gratitude can help us to maintain good health by regulating our metabolic function and control our
hormonal imbalances as well. We're talking about our physical health here. Our physical hormones
and gratitude can help us with our hormones. That's pretty amazing, I think, anyway. Gratitude
can also help us sustain relationships, appreciate the people who are there for us. And as a result,
we're going to feel more loved, more cared for and more hopeful for future relationships too.
Our website at Tribal Trade Co has tons of resources that can help you on your quest for
indigenous education. Don't forget to check out our website, tribaltradeco.com. I hope in today's
video, I've helped you to unpack what exactly causes negative energy to be so hard to escape
from and how you can use indigenous teachings to combat that negative energy that might be really,
really hard for you to escape from and how you can help your loved ones to do the same as well.
Here at Tribal Trade, we are dedicated to helping you to use indigenous teachings,
apply them to your everyday life so that you can live the most resiliently as possible
and how you can and attract positive energy in your life and live the life that you absolutely
love. Escaping negative thoughts, negative energy, and attracting positive thoughts, good thoughts
and thoughts that are filled with love, inclusion and all of those good feelings are exactly what we
want to help you to do. I believe that indigenous teachings are the way to get there the fastest. I
can't wait to help you get there. Thank you so much for watching today's video. I hope
you learned something new about gratitude, about how to escape negative energy and how you can use
indigenous teachings to achieve the highest levels of resilience that you ever thought possible.
Thanks so much for watching, guys. Have an incredible day. We'll see you next time.