Troy Valencia's Daughter's energetic training

 So I'm watching instagram videos of Troy doing all sorts of cool stuff with his daughter.  Putting her feet in the ocean.  Smelling and feeling jungle flowers.   And the video narrates the hermetic principle that positive thoughts are followed by negative thoughts like the day gives way to the night.  And, of course, the new dawn reminds us of the transitory nature of the negative thoughts.  So its nothing to get hung about, strawberry fields forever.  Until they run out of water and shrivel.  

So the prevailing wisdom is that there is no sense dwelling in the negative thoughts.  But shunning so called negative thoughts is in a way the same type of animal and process of the negative thoughts themselves.  The process of constriction.  Picking and choosing.  Reducing not expanding.  So how to encounter the negative thoughts and energy states and relate to them as natural processes, natural spirits, natural friends?  Lets let that question hang for a bit, shall we?  Suffice it to say that when Mitch Horowitz writes that you must avoid cruel people like the plague, I get it, but it a way, its closing off part of what you are.  What you are expands when it connects with the vitality of the interplay.  That is my sense of it anyway.  So how do you expand your awareness to encompass the contraction?   I think you just do it and see what is actually going on.  Encounter it. Connect with it.  Don't label it as bad and run away from it.  

If I encounter  this flux within my practice of allowing the myriad phenomena of reality to dwell/enter me as opposed to the energy of our "self" creating the myriad reality,  all sorts of interesting permutations and dynamics are created.  And these are seen most clearly for me in the forest.  The  forest is my friend in the same way the morning is my friend as I look out to the expanded space of the forest and my attention intersects with the large expansive space.  Its not cramped with the energy of the self created reality.   And when the self is compressed, perhaps this is related to the negative thoughts that have constricted upon themselves.  

I don't have any answers to any of this. But there is something about participating in the process that is important.  Connecting with the ebb and flow.  Just like Troy letting his daughters feet feel the ebb and flow of the waves of the ocean.