The Secret Is Wags

Lately, I’ve had to turn this into a mantra:  “The feeling, the feeling, the feeling.  Focus on the feeling.”

When you’re finding reasons to feel good or looking for ways to feel like you already have what you want, either by using track changes or other visualizing methods, it’s ever so tempting to look for results.

We all love law of attraction results.  We love to hear those stories about how someone thought about something incredible and got it.  And of course, we all love to experience those results.

Almost daily, I remind myself that I manifested my husband.  I like remembering that I have the ability to deliberately flow vibrational energy toward a specific result and have the result appear in my life.

I’m discovering, however, because of a spate of unpleasant events recently, that too much focus on results can knock you off the alignment track.  (more…)

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Many years ago, I dated a man who was chronically late.  And I don’t mean just a little late.  He lived in Seattle, and when he’d come to my home for a visit, he usually arrived one to two hours later than he said he would.

I wasn’t all that pleased about this, and I told him so.  I was especially annoyed when he offered up excuses like, “I had to clean my vegetable bin before I left.”

In response to my displeasure, my soon to be ex-boyfriend, gave me the book, Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff, by Richard Carlson.  Over 100 weeks on the bestseller’s list, this little volume was full of great, down-to-earth advice on how to let go of the little stresses of life, but it didn’t make me feel any better about my boyfriend’s tardiness.

The message I got from the book and from my boyfriend was, “Don’t do anything about the little annoyances of life. The small stuff doesn’t matter.”

In some respects, this is a good message, one that helps with alignment.  Certainly, complaining and noticing all the little things that are “wrong” in the world don’t activate a vibration that draws wonderful experiences into our lives.  But making ourselves be okay with all the little stuff that we don’t like isn’t the way to go about aligning.  It’s the smiley face vs. the rodeo clown.  Trying to convince yourself that you feel good about something you don’t feel good about is a waste of time. (more…)

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There’s a restaurant north of where Tim and I live called The Ocean Crest. It’s an awesome place—incredible food, romantic atmosphere, attentive service, and a stunning view of the ocean through the veils of graceful hemlock tree branches.  We love it, and we go there on special occasions whenever we have the financial means to do so.

We recently mentioned how much we love the place to a couple we know (I’ll call them Jack and Jill).  Jill said, “Oh, we went there once.  We think it’s highly overrated.  The service was so slow.”

“My steak wasn’t done right,” Jack said.

“And it’s so expensive,” Jill said.

“The tables are too close together,” Jack said.

Tim and I moved on to another subject.

The fact is that Jack and Jill make some valid points.  The service at The Ocean Crest is quite leisurely.  The place is pricey.  Once, Tim’s steak wasn’t cooked right.  And the tables could be further apart.

So what?

Tim and I don’t talk about those things.  We talk about those positive aspects I mentioned at the beginning of this post.  And because that’s what we talk about, no matter what happens at that restaurant (slow service, overcooked steaks, etc.), we have an incredible time.  We have nothing but delightful memories of our meals there.

We also have delightful memories of every restaurant we eat at.  We’ve never had a bad restaurant experience.

This other couple has rarely had a good restaurant experience.  One of their favorite topics is the lousy food, service, or atmosphere at restaurants.  Tim has even asked me, “Why do they go out?”

This same couple tends to get bad service in stores and other businesses too.  Tim and I rarely get bad service.

The other day, this couple was telling us about some surly service they got at a nearby home improvement store.  Before they could go on about it, Tim said, “Whenever I get an unhelpful clerk, I ask them if they’re having a good day.”

“And I compliment them,” I said.

Tim and I never let the seeds of lousy service turn into a full-blown problem because we speak in positive aspects to everyone we deal with.

If a woman is being rude, I find something I like about her and compliment her on it.  If someone is ignoring us, we start up a conversation, asking the person questions about him or herself (people LOVE to talk about themselves).

We look for things to say that make people feel good.  And when we make people feel good, they make us feel good.

Some of our friends like to go on rampages of complaints about phone service—customer service people don’t speak decent English; they don’t have the right answers; they don’t listen … blah, blah, blah.

Tim and I don’t have these problems either.  Usually, by the time we get off the phone, we’re on a first name basis with the person we’re talking to and we’ve found out where the person is, how the weather is, and we usually know whether or not the person is married and has kids or pets.  We talk our way into great service almost 100 percent of the time.

