Yes, I know I keep talking about my dogs.  But when you live with a being who spends all day everyday in the Vortex, if you don’t pay attention to her attitudes and actions, you’re just plain dumb.  Who wouldn’t want to emulate pure joy?

One of Tim’s jobs requires him to work until 2 a.m. a couple nights a week.  I’ve found that it’s easier for me to go with the flow of his schedule and adjust mine to his rather than to try and resist it (as in all areas of life).  So last night, I was awake when he called me at 2:15 to tell me the car wouldn’t start.  He wasn’t sure whether the problem was the battery or something more serious, but we had to at least try to give it a jump.

Expect Fun

Ducky and I had been lounging in bed, and I was so attired.  When I got up to pull on pants and a shirt and slip on shoes, Ducky perked up.  These were “going out actions,” and we never go out this time of night.  You could see in her bright-eyed scrutiny that she was wondering, “What’s up?”  Her whole body quivered in exuberant expectation.

When I grabbed my wallet and keys and said, “Come on,” Ducky leaped in the air, whirled in a circle, and began vigorously wagging her tail.

You could just hear her:  “ALL RIGHT!  A ride!!!”

Her enthusiasm catapulted her into the garage and up into the 4Runner.  She licked me joyfully when I got in, and then she stuck her head out the window to investigate the night air as I backed out of the garage.

Reroute Old Programming

I wasn’t all that thrilled with the fact that the car wouldn’t start.  My mind, its old programming so easily dropped into a negative groove, started chattering:  “What if we need a new battery?  What if it’s worse than that?  Figures.  We just got a little extra money, and now we’ll have to spend it on the car.”

Luckily, in spite of this old programming, I have new programming that immediately recognizes the old programming.  I caught this rickety train and threw the switch on it:  “I’m sure the battery is fine.  We just had it checked a couple months ago.  We just need to jump it and charge it up and it will be fine.”

About this time, Ducky bounded into the front and sat down in the passenger seat, her ears perked, her gaze curiously scanning her surroundings.  She was buzzing with happy energy.  I was reminded to look for positive aspects:  “Well, Ducky’s happy, and it’s nice to be out in the fresh night air.  It smells great.  The headlights look pretty reflected on the rain-slicked streets.  It’s a good thing Tim works so close to home.  I’m glad we have jumper cables.”

When we arrived at the gas station/convenience store where Tim works (about a minute from our house—most days he rides his bike, but it was stormy last night), Ducky spotted her Daddy and exploded into paroxysms of ecstasy.  The SUV could barely contain her squeaks, wiggles, and wags.

Tim greeted her then hooked up the jumper cables.  He started up the car.  I followed him home. On the way, Ducky wagged some more and eagerly sniffed the air again.

When we got home, she went into full spazz mode, leaping and arrwooing and wagging.  You could hear her: “Wheeeee, we had an adventure.  It was so fun!  Now we’re home.  Isn’t that wonderful?” She was as happy to be back as she had been to leave ten minutes before.

The Three Keys To An Adventure Attitude

Now, of course, I know that Ducky had no context for this middle-of-the-night ride.  She didn’t know what car trouble was.  All she knew was something out of the ordinary was happening, and it would probably be fun.  Her perspective and behavior, though, create a blueprint for living in the vortex.

1.  Attach no meaning to the situation.

Most of our life experiences could be experienced as adventure if we left our “meaning” behind.  Instead of “dealing with car trouble,” I got a chance to see Ocean Shores at 2:30 in the morning, which isn’t something I generally do.

Anything can be shifted this way.  Instead of “just going to the store,” you can see what fun new things you spot in that great place that has such an abundance of food or you can go exuberantly hunting for bargains.  Instead of “just cleaning the house,” you can celebrate your surroundings by relishing all your precious belongings and giving them the care they need.

We turn things into mundane activities, or worse, problems by the way we think about them. When you wipe away negative expectations and the old stories you have about certain activities, you open yourself up for adventure.

2.  Celebrate spontaneity.

We tend to think of “not as we planned” as bad.  What if we did the opposite? What if we rejoiced in all surprises and life’s twists and turns?  Seeing the unexpected as something to get excited about would turn life into a grand adventure.

3.  Look for something fun in every experience.

As deliberate creators who know how important it is to be aligned with our nonphysical selves and how crucial it is to get and stay in the Vortex of good feeling if we want pleasant experiences to come our way, we understand the value of fun.  Many of us who live in awareness of law of attraction go looking for fun things to do.  But do we look for the fun in all things we do?

