What we resist, persists !

We find that our mind has the nature of carefully recording and retaining the few negative events and thoughts. While the positive thoughts and events even if numerous seem to have little balancing effect.

Why is it so?

When we do a negative act or think a negative thought it happens after a lot of ‘infighting’. When we think something negative it triggers a lot of opposite thoughts of, ‘this thought should not be coming to me in the first place’ , ‘this thought is not right, Why am I thinking like this?’. This one negative thought hence stimulates a lot of resistance within us and hence strengthens the inner tendency to retain the ripples of this thought. A positive thought creates no such ripples and it “passes through” with no resistance or inner reactions.

Hence because of this tremendous resistance and reactions to the negative thought it gains power to persist long after the stimulus to this thought goes away.
Hence, what we resist, persists!