The Secret Is Wags

Think you can’t ignore something that’s right in front of your face?  Think again.

Last week, thanks to my reader, Mary, I watched a youtube yoga video that teaches breathing exercises and postures that help with weight loss.  Because it felt like inspired action to watch the video and because it felt easy and comfortable to write down the routine and plan to do it, I decided to start a short version of the routine.

One of the exercises in the routine is alternate nostril breathing.  This is something I used to do, and whether it helps with weight loss or not, I couldn’t say, but it is calming, and I wanted to get in the habit of doing it again. (more…)

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The other day, my mother brought me the May 23 newspaper comics page so she could show me Classic Peanuts (I don’t subscribe to the paper).  In the strip, Snoopy sits in front of his dog bowl, his tongue hanging out.  He’s thinking, “Empty! And I’m dying of thirst.”

In the next frame, Snoopy carries his bowl in his mouth.  In the third frame, he sits in front of an outdoor faucet, his bowl in his mouth, holding it positioned under the faucet.  The next frame is identical.  The next frame, he looks away from the faucet with a worried expression.  In the next frame, he’s back to staring at the faucet, patiently holding his dish beneath it.

In the next frame, rain starts to fall.  In the next, the rain is heaver.  Snoopy still holds his bowl under the faucet.

In the next frame, he carries his bowl through the rain.  In the next frame, he drinks water from the bowl.  In the next frame, the rain stops, and he sits back.

In the final frame, he lies on top of his doghouse thinking, “That’s one I’m going to have to think about for awhile.”

Unlike Snoopy, I didn’t have to think about it for awhile.  I got it immediately.  It was the guidance I’ve been wanting.  Thank you, law of attraction. (more…)

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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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Remember the 1985 Dire Straits song, “Money For Nothing”?  The song’s repetitive stream of conscious lyrics didn’t do much for me, but a line from the song popped into my head yesterday:  “Now that ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it.”

On our anniversary, Tim and I talked a lot about money identities and working for money vs. aligning for money.  The line from that song kind of sums up the conclusions we reached.

For the week leading up to Tim’s and my anniversary, I’d been thinking a lot about Greg’s new money magnet status. Having reached a conclusion similar to mine—that you must have the identity of the person you want to be in order to become that person, Greg took on his new identity of a favored, successful businessman, and his “what is” reality has been matching that identity ever since. (more…)

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If you’ve been reading this blog for awhile, this post may give you a sense of déjà vu.  Been there, read that.

I’ve muddled around on this subject before, but I find I need to return to it.  This is, after all, a journey, and sometimes you retrace your steps when you’re on a journey.

Yesterday, I wrote about Greg, The Favored Cartographer.  Greg is one of two men who have become a catalyst for some conflicted emotions in me.  My husband, Tim, is the other one. (more…)

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I believe that I’m writing my way to an amazing transformation.  I feel so different than I did when I started this blog on January 1.  More and more, I am finding the place of feeling like I’m already living my desires. My “what is” results, though, haven’t been as impressive as I might like.

I’ll write more about that tomorrow, but today, I’m going to tell you the story of someone who is enjoying impressive results.  I’m going to tell you the story of a man, who in the short 6 weeks I’ve corresponded with him, has gone from a man struggling with money to an almost literal money magnet.

All Is Lost

Greg Trear contacted me through this blog on March 15.  After I replied to him, he told me he’d lost his job as a salesman and now was working in his own business selling plastics.  He went from over $300,000 a year to about $60,000 a year.  He’d lost his confidence, and he was in danger of losing his home.

Greg knew what we all know—that we live in a universe of abundance, still, he said, “… it just seems that it doesn’t matter how hard you work, there is only a certain amount of people qualified to buy plastics.”  I could relate to his feelings.  I work in a field of extraordinary competition.  I know that feeling of futility.”

In an e-mail he sent to me on March 19^th, Greg spoke of his old life—a life filled with great vacations to Kauai and Italy.  He said it was a life of “not worrying about money and just thinking I had the world by the tail.  My confidence was always so high and I was a provider and a go-getter, and if there was no path, I made one.”

I told him in my response that I heard so much longing in his words.  I could relate to the longing.  I felt it too.  But longing is a focus on the lack of something.  Though you’re thinking about something you want, you’re thinking about it from an awareness that you don’t have it, so you’re activating a vibration that is drawing to you the opposite of what you want.  Greg agreed.