We often miss opportunities for fun by getting in a chore-like or “must do” mentality.  When faced with a situation that isn’t intended to be a kick in the pants, we fall into a plodding sort of attitude.  We go through the motions of chores like heading out in the middle of the night to jump a car battery.

But all of these experiences have a spark (excuse the pun) of fun or at least of something positive.  If we get into our inner kid place or take on a joyful puppy persona, we can find the fun in something as simple as the fresh smell of night air.

Instead of going out of our way to find happy adventures in life, we can just allow all of life to BE a happy adventure.  Ducky ever-so-eagerly showed me how last night.

And the result of that adventure mentality?  Today, we borrowed my parents’ battery charger and charged up the battery, and now the car is fine.  A happy attitude creates happy endings.

How about you?  What adventures are you having today?

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I’m in the process of carving myself a new body.  Others call this losing weight.  However, I’ve lost weight in the past.  I always found it again.  So enough with the losing.  Now I’m carving.

I’ve carved away 18 pounds so far.  I have a long way to go, but I’ve created a journey that’s comfortable for me (no pushing myself to do more exercise than feels right now, no extreme eating plan), so I know I can stay on this road.

Part of the carving process required me to make peace with my current size.  Especially since I was doing videos for Up From Splat (the last time I was in front of a camera, I was 150 pounds lighter than I am now), I had to fully allow that this is me and that this me is a worthy, wonderful me.

In a society that abhors obesity, this has been a challenge.  But I did it.  I did it by reminding myself that everything I am is the starting place of all that I am creating.

I got so excited about really taking this in that I wrote an e-book about it.  Then an analogy popped into my head, and I created this video to go with the e-book that I decided to give away (if you’ve seen the video on Up From Splat already, forgive the duplication).

Fast Tube by Casper

The day after I uploaded the above video, I saw this Abraham quote:

“How do I make peace with sickness? How do I make peace with being lonely? How do I make peace with less than what I want? How do I make peace with it?  We think you can use the logic that you’ve gathered up here with us now and say “It’s easy to make peace with that, because that, in all it has been, and even all that it now is, … it created the most advanced vibrational version of YOU! It created the potential, emphatically satisfied manifestational possibilities. But what it really created was the new marker, the new reaching place. It created an Inner Being, a God force, that is swirling in energy and calling you. It created Life. It created Calling. It created momentum. It created enthusiasm. It created adventure! It created the reason to be.  It created the reason to be alive. It created LIFE! In other words, it is so much bigger than what it was. And that is pretty easy to make peace with!”

That about says it all, don’t you think?

If you’d like to go further with this, read The Good Egg Manifesto.

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We all know that the first step to feeling good is getting easy with what is.  We must accept where we are if we want to move on from an unpleasant reality.

We know it.  But sometimes, it’s a bit of a challenge to do what we know we must do.

Last week, I was all ready to reveal my new website, Up From Splat.  I was jazzed. I’d churned out that website from the Vortex of tuned in and turned on energy, and I was more excited about it than I’d been about any other project I’ve done in the last several months.  I was sure I was on the verge of great things because I already felt like I’d achieved those great things.

So imagine my amazement when, on the very day I was going to announce the new site here on this blog and on Facebook, the site mysteriously was deleted from our server.  Gone.

Shock And Awe

My first reaction was shock.

I was in awe of what appeared to be a cosmic joke.  My site about getting up from life’s splats had just gone SPLAT.  Very funny, Universe.

I went from there to deep sadness.  My next reaction was fury.  I reminded myself to reach for peace, and I meditated.

Then I returned to fury.

I moved a little further up the emotional scale via pizza and a nice red wine.  (I think pizza and wine might need a permanent place on Abraham-Hicks’ emotional scale—perhaps between anger and discouragement.)

What in the bleepity bleep happened, I asked Tim when he got home from work.  He had been transferring some files to our server, and the site disappeared after that.  He didn’t know; so he called the people at our server, and they didn’t know either.

I dropped back to rage.  I had these fantasies of destroying everything in my house.  I had a burning need to break things.  I didn’t indulge the desire.

I moved up to discouragement again.

It took me three days to move up to hopefulness then positive expectation and finally to eagerness.  I threw in some appreciation for Tim’s help.  He had tried to retrieve parts of the site, but it couldn’t be done.  He was able to capture bits of the html code, though, which made my rebuilding process easier.

Finally, from a place of acceptance, I started rebuilding my site.  It took 16 hours of solid work.

