The Secret Is Wags

In 1996, when I moved to the beach, I bought a book, Drawing For Dummies, because I thought that now that I was going to be a free-spirited divorcee, I would try my hand at art.  But I was so busy walking on the beach and writing that the book sat on the shelf.  Until 2008.

After my accident in 2008, I spent months off my feet and much of that time, I was on pain meds that clouded my thinking. I didn’t do much writing or reading.  Something about my pain or the painkillers or the shock of the accident disconnected me from my usual link with words.

Still, I craved creativity.  I wasn’t content to just watch TV or listen to music.  I wanted to bring something to life. Law of attraction reminded me of that book on my shelf.

Starting with just an ordinary pencil and a pile of computer paper and eventually progressing to a sketch pad and an array of drawing pencils, I began on page one of Drawing For Dummies and worked my way, exercise by exercise, through the whole thing.

And I discovered I could draw.  And I LOVE it.

To teach various techniques, the book’s author leads you through drawing all sorts of things, from imaginary critters to real animals to facial features to people to landscapes.  I drew it all.  Whatever the author said to draw, I drew.

I quickly learned, though, that what I truly love to draw is the animals.  All the other exercises were fun, but the animals lit me up.

Once I finished the book, I began drawing pictures of cute animals.  I started playing with cartoon animals.  I even made up a crossbreed of animal that I will probably turn into a story one day.

My experience taught me two things—when I’m drawing, I’m moving toward alignment, AND when I draw animals, I am in the Vortex. I don’t care whether my drawings are good or not.  I have no plan for my drawings.  I don’t struggle with them.  I just enjoy the heck out of drawing animals.

In this simple lesson lies all we need to know about how to get in the Vortex, about the “draw of the Vortex.”

Your Unique Drawing

Getting in the Vortex (if you’re not sure what the Vortex is, watch the video at the end of the last post) requires, first and last and everything in between, paying attention to you.  You can’t get in the Vortex if you’ve not prioritized your NOW happiness at the top of your to do list.  You just can’t.

We’ve had it backwards all these years.  We thought if we got here or did that or became this, we’d be happy.  Truth is that we can’t get here or do that or become this UNTIL we get happy.

Hard work doesn’t draw you into the Vortex.

Goal setting and to do lists and complex plans don’t draw you into the Vortex.

Discipline doesn’t draw you into the Vortex.

Doing what someone wants you to do doesn’t draw you into the Vortex.

YOU becoming aware of the essence of you and the wonder of you and the delight of you and the fun of you draws you into the Vortex.

It’s the difference between me drawing a human face and me drawing the face of my sweet girl, Muggins.

It’s the difference between the pull of creating and the struggle of pushing something into being.

I’ve recently, finally, plopped into a virtual WHEW hammock, a place of “I give up.”  I’m no longer pounding anything into place.  I’m just hanging out here being drawn into the Vortex by that giant energetic pencil wielded by the genius artist called my feel good thoughts.

And what a canvass the Vortex is.

Just in the last week alone, things have happened that have lopped $1500 off my monthly budget.  That’s $1500 LESS per month I need to come up with to keep us going.  That’s HUGE.  And it fell into place with no effort on my part at all.

Last week, I got the idea to revamp the sales page on my e-book/audio program, the Novel Writing Made Easy System.  I’d just finished reading a 34 page e-book that cost $27, and I realized that I hadn’t emphasized in my sales page how much value I was 0ffering (almost 400 pages in two info-packed e-books, two 150 + page workbooks, 5 1/2 hours of audio, and thousands of pages in bonus materials) for my price of $67.  Selling isn’t my thing, and usually, messing with sales pages is a struggle for me.  It’s not the kind of writing I enjoy doing.  But from inside the Vortex, it was a breeze.  I got an idea, and the next day, the page was rewritten.  (It took until a couple days ago for Tim to put the changes on the site, but that’s okay.) What will it lead to?  I really don’t care.  It’s not for me to figure out.  I just did what I felt compelled to do.  I did it from my Whew Hammock, and I let it go.

Once in awhile, I catch myself thinking about how I could drive traffic to the site or wondering what other things I could do to improve conversion rates etc., but as soon as I do that, I do an about face and let that go to.  It’s not my job to wrestle with the details.  It’s my job to get drawn into the Vortex.

It’s my job to pay attention to what I like, what makes me feel good.

And I can honestly say that I am spending MUCH more time in the Vortex than I ever have in my life.

Here’s what it’s like in the Vortex:

Fast Tube by Casper

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Tags: Abraham, Abraham-Hicks, Alignment, drawing, Feeling good, Law of Attraction, The Vortex

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