am i the only one who feels bad sending their negative energy into the earth?

[mark]

like i’d rather just send it into space where it can dissipate, i feel bad putting it into earth. i know it can transform it but i just don’t feel right doing it. does anyone else feel like this?

Discussion

[baby_armadillo]

Energy’s just energy. It’s neither good or bad. It’s what it’s doing inside you that makes it something you want to keep or release. Think of energy like water. Water can be gentle, strong, helpful, and harmful. A warm bath is healing, a flash flood is deadly, but the water isn’t a problem. The water is just doing what water naturally does. It’s the context that makes it good or bad for you. Releasing energy that is toxic to you isn’t releasing something toxic into the world. It’s just allowing that energy to leave a space that is being damaged by it and go to a space that isn’t.

[kaikuroo]

It’s perfectly fine, remember earth changes bad energy into good energy:)

[OhSpoot]

One of the things that might help you to feel better balanced is by also sending some good energy to the earth too. 🙂 It can transform the bad into good, but if you had a good spellcasting and some residual energy left over from it, send that to the earth too. Someone mentioned that is good to lean on your mom, but they also like calls when things are going right also. 🙂 Just a thought from a green witch (who loves all things in balance, or at least at close as I can get).

[Imloudcauseimdeaf]

Here is my small bit to add on top of all the amazing advice here.

Instead of thinking of energy as “positive” or “negative” try: harmful or helpful.

Helpful energy is the stuff you use for spell work and manifestations. Harmful energy is whatever doesn’t help you in the moment.

Here is how I explain it: I used to be LDS but am now a pagan witch. My family may pray to God that I wont be a witch anymore. For my family they are sending helpful energy to me. But for me that energy is not helpful to me reaching my potential. For me prayers in that nature are harmful. I send that energy to the earth so that it may be used in a way that benefits the most people.

There really is no such thing as “negative” energy as nothing truly negatively affects everything it touches.

[smurfthesmurfup]

Well, maybe you need to reframe ‘negative energy’ as ‘energy that harms me but helps earth’.

I mean, poop, the dead & rotten veggies hurt us, but returned to earth they are composted & their nutrients feed the soil.

[bubble0303]

i like to think that bad energy doesn’t exist, theres only positive and negative, none of that is evil, it’s only natural, and if anyone knows how to keep the perfect balance is earth 🙂

[Tenzky]

If you mix your teeny-weeny bit of negative energy into the Earth. Its like putting one spoon of sugar in to the sea. Its just completely dissapears.

[BoardfShadowyFigures]

Do you feel bad having your poop go into the ground? No, because bacteria eats it and turns it into life for other things. Same deal.

[Sky555]

It’s common to feel bad about it, we already are hurting the earth so much with all the pollution, toxic waste garbage etc that societies spew out everyday. Makes sense to question if we want to contribute more to this at an energetic level.

That being said, I do believe and feel that offering our pain, our tears, rage and sorrow to the earth is deeply healing both for us and the planet. Especially when we do so with humble gratitude. Why? Because it brings us back into right relationship with the earth, it deepens our conscious interconnection, it can contribute to healing the broken link between humans and nature.

For those that are ecologically aware, though, it’s easy to be consumed by guilt and shame, as well as a sense of hopelessness with all that were doing to the planet…. even more so if we feel and know that the earth as alive. It makes total sense what you are feeling. I think if we reframe it and we do energy exchanging while deeply honoring our connection to earth, it can be very powerful. You can also ask yourself in what ways are you giving positive, nourishing energy to other living, non human beings to balance it out….

[godkingmaker]

There was this video on Shamanism sub about there is no such thing as negative energy in terms of the energy being positive or negative. Energy is energy. What’s negative is your perception or use of it, or the information that comes with it.

So giving the energy you perceive negative to the earth is just you giving energy to the earth because I don’t think the earth perceives it as positive or negative. But even if the earth could perceive it as positive or negative, I think the earth, and you as well, are powerful enough to internally transmute it.

So if you really feel bad about it, maybe learn to transmute that energy within yourself.

Edit: found video
https://www.reddit.com/r/Shamanism/comments/n9ov9o/about_negative_energy_or_more_so_information_and/

About negative 'energy' or more so, information. And negative thoughts, words and 'curses'.. more in comments..
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[backaritagain]

That’s what moms are for!! Lean on the strength and be blessed

[NotApplicableMC]

It’s natural and necessary. We all have light & dark inside us because it’s needed. It’s the same for nature & earth as a whole, like if we only ever had daytime it would be terrible. We need nighttime, and other things that are seen as “dark” and “bad” on the surface.

[Ecstatic-Jaguar-4707]

There is no true negative energy. It’s energy that’s negative to you, but maybe positive to something else. The energy just gets repurposed.

[akrolina]

the universe sends us all kinds of energies and definitely not just good ones. And so we do the same. As we are one with the universe and the universe is one with us.

[thunderm00n]

I don’t feel guilty because she knows how to digest it better than I do.