The Secret Is Wags

I live in a coastal tourist town where permanent residences are mixed in with vacation homes and “camping lots,” wooded lots to which people bring their RVs a few times a year.  The town isn’t the prettiest ocean-side town in the world; still, it has a sort of comfortable beauty to it, like a favorite sweater that is a little pilled and has a missing button but fits just right.  I enjoy the casual hodgepodgy feel of the place.

One of my neighbors, on the other hand, isn’t all that happy with hodgepodge.  A couple days ago, she started complaining about a camping lot that’s across the street from her well-maintained, lovely home.  Before she could get too far down the negative road, I stopped her and asked, “Is this making you feel good?”

“Well, no,” she said.  She went on to tell me that she has tried to picture a nice house on the lot instead of the leveled gravel area with the chain across the front of it that’s there now, but she isn’t having much luck.  She’s also tried being happy that it’s a camping lot because at least it generates no noise most of the year.  “But that’s not working,” she said.

I told her that sometimes when you just can’t find an improved vibration on a subject, it’s better not to think of the subject at all.  She said, “But when I look out the kitchen window, I see it.”

“You don’t have to see it,” I said.

“How do I not?  It’s right there,” she said.

And it is right there.  But so is my neighbor’s lush manicured lawn, the bushes she’s planted and tended to lovingly, the magnificent hemlocks, Douglas firs, and spruce trees that surround the camping lot, and an ever-changing coastal sky.  So are the deer and raccoons that meander down our street.

“You really can choose what you pay attention to,” I told her.

She wasn’t convinced.  “I guess I’ll just find a way to be okay with it,” she said.

The conversation made me think of Abraham-Hicks] statement that you wouldn’t put a smiley face over your gas gauge when it’s empty, so don’t put a smiley face over the things that aren’t as you need them to be in your life.

That statement used to confuse me.  It said to me that you’re not supposed to ignore the things that aren’t right.  You’re not supposed to pretend you like something you don’t like.  At the same time, though, Abraham-Hicks tell us that we need to remove our attention from unwanted aspects of our experience.  Huh?  Isn’t the smiley face over the gas gauge and removing your attention from unwanted aspects the same thing?

Actually, no.

I think I finally get the distinction between the two.

The Smiley Face

A smiley face is happy-looking and all, but it’s fake.

It’s not a real smile generated by real feeling.  It doesn’t match up with a happy thought.

Abraham-Hicks’ smiley face is the same thing as smiling on the outside while seething on the inside.

The law of attraction doesn’t give a squat about our facial expressions.  It doesn’t respond to our dimpled smiles.  It responds to our thoughts.

If you’re like me, you’ve smiled a gazillion smiles while thinking negative thoughts.  I’m quite adept at it.  You’ve probably said positive things while thinking negative thoughts too.  I’m good at that as well.

The smiley face over the gas gauge is saying the “right” things about a subject or having the “right” expressions but not finding a true vibrational match to what you want.

The Rodeo Clown

Rodeo clowns are performers who work in bull riding competitions.  Their job is to distract the bulls from the cowboy who just got off the bull so the bull doesn’t attack the cowboy.

Rodeo clowns shift the bull’s focus.  They give the bull something else to put its attention on.

This is what Abraham means when they tell us to remove our attention from unwanted aspects.  They’re telling us to put our attention on something else, something that feels good.

This is not the same thing as smiling at the unwanted aspect or saying we like it when we don’t or in any other way pretending we have a positive vibration about something about which we clearly have a negative vibration.

Think of negative vibration as a charging bull.

You wouldn’t face an angry bull with a packet of post-it notes upon which you’ve drawn adorable smiley faces.  Trust me, if you slapped one of those suckers on the bull’s nose, he wouldn’t be impressed.  If, on the other hand, you managed to give the bull something else to look at, you could shift him.

In the same way, when you put your attention on what you like, you shift your vibration.

I used to have a friend who was as perky as they came.  You would have thought she was so firmly planted in the vortex that she had roots that extended to the center of the earth.  But she didn’t.  Her exterior persona was a big smiley face.  She never learned to become a rodeo clown.  She died at the age of 41.

You can’t fake vibration.  And that ain’t no bull.

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The first photo was taken by xtheowl at Flickr.

The second photo was taken by zoonabar at Flickr.

The third photo was taken by missoularealestate at Flickr.

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