A Glimmer In The Darkness

We talked about joy in our next e-mail exchange.  He said he wanted to have a vision of great joy in front of him.  I said I’ve wanted that too but had decided, “Maybe I don’t have to find the big Joy thing to put in front of me, but perhaps it IS enough to find a way to feel good in the minutia of the day.” This made sense to Greg.  He said, “I just need to be in the moment all through the day and to just thrive and take each moment as it comes and be happy about it and love it.”  Then he asked, “Is it that easy? Maybe that is why it’s so hard to figure out. It’s hidden in plain sight.”

The next day, on March 23^rd, Greg e-mailed me:  “I’ve turned a corner; the fog has lifted.”

A few days later, in response to my post, Your Tale Affects Your Tail, and his decision to change his story from “It’s not fair” to “Greg is favored,” he wrote to me, “I have just decided that I am blessed and favored and thriving and deep down that is the way it is and if that never manifests, then cool, I am believing it and doing what is before me. God has to do the rest. I am going to believe it not because I want it to manifest but because of the enjoyment of believing and BEING it.”

Less than a week later, Greg e-mailed me, with great exultation, the news that he had gotten an unexpected $3600 tax refund from the IRS, a check for $239 from the veterinary school his daughter attends (he had no idea why), and a $880 check from the state.  A few days after that, he discovered he was going to receive still another IRS check because of mistakes in his return.

A couple days after that, Greg wrote to tell me he’d gone through his old commission reports and looked at the huge amounts of money he’d been making just a few years ago.  In a bad month, he said, he brought in $17,000.  He said he started to ask, “Where did all the money go?” but he caught himself and shifted his focus. He reminded himself that he was blessed to have these reports.  He said, “I can go back and look and say, you know what, with my own company now, I have the chance to even make more. Then become now that person.”

Eureka!

After that, the floodgates opened.  Money has been pouring into Greg’s life:

• A $200 check from the state controller
• A $13,000 check from a relative
• A $1828 commission check
• A $4200 commission check
• A $2600 commission check

Monday, he wrote to me:  “I walked out of a supermarket today and a dollar bill was  skipping across the ground towards me and stopped as it settled on my shin–no one around.”

Greg says he used to “study, study, study the law of attraction and talk about it to others and read about it and think about it but never DID IT.  Maybe once in a while for a few minutes but that was in order to get something, and it didn’t work. Now I make sure that I’m doing it for just the joy of already having now what I want.”  Greg says some of the insights I’ve written about in this blog have been guideposts for his amazing journey.  He especially has taken to heart my conclusion that in order to get anything you must already have it (vibrationally).

He visualizes on a daily basis.  He spends at least 12 minutes a day visualizing for three minutes each about his marriage, his kids, his business, and his future.”  He says, “I think thoughts and purposely feel feelings that I would feel now if I had then. I make sure that it feels good and I just roll around in it.”

Greg sums up his incredible journey this way:  “Until a month ago I was so worried about losing my home, and the more worried, the closer I got to actually losing it. One day I said, ‘God if you want to take the house that’s okay; I give it back to you. I know you work all things for the good.’” Ever since that day money is flowing in like a river.”

Greg’s Map

Greg’s process reveals the roadmap for getting from lack to abundance.  Here’s the route he’s laid out for us:

1. Get easy about what’s going on in your life.  Let go of things you think you have to have or the need for things to be a certain way.
2. Find and focus on the joys in your moment-to-moment life.
3. Find a way to activate the feeling of having what you want—whether it’s by revisiting a time when you had it (looking at old papers or photographs) or by thinking about what you want as if you already have it (the only effective kind of visualization).
4. Exult in every little movement toward what you want.  Savor all forward motion.

I don’t know about you, but I’m inspired to go on this trip.  Thanks, Greg!

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There’s petting a dog … and then there’s petting a dog.

If people are dismissing dogs, they give them a half-hearted pat on the head.  That kind of pat means, “Nice doggy [not really].  Now go away.”

People who really mean it when they pet dogs don’t just pat a dog on the head.  They rub a dog’s shoulders or belly or butt, scratch the ears or neck or chest.  Sincere petting is usually accompanied by kisses or happy talk too.  It’s genuine.

