Purge the Dispiriting Virus—Jan. 12
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January 12, 2025
Sunday SAGe Newsletter Volume 17: Purge the Dispiriting Virus
Happy Sunday!
Here is this week’s installment of Sunday SAGe, an email communication that shares wellness inspiration from The Wellness Ethic to help people thrive during the coming week (and beyond!).
This week’s focus is on eliminating negativity from your life.
Purge the Dispiriting Virus
An excerpt from The Wellness Ethic:
It takes conditioning not to love. When a child is born, they don’t feel prejudice or hatred. A child is trusting and curious. They feel a natural affinity toward others. But over time, they are introduced to inequality, bullying, violence, hate, injustice, and other spiritual counterforces that erode their love-centered mindset.
As the child matures into adulthood, their spirit will have become infected, to some degree, with a dispiriting virus that feeds on the constant barrage of negative reinforcement in their environment. Left untreated, the virus multiplies and can further sap their capacity to love.
I understand that what I’m about to share may be a humbling jolt to your sensibilities, but here it goes: We have all been infected by a dispiriting virus. No matter how spiritual you are or how much love you feel in your heart, you are human. You can’t help but be impacted by negative forces around you. You may be cynical, jaded, or withdrawn on occasion. You may feel angry at times. Or violence, hate, dishonesty, self-dealing, or other character-suffocating energies may have overtaken your life.
What It Means
Wherever you’re at, the dispiriting virus is constantly wrestling with your SAGe for control of you. The dispiriting virus wants you to live in the depths of despair. After all, misery loves company. When you love the universe of existence—when your life force is saturated with love—you choose better company, and your life takes off in wonderful and unexpected ways.
Your Call to Action
To purge the dispiriting virus from your life, you can start by assessing which influences have spread negativity throughout your mind and spirit. Here are some common culprits:
Cable news and social media that promote conspiracies and division
Friends, family, or work colleagues who bring negativity into your life
Working at a company with a corrosive culture
Your actions that run counter to your spiritual values
The state of the world: climate change, war, famine, oppression
A grudge that you hold
Once you have pinpointed a source of negativity, choose a spiritual response to bring love into your life. Do you need to let go of something that happened in the past? Or make a career change? Do you need to shift the dynamics in a relationship? Wherever your opportunities lie, ask yourself: Am I willing to cede control of my happiness to an outside force or my self-sabotaging behavior?
Have a safe and healthy week,
