“I’m rubber and you’re glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you!” Who remembers this fun comeback from childhood games? It was meant to show the deliverer of some type of insult that the receiver was just not bothered at all by the insult. In actuality, it is a phrase everyone should follow every day.
Never did I think that as an adult I would realize the depth of the truth of this statement. As children, we were actually practicing the law of attraction without even realizing the nature of what we were doing. Granted, somewhat in an opposite matter, but if we focus on this phrase as adults, it can help us to move through many situations either as the deliverer or the receiver.
Let us pretend we are that child responding that we are rubber. We want that insult to reflect off of us and back to the sender. After all, we are not the ones putting that out into the world. Remember that the person sending the insult is going to attract that type of vibe back to them. What we want is to bring gratitude back. So, for every negative item that comes our way, we must try to focus on putting out some type of positive in response.
This is not necessarily referring to a specific insult hurled our way, but how things we do on a daily basis may be bringing in more negative aspects than we even realize. Think about what you are putting out throughout the day. Are you participating in needless arguments on social media? Do you spend too much time reading through incredibly frustrating comments? Ever notice how after reading through those comments, you suddenly feel uptight, stressed, or full of anxiety? Even watching hours on end of news channels can start bringing negative thoughts into our day. As much as it is important to be knowledgeable on what is happening, at some point the stories start repeating themselves. We must be careful not to start letting our output focus on negative items as that same negativity will start bouncing back.
It is important to recognize those aspects that we are getting sucked into and to limit those exposures or find a way to focus on some of the positive. I have talked before on how to remove yourself from a negative spiral on social medial. If watching the news is bringing you in, pay attention to whether the story is starting to get circular. Are they presenting anything new? If not, perhaps it is time to step away from the broadcast. Or even do a search for those stories focusing on humanitarian efforts. There is a reason why Mr. Rogers said “look for the helpers.” Whatever situation is brining you into a spiral of negativity, the important thing is to step back from the situation and give yourself a moment to adjust.
In that way, we become the deliverer of positive wavelengths. Once we are able to focus our thoughts on the positive rather than the negative, then we can start receiving that positive as it bounces back. This phrase of bouncing back applies to everything you put out into your life.
If we spend the day focusing on what we are putting out into the world, we can determine that whatever comes back to us matches what we were putting out. We have a bad morning and start focusing on everything that went wrong, then things will keep going wrong throughout the day. It is within our power to put a stop to this tailspin. That is not to say we are never going to have a bad morning, or bad meeting, or bad anything. Those things will still happen. But what we do have is a way to get beyond and improve from those experiences. We must let those external experiences bounce off and instead focus on that positive so that it comes bouncing back to us. We are improving our output to improve our input.
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