BearWithMe
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This. Exactly, this. Going maskless with negative emotions is huge invitation to a conflict.[...]
I think holding any negative emotion in your body can provide an entry point through which negative emotions/judgments from others can enter. If you're disgusted by others, perhaps they will be more easily disgusted by you.
I was extremely angry at my ex one day last week. I went to the store, did the mental prep...and it didn't work! First and only time in many many months I was stopped and asked to mask up. I was shocked. Only afterward was the connection made.
All I can conclude is that an absence of negativity is just as important as the presence of positivity.
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Going maskless with an attitude that you have extemption or something PLUS with a fear of others reactions is pretty much guaranteed to get you in trouble.
This should come from completely different place.
Not wearing a mask is normal. Wearing a mask is not normal. You want to breathe normally. You want to have normal contact with other people and that include reading facial expressions. You are healthy, your breating is not dangerous to others, you have nothing to hide from others and also you are not affraid of breating of others.
The possibility that you might be doing something wrong doesnt exist in your reality.
You are not above other people because you are not wearing a mask and you are not avoiding masks because you are above other people.