That Thing You Do
Saturday, March 6th, 2010What’s the thing you do that keeps you cut off from source, that thing you do that creates resistance and throws you out of alignment with your nonphysical self?
Today’s Abraham-Hicks quote was:
“The amount of time it takes you to get from where you are to where you want to be, is only the amount of time it takes you to change the vibration within you. Instant manifestation could be yours if you could instantly change the vibration.”
In other words, if we wouldn’t do that thing we do that creates resistance in our vibration, we’d have what we want … now.
I keep doing that thing I do.
Here’s how it goes:
I decide I want something, and I clearly visualize the way I want it to be.
Law of attraction teachers spend a lot of time talking about visualization, and I think they overemphasize it. Because I’m all over visualization. I visualize all the time. And I rarely experience the things I visualize.
Why?
I think it has to do with that thing I do.
This week, I bid on a freelance writing job. I’ve been bidding on jobs for over a month now, and I’ve yet to land a job. I have 25 years of writing experience, and I’ve published three books, and hundreds of columns and short stories and articles and I can’t seem to land a freelance job. I thought it was because I was bidding too high.
So this week, a job came up that I really wanted. It was exactly the kind of writing I like to do, and I’ve done a lot of writing like it. The bidding range was $500 to $1000. Because I really wanted the job, I bid $545. I figured the only way I wouldn’t get the job was if I was underbid.
Today I found out that the job was awarded to TWO other writers, one of which bid $750 and one of which bid $625. I looked at their profiles to determine why they were chosen over me. In terms of experience, I match one of the writers and outdo the other. And I underbid them both. I would have done the same amount of work these two will do together for less than half of what the client will pay.
Okay, I’ll admit it. I was really, really disappointed.
I could feel the discord between what I want and where I am now. I knew I was low on the Abraham-Hick’s emotional scale.
The law of attraction efficiently brought me more matching thoughts: lately, all my work has been rejected; maybe I’m not as good a writer as I thought I was; if I couldn’t get this job, how can I hope to get any others … etc., etc.
And there’s that thing I do. I’m calling it extrapolation.
I extrapolate from the one bit of bad news and smear it across the board to every other thing I’m working on.
After Ducky plays with her friend, Dixie, in the forest (which she got to do today for the first time in a week and a half), her feet are dark brown with mud. We bring her home and wash them off.
The clear water touches her feet and it’s no longer clear anymore. A little mud permeates the whole tub of water.
That is what linking one bad experience to every future experience does. I’m letting my current reaction muddy up my future endeavors.
I think this is what’s keeping me out of alignment, keeping me vibrating on a match to what I don’t want (rejection and not landing jobs and not enough money).
So I’m working on finding a better thought.
For example, today, I said to myself, “Perhaps this isn’t the best job for me. It only looked like it to me. But maybe the universe has something better in mind for me. Maybe the rejection had nothing to do with my ability or what’s coming to me next.”
Did this make me feel great?
No.
But it made me feel a little better.
And that’s all I need right now. As Abraham says, “A little better then a little better, then a little better.” You climb up the emotional scale.
Now that I’m aware of that thing I do, I’m working on doing something different. I’m working on finding a thought that disconnects the current disappointment from what is coming in the future.
How about you? Do you know about that thing you do? Are you learning to do it differently?
If you have something to share about this, please leave a comment. Sharing our wisdom on finding alignment helps us all.
Oh, and I’ve made a couple additions to the Law of Attraction Evidence page. And I’d love to get your comments about any evidence you’ve experienced.
