Originally Posted by Diego

Once negative energy is sent out, it wants to find a place that feels like
home. Like energy is attracted to like energy. The one who sent the
negative energy in the first place has now compromised their energy field
and is now vulnerable to attack. The more negative energy they dish out the
more that will come back to them. So you do pay a heavy price for using
negative energy. This creates a looping effect where negatives keep
circumnavigating over and over. This is why some people can't seem to get
out of the negative patterns they are in, since they keep attracting the
same issue over and over until they become aware that they can shift it.
This is evolution! This makes sense to you, yes?

"Your every thought, feeling, perception, spoken word, and performed action
reverberates into the universe."
-- Swami Muktananda