In the middle of that 16 hours, I discovered something.  The site, which I’d thought was ready to reveal to the world, had a major glitch.  Some of the pages weren’t accessible by anyone but me.  I didn’t know that because I could get to the pages so I assumed anyone could.  If I’d revealed the site before solving that problem, I would have had a big mess on my hands.

Aha!

What at first had seemed like a BAD thing, had become a good thing.  Redoing the site had brought a big problem to my attention.

When the site disappeared, all I could see was the fact that my work was trashed and I was going to have to do it over.  I couldn’t get past that.

That’s a pretty normal reaction to setbacks.  The way we see our life is sort of like looking at a radar screen.  We can only see what’s on the screen, and the screen is only a puny part of the universe’s expansiveness.  So I could see that my site was deleted and that seemed to be BAD, but I couldn’t see how the deleted site might serve me. That part was off my screen.

In order to be okay with whatever apparent “badness” comes our way, we must remind ourselves that we have a very small radar screen.  Just as the radar operator who is looking at a radar display of a 500 mile radius can’t say for sure that there’s nothing within 2000 miles, we can’t say for sure that what we’re experiencing is bad … or good, for that matter.

When we can remember that, it’s a lot easier to get easy about what is.

Have you ever had something that seemed really lousy turn into something awesome?  Tell us the story.  The more bad to brilliant stories we hear (with heavy emphasis on the brilliant part), the easier it will be to remember that our radar screen is tiny indeed.

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My mother keeps many of her memories in a cedar chest at the end of her bed.  The trunk holds awards and clippings—I think she saved every newspaper column I ever wrote, and she has at least five copies of the first whole newspaper in which my first column appears.  The chest holds locks of hair and photographs and playbills.  And it holds some of my early artistic and literary efforts.

There’s the paper plate covered in uncooked pasta and sprayed with gold that I made in third grade.  There’s the misshapen sickly blue mug that I made in fifth grade.  There’s the stilted poetry I wrote throughout grade school, and the 20 page, 10 chapter “novel” I wrote when I was twelve (I think it started with something like “it was a dark and stormy night.”)

My mother treasures every one of these creations.  Why?  Because her only child made them.

Each of us is still the child we were when we were young enough to be making funky art projects.  Each of us is worthy of the kind of love that saves those projects.  Each of us deserves to have our creations treasured and celebrated.

If we act like that child and know our worthiness and we treasure and celebrate our creations, we can release a whole lot of resistance fast and easily.

How?

Resistance comes from disliking the way things are, pushing against what we have in our lives now.

How did we get things the way they are now?  By creating them.

Right now, I’m surrounded by the “treasures” my thoughts have created:  there’s the blob of bankruptcy, here’s the quilt of fat, there are the odd shapes of unwanted jobs and miscommunications and broken household objects and arguments and … enough of that.  You get the idea.  I created everything in my life.  I MADE it.  And I am worthy child of the universe.  So why would I sneer at and criticize my creations?  Why would I hate them so?  Why would I treat myself like that when I would never dream of treating another this way?

Every time I say I hate the way things are, I am doing the same thing my mother would be doing if she destroyed my early projects and threw them away.  I am dishonoring me.

That dishonor is resistance.  Abraham-Hicks refers to it as misalignment with the eternal, nonphysical part of ourselves.  When we hate what we have created, we hate ourselves.

Resistance falls away when you look at every single thing in your life, every unwanted situation, as some wondrous creation you made.  See that lack of money as a crooked birdhouse made with fumbling fingers.  See that lousy relationship as a torn sheet of paper covered with finger paint.

Look at your world and marvel at what you’ve created.  Exult in your power.  You have brought everything around you into being.

Okay, so maybe what you’ve made isn’t something they’d hang in the Louvre.  Maybe no one would buy it.  Maybe you don’t want to buy it.  But you created it.  And you’re worthy.  So celebrate what you made.

When you begin to treasure every single thing in your life, misshapen or not, believe me—resistance will crumble.  Ease will arrive.  Life will feel good.

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Too Much Vision, Not Enough Feeling

Embracing Toddlerhood

How To Always Get What You Want

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Photo by Corsi Photo on Flickr.

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Yesterday, Bea left a great comment that raised an excellent question.  She said, “I was wondering how to feel good when nothing seems to be working out as desired or wanted or dreamed in life.”  I offered one way of doing this in my last post, but now I’m going to simplify it even more.

Notice that in Bea’s question, she makes a connection that we all make—or at least it’s one that I’ve always made.  She connects naturally feeling good to having things the way we want them to be.

It’s a reasonable connection.  Of course we feel good when things are working out the way we want to them to.

