Attracting Low Energies.

Question:

I am 59 years old, and have been reading/listening to Harrison Klein, Louise Hay, Wayne Dyer, Rikka Zimmerman, to name a few, for a number of years now, and following the teachings but I don’t seem to be moving very far away from the origin of my life. I was born into a family of 7, where the scenario was an alcoholic angry father, and an unhappy mother who took her frustrations out on the kids; I grew up in this environment till the age of 21, I was very unhappy, depressed, frustrated. I thought this life was normal. So growing up in that negative environment had set the stage for my beliefs and habits that I had as a young adult. As an adult I went on a search for something better in life, searching for love, peace, happiness, thus coming to this point in my life where I listen to the teachings of Harrison, Louise and Wayne on a daily basis. Today what I see is that even though I’m striving to have a life of peace, joy, love, sharing, learning, my environment around me seems to be filled with low vibrating energy (negativity and chaos to some degree all around me, disrespect from others, being used by others, etc.). If I am surrounded with lower vibrating energies, this would mean that I am attracting them somehow. But how, if I’m trying to live according to what I’m learning? Was I born to live in this kind of environment my entire life? I don’t know why I’m not attracting the higher energies into my life (people, places, activities, feelings). I want to know what I should do so that higher energies are drawn into my life and the lower energies are not. thank you