Many students of law of attraction have a tendency to spend time tuning their vibration to attract wonderful things into their lives—visualizing and writing out positive aspects of their current situation, but they then forget to LIVE from this perspective all the time, in all of the little dealings and errands, in all of the minor, in passing conversations.

Abraham-Hicks say, “Every time you say, ‘I appreciate that. I really like that. I applaud that. I acknowledge the value in that.’ Every time you do that, you spend some of your Energy, and it is the spending of the Energy that creates a vacuum, so to speak, or an attraction, so to speak, that draws more and more and more and more.”

Every conversation you have, whether it’s with your spouse or with the clerk at the local convenience store, is an opportunity to raise your vibration and get in the Vortex.  When you speak in positive aspects, you’re using ordinary conversation to create extraordinary experiences because the law of attraction will match that positive energy.  Speaking in positive aspects aligns you with the kind of experiences you want to have.

Every compliment you give out draws a compliment to you.  Every bit of interest you show to someone else will come back in someone’s interest in you.

Make people feel good, and you will feel good.

Nothing you encounter in the business world is worth complaining about.  Nothing.

Every negative experience can be turned by speaking in positive aspects.

(If you missed them, be sure to read the first four parts of Power Chatter:  Part 1—Talk On The Dark Side; Part 2—Mundane, Not; Part 3—Talk It Up, and Part 4—Talking Tone.)

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So I have this new job—to align with prosperity.  Part of the job description is easy—pay attention to how I feel and do only what feels good.  Part of the job description requires a bit more effort—find good feeling thoughts as much as possible.

I’ve been working on the good-feeling thoughts for some time, and I’ve gone from amazed to amused about how determined my mind is to find something negative to cogitate about.

I’ve been programmed to grousing instead of gratitude.

And I’m not alone.  Last weekend, I spent a little time with a friend who is aware of the law of attraction and who believes that our thoughts do indeed create reality.  In the short hour or so we were together, I lost track of the number of times she found the negative side of a subject.  Even when I was talking about something fun, she brought up a worry or warning about it. (more…)

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No—that’s not a misspelling in the title.

A couple weeks ago, I wrote about the large agate I found on a beach walk, an agate that I hadn’t seen the first time I passed it, even though it had been right next to my path.

Per the law of attraction’s steadfast like-attracts-like, I’ve received another agate lesson. (more…)

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Instant manifestation.  We all want it, but if we give it any intelligent thought, we know it’s generally a bad idea.

Whenever I think of instant manifestation, I remember one of the original Star Trek episodes in which the crew took shore leave on a planet where whatever they thought about happened.  Some of the thoughts ended up having deadly results.  With no buffer of time between thought and result, we can create quite a mess.

Still ….. instant manifestation.  You want it.  You get it.  If we could be deliberate about our desires, instant manifestation could be pretty cool.

I know this.  Because I experienced it on Sunday. (more…)

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Yesterday, I set my intention:  Wanted: One Fat Focus.

Since then, I’ve been thinking more about how to get it.  How do I consistently create that mass of little appreciations that becomes so big and heavy it keeps my teeter-totter from moving as much?

Watching Ducky perform one of her tricks, I got the answer.

Last Friday evening, we had dinner with friends, Neil and Nancy.  Ducky was invited too, and she did a couple of her tricks for them.  Nancy particularly liked Ducky’s “touch it” trick.  She asked, “How did you teach her to do that?”

The trick isn’t complicated.  Here it is:

Fast Tube by Casper

Though it’s not a complicated trick, it is a bit of a challenge to teach to an enthusiastic puppy obsessed with food.  Teaching Ducky this and other tricks requires a lot of repetition, and that, I concluded last night, is the secret to building up the heavy mass of appreciation.

When I taught Ducky to “touch it,” I started by teaching her the foundations that lead to it.  I taught her “sit,” then “down,” then “stay.”  With each of these commands, I used a treat to move her into the position I wanted her to be in, and once she got there, I gave her praise and the treat.

With stay, I held her in place at first then allowed her to sit or lie on her own.  When I said, “stay” and she moved, I put her back in place and repeated the command.  If she didn’t move, I said, “good stay,” and gave her a treat.

Once I had these in place, I started working on “touch it.”  I put the treat in front of her and said stay.  I said “touch it” as I picked up her paw and put it on the treat.  Then I said, “Good touch it.”

