November 2005 | From the Editor
Positive Vibes
By Bob Condor
In her book, Positive Energy (Three Rivers Press), author and natural health psychiatrist Dr. Judith Orloff explains how to identify both the positive and negative people in your life.
She refers to the negative people as “energy vampires.” We have built our newest installment of the EM Mini-Retreat (page 18) around her typecasting. You will do a lot of head nodding while engaging in the mini-retreat. If you are open to it, chances are you will have more positive energy by the time you are done reading her ideas and using the accompanying “Energy Drain Checklist.”
What’s more, Orloff makes a case for picking up on the vibes of positive people in life Look for positive vibes everywhere, she says, in a neighbor, in cashier, in a co-worker.
“The idea is to find reciprocally nourishing interactions, not to win a popularity contest,” says Orloff.
As part of her book, Orloff interviewed some celebrities who link positive energy to their career successes. Here are some of those celebs talking about vibes of people to whom they are attracted:
Goldie Hawn, actress: “Their energy feels expansive, like I’m walking into a field of light. It’s an openness of spirit and heart, a fearlessness. I’m elevated, excited. I can be myself and not be harmed.”
Norman Lear, producer: “A positive person is someone who’s hugging the moment.”
Jamie Lee Curtis, actress: “People emit an energy pulse. You see the positive in a connection of eyes, an expression of compassion. When such a person looks at me and I’ve connected with that energy port, it’s a palpably loving sharing.”
Quincy Jones, musician/composer: “A positive person feels good, like the glass is half full, not half empty. I’m attracted to these people. Don’t have time for anyone else.”
Sending out positive vibes to others can change your life for the better. Orloff offers four steps toward becoming more positive and attracting more positive people and situations:
1. Identify your best qualities and speak from them.
2. Extend heart energy outward.
3. Meditate regularly.
4. Commit to an emotional housecleaning by practicing consistent self-awareness; be clear when fear is controlling you, feel its effect and let it go.
Picking up the positive vibes of the greater Seattle community is a top job among the Evergreen Monthly staff. We are intent on delivering positive news and information throughout our pages. We don’t shy from the controversial, but we tend to shun the negative.
To this end, we openly ask for your help and positive vibes this month. We are in the process of compiling the list of our second annual Evvie Award winners. The Evvies published in our December issue will highlight reader and EM staff favorites in such categories as natural grocery stores, vegetarian restaurants, bookstores, green businesses, yoga studios, healthy pet food stores, natural health clinics, smoothie bars, coffeehouses, inspirational spiritual leaders and much more.
If you send some positive vibes our way by filling out our ballot, you will earn our deep gratitude (fitting for this month, Happy Thanksgiving, by the way) and a chance to win some fabulous prizes from Evergreen Monthly advertisers and supporters.
Please tell your friends to get out and vote too. We can use all the positive vibes we can identify and muster.
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