Why Negative Energy Sells

I wish I knew the exact reason negative energy sells.  If I did, I would do everything in my power to change it.  I have some ideas that I'll share, but they are only my reasons.  I would greatly appreciate you writing a comment on my blog to give me your thoughts.

"Today, at six, NBC Evening News will be covering the train crash that killed forty people, a murder in downtown Los Angeles, the teacher who molested ten students and a dog who was saved in a fire."

Does that sound familiar to you - it does to me.  Even the saved dog was in a fire.  Negative, negative, negative.  Every once in a while the news stations have a heartfelt story at the end of the broadcast.  All of two minutes in a thirty minute broadcast.  The imbalance is ridiculous.

BTW, did you notice that pharmaceutical companies are one of the larger advertisers on the daily news.  They even have commercials asking people if they are depressed and if they are, call this 800 number.

Another BTW, I stopped watching negative news a long time ago.

Why do the news stations focus on negative energy?  It's simple, it sells.  They believe they will get a larger audience with negative news than positive news.  Bigger audience - more advertisers - more money.  You can't blame the stations for wanting to make a profit.  However, I always had hope that one brave news channel would start a "Good News Network."  If I hit the Mega Millions I will start the show.  Who knows, it might be a hit and profitable.  The fact of the matter is, nobody has tried it so we don't know.

Sooo, if we can't blame the network, who is responsible for all this negative news - The people who watch it.  If you want to change the balance, stop watching.  When I'm mentoring a person who is not happy with his/her life, the first thing I ask that person to do is to take negative energy out of their life.  That means, stop watching negative news, stop allowing yourself to be in negative situations and replace your negative energy friends and family with positive energy people.

When a person's life is not going the way they want, negative news has two affects.  One, they think that watching some other person's problems will make their problems seem not so bad.  This is so not true.  I know this because they keep watching the negative news.  If it were true, they would not need to watch more than once or twice.

Two, there is a negative person inside all of us.  That person was created in the past.  It could be from a trauma or family problems that happened when we were young.  It could have also been created by loving parents that made us feel not good enough by protecting us.  Simple statements like: "don't cross the street you will get hurt, don't go near fire you will get burned, etc, etc." made many of us to feel inadequate and not good enough.  Feeling not good enough creates that negative person inside of us.

For some of us that negative person does not control our life.  However, for many, that negative person inside of us makes us unhappy.  I have that negative person inside me.  Over the years and with some mentoring, I have realized what that person is doing to me and have been able to take control from him.  One thing that helped was to remove negative news, events and people from my life.

The main thing I learned about that negative person is that he feeds on negative energy.  By absorbing negative energy it makes him stronger.  It helps him control us.  It helps him convince us that we are not good enough.  It enables him to not allow us to make decisions or take risks that will lead to our happiness.  The fact is, the stronger he is the less happy we are.

It's not easy taking control from him.  It took me years.  The people I mentor usually need six to twelve months before they see the what he is doing to them and start making changes to overcome his affect on them.  He never goes away, but the more positive energy in your life will slow him down.

Start today!  You have the control to not watch negative news.  You have control to avoid and change a negative job.  You have control to change your negative friends and family to positive people.  It's not easy.  you will have to make some uncomfortable choices, but if you want to be happy, it's worth the short term pain for the long term gain.

I've said it many times in my blogs and I'm going to say it again: "NEGATIVE ENERGY BEGETS NEGATIVE ENERGY - POSITIVE ENERGY BEGETS POSITIVE ENERGY." 

SCREW THAT NEGATIVE PERSON INSIDE YOU.  TAKE CONTROL AND BECOME THE SOURCE OF POSITIVE ENERGY.  YOU DESERVE IT!!!!