Vishen LakhianiFounder of Mindvalley | NYT Bestselling Author | Transforming Lives Globally

How to block negative people

1 Mar 2025 · 0 min

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Short YouTube dialogue about blocking negative people. Speaker A advises not to let negativity "live rent free" in your mind, cautions against judging actions without understanding the underlying story, and recommends listening with empathy and compassion to defuse negative interactions while maintaining boundaries.

If you are an emotional person, how do you block someone who's talking negative to you?
So first of all, I do not allow anyone negative or anything negative to live rent free in my mind, okay? Because for every emotion and motion, there's a story attached to it. Quite often we're judging on the actions and not knowing what. What's the story behind it. When we seek to understand and listen with empathy and compassion, that's the thing that can take the fire out of the other person. You do not have to allow people to attach you, okay?