We did this multiple times a day for several days, and then one day, I said, “touch it,” and she did. Once dogs learns a trick, the trick becomes second nature to them.  These days, when we get out a treat, Ducky sometimes dances (on her hind legs—spinning in a circle), waves with her paw, and rolls over before you say a word.

So how do we translate this into training minds?

Deliberate Thought Training 101

Based on my ongoing success with Ducky, I’ve come up with a training program for my puppy-like brain.

It’s a four step process for teaching the brain to “like it.”

What I’m aiming for with this process is having a brain that automatically looks for something to like about every little thing I see or experience.  I want my thoughts to “dance” without needing a command and “roll over” away from negative judgments and focus.

I want all this to be second-nature, done without effort the way Ducky does her tricks these days.  Before I can get there, though, I need some training.

1.  I figured I needed to start with a foundation.  Getting to “like it” from a place of mindlessly observing what is would be like asking an untrained dog who doesn’t know how to sit or stay to “touch it.”

So the way I’m doing this is to teach myself to “sit and stay on appreciation.”  I constantly put myself in the position of appreciation by saying over and over in my head, “I appreciate …. ” Then I fill in with something after that.

This isn’t as obtrusive as it sounds. I’ve found in the few hours I’ve been practicing this that I can repeat this while I work, eat, and have conversations.

2. Now that I’ve gotten a foundation, I’m moving on to putting myself in a position to “like it.”  I pretend to have the mindset of an eager pup, expecting everything to be a toy, sure that the whole world is there to amuse me.  With this perspective, how can I dislike anything?

If I move out of this position, I put myself back in it with an anchor.  An anchor is a neurolinguistic programming (NLP) technique.  It’s a physical gesture linked to a specific thought or feeling response.  Many anchors are unconscious, and in fact, they become unwanted habits—like chewing on nails when anxious or needing a cigarette to concentrate.  You can create anchors on purpose, though.  The way to do it is to elicit the desired state, which can be done with visualization, then make the gesture while in that state.

I created my anchor by using my favorite state of appreciation—watching Ducky do something cute.  While I watched her, I put my thumb up and waggled it back and forth (a cross between thumbs up and wags).

My anchor is working pretty well so far.  When I shift from the eager place of “the world is a cool place,” I waggle my thumb, and I am right back in position again.

3. Now that I have my foundation and my anchor (the equivalent of me putting Ducky’s paw on the treat), I keep repeating my “command:” “I like.” Then I smile.  That’s my reward.

4. And as with training a puppy, I am doing all of this over and over and over and over again.

I’ve just begun this training process so I’ll have to let you know its long-term impact.  For now, though, in less than a day, I’ve seen a marked reduction in the up-down of my mental teeter-totter. Apparently, I’m trainable, because this seems to be working.

You don’t need to follow my method for getting that teeter-totter to stop popping up and down.  Greg commented, after yesterday’s post, that he’s using a virtual hug and self love to weigh down the other end of the teeter-totter.  Karen uses her thought clicker (one is on its way to me too, and I’m sure it will help).  Whatever works!

The great thing is that as soon as you make the effort to get that teeter-totter stable, the law of attraction will bring you thoughts that match your new thought vibration.  It gets easier and easier.

Have you found a way to still your thought teeter-totter?  Please share it so others can give it a try too.

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A few days ago, this Abraham-Hicks quote landed in my e-mail inbox:

“When you’re vibrating purely, you get only what’s a match to that. It’s your ambivalence: ‘I like that but I don’t like that… I like that but I don’t like that..’ that keeps what you like and what you don’t like coming at you all the time. You don’t have to ‘turn the other cheek’ when you are in vibrational harmony only with what you want. Then, only what you want comes.”

This isn’t new information, obviously.  I know noticing what I like brings me more of it and noticing what I don’t like brings me more of that.  For some reason, though, this statement immediately projected an image of a teeter-totter into my head, and as I moved through my days afterward, I became acutely aware of how my thoughts constantly shifted from likes to don’t likes and how the teeter-totter in my head popped up and down in sync with my shifting thoughts.The graphic visual spotlighted how much my thoughts go up and down, up and down, up and down.  Just in the short five-minute drive from our house to the forest where I walk Ducky, for instance, I watched my thoughts do something like this:

• The cherry blossoms in that yard are lovely. UP
• They need to pull some weeds. DOWN
• I’m glad they repaved this road. UP
• Why did they leave those pieces of asphalt piled up at the corners? DOWN
• That’s where the nice people who own the Mexican restaurant live.  UP
• They’ve left their garage door open—what a mess they have in there. DOWN
• It’s a nice mild day; no rain. UP
• The mosquitoes are going to be ferocious on the back trail. DOWN

It’s amazing I’m not in a state of perpetual motion sickness.

