In this answer to a viewer's question, Guy explains that the task for us is not to try to suppress negativity through our own effort. Instead, the task is to watch, to be aware of the negativity so that its actual harmful nature can be revealed. Awareness already knows what to do with negativity without us having to think about it.

Topic: Transform Old Negative Reactions into New Self-Understanding (3/17/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: What is the nature of any limitation in ourselves? A limitation is anything that stands between us and our next highest possibility; The reason that we don't usually transcend limitations is because of the excuse-making nature that perceives the limitation as a problem and therefore tries to avoid it; Negative reactions block us from seeing that the images that we...

Classroom Talk: 3/17/2021 - Fearful, negative reactions see only what they need to see in order to run away with our life. But, we have another set of eyes that - once opened - can see right through these painful shadows of unwanted moments trapped in the past. Only sometimes, as when we first walk into a dark room, there are times...

When an unwanted moment comes along - there's a stress, a strain, somebody's definitely being negative -- aren't you positive that the reason you're in pain and resisting the condition is because of "what they are"? I'm telling you, that's not the case. They are revealing to you something in your consciousness that you don't know is there! And the only way it stays there, and hidden from you...

Topic: The ONLY Thing You Need to Remember to Release Any Negative Thought or Feeling (5/31/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: The ONLY Thing You Need to Remember to Release Any Negative Thought or Feeling (5/31/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 5/31/2020 - Part 1: Most of us struggle under a pervasive and ultimately punishing belief that we must do something to enlarge and enhance the world in which we live... When what we really need to do is to awaken from the pain of this illusion by realizing this self-liberating Truth: it's impossible for us to have more...

Classroom Talk: 4/1/2020 - What power has any painful moment over us save for having become unconsciously identified with our own negative reaction to it. Seen properly, this means the event we blame for our suffering is like looking in a mirror... and blaming the reflection for whatever we don’t want to see in it!

Topic: The Sure Cure for Chronic Negativity (2/23/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: The Sure Cure for Chronic Negativity (2/23/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: The Sure Cure for Chronic Negativity (2/23/20 Classroom Talk)