We humans don’t go around patting each other on the head or rubbing each others bellies (although the world would probably be a better place if we did).  BUT many people do the equivalent of the insincere head pat, and we’ve all been on the receiving end of it.

Tim, as I’ve said in previous posts, feels like a lottery winner.  His identity is Tim, The Multi-million Dollar Jackpot Winner.  He’s been moving toward this identity for some time.  He started with knowing he was going to win one day.  He moved on to thinking more and more about what it would be like to win.  And within the last few months, he’s become that winner, within.  He feels like he’s won.  He’s happy, secure, and relaxed.

Because he’s so comfortable in his identity, he often casually discusses the lottery with friends.  Some of our friends are matter of fact in their acceptance of his reality.  They know that we’ll soon have millions because Tim already has them on a vibrational level.

Others don’t see it that way.  Tim gets a lot of those verbal “pats on the head:”  nervous laughter accompanies comments like, “Sure, yeah, when you get those millions, be sure you give us some,” or “Uh huh, I’m going to win too,” or “Right, you’re the one who’s going to beat those gazillion to one odds.  Good luck with that.”

The other day, I was telling a friend that Tim got a job with the Census Bureau.  (He’s going to be working part to full time for about 10 weeks starting Friday.)  I told my friend that Tim and I had talked about how to keep his multi-millionaire identity while he does this job.

I wondered how Tim was going to pull that off, and Tim told me that he sees the job as an adventure, a way to do his “civic duty,” and meet some interesting people.  He’s chosen to look at the aspects of it that jive with his identity instead of seeing it as a job he has to have in order to keep us afloat awhile longer, which is our “what is” story.  Tim refuses to look at what is.  He’s firmly living in HIS story.

When my friend heard Tim’s perspective, she laughed in that way people laugh when they don’t agree with you and they want to lighten up what they’re about to say.  She said, “Well, yes, I know he wants to win a lottery, but I’m glad he got a job.  You know, law of attraction is one thing, but it really doesn’t apply to the lottery.  The lottery is just so …. “

“It’s so what?” I asked.

“Well, you don’t earn it.  It doesn’t, well, put anything good into the world.  So it’s, well ….” She trailed off.

“Unworthy?” I asked.

“Exactly,” she said.  “I mean I love Tim to pieces, but he needs to get realistic.”  Can’t you just see her patting him on the head?

In their book, Money and the Law of Attraction, Abraham fields a question about a woman who worked hard to support herself and her unemployed husband.  She struggled constantly, and he never worried about money at all and did little to contribute financially.  The woman and her husband divorced, and the now ex-husband inherited a million dollars.  The woman wanted him to share it with her because of all the years she struggled to support them.  He wouldn’t share.  The person asking Abraham the question says, “It doesn’t seem fair that she cared about money and worked hard for it and received so little, while he barely worked, didn’t seem to care about money, and has now inherited over a million dollars.  How can this be?”

Abraham answered:

“The woman worked hard, felt resentment, focused upon lack—and the Universe matched those feelings precisely.  Her husband felt ease, refused to feel guilty, expected things to come to him easily—and the Universe matched those feelings precisely.  Many believe that they must work hard, struggle, pay a price, and feel pain, and that they will then be rewarded for their struggle—but that is not consistent with the Laws of the Universe.  You cannot find a happy ending to an unhappy journey.  That defies Law.”

Fairness, as we define it in our society, and worthiness, as we see it, have nothing to do with what comes to us.  It’s vibration.  All of it.  Every bit of it.

Tim knows this.  He doesn’t care what others think about the lottery.  To him, it’s a flow of abundance that he has tapped into.  That simple.  Odds are irrelevant.  Questions of worthiness or ethics or fairness are irrelevant.

Tim decided to apply to the Census job because it sounded like fun. He was also aware that I don’t feel as rich as he does, and I would like to have more income in our “what is” reality.  He knows he doesn’t need to take care of my reality, but it makes him feel good, he says, to do something that brings me some peace of mind.  Interestingly, I had already found thoughts that brought me peace of mind before he applied for and got the job.

Is winning the lottery worthy?

Who cares?

Is selling fast food or junk food or cigarettes worthy?  Is someone who earns money selling weapons worthy of abundance?  Do athletes really deserve the millions they earn?

We can think ourselves into a mass of negative vibration if we try and sort out all the potential judgments to be made about how money can come into our lives.  And the truth is that none of it is wrong or right.  To repeat, it’s all vibration.  Every bit of it.

