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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Louis Oosthuizen.  Ever heard of him?

Most people haven’t.

Even my golf-obsessed husband hadn’t heard of him … until this weekend.

The British Open Golf Tournament started in Scotland on Thursday and ended today.  It’s a big deal in the golf world, one of the four “majors,” (most important tournaments), and at the start of the tournament, the golf world had its focus on the big players like Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson.

Louis Oosthuizen (pronounced west-hi-zen—the Open announcers were so unfamiliar with him they didn’t get it right) didn’t care what the rest of the world was focused on.  He was focused on winning.

A virtual unknown, this South African player blasted through the pack of favorites to get in second place at the end of the first day of play.  The second day, he was in first place, where he stayed.  He stayed so far in the lead the rest of the way that today the tournament, according to ESPN writer, Gene Wojciechowski,“was a par-5 beyond boring. It was so maddeningly dull that you wanted to stick the sharp end of barbecue tongs in your eyes.”

Louis ran away with it.  Mr. Nobody won handily.

Doing the Underdog Dance

Louis’s “shocking” success isn’t at all surprising when you understand the law of attraction.  He got his win because of three things, three things that came together like the steps in a victory dance:  knowing and focus and feeling.

1. Knowing

If he’d been limited by what was and wasn’t possible, Louis would never have even been a professional golfer.  His poor farmer father couldn’t afford the instruction, travel, and equipment Louis needed to pursue his dream.

But Louis wasn’t paying attention to what was possible.  All he knew was that he wanted to play golf.  And the power of that knowing was strong enough to attract “a life-changing break;” he was accepted into the Ernie Els & Fancourt Foundation, which gave him the financial resources he needed to develop into a professional golfer.

2. Focus

The weather conditions at the British Open the last four days were ideal for golf.  Steady 25 to 35 m.p.h winds and rain assaulted the players.  While the other players struggled with the weather, Louis zeroed in on the part that he liked.  Louis “loves playing in wind.”  Rain?  No, he doesn’t like rain.  But he ignored the rain.  He focused on the wind.  The wind was his friend.

3. Feeling

When Louis took the lead in the tournament, the announcers wanted to know if it made him nervous.  Was he afraid he’d blow the lead?

No way.

“I’m going to have fun with it,” Louis said.

Learning From Louis

Even when we know about the law of attraction, we have a tendency to stay attuned to what is “possible.”  We’re stuck in these little grooves of things called “favorites” and “odds” and “past performance.”

We look around and see what someone else had to do to achieve success.  It was a “long, hard road.”  He “paid his dues.”

We forget that none of that is necessary.  Nothing that has come before has relevance to what we want to do now unless we put our focus on it and give it relevance.

We can win any “tournament” we want to win, achieve any goal we want, take any trophy.  The law of attraction will bring us anything we want.   We only have to do three things:  know that we can do what we want to do, focus on the positive in our lives now, and have fun.

It’s that simple.  Not easy.  But simple. Louis showed us how simple it can be.

Thanks to Louis, I’m inspired to do my own underdog dance.  Just watch me.  One of these days, my novel series will be on the bestseller’s list.  I’ll be one of those “nobodies” who “came out of nowhere.”

How about you?  What’s your story?  Tell us what you’re going to do; tell us your “came out of nowhere story.”  Then go out there and do your underdog dance.

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Photo (it’s not Louis) by Steven Newton on Flickr.

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So there’s this Vortex, to use Abraham-Hicks terminology.  It’s an extraordinary font of energy—organized, creational energy that holds everything asked for by everyone.

I think of the Vortex as a sort of energy clearinghouse where everything that’s asked for is given, where every request is put into place in a cooperative way for the good of all who are asking.  EVERYTHING asked for, from a better tasting toothpaste to the vastest monetary fortune imaginable, is given in the Vortex.

Obviously, the Vortex is the place to be.

And how do we get there?

We all know the answer to that one, right?

We get there by releasing resistance, by aligning with Source … in a nutshell, by feeling good.

