<\/p>\n
A few years ago while writing a book called Blue Skies and Green Lights<\/em> (to be released by Loving Healing Press next month, under the name It\u2019s Your Choice! Decisions That Will Change Your Life<\/em>) I decided to do some research.\u00a0 At the time I was working for Kaiser Permanente in southern California and had noticed that some days the office hummed with good humor and diligent employees, loving their work.\u00a0 On other days everyone was either on PMS or menopause and whatever the male equivalent of that was.<\/p>\n So I decided to do a test.\u00a0 The next day I walked in, snarled at the receptionist when she said \u201cgood morning\u201d, banged my purse down on my desk, headed for the lunchroom where I put my lunch in the refrigerator and closed it with a bang.\u00a0 When one of the other employees asked if something was wrong, I growled with a snapping display of teeth and answered, \u201cYes, I\u2019m not in a mood to work,\u201d and stormed out of the lunch room.\u00a0 For the entire morning my tone was negative, my attitude was surly and I did a pretty good imitation of the grouchiest person I\u2019d ever known.<\/p>\n I started noticing something.\u00a0 The receptionist began barking at the patients, the patients were cranky and complaining; even the Chief of Service, normally the best natured man I\u2019d ever known, had a face filled with frowns and a lost look in his eye. My boss was the bossiest I\u2019d ever known her to be and at least three of the clerks said that if they were given any more work they were calling in sick tomorrow.\u00a0 Amazing!<\/p>\n The following day I did the opposite.\u00a0 I fairly sang my \u201cgood morning\u201d greeting to the receptionist, told her that color looked great on her, it made her look sexy; when I put my lunch away I said \u201cgood morning\u201d in a pleasant voice to the three staff members that were in the lunchroom; told my boss that her hair look gorgeous (that might have been pushing my luck, her every day hairdo was a butch cut) and spent the entire day not only working hard but acting like I loved what I was doing.\u00a0 I exchanged pleasantries with very staff member I encountered, sympathized with a patient that had the sniffles, congratulated a mother on having not only the prettiest child I\u2019d ever seen but the most well behaved and in general just acted like it was my job to light up the environment and make this the best day everyone had ever have.\u00a0 And, no surprise there, everyone in the office was in a great mood, patient, uncomplaining and good humored.<\/p>\n Can you imaging what the world would be like if all of us did this on a daily basis?\u00a0 I know, I know.\u00a0 Sometimes we\u2019re entitled to be cranky. But, there\u2019s an added benefit.\u00a0 If you are in a bad mood and begin to slowly change it to a good mood you\u2019ll find that it was pretty effortless and had great benefits.<\/p>\n Negative energy not only attracts negative energy but it creates negative energy.\u00a0 Positive energy creates positive energy.\u00a0 Energy not only changes the atmosphere but it encourages either good things (found a $20 bill in the parking lot and no one in the office said they lost it \u2013 hooray, I\u2019m treating myself to a great lunch) or bad things (received a phone call from your mother-in-law saying she was coming for a visit.)<\/p>\n It\u2019s magic!<\/p>\n One time when I was following our security officer as he unlocked all the doors he entered the copy room and when he tried to unlock the door on the other side of the room his key wouldn\u2019t work.\u00a0 He kept trying it and became increasingly annoyed when it wouldn\u2019t cooperate.\u00a0 He muttered something about having to get a locksmith out to get this lock fixed.\u00a0 I asked him if he\u2019d let me try.\u00a0 He gave me his key with a smug \u201caha, you think you can do better than me?\u201d look.\u00a0 I took a deep breath, smiled and literally surrounded that door knob with happy thoughts.\u00a0 I relaxed, put the key in the knob and it opened immediately.\u00a0 \u201cHow\u2019d you do that?\u201d he questioned as he scratched his head.\u00a0 I gave him a quick lesson on positive and negative energy and told him I had learned it one day when I was supposed to unlock the door and had the same result he had.<\/p>\n Try it!\u00a0 It works!<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n