So how can we always have things work the way we want them to?

Do we have to visualize and focus on what we want and meditate and have a manifestation board and write dream journals?  Sure, we can do all of those things.  And they can move us toward more of what we want.  But they won’t make it so we always get what we want.

The truth is no matter how good we are at deliberate creating, i.e., finding the feeling place of having what we want, we will never be able to get the whole world to conform to our desires.  Unless …

One Word Changes Everything

A couple days ago, I read a wonderful audio transcript at Heather Macauley’s site, www.aspaceoflove.com, called “The Silent Language of Peace.” Macauley’s ideas aren’t new—they’re all concepts Abraham-Hicks teaches, but her wording worked just right for me.  The law of attraction brought me just the right information at just the right time.

Macauley reminded me of the one word that allowed me to have all I want right now:

OKAY

She advises looking at every problem, every unwanted thing or person or circumstance in your life and saying, “It’s okay.”

We need to make it okay that what we have is what we have.  We need to make it okay that we are as we are, that circumstances are as they are.

Once we say it’s okay, we’re no longer resisting it, no longer pushing against it.  Once we say it’s okay, we release enough energy to find some part of “what is” that is TRULY okay.

By using “okay” to describe whatever is going on, we’re making everything something we want.  In one instant, we go from lamenting the fact that we aren’t getting our desires to celebrating how absolutely fine everything is.  We’re doing what we want not because we’re trying to manipulate events to be something we want but because we’re shifting our thoughts to wanting events the way they are.

Here’s the way Abraham explains it:

Fast Tube by Casper

Just in the last 48 hours, since I started using the word, “okay,” over and over and over again, my attitude about my life has changed.  I can feel the relief, feel the resistance falling away.

So here’s the ten second process of getting what you want:

1.     Say it’s okay that things are as they are.

2.     Because it’s okay, you can relax enough to find the good in the way things are.

3.     Because you can find the good, you have what you want (underlying every desire is the belief that having that desire will make you feel good—so what you really want is to feel good).

And presto! You have what you want all the time!

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The Small Stuff Matters

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Photo by Horia Varlan on Flickr.

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Ducky turns one year old in a week.  Hard to believe.  I can still close my eyes and feel that warm little ball of wiggles I held in my arms when we brought her home last October.  Tim says he vaguely remembers being able to carry her around.  She’s now almost 45 pounds of mostly spring-generated muscle.

Since Ducky is my greatest and most consistent source of joy (she’s sort of like a cannon that shoots me into the Vortex), I decided to spend a couple bucks for the props to stage a good Ducky birthday picture for The Joyful Springer (it will be on the site on the 24^th).   So a few days ago, Tim and I stopped in Wal-mart to get a birthday hat and balloon.

As we were heading through the store, we heard two little kids singing:  “Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday, dear Mary, happy birthday to you.”  They were off key in the extreme, but what they lacked in musical ability they made up for in enthusiasm.

I smiled because I thought that was pretty amazing.  Here we were to buy birthday items, and these kids were singing “Happy Birthday.”

The children were maybe three to five years old, a boy and a girl.  Both were in a cart and both had big smiles on their faces.

After the first round of singing, they started over.  This time, they sang happy birthday to Shannon.  Then it was a round to David.  Then it was a round to Brianna.  And it went on.

“It sounds like they’re singing happy birthday to everyone they know,” Tim said.

I nodded, smiling even wider.

These kids were having SO much fun.  Their mom was busy shopping, and they were oblivious to that.  They were just singing at the top of their lungs, happy as could be.

“I want to be a little kid,” I said.  “No worries.  No figuring out how to get money or what to do next.  Kids just have fun.”

“Then be a little kid,” Tim said.

I looked at him.

“Be a kid,” he repeated.  “Forget worries.  Stop figuring things out.  Just have fun.”

I watched the kids again.  I could feel the relief surge through me. Yes!

Of course, Tim and I were describing the Vortex.  Though I’ve been in the vicinity of the Vortex more in the last month or so than I have in the last year, I realized as I listened to those exuberant children that I still wasn’t there as much as I wanted, and I may not have been there when I thought I was there.  I know I rarely felt like those singing kids did.

I thought I was allowing things to fall into place, but I was still trying to figure things out.  Yes, I had accepted what is, and yes, I had my mind on what I wanted instead of what is.  Still, I was spending too much time thinking about HOW to put what I wanted into place.  In other words, I was acting happy but I wasn’t truly vibrating happy.