If you really commit to staying aware of your energy, to really knowing whether or not you feel good (don’t laugh—most people in our society are not conscious of how they feel), you can almost discern a pleasurable elastic pulling sensation when you are sucked into the Vortex.  At times, I swear I almost hear a THWAWCK sound too.

And in the reverse, when you’re disgorged from the Vortex, you can feel that too.  I experience “devortexization” (like my new word?) as a sudden energy plummet.  This enervation is generally accompanied by muscle tension (hence my About Face technique) and for me, a sudden desire to eat something with no known nutritional value.

But remaining in the spirit of Fun, Fun, Fun, since I had my Riding the Rapids epiphany, my number one priority has been looking for ways to flip the switch on my energy and vibration.  I need as many ways to do this as possible because I am living some pretty strong contrast right now.  My “what is” is compelling to my pay-attention-to-the-physical-reality trained mind.

Even Abraham-Hicks has noted that it’s much easier to get into and stay in the Vortex before you manifest something lousy.  For that reason, law of attraction coaches and writers who have never created much of a mess, whose biggest “problems” are an extra 10 pounds of body fat, a need to double their six figure income, and a desire for more travel or fame or whatever, don’t impress me much. It’s relatively easy to manifest wonders when 90 percent of your “what is” reality is already wonderful.  The great stuff you have now, if you appreciate it, is the springboard to even better things.

But what of those of us powerful creators who, in our earnest efforts to understand the law of attraction, managed to focus more on lack than on abundance and created big, big messes? It takes a bit more finesse to find ways into the Vortex when your “what is” is 90 percent unpleasant and 10 percent pleasant.

Because I’m in that 90 percent unpleasant place, I’ve made it my intention to find as many ways to feel good as possible, and the law of attraction has responded to my intention with many fun methods.

My latest method is singing.

The High Note Method Of Revortexization

I’ve always enjoyed singing, but most of my singing was always done when I was alone in the car or the shower.  A few years ago, though, Tim (my hubby, a talented singer and musician, graduate of the Army School of Music) talked me into joining the community choir he directed.  Tim informed me that I’m a tenor, and he explained that I would be singing harmony. I’d never sung harmony before.

But I learned how, and I discovered that not only am I good at learning and remembering harmony notes, I love doing it.  Whenever I was singing, I felt good.  All thoughts of negative circumstances fell away.

The choir is no more (long, very non-Vortexy story, so I’ll skip it), and for the last couple years, I’ve been so caught up in the yuck of “what is” that I haven’t even remembered to sing much.

But in answer to my request for more fun, the law of attraction popped a song into my head: “On Top of the World” by the Carpenters.  Yes, I thought.  That’s how I want to feel.

So I tweaked the lyrics a little to refer more to abundance than love, and I began singing that song dozens of times a day. Then law of attraction nudged me with another song—“Believe It Or Not,” the theme from Greatest American Hero. I tweaked those lyrics too: “Believe it or not, I’m walking on air, I’ve always wanted to feel this free …”

Tim started singing along with me, and now he’s going to write me harmony lines for these two songs, and I’m going to sing harmony to his base melody.

Singing launches me into the Vortex every time. If I feel myself going low (low energy, low on the emotional scale), I can get higher and higher with singing.  What works for me is not just music but singing.  Just listening to music doesn’t quite do it for me.  I need to sing, and I need to know the lyrics, or better yet, rewrite the lyrics to fit what I want to be saying.  This focused singing releases resistance in an instant.

Not everyone responds to singing, but if you’re at all musical, you might give my High Note method of “revortexization” (as opposed to devortexization) a try.

1.  Pick an upbeat song. If you’re looking for some uplifting songs, check out Ducky’s Joyful Springer channel on Blip.fm. She’s a Vortexy DJ, and she blips feel good songs.

2.  Look up the lyrics online (search the song name plus lyrics).

3.  Change the lyrics as needed to say what you want to say.

4.  Practice singing your version of the song until you’ve memorized the lyrics.

5.  Sing your song any time you start to feel yourself being pulled out of the Vortex.

This is a really fun process that acts like a big old eraser, wiping out the siren song of “what is.”

