The Secret Is Wags

So I’m thinking about this post in the shower this morning.  I’m going to write about action, how it can help … and how it can hurt.

I boot up my computer, check my e-mail, and what do I find? Today’s Abraham-Hicks quote:

“Is it possible to be the visionary and the actionary of your own life? Not only possible, it’s the way most of you intended it to be. It’s the best of all worlds. What can be more exhilarating than to find a dream from the contrast, to fixate on the dream and let it give you pleasure as it grows, and then to watch Law of Attraction bring it into manifestation while you help with your action? Does it get any better than that? You didn’t think so as you made the decision to come forth into these physical bodies. You said, ‘This is the best time in all eternity for a Creator to Create.’”

Don’t you love the law of attraction? I’m thinking of a subject; I get a quote on that subject.

It IS the best of all worlds to be in action on your dream.  I know this.  It’s totally exhilarating.  It’s the vortex, the flow downstream, the alignment with nonphysical energy … all those things we want to be in.

Last year about this time, Tim and I did some superficial remodeling of our house.  It’s something I’d been thinking about doing for awhile. I’d been imagining the changes I wanted to make for months.  I wanted new paint, new window coverings, reorganization, some new furniture, a new sink, revamping the kitchen, etc.  When we got our insurance settlement from my accident and I thought we were in better shape financially than we were (Tim was hiding things from me; but that’s another story), I decided to take action on my vision.  For three months, we painted and refinished, I scoured the internet for deals and I sewed new window coverings, and Tim built furniture. Lots and lots of action.  But it was WONDERFUL.  It didn’t seem like effort.  We had long days and did lots of physical “work,” but when I woke up in the morning, I felt like a kid who was planning to be on a playground all day.

This is inspired doing—vision and action so intricately entwined that they meld together to create that perfect blend of joyous sensation.

But what about uninspired doing?

Should we be in action if it doesn’t feel this good?

Should we DO something that we think will take us to what we want when the doing isn’t something that lights us up?  Like exercising because we’re supposed to or eating carrots because they’re healthy, like joining clubs because it’s expected of us, like getting a degree because our parents want us to …. you get the idea.  Is this what we should do?

No, no, no.

I’ve learned this the hard way.  There is a very high cost to doing from a place of misalignment. And if you’re doing something just because you think it will get you something you want but take no pleasure from the doing, you are doing from a place of misalignment.

This sort of action is:

A Surefire Way of Creating Negative Thoughts

I had a vision when I started writing novels.  The vision was that I would eventually sell a book, and once I had an editor, I’d easily sell every book I wrote thereafter.  I sold that first novel to Bantam, but the novel ended up being categorized (by the publisher) as “chick lit.”  Once you sell a book in a genre, especially when you’re starting out, you need to stick to that genre.  This is how the publishers market authors.  They create a following.  You can’t create a following (say the publishers) when you’re genre-hopping.

Well, I hadn’t known my novel was chick lit when I wrote it (I thought it was sci fi), and I had no interest in chick lit. But I FORCED myself to write another chick lit manuscript.  My editor didn’t like it.  Well written, she said, but the main character didn’t engage her, and the story felt forced.

You think?

See what happens when you drag yourself through doing something?

My life blew up around me—Tim and his head injury and the aftermath of that sucked up money, and I had to DO something.  I lost sight of any vision, any dream.  I just ran around like a spastic cheerleader, embarking on one entrepreneurial enterprise after another.  I didn’t enjoy any of them.  I made myself get up in the morning.  I yanked myself around by an invisible rope, a rope tethered to the thoughts, “Oh my God, I need money now, and I can’t sell a manuscript fast enough so I shouldn’t even start one; I must build a business and work 12 hour days …. yada, yada, yada.”

And given the financial situation I’m in now, I can unequivocally say that this kind of action is not a good idea.

Why is it such a waste?  Why wouldn’t all that action create something good even if you don’t feel good about it?

Because all that action, taken from a place of feeling lousy, creates negative thought, and negative thought is upstream, heading away from what you want.

Have you ever been eating something while you read or watch TV and realized after a bit that you don’t even taste what you’re eating?  You’re doing it mindlessly, by rote.

When you’re focused on some action you don’t want to take, your thoughts fall into a negative vibrational pattern.  It’s a sort of low frequency hum of negativity.  It feels like constant tension or irritability or annoyance or frustration or discouragement or depression.  It’s mild, and you get used to it. So you don’t notice it.  Feeling lousy is such a norm that you don’t think to try and feel any better.

And all this low-grade lousiness (like a mild viral infection that hangs on and on but isn’t bad enough that you feel compelled to stop and heal it) is keeping you from finding thoughts that feel really good, thoughts that align with your true self.

It’s like a stalled train.

How To Never Get To Your True Desires

A year before Tim came into my life, I was dating a man who drove me nuts.  We fought all the time.  Why did I keep seeing him?  He was better than nothing … that’s what I told myself.  I said to a friend, “Oh, he’s just someone to spend time with until the right guy comes along.”

My wise friend said, “Imagine a train track in front of your house.  A long, long train is rumbling by.  Your right guy is in one of the train cars.  You stop the train to date this guy, and as long as you’re dating him, the train doesn’t move.  It’s stopped so you can interact with this car.  All your energy is on this guy in this car, and as long as it is, the train can’t continue on; since your guy is in one of the other cars further on down the train, he’ll never get to you.”

I stopped dating the man.  Six months later, Tim rolled into my life.

When we put all our attention on our current action and that action isn’t something we truly want to do, we are clogging up the tracks of our thought. All our attention is going to something that doesn’t light us up, doesn’t inspire, doesn’t raise our vibration to a match with our nonphysical selves and all the wonderful things waiting for us in vibrational escrow.

Action isn’t the way to what we want.  It can help, but it is SECONDARY to our thoughts and often it’s not necessary at all.

Abraham-Hicks says, “When we say, ‘You are creators,’ you think we are talking about creating furniture, or creating houses, or creating empires, or creating relationships. That isn’t what we talk about when we talk about creating. We are talking about the creating of your state of being.  And when you have understood that, and are giving that your dominant attention, then all of the physical trappings of this Universe will fall into alignment in such glorious fashion that you will amaze even yourself. YOU CANNOT DO IT WITH ACTION. IT IS THROUGH FOCUSING UPON HOW YOU WANT TO FEEL.”

So if action is pulling you away from feeling good, it’s stopping your train.  It’s a total and complete waste of time.

Believe me, I am poster girl for what happens when you try to pound out what you want with action.

But what if it seems action IS necessary now, action that you don’t really want to do?

I’m starting to figure out the answer to that.  I’ll talk about it in tomorrow’s post.

What are your experiences with uninspired doing and inspired action?

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