Real Happy

I left Wal-mart singing, “Happy happy day to me, happy happy day to me, happy happy day, dear Ande, happy happy day to me.”  It made me grin like an idiot.  I’m pretty sure that’s the feeling of the Vortex.

That day in Wal-mart, those children serenaded dozens of people.  I watched many blank or frowning faces transform into relaxed and happy faces as people turned toward the sound of the singing. Sometimes we don’t even notice that we’re not in joy until we see or hear joy.  Then as our energy shifts to match it, we realize we had been a long way from it.

Pay close attention to how you feel.  Are you happy or are you just acting happy?  The law of attraction doesn’t care how you’re acting.  It cares about how you are, or more specifically, how your vibration is.

You can’t fake vibration, and vibration is what attracts.

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A few days ago, Tim and I met with an attorney and provided him with all the paperwork and information he needs to prepare to file my Chapter 7 bankruptcy.  Before that appointment, I had about three weeks to get used to the idea that last year at this time, I thought I had more than $50,000 in the bank and no balances running on my credit cards and now here I am filing bankruptcy because of something dumb that my own husband did, something that ran up all my cards and ran down the bank account.

I realize now that I’ve spent the last ten months in shock.  When you think you’re trucking along doing just fine and then you get gobsmacked with a “what is” reality that seems to have erupted from the ground beneath your feet like a malevolent alien, shock is a reasonable response, for sure.  But it’s not all that helpful to stay stuck in shock for a long time. Shock isn’t exactly a positive vibration.

While in this shock, I have also rocketed up and down the emotional scale.  I’ve been in abject despair, barely contained rage, relentless disappointment, edgy annoyance, and extreme frustration.  I’ve also been in hope and optimism, and yes, I’ve even been in appreciation and love and joy.

I didn’t realize until I gave into the bankruptcy that shock had been the foundation of all my emotion for these many months.  I didn’t realize that I’d yet to fully accept my situation.

The Broken Table

The word bankruptcy can be traced back to the days when business was done on benches or tables in the street.  When a businessman couldn’t pay his debts, his trading table or bench was destroyed—this was the indicator that he was out of business.   The Latin word for table is “bancus.”  And “ruptus” means broken.  Thus “bankruptcy.”

The symbolism seems appropriate to me.  I certainly feel like my table (my sense of stability and security) has been broken.

And until this last week, I have resisted the idea of admitting that it was so broken that I couldn’t fix it without going through a legal process I’d always viewed with an extremely negative perspective.  Did you notice the important word in that sentence?

Resistance.

We all know that when you have resistance, you can’t find alignment with source energy and thus you can’t bring in by law of attraction what you desire to have in your life. And so, all of my shock and refusal to accept that I am where I am has kept me stuck where I am.

Happy Hillbillies

The morning before Tim and I left to go see the attorney, Tim set his metal-framed glasses on the kitchen counter, and when he picked them up again, he was shocked (do you see a theme here?) to find he held only half his glasses.  They’d split right down the middle of the nose piece.

He was baffled.  He hadn’t mistreated the glasses in any way.  They just inexplicably broke.

And oddly, that’s when the shock finally left me.

After Tim and I taped the glasses together and he put them on, I burst out laughing. This was all so ridiculous.

“You really ought to just take off your belt,” I said, “and tie your pants up with a rope, and we can call ourselves hillbillies.  We have all the old stuff and old cars …” (When you prepare for bankruptcy, you do an inventory of everything you have, and I faced the fact that most of what we have is so old it has no value to anyone but us.) “… and now you have taped glasses frames.  Let’s just embrace our situation.”

Tim didn’t see the humor.

I was still laughing.  “Heck, the TV ‘Hillbillies” struck oil,” I said.

I kept giggling.  Maybe I was having a breakdown.

And if I was, it was a good one.  It was a breakdown of resistance.  It was acceptance of what is.

Not that I said acceptance of what is.  I’m not saying focus on what is.

You see, I’ve been doing my best NOT to focus on what is.  But what I’ve discovered is you can’t remove your focus from what is until you accept it.  If you’re pushing against it, you’re focusing on it. You have to be able to say, “It is what it is, and that’s okay.”

What do you do with a broken table?

Well, you can throw it away.  Or you can you use the wood for something new.

Transformations In Wood

A couple weeks ago, my friend, Nancy, sent me an e-mail about extraordinary wood carvings that were created from the tree skeletons left in Galveston after Hurricane Ike’s fury roared through.  About 40,000 gorgeous old trees died.  But the area residents managed to turn this devastating loss into something positive.  They cut down the trees and left the stumps, which wood carvers turned into stunning sculptures of dogs and dolphins and toads and mermaids and angels and a whole lot more.

