| I'm sure you've all experienced a time when | | | | works very well so bleeding our dissatisfaction all |
| someone tried to hook you into their drama and | | | | over the place is what we expect will work. The |
| their story. They keep pushing your buttons until | | | | ego wants what it wants now. Usually what |
| you have pretty much had enough. It ultimately | | | | happens is the person usually gets dumped on by |
| comes down to when the last button is pushed | | | | circumstances and the world becomes a terrible |
| and you want to get away. The act of bleeding | | | | place right now. Then there is more bleeding all |
| their anger, pessimism, pain, disappointment and | | | | over the place as the sadness, grief and |
| what-have-you, all over the place is totally | | | | disappointment must be shared with everyone |
| inappropriate, but the person secretly wants you | | | | who will listen or maybe we'll just bleed anyway. |
| to feel as badly as they do, or at least get you | | | | Some people really like negativity or they would |
| to agree that they are suffering. | | | | change their attitudes. Some people are totally |
| Aside from ruining your day, they have also | | | | unconscious to the fact that they appear negative |
| ruined your desire to be around them at all. You | | | | to others. But the fact remains, once they find |
| can put people into groups by the way they | | | | something to bleed about, they don't want to let |
| behave and talk: the people you know with | | | | it go. Deep down, they identify themselves as a |
| attitudes and energy that you no longer want to | | | | hard-done-by person who is taking a beating from |
| be around, the people who live their whole life in | | | | life. Sometimes, they won't even acknowledge |
| negativity and will never change, the people who | | | | that anything positive does happen to them. If it |
| you can take in small doses and the people you | | | | does, they will try to sabotage, deny or ignore it. |
| never want to meet. | | | | In all of us, the ego tries to preserve itself at all |
| These people who are negative sometimes or all | | | | costs. It will defend every avenue to keep in |
| the time have inner resistance to what is going on | | | | control of life. Resisting the positive is just |
| in their lives. The various forms of negativity, | | | | rejection of what is and can be. Acceptance is a |
| including, anger, dissatisfaction, irritation, | | | | more painless way to be. Letting the positive in |
| depression, complaining, whining, and criticism, | | | | our life emerge and accepting that we deserve it |
| have a great longing to get someone or | | | | and we can have it is a huge step for a lot of |
| something. It is an attempt to manipulate reality | | | | people. Being here now, with what is happening |
| to get what it wants. Children do this all the time | | | | now helps us move from the place of defining |
| in the grocery store and the toy department. A | | | | everything from our past traumas, hurts and |
| great deal of effort is put out there to bleed all | | | | failures and expecting our future to be full of the |
| over the place to become so obnoxious that the | | | | same, to being in a place where we allow good |
| parent or care-giver gives in just to survive the | | | | things to come to us because they are here. All |
| onslaught. | | | | we have to do is accept them and they are ours. |
| As we become adults, we find that kind of tactic | | | | |