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Mind What You Water
1/3 of who we embody is shaped by genes and the environment in which we are raised, the rest relies on the experiences we encounter as we grow.
Experience is often showcased as outside encounters — the ones we have little to no control or influence over. Though, the experiences that matter most are the ones we withhold within.
Though it’s evident that various aspects to the modern world are vastly different in comparison to how they were to our ancestors, the human mind has remained the same.
In the olden days, we were prompted to focus on a salient negative as a survival technique, what modern day psychologists now refer to as The Negative Bias.
With countless information thrown our way every second in modern society, we naturally cling to the negatives, this is the Negative Bias at work.
For example: At the end of the day, do you remember the kind stranger that held the door for you or how you tripped walking up the steps in front of someone?
Our natural tendency to cling to the negative is far more insidious than we can imagine.
Since being shaped by our experiences, the ones we tend to hold onto soon become a part of us the longer we cling to them.
If we continuously cling to negative encounters throughout a day, the negatives…
