Do you believe you can attract bad vibes from negative thinking?

Question

I don't normally believe this "theory" however I have not been in the greatest health or healthiest state of mind for about a year now. I sometimes wonder if I could possibly be attracting all this negative energy with my negative thoughts. My health problems have not been serious (thank God) so I just wonder if too a certain extent I have provoked them.


Only serious answers, otherwise you will be reported.

Answer 1

We are our own worst enemies we defeat ourselves with negative thoughts and actions. But just like the chicken and the egg you could be having this problem because of something physical. Go deep within yourself you will find the answer.

Answer 2

Negativity can absolutely breed negativity and it can be a self-fulfilling prophesy in that if you never have hope nor optimism you will not stretch to reach the goals. If you don't try you're guaranteed not to succeed. That kind of thing. There are people who seem to want to dwell in this negativity and like to bring others into it. I can two possible reasons. One is that they really do enjoy the negativity and they want to share this'joy' with others. Or they bring others into it because they know that the friend WILL have hope and optimism and offer them some, even if they say they don't want it. They grasp at that lifeline because they don't know how to make one of their own. The ironic thing is that the negative person often overwhelms the positive one, creating another negative well. Be true to yourself. If you are honest with yourself as to who you are and where you think you want to go (which I wish was as easy as typing the sentance was) then spending *some* time with this negative person won't harm you. Your first responsibility is to you. If your friend is just overwhelming you, you might have to put barriers up that weren't there before between the two of you. I still think that's better than the alternative.

Answer 3

Certainly your state of mind affects your body. A stressed mental state would lead to a stressed physical state in time, and certainly there are studies that link stress with physical illness. Also, a negative mental attitude tends to cause one to notice only bad things and let the good pass unnoticed. In this way, it perpetuates and deepens the problem, until you find yourself in a pit and you don't know how you got there. In the time that it takes for this to happen, you might begin to neglect certain habits that help maintain a healthier state, such as exercise or mental stimulation of conversation with others. Stress lowers immune response, and so you might find yourself more vulnerable when flu season comes around or you might catch something because you are not alert to a threat due to depression and narrowing of perception.

For my own part, I have found that regular exercise helps stave off mild depression; it would be my first recommendation if it is appropriate for you.

Answer 4

I strongly believe that negative thinking can result in, and attract, negative experiences/events. Every day we face thousands of choices - many of them based off our mood - make enough negative ones and you will find yourself in a negative place. The most apparent result can be seen in your relationships with other people - if you are negative, it affects others, and could lead to more negative experiences between you. That person could be the one to help you in a bad experience, or be one of the ones contributing to it...

While positive people are not free from negative events - I think they experience less of them, or less-severe ones simply because they refuse to let themselves be affected by them as much as the negative people. They also tend to have more people there to help them when they are in a bad situation simply because others view them as "a good person, a happy person, etc".

Lastly - Karma - oh yeah, it's there, and you get back what you send out. It may take time... but I'm a believer that it all comes back around.

Answer 5

You are what you think, so if you are thinking negatively, you begin to see things in a negative light and you feel negative. It's not that you are attracting some kind of energy, but that you are shaping your perception of the world by seeing it through a negative lens.

Answer 6

Yes, whatever you put out into the universe comes back to you. There's a book called "Before you think another thought" by Bruce I. Doyle III that deals with this exact same subject. It's pretty easy reading and basically explains how your thoughts create your life.

Answer 7

http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/cgi/content/full/66/3/363
read this
your state of mind affects your health
yes i believe so, you need to look for something good in life when your feeling so negative it doesnt matter what it is ie a childs smile, the sun, even a cartoon you need to create the feel good endorthines (?) and to do this is to laugh even standing in front of a mirror and doing something silly will make you feel silly and hopefully laugh at yourself you have access to the web so look for jokes or something depending on your sense of humour

Answer 8

The mind pays a huge role in the state of the body.

Answer 9

sickness can become a state of mind and then it become more difficult for the body to recover.

Negative thinking in general weakens you and others around you.

Like attracts like...it is a very old principle.

~ Eric Putkonen

Answer 10

Try going to the doctor to get medical advice. If you want to engage in mythological and magical cures for illness, go buy some magnets and tape them to your wrists, sit inside a pyramid and make sure its the full moon when you do this. Otherwise, and this is a SERIOUS answer, go to the doctor. Geesh!