If someone pats you on the head and tells you that your idea or your identity isn’t worthy or it’s silly or it’s not realistic, do what Tim does:  wag your tail.  No, not literally, although that’s fine too.  Just smile and stay in YOUR reality.  It’s the one that matters.

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On Sunday, I wrote about how our story, the narrative we tell about what our life experiences mean, will determine what law of attraction brings to us.  Greg left a couple great comments about how he’s decided to make his new story “Greg Is Favored.”  Let me repeat:  This was just two days ago, on Sunday.

Today, Greg sent me an e-mail.  This is what it said:

“OK, I’m not making this up. Just went to my mailbox and there was a check in there for $3600.00 from the IRS. … Apparently my taxes were done wrong and I got a refund. OK, how many times does that happen to us?????? Also another check in there … from where my daughter is going to college to be a veterinarian … a check from the school to me for $239.00. I have no idea what that is for.   Don’t colleges take our money?  They don’t normally send money to me and send it to me with no notice, no explanation and that is that. You know what? I’M FAVORED!!!!!”

In less than two days, Greg has experienced his story.  Law of attraction brought him evidence of his story just that fast.

My story, “Ande Rocks,” hasn’t brought me any money, but the ideas for the work I’m doing are flowing beautifully.  So perhaps I need to expand my story title to “Ande Rocks … and Rolls In Money.” 

Have you updated your story yet?

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Twice a week, Tim goes to a nearby mini-mart and gets his lottery tickets. Notice I didn’t say he “buys” them because he hasn’t bought a ticket in weeks. He wins between $5 and $10 or more dollars every set of drawings and he uses the winnings to get the next batch of tickets.

Thursday, he was in the mini-mart, and the owner, with whom he’s become friendly, said, “Tim, you just keep winning!” Our state just got Powerball in January, and since Tim bought $2 worth of tickets the first drawing, he’s won every time. The store’s owner said she knows of only a couple other people who have won anything at all (even $1) on Powerball, and Tim wins every drawing!

Until a couple weeks ago, I was quite aware that he hasn’t won the big one yet (the one he KNOWS he’s going to win and in fact already feels like he’s won). But when I became more aware of my point of attraction, I shifted to start paying attention to how often he wins period.

Instead of looking at winning a lot, I started looking at winning. Just winning.

Yesterday, I came across a story about a woman named Renee Green from Bellevue, Washington. A week ago, she donated her entire tax refund to the Haiti fund. This week, she won $50,000 on a lottery scratch ticket.

This woman reminds me of Tim. We don’t have a tax refund to donate, but this woman’s donation shows that she had trust in the universe’s never ending stream of abundance. She felt no need to hang onto her $700 because she knew more was coming.

This is how Tim feels. He has no concerns about our apparent lack of funds because he knows more is coming. It’s nice to be married someone who has such a point of attraction (vibrational match) with abundance.

I’ve read many blog posts, articles, and other law of attraction materials chastising people for believing that they can attract a lottery win into their lives. The going belief seems to be that you can attract jobs and business opportunities and other career-oriented sources of money but not lottery wins. This has always baffled me. Why does money HAVE to come from jobs and career?

Abraham-Hicks address this in their book, Money and the Law of Attraction. They say that the reason most people only get money from jobs is because they THINK they can only get money from jobs and business.

But, Abraham-Hicks reminds us:

“We want you to hear – anything that you want – there is nothing off-limit. ANYTHING THAT YOU WANT !! All you got to do is conjure it until the conjured image dominates your vibration. And when the conjured image that pleases you dominates your vibration, everything in the universe will shift.  EVERYTHING will shift in order to help you to achieve the manifestation of this that you’ve conjured. IT IS LAW, it absolutely HAS to be. In fact, it is being in every moment of your experience. Everything that you are living is the perfect reflection of your vibrational countenance.”

So I’m excited about watching Tim keep winning and winning and winning. I’m putting my attention on the part I like, the winning. The amount right now is irrelevant. Tim has already won millions in his thoughts.

Even as he works in his office here in our home, in his mind, he is in Oregon now, living on our ocean-view acreage. He’s building virtual furniture in his virtual shop. He drives a virtual truck and plays virtual golf. He takes me on virtual trips in our virtual RV and gives big chunks of virtual money to our friends and to total strangers. He leaves virtual 50 % tips to food servers and spends time on the Internet looking for gifts he virtually buys for me (am I a lucky woman, or what?).