When I saw the pictures of some of these sculptures, I was struck by the awesome creativity and beauty that can grow from the ugliness of loss.  I knew I needed to apply the lesson to my own situation, but I wasn’t able to do that until I faced my own broken table.

On Thursday, the day after the meeting with the attorney, I began a new way of being in my world.  I’m not just changing a few ways of thinking, I’m changing many ways of thinking AND many ways of acting.

I am taking the broken table of my circumstances and turning it into something new.  I am standing in the now of my life, and without looking back at how I got here, I’m designing a new now and a new future, and in doing so, I’m also designing a new past, because my new thoughts are revising my past as well.

In other words, I’m carving something awesome, something abundant, out of the broken pieces of my life.

What will my carving be when I’m done with it?

I don’t know, but I’ll share it as soon as it takes shape.

In the meantime, I offer this to those who think they can’t possibly be happy in their current situation:

I am standing in the aftermath of a personal hurricane that destroyed much in my life (the finances are just a few of the “trees” that have died in my “what is” reality), and I am happy.  I’m laughing.  I’m having fun.  I’m appreciating.  I’m finding positive aspects.

You don’t have to wait for alignment to bring you something you desire in order to feel good.  Just feel good.  Get in alignment.  And bask in “ahh” of that ease.  Then allow the universe to hand you the tools you need to carve something new.

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When I was in high school, I let a friend of mine talk me into watching Night of the Living Dead with her.  Images of relentless zombies assaulted me off and on for years afterwards.  Thanks, Mel.

Lately, I’ve been receiving Facebook page invites, Twitter messages, and e-mails that remind me a little of those undead drones.  Instead of Night of the Living Dead, it’s Weeks of the Hypnotists.

It’s my own fault.  A couple months ago, out of curiosity and not awareness of my alignment, I read a sales page about hypnosis audios.  The seller of the audios claimed that the audios would get your subconscious on board with a money mindset.

The seller was adamant that the reason law of attraction doesn’t seem to have a positive impact for most of us is that our subconscious minds are off chewing on all kinds of negative beliefs even while our conscious minds are focusing on what we desire.  I guess all that negative belief digestion causes a sort of energetic heartburn or gas that prevents vibrational alignment with desires.

I actually wondered, for a minute or two, whether my subconscious mind could be the cause of my apparent inability to get aligned with the financial prosperity I want.  Do I need hypnosis, I asked myself.

I immediately got a grip and remembered that I’ve had hypnosis in the past, and was never all that impressed with the results, and I remembered what Abraham-Hicks has said about needing to change subconscious beliefs.

Before I did that, though, apparently I’d put enough attention on the hypnosis sales page to pull in a whole lot more hypnosis sales pitches.

Forget About The Dirt

If I understand the law of attraction, vibration, and alignment correctly, beliefs are like the dirt in which we sink the roots of our desires.  This dirt (belief system), can provide nourishment for our positive thoughts and thereby help us grow into alignment with what we desire or it can poison our thoughts with toxins created by limited thinking and thereby shrivel up the energetic limbs we use to reach for vibrational alignment.

Does hypnosis really clean up this dirt?  Do we need to dig in there and sprinkle some Miracle Grow into our subconscious minds in order to get what we want?

Abraham-Hicks says no.

Although anything we do that feels good to us can be beneficial, it’s not necessary to “program” the subconscious mind by using hypnosis audios or any other sort of inner training process.

Why?

Because there’s an easier way to do it.

Good Feelings Support Roots

The reasons you don’t need to dig down into the soil of your subconscious mind to see what negative stuff you may have squirming around in there is that you have this lovely, easy-to-use method that can tell you whether your subconscious mind is up to mischief AND can then get your subconscious redirected toward positive thought.

The method is the use of what Abraham-Hicks calls your emotional guidance system.  The system is simple.

Step One—pay attention to how you feel.  If you feel good, all your thoughts are reaching toward vibrational alignment with who you really are and as a result, all you want.  If you feel bad, your thoughts, be they conscious or subconscious, are not in vibrational alignment with who you really are and what you want.

Step Two—if you feel good, build on that by reaching for even better feeling thoughts.  Do what you must do to feel better and better and better.  If you feel bad, reach for a thought that makes you feel better than you currently do.  It may not be a thought that makes you want to put a lamp shade on your head and dance on a table, but it’s a thought that brings you some relief from the way you felt before you found the new thought.  Once you feel better, find another thought that makes you feel better.  And so on.

