What is Negativity?

Question

We use the term a lot today. But what exactly does it mean?
Isn't simply telling someone they are being "negative", negative?
We have put a thought in that persons mind that he or she is a negative person.
All we hear is, "You're NOT doing this!" And, "You WON'T do that!" "You NEVER do this!"
Tell others, "You CAN!"

White Buffalo

Answer 1

Negativity is the name given in philosophy to the negative element determinative or definitive of things and all ideas of things, whereby a thing is this because it is not that, and is seen to be this because it is seen not to be that, an antagonism essential to all forms of being, spiritual as well as material, and to all definite and distinct thought.

Answer 2

You're right we use the term a lot today. This is because most of people are negative. When you believe that nothing is good in your life whaen you think you are a loser and you can't change it you are negative. Anyway any thoughts who make you think <> , <> are negative thoughts. If we tell ourselves that we can do something you fill yourself confidence. So negativity is being pessimistic or in other words when you don't believe in yourself.

Answer 3

You mean like:

"You can" be a real sht head at times?

or

"You can" go straight to hell?

or

"You can" kiss my fat ****?

or

"You can" shut up now?

Hey! You're right! It does make me feel better!

Thanx!

By the way, telling us that "All we hear is, "You're NOT doing this!" And, "You WON'T do that!"..." is negativity.

How about posting a question that asks US for an answer you self-righteous self-appointed motivational speaker? Why don't you just go and "live in a van down by the river!"

Answer 4

It is the opposite of Positivity.
It means your being a bit of a nasty azz.
No you are informing them they are being a nasty azz.
The attempt it let them know about their behavior in hope they might give their self a attitude adjustment.
Positive reinforcement does work better than negative reinforcement.

The negative says the glass is half empty.
The positive says the glass is half full.
The reality is there's just something in the glass.
(I am a realist)

Love and Peace

Answer 5

A sense, energy, state of mind, etc that just needs to be complimented with positive energy, state of mind, etc. So they can just balance themselves out. Like the yin and yang.


Positivity+Negativity=PEACE!(balance)

PEACE!

Answer 6

In Vedic philosophy NA=NOT, ITI=THIS and thus NETI=NOT THIS. One gives up Negative things by analyzing. For example while analyzing the body, one says my body, my hand, my eyes etc.. and NOT I body, I hand, I eyes etc... In this way one negates I am NOT Hand, I am not body, I am not eyes etc... In this way one searches after the "I" by asking "whom am I?. By negating what is NOT one ultimately arrives at the spirit soul, Atma.

The phrase atan-nirasana refers to the DISCARDING of that which is IRRELEVANT. (ATAT means "that which is NOT a fact.") Brahman is sometimes described as Asthulam Ananv Ahrasvam Adirgham, "that which is NOT large and NOT small, NOT short and NOT long." (Brhad-aranyaka Upaniaad 5.8.8) Neti neti: "It is NOT this, it is NOT that." But what is it? In describing a pencil, one may say, "It is NOT this; it is NOT that," but this does NOT tell us WHAT IT IS. This is called definition by NEGATION. In Bhagavad-gita, Krishna also explains the soul by giving negative definitions. Na jayate mriyate va: "It is NOT born, NOR does it die. You can hardly understand more than this." But what is it? It is eternal. Ajo nityah sasvato 'yam purano na hanyate hanyamane sarire: "It is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying and primeval. It is not slain when the body is slain." (Bg. 2.20) In the beginning the soul is difficult to understand, and therefore Krishna has given negative definitions:
nainam chindanti sastrani nainam dahati pavakah
na cainam kledayanty apo na socayati marutah
"The soul can never be cut into pieces by any weapon, nor can it be burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind." (Bg. 2.23) Krishna says, "It is not burned by fire." Therefore, one has to imagine what it is that is not burned by fire. This is a negative definition.

The above is from the purport to Srimad-Bhagavatam(10.13.57), by A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acharya of ISKCON,(International Society for Krishna Consciousness).

Below is some excerpts from his teachings related to this.

His impersonality therefore is a negation of His materiality, but not a denial of His transcendental personality. The impersonal conception of the supreme truth is just a process of negation of the form of the Lord from the mundane conception of the supreme truth.

It is said in the revealed scriptures that the Lord has no mundane form; therefore persons with a poor fund of knowledge conclude that He must be formless. They cannot distinguish between the mundane form and the spiritual form. According to them, without a mundane form one must be formless. This conclusion is also mundane because formlessness is the opposite conception of form. Negation of the mundane conception does not establish a transcendental fact.

Knowledge of the Supreme Absolute Truth does not necessitate negation of the material manifestation but understanding of spiritual existence as it is. To think that because material existence is realized in forms therefore spiritual existence must be formless is only a negative material conception of spirit. The real spiritual conception is that spiritual form is not material form.

Becoming detached from material things does not mean becoming inert altogether, as men with a poor fund of knowledge think. Naiskarma means not undertaking activities that will produce good or bad effects.Negation does not mean negation of the positive. Negation of the nonessentials does not mean negation of the essential. Similarly, detachment from material forms does not mean nullifying the positive form.

Then he goes on to say that by Bhakti one realizes the positive form and when the positive form is realized, the negative forms are automatically eliminated. He further says that the Bhakta (devotee) by developing bhakti, with the application of positive service to the positive form, the bhakta naturally becomes detached from inferior things, and he becomes attached to superior things. Bhakti(devotion) which is the supermost occupation of the living being, leads the Bhakta out of material sense enjoyment.

Answer 7

well negativity means dat going in d opposite direction nd nt towards ur goal.....in other words u cn also define dat trying achieve ur goal bt takng d wrong path ....

Answer 8

Some people need to be told that the glass is half full, not half emptu

Answer 9

hey white buffalo, is just negative. that's it.

Answer 10

against of positive