The Secret Is Wags

After my post, Amplify, Amplify, Amplify,  Mel commented, “Wow, what a difference a day can make.” She was referring to the fact that two days before, I had written about not liking any of the choices I felt like I was facing. My frustration clearly came through at that point, and two days later, my improved mindset was equally clear.

Fifteen years ago, I took medication for severe depression (bipolar). I was in treatment for about five years from 1992 to 1997. I was told then that feeling bad was chemical. It was something I couldn’t control. I had to take a pill to get past it.

In 1997, I decided that the medication (I was on 12 different ones over those five years) was doing me far more harm than good. My path of least resistance (though I didn’t call it that then) was to stop taking the meds and find natural ways to improve my mood. I embarked on years of experimenting with foods and natural supplements and meditation and visualization, all of which were far more helpful than all the psychotropic drugs the doctors had prescribed.

It wasn’t until I began studying Abraham-Hicks, though, that I was able to put the notion of being “bipolar” or a “depression sufferer” behind me. It was then that I discovered I had the power to shift my mood from bad to good in a matter of seconds, just by choosing different thoughts.

I began to see that by thinking of myself as someone prone to depression I had been attracting thoughts that matched up with depression. I also began to see that my energy level was directly correlated to what I was thinking. When I was thinking about lack, I felt despair and no energy (i.e., I was “depressed”). When I was excited about something I wanted or appreciating something I had, I felt energized.

In the last few years, I’ve had a lot of times that other people would label “depression.” But I no longer call my low energy times depression. I know that when I’m indulging in a funk, it’s happening because I’m being lazy about the way I’m thinking.

“What about the brain chemistry?” someone once asked me when I told her that she controls her moods.

I know our bodies generate different chemicals when we’re down than when we’re up, but those chemical changes aren’t out of our control. Our vibrations and thoughts are the catalysts for whatever chemicals roam through our bodies. Years ago, I read an example of this in a book (can’t remember which one) by Deepak Chopra. He said two people can look at a roller coaster, and one person’s body will generate an “upper” chemical. This person loves roller coasters. The other person’s body will generate a “downer” chemical. This person is terrified of roller coasters. These chemicals are real—they’ve been measured scientifically. But they were generated by a thought (either “roller coasters are fun” or “roller coasters are dangerous”).

Since yesterday, I’ve been totally calm, serene even, about my finances.

Nothing in my experience has changed, but where I’m putting my attention HAS changed. I have changed. And I did it in an instant.

That’s the power of a moment.

One thought, which attracts another thought and another and another. I’m drawing more and more feel good thoughts to me with each moment.

It’s in my control. And it’s in yours.

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