I’ve been paying attention to my emotional guidance system to help me monitor my thoughts, and I’ve been doing SO much better than I was even just a couple months ago.  No more panic and anxiety.  I’ve been feeling good.

But when I started paying attention, I saw how much I focus on things I don’t like.  I seem to attach a dislike to every like I come up with.

I’ve even done it with Ducky, my feel good touchstone:  Ducky makes me laugh, and she purely delights me, but I sure wish she wouldn’t bring in sticks and tear them into pieces to leave on my rug.

Remember being on a teeter-totter when you were a kid?  You needed someone of somewhat equivalent weight on the other side so you could consistently pop up and down.

When I was in grade school, one of my classmates was an extremely fat girl.  Most of the kids wouldn’t play with her, so I did.  One day, she and I settled onto the teeter-totter, not thinking about how the difference in our weights was going to impact our fun.  I was a skinny kid.  She was huge.  I straddled my end.  She got on and sat down.  I shot up in the air so fast I nearly fell off.

No matter how hard she tried to push off the ground to pop up in the air herself, she couldn’t do it.  I was stuck up in the air until one of my friends came over and hung on to my end to lower it down.

Teeter-Totter Thought

The high end of the teeter-totter is our focus on likes.  The things that please us allow us to push off and fly into the air.  The things that don’t please us are the push-offs on the other end of the teeter-totter that send us back to earth.  Most of us have as many dislikes as we have likes, so the balance of our thought is half up and half down.

The law of attraction matches our experience with the balance of our thoughts.  If we’re half up and half down, no wonder we get so many things we don’t like in our lives.  We go up, and great things happen.  We go down, and lousy things happen.  Our experiences teeter-totter in perfect rhythm with our thought vibration.

What we need, I’ve decided, is a nice fat focus on likes that is so big and so heavy that it catapults us into the air and leaves us there.  That “up” position on the teeter-totter is Abraham-Hicks’ vortex.  It’s vibrational alignment with all we desire.

I know you’ve had times in your life when something you like SO commands your attention that you don’t even notice negative things.  Falling in love comes to mind.  Christmas morning, a major win in sports, landing a big job, winning money—these are all such big, heavy likes that they fire us into the air and leave us there for a time.

But how can we focus on something that feels that good when nothing that good is happening in our “what is” reality?

We can either get so adept at visualizing from a place of “I already have what I want” that we feel like we’re focusing on something good that already exists OR we can focus on so many little likes that they glom onto each other and form a big heavy blob of positive energy that acts the same way a single, heavy focus does.

I’m still working on visualizing from the place of “I already have what I want.”  I’m playing with a new visualizing technique that I’ll report on when I have a little  more practice with it.  In the meantime, though, I’m finding that just being aware of the thought teeter totter is making it possible for me to consciously look at more likes than dislikes.

Just over the last day or so, I’ve begun to see all this little likes come together to create a fat focus that is starting to weigh down the other end of my teeter-totter so I’m up in the air more often.  It’s pretty fun to feel that high (excuse the pun).

Are you aware of how much your thoughts are teetering up and down?  Pay attention.  You may need to create your own “fat focus” to raise you up.

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As I shared in the Keep Swimming post, I’m finished with the creation portion of my novel writing instruction package, and now it’s time to promote.

I have one word that sums up how I feel about that.

Yuck.

I know I’m not the only creative person out there who loves the creating and hates the selling.  And I KNOW I’m not the only one selling.

The last couple days, I’ve been poking around Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and dozens of blogs in the writing and law of attraction arenas, and I have three words to say about that.

I need earplugs!!

So much NOISE out there.  I’ve decided that of the approximately seven billion people in the world, all but 13 of them are selling something.  And of all those people selling, I think all but 27 of them are selling law of attraction or writing information.

Okay, I’m exaggerating a little.