These good-feeling thoughts are all your vibrational root system needs.  That’s it.  No fertilized dirt (subconscious mind duly programmed to believe in what you want) required.

Although hypnosis and other systems being offered by many law of attraction coaches and teachers can be helpful IF it makes you feel good to use them, they aren’t necessary.  The powerful vibrational alignment of feeling good is all your energetic roots need for you to grow into the fullness of all you desire.

What say you?  Agree or disagree?  Does your subconscious mind need tending? Or is climbing the emotional guidance scale enough?

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The photo in this post is of a tree that clings across an opening in the bluff at the edge of Kalaloch Beach, which is where Tim and I spent the afternoon on our anniversary Friday.

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Two days ago, Tim’s boss for his new U.S. Census bureau job, quit.  The boss’s boss chose Tim to take over the position.  And just like that, instead of being the enumerator Tim thought he’d be when he took his new job, Tim’s now an administrator supervising 18 people.

He’s perfectly happy with the change in situation.  It has several benefits:  a $2 an hour raise, almost guaranteed time and a half overtime every week, and more work that he can do at home instead of having to drive all over creation.  It also has some new challenges, not the least of which are 18 strong, unique personalities.

Of the 18 people Tim now supervises, only a couple of them are the type of person Tim would choose to have working for him if he got to choose.  But he didn’t get to choose.  He has to take these people as they are.  With only slight adjustments of alignment occasionally needed, Tim’s going with the flow of his “interesting” people.

This is something most of us don’t do all that well.

As a fiction writer, I have often wished I could whip out my laptop and type up a new character description for many people I know.  Some people with whom I must have regular contact would fit into my story a lot more smoothly if I could give them a personality adjustment.

As Abraham-Hicks reminds us, though, attempting to control the world around us and the people around us is a profound waste of time.  We can’t create someone else’s reality.  We can only create our own.

Why give all that power away to other people?

I know this, of course; but my fingers still itch to tap out new character descriptions of people I know.  Even my even-keeled Tim sometimes wants to “shake some people by the shoulders until a real personality falls into place.”

Leave it to Ducky to give us both lessons in accepting people as they are.

Ducky showed a surprising ability to adjust to others when she was just 12 weeks old.  Usually a barely contained explosion of wild energy, when Ducky met my elderly parents, she dialed it down several notches.  With only one admonition from me, she learned quickly not to even think about jumping on them, and she knows to quietly lay near them when they’re in our home.

You can tell when you watch her doing this that she doesn’t resent it or having any other negative feelings about it.  It just is what it is.  With “grandma and grandpa,” you have to be calm.  And in exchange, you get a lot of rubs.

Another person Ducky met, Neil, isn’t a dog person.  He has no patience for dog antics at all.  She learned quickly to be on her best behavior around him too.  And she gets no rubs as a reward from him.  No matter.  She just gives him a wide berth, wags her tail at him once and puts her attention on her rawhide.

Ducky has the same self-malleability with other dogs.

Ducky LOVES to play with dogs.  Her version of play is running in crazed circles and springing three feet into the air (hence the name, Springer spaniel).

Not every dog she meets wants to play this way, though.  No problem.

If dogs want to wrestle, she’ll wrestle.  If they want to bounce, she’ll bounce.  If they want to dig holes, she’ll dig holes.

Ducky can play with a 5 pound dog or a 120 pound dog.  She works with whoever she has in front of her.  And she accepts them, one and all.

If you pay attention to your attention—noting what you are talking about and thinking about, you’ll probably find that you spend a lot of energy thinking about what other people are doing or have done.  I’ve found that most of my complaints have to do with what someone else has done or failed to do.

Just think how much more often we’d be in the vortex if we could learn to let all the other “dogs” play the way they want to play.  If we could take people as they are, no matter how much that may not fit our specifications, we’d free up so much energy for happier thoughts.

You and I have great power, but if we try to use it to control what people around us are doing, we’re wasting it.  Focus your power where it counts—on your thoughts.

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Uninspired doing is a total waste of time.  I know this.  I’ve learned this the very slow, very hard, very long way.

What do you do, though, when all your action choices seem unpalatable and doing nothing doesn’t feel right either?

For example, over the last couple months, I’ve known that doing nothing about my financial situation didn’t feel good at all.  Tim feels fine about that.  He’s so sure money will flow to us that he could spend his days watching the clouds float by and be as happy as a dog running on the beach.

Me?  Nope.  I don’t have the knowing that he has.

