Don’t Do When Dos Don’t Feel Good
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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March 26th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
There is this guy I know names Joseph H. He practices Jin Shin Jutsu, 5000 year old healing art from Japan and its basically acupunture without the needles. Meridian and unblocking energy and such. The Amazing thing about Joseph is that when you are sick or going to be sick, He will tell you. I had a stinging pain in my shin once and had it for two and a half weeks. I didnt tell him about it but he told me about it. He puts you on a table and basically just takes your pulse. He listens to your pulse in your arms, toes, back, neck, face etc. While he was listening to the pulse in my toes on my right foot and he said. So, you’ve probably had a sharp pain in your left shin for about 2.5 weeks now. Of course, the first thing always out of my mouth is how did you know that? He always says the same thing, I can hear it in your pulse. He said the problem is that you have a problem with you hip and that causes the pain in your shin. He then went on to say, You probably started having a very sharp sharp pain behind your left ear today or yesterday. I said, whoa, just this morning I started having very sharp pains behind my left ear. He said, I know, I can hear it. Dont worry, I will unblock the energy and it will be gone immediately. He did and It was gone immediately. Haven’t had a pain there yet. Why am I saying all this about Joseph and healing and feeling pulses? Well, one of Joseph’s staple things to say to everyone is, Dont do Anything except from Pleasure. I had a hard time when I first heard that and he clarified it for me, something he doesnt like to do, he wants the student to come to the conclusion by him or herself. He said, dont do anything unless you are inspired. His big thing is that we are all Magnificent! Everything about us is Magnificent. He just doesn’t say that because its a new agey, cool, and hip thing to say, he says it and REALLY means it. He says, our purpose is to reflect God’s glory.
One time I was waiting outside his office for an appointment and he came out and said, Greg, do you mind if someone goes in before you? Its kind of important, its a girl who has a problem that I need to help her with right away. If you let her go in front of you, I will make it up to you. Well, here comes the girl with her face all contorted and crying and her mother there crying and things were not good. The girl had Bells Palsey. I dont know if I spelled that correctly but half of her face was completely paralyzed and didnt look like it was going to get fixed by Joseph. 45 mintues later, She came out smiling and completely healed. He did nothing but touch her with his finger tips in the right places to unlock energy. Saw it with my own eyes. No big deal to him. He didnt even think it was anything. He just said, Oh she needed to get her energy unblocked.
Its kinda strange because Joseph has never been taught about LOA. He doesnt know Abraham, Never saw the secret or doesnt even know it exists. Doesnt listen to self help and has never even heard the words LAW Of ATTRACTION and he is the most complete and thorough and my gifted LOA teacher I have ever come in contact with. He constantly is talking to me about the real self vs. the known self or ego self. One is real and the other is imagined. One is true and the other is false. So I digress. Sorry. Anyways, he is so big on not doing anything, ANYTHING unless it is inspired.
March 26th, 2010 at 6:12 pm
Wow, great story, Greg! I’d love to see a healer like Joseph. Some fortunate, conscious, wise people, don’t need to be lead back to their truth like the rest of us. They just know. Some of us like to meander around a lot before we get back to knowing.
March 27th, 2010 at 9:49 pm
Another inspiring post, Ande, and I’m eager to learn what you have to say about what if it seems that action is required now but a person doesn’t want to do it.
One example of inspired action I can recall is when Mark agreed to let one of our friends host a “Conversations with God” discussion group in Mark’s home at that time. We had thought of starting an Abraham-Hicks discussion group, but this other one seemed OK, too. In a few months, the group had attracted a number of people who were interested in Abraham, and it became the genesis of the groups we hold 4 times a month in our current home. In retrospect, we’d had a desire to discuss Abe with others, and our friend came along to jump start the whole thing. [She soon left the group after it became more about Abe than Neale Donald, but she happily founded other groups.] All Mark and I did was easily set up meetings, spread the word, and vacuum the carpet. Ha. The Abe groups continue to be one of the most fun and fulfilling things we do.
As for uninspired action, well, I don’t think there are enough pixels here for me to describe all I’ve done in that department — haha — but I am getting so much better at not plowing through without aligning — or at least attempting to align — my energy.