Getting what you want requires that you feel like you have it before you get it. This is the cornerstone of vibrational matching—creating an energy vibration within that matches the external thing or experience you want.
But, say what? I have to feel good before I get the thing that’s going to make me feel good?
For many, many months, I’ve struggled with how to do this. When finances are in the toilet, your body is a candidate for the Overweight and Out-of-shape Hall of Fame, your marriage needs some serious work, and your career has disappeared into a black hole, how in the name of all that’s good are you supposed to find a way to feel good before you feel good?
“There’s too much bad stuff for me to find the good stuff,” I’ve whined too many times to count.
And so, of course, I kept getting more bad stuff.
Abraham-Hicks says, “One who is mostly an observer thrives in good times but suffers in bad times because what he is observing is already vibrating, and as he observes it, he includes it in his vibrational countenance. As he includes it, the Universe accepts that as his point of attraction and gives him more of it. So the better it gets the better it gets. Or the worse it gets the worse it gets. While one who is a visionary thrives in all times.”
Even though I have a great imagination and have visualized my heart out, I am a World Class Observer. I may visualize; but in between, when I’m knocking about in the world, I’m looking at what is.
So obviously, when I look at the mess I’ve created, I keep getting more mess.
In the last couple weeks, I’ve started getting the hang of finding that speck of feel good in the big, bad, lousy, feel yucky pot of bean chili that is life.
I’m getting the hang of it because I’ve started seeing the power of it.
It’s like cayenne pepper vs. chili powder
When you make chili, if you want it to have enough flavor, you have to dump in a lot of chili powder. A teaspoon or two won’t do. You need a ¼ cup or so, maybe more in a big pot to get nice robust flavor.
Chili is like negative focus. It takes quite a bit of negative focus to create really big messes in life. You have to REALLY linger over worry, anger, or fear to get a nice flavorful pot of Lousy Stuff.
Now cayenne pepper is another story. It only takes a pinch of cayenne to make a BIG impact on a pot of chili. Cayenne is powerful stuff.
Cayenne is the feel good thoughts in life’s chili pot. It only takes a little bit of positive focus to start turning things around. And because cayenne is so potent, you only need to find one tiny little good thing to focus on for it to start having an impact on every aspect of your life.
I’m really starting to get this (I’ve been reading about it for years, but it takes my belief system and daily activities a while to catch up). I’ve been making it too hard.
I thought I had to get in a feeling place of being rich and thin and thrilled to pieces about my husband and totally successful in order to make changes in my life. All that, of course, in the glop I was in, was too much to do.
All I really have to do is find one thing to focus on that makes me feel good. One thing. (I guess Curly had it right in City Slickers—it really is about one thing.)
That one thing acts like cayenne and starts touching everything in my life.
I’ve been using my dog, Ducky, as my one thing. Ducky totally delights me. She makes me SMILE. And I’ve built on that one thing by creating a blog about Ducky and my last dog, Muggins, and all the other joyful dogs out there. The Joyful Springer has become my cayenne. When I’m tempted to look at all the other things that are wrong, I return my attention to Ducky and The Joyful Springer (sounds like a fairy tail, er, tale, doesn’t it?)
And things are getting better. I’ve manifested some money, some reduction in our debt, some new supportive friends. I’m enjoying my husband more, and he’s forgetting less than usual. I’m eating less food without trying to because I’m just feeling so much better. And my career? I’m not concerned. It will follow along in its own time.
The other night, Tim and I watched Brigadoon. There’s a great line in that movie: “… sunshine can peek through a wee hole.”
Good thoughts and the vibrational frequency that goes with them can poke through a wee hole too. It takes just that wee hole to allow alignment to start flowing between you and your nonphysical self, the self that already stands in vibrational alignment with all you desire.
I’ve started focusing on that wee hole. And I think the hole is getting bigger.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on finding the specs of good in your life. To leave a comment, click on the “comments” link (it will say “No comments or “1 comment” or more) at the end of the tags in “Posted in” at the end of this post.
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