"We are responsible for all the ripples created in others by our anger, as well as the ripples they in turn pass along to the next group." - Sri Harold Klemp
I know we've all felt it. It's kind of like pay-it-forward, except with a bad check. Just recently I came across an article in TIME magazine, titled "The Happiness Effect". The article sites a 20-year long study, the results of which were recently published in the British Medical Journal, that says that happiness is contagious. We knew that!
It says that "...emotions can pass among a network of people up to three degrees of separation away, so your joy may, to a larger extent than you realize, be determined by how cheerful your friends' friends' friends are, even if some of the people in this chain are total strangers to you." And likewise, the friends' friends' friends are affected by how cheerful, or angry, you are.
Now, we know that it happens, what are we going to do about it? Join us in studying anger and what we can all do to change the ripples from negative to positive.
2 comments:
Thank you for your insightful & inspirational message.
I see it in my children. They reflect back instantly what is rippling out from me. They are powerful mirrors. I love it when it is my joy that comes out and heart broken when it is anger...
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