THOUGHT POLLUTION
Did you ever walk into a room and immediately pick up a “bad vibe?” Or, quickly go from feeling fine to being really irritated for no apparent reason? If so, you may have crossed paths with a cloud of “thought pollution!” It’s easy to see the type of pollution that spews from a factory smokestack or to notice a car without a proper exhaust system, but many folks don’t think twice about leaving puddles of negativity in their wake as they indulge their bad moods and angry or disparaging thoughts. Thinking of thoughts as energy, or a series of electro-magnetic waves, can help us to envision how they affect others. We can summarize the Law of Conservation of Energy as “energy is neither created nor destroyed; only rearranged.” In this, we see the possibility that our thoughts might hang around long after we are done with them! But, what can we do? Negative and cynical thoughts do manifest – are we supposed to squash them so that they wreak havoc with our own internal organs? I...