[QUOTE=Joanna63;27248]Create your positive space, and learn to detach and separate yourself from those negative energies around you.
There is a reason you are in this situation, whether it is to help you learn to be and feel positive though negativity surrounds you, or whether it is to teach you to retreat when it is time to retreat for your own mental and spiritual health.[/QUOTE]
very nice…
[QUOTE=Pawel;27383]Two things came to my mind when I was reading Hanu post and following discussion:
Maybe this negativity depressing us in others is our negativity which we would like to remove from our life? (especially since we aim to be holy yogis 
) Maybe this energy drain is caused by our struggle to not allow this negativity came back from our basement? (struggle, because part of us agrees and feels the same way like those “negative” people). I started to think along this lines, especially since in whole discussion the general picture is that we are beings of light and source of our problems lies in others.
If that’s the case, the solution would be to bring back our negativity into life and awareness. Let it speak, express itself. Discharge. Be gentle to it. And then patiently show/discuss that there is no need to be so sad and depressing. Go through all things that are good in life and worthy of effort. And through this, change perception of this “negative” part of ourselves. Then I believe we could be less dependent on “negativity” of others.[/QUOTE]
This post is really helpful. I can relate to Hanu because I just started a new job and always get taken aback when this one guy who works there-Dave- is around.
I met him the day of my interview and we got along and were talking and he must have gotten very comfortable with me because he started saying multiple racist things about the Latino population here in South Florida. He did not know that I am hispanic, perhaps because I don’t look like the steriotypical Latino person.
When I told him he was talking to a “Latina” he didn’t believe me. I was utterly disgusted by how some people can just hate an entire group of people because of ethnic background.
Now, whenever I see him at work, I notice he always has something negative to say. He is either complaining or just in an obviously bad mood. I just feel a huge negative vibe coming from him, that I rarely feel from anyone at all.
I wish I could just ignore all of it, but last time I saw him, I had to get away because it is too unpleasant to work around him now. I am new at my company and am afraid that if I report him and start “drama”, I will get fired. I love my new job and do not want to get fired.
I highly recommend reading A New Earth or The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. Both of these books are great for learning how to deal with negativity.