If they respond badly, let that be their problem, not yours. Ask them to change or to at least be less negative around you.ĭo pick your time though! Don’t confront them in the heat of the moment when you are feeling irritated with their negativity. Have a straight conversation with the person about how their attitude affects you. As you focus on Jesus and how good He is, the problem will shrink in size. The more you focus on the problem the bigger it’s going to get. Take your eyes off the problem – the negative person – and turn your mind to Jesus. Do these things when you feel you are being drained of energy by the negative person.Īsk God to recharge your mental, emotional, and spiritual energy so you can cope with your situation. When living with a negative person it’s important to surround yourself with positive things like uplifting friends, good music or books, and outdoor exercise. If they sense your withdrawal and confront you on it, be honest and tell them why you are keeping your distance. It may mean getting away from them for a while so you can recharge your own positive energy. It may mean limiting your exposure to the negative person as far as possible. This may mean bringing a conversation to a close after making an effort to help. When someone’s negativity becomes too strong for you to protect that positive space, then walk away. When you live with a negative person it’s important to protect the positive space around you. You don’t internalise it or feel responsible for their state of mind. It just means you don’t allow yourself to be sucked into their negativity. However, maintaining emotional distance doesn’t mean ignoring the person. Maintaining emotional distance will help you survive. Detachĭetaching yourself from a person’s behaviour is neither uncaring nor unchristian.
Ask God to help you see things from the other person’s perspective.ĭoing this may change the whole situation. Give your frustrations and irritations to God and ask Him to give you a right attitude toward the person.
Examine yourselfīe willing to own your own thoughts and responses toward the negative person. Ask God to surround your negative person with an atmosphere of light and peace, and to uplift their thoughts to positive things. If you find yourself in a similar situation, here’s what you can do: Prayĭon’t underestimate the power of prayer to change those you live with. What’s hard for Cam is that she can’t get away from the situation because her mother lives with her. Her moaning and negativity makes me depressed.” I don’t want to tell her things because it will be turned into something negative. Her whole attitude and demeanour is very aggressive when I approach her about it and she gets her back up about it. “I don’t want to even be in my own house anymore because the negativity is so draining. This means that living with a negative person will have a direct impact on your emotional well-being.Ĭam’s mother lives with her and is constantly complaining and negative about everything. The atmosphere that surrounds each person has a conscious or unconscious effect on the people around them. It contains our conscious and subconscious thoughts and feelings, and either the love or the fear we live in.” That atmosphere, propelled by the heart, reaches out from four to ten feet, depending on the individual. Science shows that “there is an atmosphere – an aura, they call it – that surrounds us and reaches out toward others.
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