Release the negative influences in your life

Healing myself back to health when I was in my 20s, I recognised that I had become my own PI: Private Investigator, I was taking charge of my own health and well  being, I was also choosing to be in the driving seat even though I was flat out exhausted, sore, and deeply fatigued.

One thing I realised early on in the healing journey, I had to release any negative influences in my life.

What do I mean by that?

1.  I stopped watching the late night news.  This was something I had read about in Louise Hay's 'You Can Heal Your Life,' and it just 'pinged' at me. 

2.  I decided to take it one step further and I stopped watching news throughout the day, {I returned to reading the newspaper to be informed}.

3.  I also didn’t listen to the news on the hour every hour on the radio. 

(This was before the rise of the internet and multi-cable channels, so I wasn’t even bombarded with it, like we are now.  It's even more important now.)

I wanted to cleanse my environment so that it could support my healing journey. Just as I cleansed with food, and supported with supplements, I also wanted to cleanse my environment.

In this Muse Mantra you're being nudged to release any negative influences.  Whether that be a thought, a belief, a behaviour, a situation, or a person who is bringing you down. Take steps to avoid negativity around you. We can’t change the situations around us but we can choose to release the hold it has upon us.

This is the beginning of Cocooning - which I talk about in my book I'm writing; Rebalance Me.

I would avoid any negative drama or documentary and I certainly wasn’t the kind of person that enjoyed watching horror or violent films, they drained me.

I found that as I planned my day and my way to bed, I surrounded myself with as much ritual and positivity as I could.  Of course there were often things that shocked me in the news, that I was aware of, but I did my upmost to cocoon from the external world.

A person in my past accused me once of being ‘naïve’ because I released these from my daily life but I felt that I was being selective about what I watched and how it was impacting on my health.

I also had to release the negative influences from people around me too.  They weren’t helping me heal myself, I had to let them go. 

This is a challenging thing to do but I’m sure that you know who saps your energy, especially when you hang up the phone, or you see they are at your door.  It’s important to release these people. 

Try this Rebalancing Muse Mantra Prompt, sit with your journal and reflect upon the following:- 

First you have to become still and connect with what feels like a negative influence: this will be different things for different people.

a)   What feels like a negative influence?

Negative influences could be from:-

• Dark documentaries
• Films with violence
• Late night news
• On the hour drip feed news
• Gossip
• Eating animals/birds/fish
• People that drain
• Friends that hurt
• Family that cause pain.
• Sugar
• Gluten
• Wheat
etc .......

The list can be long or it can be just one thing that you know is a negative influence.

b)  What radio station do you listen to?  Is it draining you?

c)  What programmes, documentaries or films do you need to let go of? 


Once you have some still time to recognise what is a negative influence, then you can choose what you need to do about it - maybe learn to let go, or change something.

It can be hard, easy or somewhere in between but if your intuitive self knows it's a negative influence then something's gotta give.

Use this Muse Mantra in meditation.

'I surround myself in a
bubble of healing.'

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