On why negativity seems quicker or more pronounced....
According to evolutionary psychology, we developed a great capacity to respond to threats as a survival mechanism.
If there is a hungry tiger around, the thought of it is going to gnaw on you (pardon the pun) until you deal with it. This is a good thing, because it tends to keep you outside of the tiger's mouth. It doesn't manifest the tiger. It keeps you away from the tiger and can even lead to the tiger disappearing (a la shoving your spear into it, skinning and cooking it, and having it disappear into your belly instead of you disappearing into its belly).
We evolved to avoid problems. Our minds are geared toward this. Think of why so much news is bad news. Media conglomerates are taking advantage of our natural tendencies. Bad things catch our attentions because bad things catching your attention has always meant survival for our species.
If there's something screwed up, you better notice it, because if you didn't you wouldn't survive. You'd walk off the cliff, into the tiger's claws, or into fire.
If a food makes you sick, it's gonna take some time and effort for you to be able to eat it again. If you burn your hand on a stove, that's going to stay with you.
These are natural experiences for most intelligent organisms, I think, not just humans. Certainly for intelligent mammals, anyway.
So it's natural. It's part of who we are. It's not the universe. It's us. We tend to notice and focus on what's screwed up.
But humans also have this neat ability of self-reflection. We get to look at the activity of our own minds and bodies and adapt to it. We can look at our behavior, our reactions, and go, "Oh! I am just being a normal human again! Ok." And then you can direct your attention where you want to.
D2C, it's good for all of us to understand who and what we are, as humans, and to learn to accept and adapt to it.
It isn't about the universe reacting to you. You make your decisions. You take your actions. You get your results. It's not so much a big thing as it is situation dependent. I'd take my focus and bring it down to the real world in the here and now, what I am doing, who I am talking to, what situation I am in, etc., and move away from the celestial stuff.
So, I'd say that it isn't about the universe responding quicker to negativity as much as you being very good at noticing and dwelling on negative things. And that's ok. Believe me, your so-called negative focus is not going to bring anything but normal, everyday stuff into your life.
But thinking that negative thinking will bring all sorts of bad things into your life can create a serious amount of mental anguish. "I better not think a negative thought because thinking negative thoughts creates bad things in my life. Oh no! I just thought a bad thought, I better stop thinking about that or I am going to manifest it... but how can I not think about it when thinking about not thinking about it causes me to think about it!"
It creates a cycle of negative thoughts and worry that can create serious anxiety and break you down.
It's better, in my opinion, to just look at how things really are and interact with reality instead of interacting with a set of ideas about reality which may not even be true in the first place.
So notice what your mind tends to do, naturally. Accept it. No need to fight with it. Let it go. Just let it go. Focus on what you want and visualize it or whatever. But don't think that this is a guarantee that it'll happen. It's not. And it's not your fault that you don't get your goals or visualized wishes. It doesn't mean there's something wrong with you. It just means you're a normal person living in a real world, where every child doesn't get a pony just because he wishes hard enough.
Disappointing, but much better than giving yourself hell for not being God.
