Two Negatives Don't Always Cancel Out

If you want to make the irrational rational, I think I found a way. Energy and emotions work a lot like mathematical equations — there are positives and negatives. But unlike the standard rules of multiplying and dividing signs, where two negatives make a positive, I believe emotional frequency follows a different set of rules. I'll try to lay this out as simply as I can. If you like math, science, or finding rational explanations for irrational things, this attempt to map out energy and frequency might resonate with you.

Once we're settled into a positive frequency — our baseline — we start attracting more positive energy into different parts of our life. But there will also be moments when negative energy tries to latch onto us and pull us back into old patterns. That's not necessarily good or bad. It's simply something we all encounter at some point.

So what actually happens, energetically, when a negative frequency meets a positive one?

The negative shows up, and the positive has two options. It can stay positive, which means the negative stays exactly what it is — negative — and the two don't cancel each other out; they just coexist. Or, the positive can get pulled in. This happens when we engage with the negative directly (trying to prove it wrong, which only gives it more power) or when we lean too hard into "staying positive" as a way to argue the negative away (which, ironically, also feeds it). Either way, once the positive starts reacting to the negative instead of holding its own frequency, it tips toward the negative. At that point, the positive is no longer really positive — it's been absorbed into the negative equation.

But if the negative shows up and the positive stays unaffected — not fighting it, not trying to fix it — the negative has no power over it. The positive stays positive. The negative stays negative, unless it chooses, on its own, to shift. And that's the key: changing someone else's frequency was never ours to do in the first place.

The same logic holds for two positives. When a positive meets another positive, it doesn't cancel or dilute — it multiplies. The value increases, and both remain positive, just amplified.

The clearest place I see this play out is in relationships — the people we attract, the people we deal with, and the people we choose to keep engaging with.

Naturally, this raises the question: what do you do when someone else is negative, and you're trying to stay positive? I think the answer is you keep engaging positively, and if the other person stays negative, that's not a reflection of you — it's on them to decide whether they want to shift. Sometimes this can feel like hitting a wall, like you're stuck in a loop trying to change someone who isn't ready to change. But when you hold your own frequency steady, it radiates outward and attracts what's aligned with it. Sometimes a negative even shows up specifically to test whether you can hold your positive.

I hope that makes sense. But treating energy and frequency like a set of mathematical rules lets your mind approach it logically and proactively, instead of feeling like you're stuck with unknown variables you can't control.

And really, understanding these rules comes down to knowing what's actually yours to control and what isn't — think of it like independent and dependent variables. Your frequency is the one you can solve for. Everyone else's is theirs.

Z.