Like most human beings, I was born to be a positive person. In the midst of my years of struggle with depression, addiction and negativity, my family often mused about what a happy baby I had been – as if to say, “what happened?”
I had the good fortune to recognize in a moment of clarity that negativity was an acquired point of view that I wore like a shield that kept happiness away. I had suffered a long time in this destructive mindset until I understood that my negativity was not inherent. If I could acquire it, I could also lose it.
I thus employed a plan of action to tune out the negativity and turn up the positivity. Nothing in my life actually changed but the way I perceived at it.