Bless my husband for not letting me pull him out of his virtual world when I was obsessing over what is. Tim is a winning guy. Who knows what he’ll win next.

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Getting what you want requires that you feel like you have it before you get it. This is the cornerstone of vibrational matching—creating an energy vibration within that matches the external thing or experience you want.

But, say what? I have to feel good before I get the thing that’s going to make me feel good?

For many, many months, I’ve struggled with how to do this. When finances are in the toilet, your body is a candidate for the Overweight and Out-of-shape Hall of Fame, your marriage needs some serious work, and your career has disappeared into a black hole, how in the name of all that’s good are you supposed to find a way to feel good before you feel good?

“There’s too much bad stuff for me to find the good stuff,” I’ve whined too many times to count.

And so, of course, I kept getting more bad stuff.

Abraham-Hicks says, “One who is mostly an observer thrives in good times but suffers in bad times because what he is observing is already vibrating, and as he observes it, he includes it in his vibrational countenance. As he includes it, the Universe accepts that as his point of attraction and gives him more of it. So the better it gets the better it gets. Or the worse it gets the worse it gets. While one who is a visionary thrives in all times.”

Even though I have a great imagination and have visualized my heart out, I am a World Class Observer. I may visualize; but in between, when I’m knocking about in the world, I’m looking at what is.

So obviously, when I look at the mess I’ve created, I keep getting more mess.

In the last couple weeks, I’ve started getting the hang of finding that speck of feel good in the big, bad, lousy, feel yucky pot of bean chili that is life.

I’m getting the hang of it because I’ve started seeing the power of it.

It’s like cayenne pepper vs. chili powder

When you make chili, if you want it to have enough flavor, you have to dump in a lot of chili powder. A teaspoon or two won’t do. You need a ¼ cup or so, maybe more in a big pot to get nice robust flavor.

Chili is like negative focus. It takes quite a bit of negative focus to create really big messes in life. You have to REALLY linger over worry, anger, or fear to get a nice flavorful pot of Lousy Stuff.

Now cayenne pepper is another story. It only takes a pinch of cayenne to make a BIG impact on a pot of chili. Cayenne is powerful stuff.

Cayenne is the feel good thoughts in life’s chili pot. It only takes a little bit of positive focus to start turning things around. And because cayenne is so potent, you only need to find one tiny little good thing to focus on for it to start having an impact on every aspect of your life.

I’m really starting to get this (I’ve been reading about it for years, but it takes my belief system and daily activities a while to catch up). I’ve been making it too hard.

I thought I had to get in a feeling place of being rich and thin and thrilled to pieces about my husband and totally successful in order to make changes in my life. All that, of course, in the glop I was in, was too much to do.

All I really have to do is find one thing to focus on that makes me feel good. One thing. (I guess Curly had it right in City Slickers—it really is about one thing.)

That one thing acts like cayenne and starts touching everything in my life.

I’ve been using my dog, Ducky, as my one thing. Ducky totally delights me. She makes me SMILE. And I’ve built on that one thing by creating a blog about Ducky and my last dog, Muggins, and all the other joyful dogs out there. The Joyful Springer has become my cayenne. When I’m tempted to look at all the other things that are wrong, I return my attention to Ducky and The Joyful Springer (sounds like a fairy tail, er, tale, doesn’t it?)

And things are getting better. I’ve manifested some money, some reduction in our debt, some new supportive friends. I’m enjoying my husband more, and he’s forgetting less than usual. I’m eating less food without trying to because I’m just feeling so much better. And my career? I’m not concerned. It will follow along in its own time.

The other night, Tim and I watched Brigadoon. There’s a great line in that movie: “… sunshine can peek through a wee hole.”

Good thoughts and the vibrational frequency that goes with them can poke through a wee hole too. It takes just that wee hole to allow alignment to start flowing between you and your nonphysical self, the self that already stands in vibrational alignment with all you desire.

I’ve started focusing on that wee hole. And I think the hole is getting bigger.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on finding the specs of good in your life. To leave a comment, click on the “comments” link (it will say “No comments or “1 comment” or more) at the end of the tags in “Posted in” at the end of this post.

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