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If you’d like a reminder of the Vortex’s power, watch this video:

Fast Tube by Casper

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Photo by emilyamimu on Flickr.

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Ducky In Her Play Bow

Today’s post comes under the heading of “Yes, I KNOW this,” but I think it also comes under the heading of “I can’t have too many reminders.”

When it comes to finding ways to improve our vibrational alignment so law of attraction will deliver pleasurable and wanted experiences into our lives, the methods and techniques are endless.  We can

• Visualize
• “Write right“
• Create manifestation boards
• Pivot off negative thoughts
• Do an “about face”
• Talk about what we want
• Act as if we have what we want
• And a whole lot of other “techniques” we can pay hundreds of dollars for if we’re inclined to invest in all the law of attraction books, CDs, and workshops available online and off.

Or we can reach vibrational alignment the easy way.

We can have fun.

All of those techniques I listed, and most other law of attraction “systems” or “exercises” or “practices,” are intended for one important purpose—to create a positive vibration. What could be a more positive vibration than fun?

Stairway To Fun

Obviously, having fun is good for us.  But we can’t play all the time.  We have things we need to do.

I am the Princess of Play.  I own something like a hundred plush animals (it used to be more—I donated a bunch to hospitals).  I quote Winnie the Pooh.  I love flipping a Slinky back and forth or tossing around a yellow Smiley Face ball when I’m thinking.  To relax, I blow bubbles off my back porch.  I give goofy personality to our furniture, our food, our cars—I anthropomorphize pretty much everything.  Tim and I play lots of board games.  We joke and tease constantly, and we make all sorts of playful bets. And then there’s Ducky—my always-ready-for-fun, canine playmate.  I love to play silly games with her.

But, I’ve always worked this play in and around the serious stuff.  And if the serious stuff gets overwhelming, as it has for me lately, my playtime is diminished.

See, I understand that to have something I need to already have it.  So I know I need to find ways to take on the identity of a financial secure, successful, healthy, slender woman NOW.  And I know I need to do what is before me to do.

At the moment, most of what is before me to do doesn’t, at first glance, seem to have much of a fun factor.  Bankruptcy and everything that is involved with it, for instance, isn’t fun. It’s more of a humiliating chore than anything resembling play.

BUT, with a little ingenuity, pretty much anything can be shifted from chore to fun.

Here’s proof (video courtesy of my friend, Nancy—thanks, Nancy!):

Fast Tube by Casper

It makes you want to install scales under the flooring in your house, doesn’t it?

It does me.

And more than that, this video made me start thinking about how I can turn things I currently consider an unpleasant chore or responsibility into something fun.

It spurred me to begin making one of the driving questions in my day: How can I turn this into more play than work?

Sometimes, the question can be answered easily.  When I’m doing work on the computer, for instance, I reward myself with the occasional tweets on Ducky’s Twitter account. “Yapping” with Ducky’s “anipals” as if she’s actually doing the typing (don’t tell her she isn’t—I’m pretty sure she thinks she’s the one online) is great fun, and it breaks up other more mundane tasks.

Sometimes, the question takes a bit more thought.

For the bankruptcy process, for example, I was having trouble finding ways to view filling out all the paperwork, listing all our assets and debts etc., as play.  But then Tim suggested we use each asset listed as a jumping off point to thinking about what we would like instead.  So we put on the list, 20-year old shelves, and Tim says, “I’m going to have so much fun building the custom shelves for the offices in our new house.”  Or we list, five dog beds, and I tell Tim a memory I have of how much our last dog, Muggins, loved a particular bed.  Using the list as a sort of seeding for fun conversation made the process more like play than work.

I’m finding that if you make it a dominant intention, you really can find ways to turn even the most arduous-seeming chores into something more playful and fun. Doing this creates a win-win.  Not only does having more fun improve your vibration so you attract more good things into your life, it also brings you more pleasure NOW because you can’t help but enjoy your days more if you’re integrating play into your work.

We get a match to what we’re looking at and what we’re looking for.  I’m finding that when I make it a priority to look for fun, ways to have more fun easily come to me.

How about it?  Wanna play?

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