My path of least resistance is to do SOMETHING that could lead to an income for us.  Tim’s okay with that too.  (He’s pretty darn good at getting easy.)

So for a month, I bid on a bunch of freelance projects.  HATED it.  Did it anyway.  Never landed a single job.  No wonder.  My alignment sucked.

I batted about a bunch of ideas. None felt all that good.

I finally landed on the idea of revamping my novel writing e-book package and sales page and promoting it.  This idea felt a little better.  Not great, mind you.  But better.

It felt good enough to start moving forward with it.

Now, of course, my first choice is to write a novel.  Or better yet enjoy Tim’s lottery winnings and just focus on blogging.

I deliberately walked away from internet marketing two years ago; I never thought I’d be doing it again.  It’s not something I feel that great about.

But between that and working for pennies to write articles on subjects I have no interest in, the e-book marketing won out.  And so I moved forward.  I wasn’t having a good time.

Thoughts about the project kept pushing good thoughts out of my head. I noticed that instead of thinking about our house on ocean view acreage in Oregon, I was thinking about sales conversion rates and search engine optimization and website stats.  Not good.  I hate that stuff.

So I stopped.  And I asked, how could I make this project more interesting and fun?

It took a few days, but I came up with the idea of creating a series of audios to go with the e-book package.  Writing the audio scripts and recording them sounds like fun.

So NOW I feel good about what I’m doing.

Within this story I just told, do you see the two choices you have when an action you think you must take doesn’t appeal to you?

Kenny Rogers sings, in The Gambler, “You got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em.”  He was singing about cards, but it applies to action journeys too.

Fold ‘Em

If the action you’re taking feels truly lousy and you hate every minute of it, STOP.  Fold ‘em. Walk away.

Sometimes, you may walk away and never go back.  As with my freelance job search, you may find that once you turn away from the resistance you were creating by trying to do something you hated, you attract another opportunity to replace what you didn’t want to do.  Or, as with my e-book revamp, you see something that was there already in a totally different way.  You don’t have access to great ideas from a place of resistance and “I hate this.”

Sometimes, when you walk away for just awhile, your energy shifts enough to go back and do the “hated” task with a different attitude.  By walking away, you get access to a better feeling place that then attracts a more relaxed way of facing the task.

Abraham-Hicks says, “If there is something that you have to do, resist the temptation to do it under duress. Ask yourself, ‘What’s the worst thing that would happen if I didn’t do this?’ And if you can get away with not doing it at all, don’t do it. And then imagine what would it feel like to have this done. Spend a day or two, if you can, just 15 minutes here, 5 minutes here, 2 minutes here, here and here, imagining it completed in a way that pleases you! And then, the next time you decide that you’re going to take action about it, the action is going to be a whole lot easier.”

Hold ‘Em

When a poker player holds a hand, what is he focused on?  The cards in the hand that do him no good?  No.  He’s focused on what he thinks could be the winning cards.  He’s focused on the pair or the full house or the straight.  The cards in his hand that don’t make up the potential win are unimportant to him.

This is how you must look at a task that you’re going to go ahead and do.  Find what’s good about it.

This is what I did with my e-book marketing action.  I looked for, and thanks to law of attraction, found something about it that appealed to me.  And now, when I think about it, I focus on the fun aspects and refuse to give thought to the aspects I’m not crazy about.

There’s always a way to take action that feels good.

Abraham-Hicks once offered the example of a woman whose husband is in the hospital dying.  She’s been at his side for days and days. She’s exhausted and sad and scared.  She understands her energy though, and she knows she needs to find reasons to feel good if she’s to help her husband at all.  He doesn’t “believe in” this vibrational stuff so he’s feeling sorry for himself and he’s depressed and scared.

This woman wants to stay away from the hospital.  She wants a day to do something that feels good.  But if she does that, the guilt will ruin any “feel good” she might find.

If she goes the hospital, she knows she’ll feel resentful and angry and she’ll get sucked into her husband’s negativity.

Which is her path of least resistance?  She can’t fold ‘em because she’s not willing to walk away from her husband.

Abraham-Hicks suggested that she go to the hospital for just a couple hours.  They suggested that she find something that makes her feel good to share with her husband (a book or magazine or whatever) and when she feels like she really needs to leave, she tells her husband how much she loves him and she leaves to enjoy the rest of her day.

It’s like that bit of sunshine peeking through the wee hole.  When you can’t comfortably give up on some action, you find an aspect of it that feels good and hold on to that aspect the way a gambler would hold onto a royal flush.  You, “Clean It Up.”

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