Seriously, though, do you ever get the feeling that you are the tiniest speck of all the specks in the universe and your voice is even tinier and you’re trying to shout loud enough for a few hundred or maybe a few thousand people to hear you and all you can get out is a squeak?

Or is it just me?

I know that when I feel this tiny … I’m talking quantum-particle-sized, I’m not aligned with the nonphysical part of me.  I know this because when I feel this small, I do not have positive emotions.  In fact, I have very negative emotions.

Those negative emotions are my indicator that I’m out of alignment.

Okay, I get that.

But how do I get back in alignment when I feel, as I said to a friend, “like a guppy in a sea of piranhas?” We didn’t answer that question in our conversation, but we did have a laugh about my silly analogy.  Piranhas are freshwater fish.  They don’t swim in the ocean.  Whatever—you get what I mean.

Well, here’s what’s fun about all the work I’ve been doing in the last four months to find better feeling thoughts.  I must be making some progress, because in response to my question about how to feel good being this quantum guppy in a noisy sea of piranhas (don’t you love analogy potpourris?), my brain ever-so-helpfully called up a memory.

The memory is from 2006, about a week after Tim got his head injury.  Not a good time for us.  I generally don’t go back and poke at it.

But the memory my brain unboxed for me was this:

My third book was on the verge of publication, and I, along with several dozen other Pacific Northwest authors, had committed to attending a library fundraiser in Bellevue.  It was a dinner/book signing event with a keynote speaker.  The speaker was Kevin Carroll.

Kevin Carroll is a consultant, author, and speaker who uses the symbolism of a red rubber ball (which he played with as a kid for hours at a Philadelphia neighborhood playground) to teach the power of sport, play, and creativity.  No question about it.  Carroll is a great speaker.  But here’s why my brain brought this memory up for me:  Carroll’s message is nothing new.

I remember sitting in awe of Carroll during his talk.  I was mesmerized by his energy, yes, but I was even more mesmerized by the fact that everything he said was something I’d said myself at one time or other in the newspaper column I used to write—The Up Beat.  Carroll has an original symbol for his information, but the message itself is familiar.

I had this big aha moment that night.  I realized that it isn’t that we have to have anything earth-shattering to say; we just have to have a great passion for what we’re saying and a memorable hook to hang it on.  In other words, in order to be heard in all the noise in the world, you don’t have to shout.  You just have to squeak with intense enthusiasm.

Unfortunately, over the last four years, my aha moment got buried under the reality of Tim’s memory loss and later, my accident.  But the law of attraction, working as swimmingly as usual, brought the aha back to me when I was reaching for a thought that helped me feel confident about taking my place in the noisy world.

Just between you and me—I really don’t want to take my place in the world as a writing expert.  Yes, I have a lot of expertise in that area.  I’ve taught writing in law schools and in creative writing workshops.  I’ve written books, articles, essays, columns, poetry, screenplays and I can’t actually remember what all else.  I’ve coached writers.  I’ve edited.  I know what I’m talking about.  BUT my real passion is actually in another place:

Doggone It, I LOVE Dogs!

It probably didn’t escape your notice that I love dogs.  And here’s the truth about what I really want.  I want to find my place in the big noisy world as someone who motivates others using the wisdom I’ve gained from my dogs and other dogs.  Sound silly?  Simplistic?  It’s definitely been done.  So can I find a way to do it in my own way?  Can I peep loud enough to be heard?

My last Springer, Muggins, was a talker.  She had a truly awesome range of sounds, a wider range than I’ve ever heard in a dog.  She and I could communicate pretty easily because she had so many sounds that her meanings became clear quickly.

Ducky’s “vocabulary” is more limited.  She whines, makes a little chortling sound when she’s really excited, barks deeply when she’s “protecting us,” and the rest of the time, she squeaks … like a mouse.

It’s a tiny, little squeak.

That squeak has become my new alarm clock.  I awaken to it nearly every morning.  It’s a soft, gentle squeak, but I hear it nonetheless.  It gets the job done.

We all have the ability to make that kind of sound in the world.  We all have something to say (be it with words or a talent or a physical skill).  And we may not say it as loudly as someone who has fame, but we say it.  And thanks to my memory of Kevin Carroll, I now know that our little squeaks are enough.

It’s not what we’re saying.  It’s the energy behind what we’re saying.

