The Secret Is Wags

I have a life-long pattern that I am in the process of breaking.

What I used to do was this Do-not-do-this-at-home-or-anywhere-else Process:

1. Begin thinking positive thoughts about my life or about something I want.
2. Get antsy and impatient when, after a few days, nothing changes.
3. When something negative happens, put all my attention on the negative event.
4. Lament the fact that positive thinking and the law of attraction “doesn’t work.”
5. Feel really, really bad.
6. Say, “See? I was right” when more bad stuff comes my way.

I can vehemently say that this process creates nothing worth talking about.

So lately I’ve been getting better at hanging out in the Vortex.  I am continually reminding myself to ride the rapids.  I am doing whatever it takes to feel good.

I keep reaching for thoughts that help me feel successful and financially secure.

I keep saying to myself, ” Who cares what my outer reality is doing?” And  I’m not going to talk about that.

I am not going to get in that old pattern again.  So I’ve been actively looking for thoughts that remind me that what I desire is fully developed on the energetic level and just because I don’t see it yet doesn’t mean it isn’t real.  The law of attraction has provided me with not only a helpful thought but also with a couple of experiential illustrations to create these knowing expectation thoughts I want.

The “In An Instant” Thought

One of the thoughts that came to me right way was that life can transform HUGELY in an instant.  One puny little second of this or that falling into place, and everything is suddenly different.

In 1999, I woke up with this funky little idea—what if we lived in a universe where fat was beautiful?  And that moment turned into my first published novel, Alternate Beauty.

In 2000, I sent a simple little e-mail to a guy I knew in high school.  That moment turned into my marriage.

In 2008, I headed down a short, shallow flight of stairs, and in an instant of falling, my ankles were utterly transformed (and not in a good way).

Life can zig faster than we can say zag.

Lingering beneath the surface of what we see now can be the blossom of all we desire.

The Vortex Flower

Last summer, I put dianthus flowers in planters on my back deck.  In the fall, I yanked them all out.  This spring, I didn’t put anything in the planters because our budget has no room for flowers.  A month ago, the weed infested dirt in the planters depressed me.

Then I got in the Vortex, and I didn’t even notice the planters.

A couple days ago, while I was outside playing with Ducky, I happened to glance at the planters.  And how about that?  A single dianthus bloom had emerged from the scraggly barrenness.

If you’d asked me a month ago if I thought the annual flower might bloom from soil that had received no care of any kind, I would have thought you were as crazy as many think Tim is for knowing that a lottery win is going to pop up from his personal soil. But here it is.

We can’t see what’s just below the surface of our physical reality.

We don’t know what’s just outside our door.

We don’t know what the next instant will bring us.

But we MUST know that if we don’t stay in the Vortex, we’ll never discover what great things are about to burst into our lives.

Allowing High Tide

Yesterday, Ducky spotted a piece of driftwood bobbing in the surf.  She wanted it, but even though she could swim to it, the surf was rough, and her Momma (i.e. me) was telling her to “come.”

Ducky decided she didn’t need that driftwood after all, but it got me thinking about the way most of us have surf-like vibrations that ebb and flow.  We want the driftwood, but we can’t exert enough effort to get to it.  We must allow that driftwood to come in and settle on the sand.  We must wait for high tide.

Everything that each of us has asked for is floating in a surf that’s eager to surge in on our shores.  But most of us don’t stay on the beach (in the Vortex) long enough to let that surf come in.

Every time we turn toward disappointment or complaint or frustration or fear or anger or any other negative emotion, we leave the beach.  We walk away from the prize bobbing on the water’s surface.

Our work is to hang out in the Vortex long enough for all we desire to settle at our feet.  And that has become my full-time job.

I am so grateful to a cooperative universe that, by law of attraction, brought me these thoughts.  They’ve helped me settle into my virtual reality.  I hope they’ve reminded you to hang out on the virtual beach too.

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