It’s not what we’re doing.  It’s the enthusiasm with which we do it.

That’s why action from willpower is useless.  That’s why action must come from passion.

So will The Joyful Springer be a megaphone for my dog-based wisdom squeaks?  I don’t know.  But I believe it’s possible.  And that’s a good start for moving me into alignment with becoming the woman who changes people’s lives with dogged devotion to canine wisdom.

The truth is that we don’t have to shout.  In fact, shouting is counterproductive.  It’s WANTING instead of allowing.  When we just put out our happy little squeak and trust in the law of attraction to do the rest, we take our place in the big, noisy world.

Do you believe in your squeak?

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Okay, so I know yesterday I said the thing to do when you have doubts is to keep swimming.  But as with all the spelling rules that drive Tim nuts, the swimming “rule” has an exception.

Or at least I think it does.

Abraham-Hicks remind us, “Your choices of action may be limited–but your choices of thought are not.”

By the end of Wednesday, I didn’t know what my next best action was.  The actions I was taking, actions intended to promote my revamped novel writing instructional package, didn’t feel good.  I was a bundle of tension, most definitely out of alignment.  I wasn’t choosing helpful thoughts.

I have worked everyday for the last six weeks.  It didn’t feel like work most of the time.  I was having fun, so I didn’t notice I was barreling along.

When I stopped having fun, I noticed.

And thought I gave it a valiant effort, I couldn’t find a thought about what I was doing that felt good.

So I decided it was time for one of my Puppy Days.

Puppy Days Instead of Sick Days

When I worked in the “real world,” I got sick a lot.  I missed one or two or more days of work every month. I wasn’t faking it.  I had physical symptoms of colds, flus, bronchitis … my body was creative in finding ways to give me a break from work.

Because that’s what these illnesses were, I found out after I left my legal writing instructor job.  Once I began working at home and I allowed myself to stop working whenever I felt the need for a break, I stopped getting sick. Nowadays, I get a cold every couple years or so, and that’s about it.

So what’s a Puppy Day?

It’s a do-nothing day.  I usually spend mine in my pjs, curled up with a great novel.

Inspired by the fact that puppies go, go, go and then suddenly collapse in a pile of total relaxation, Puppy Days are my way of recharging.

And they’re my way of shifting my thought vibration.

Because I wasn’t sure what to do next and all my thinking about it was churning me into a negative place, I knew the best thing for me to do was remove my thoughts from the subject completely.  A Puppy Day was just what I needed.  The tension that had been building had dissipated by the end of the day.  I’m still not sure what to do next, but I’m back in a more peaceful place, definitely more aligned, which is the point.

And if You Can’t Take a Puppy Day?

Yesterday, a reader of this blog commented on Facebook, “Even though I’m more of a cat person, I really do enjoy Ande’s blog.”

Mea culpa.

I have been disregarding cat people.

Though I don’t have a cat at the moment, I like cats.  They have every bit as much to teach us as dogs do—they just go about it differently.  Whereas dogs are more like grade school teachers, making the lessons fun and interactive, cats remind me more of my law school professors—generally reserved and far more Socratic in their teaching method.  Cats will give you a hint, but then you have to figure it out for yourself.

The kitty way of finding alignment isn’t that tough to figure out, though.  Just spend an hour or so watching a cat, and you’ll learn some important skills.

First, cats do what they do with pure, intense focus.  Have you ever watched a cat stare at a bird or a spot on the wall?  They know how to control their thoughts and put them right where they want them to be.

Second, cats relish the simple things in life.  Take bathing, for example.  Cats make grooming seem like one step from ecstasy.

Third, cats know how to recharge.  A cat can flop and rest pretty much anywhere.  Though cats are physically capable of great speed and agility, they are just as able to turn into furry noodles.

It’s these skills that can take the place of Puppy Days.

When you can’t get your thoughts to shift, no matter what you do, you need to take a Kitty Break:

1. Spend a minute of total focus on something you appreciate.
2. Do some simple task, like putting on hand lotion or brushing your hair, and let it soothe you
3. Take five minutes to deliberately relax every muscle in your body, or if you can, grab a 15 minute or longer nap

These little shifts in energy can help you get access to higher-vibrational thoughts.

When it comes to living in the sea of abundance that surrounds us, for sure we need to keep swimming.  But once in while, we need to drift into the thoughts that help us align with who we really are.

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