The Secret Is Wags

Today’s Abraham-Hicks quote is:

“It’s not your work to make anything happen. It’s your work to dream it and let it happen. Law of Attraction will make it happen. In your joy, you create something, and then you maintain your vibrational harmony with it, and the Universe must find a way to bring it about. That’s the promise of Law of Attraction.”

I’m attempting to find my vibrational harmony with what I want, and part of that process is being sure that I’m on “the path of least resistance.”

The path of least resistance, according to Abraham-Hicks, is the course of action that feels best.

Resistance is what keeps us from having what we want; it’s a vibration that doesn’t match with our desires. It’s those negative feelings that line up with things we don’t want.

When we’re on the path of least resistance, we’re aligned with our nonphysical self, and we’re moving toward what we want. Our vibration matches our desires so the law of attraction can bring those desires to us.

Sometimes, it’s easy to decide what we need to do. One choice feels awkward and uncomfortable, and the other choice makes our heart sing.

Most choices, though, aren’t so clear cut.

In my case, for instance, all my choices suck … or at least that’s how it feels to me.

For over 20 years, I have been focused on living a life of creative and financial freedom. I want to be an author. That’s the work I want to do. I don’t care if that work brings me money or if money comes in some other enjoyable way so I can spend my time writing, but I want to have the freedom to fill my days with writing.

And I want those days to have a leisurely flow to them.

My ideal day goes something like this: I wake up naturally between 7:30 and 8:30. I get up and take a long walk with my dog. I come home and work out. I shower. I have a little snack, and I sit down to write, sometime between 11 and 12. I write until about 6 and stop for the day. I spend my evenings drawing, singing, playing the piano, watching movies, training my dog, playing games and spending time with my husband.

Yes, I know this isn’t how society tells us we should spend our days, but there it is.

For many years, this was how I spent my days.

Then something went wrong. Though I sold three books to large publishers and made some money with my writing, it wasn’t enough to support me. My other financial resources started running out. I tried to sell more books and ended up having terribly negative experiences with agents, editors, publishers, and PR people.

Since I was getting the sense I couldn’t support myself with my writing, Tim and I turned to the internet. We spent the next two years attempting to build a profitable internet business and network marketing business.

At the time of these decisions, I’d kind of forgotten about the law of attraction (even though I did know about it) and the teachings of Abraham-Hicks. I wasn’t thinking in terms of paths of least resistance. Still, I was trying to follow my inner guidance.

Even so, we failed miserably.

I hated doing internet and network marketing. I truly despised it. I kept trying to tell myself to like it. I’d remind myself of the income potential and tell myself, “At least you’re writing” (because I was doing newsletters, articles, and e-books), but I knew I wasn’t doing what I wanted to do.

So I stopped. I took a leap of faith. Even though we were running on financial fumes, I started writing screenplays. I was so excited about the process (“in your joy, you create something”). I was sure I’d succeed. Besides, Tim had decided he was going to win a lottery. He took Abraham’s “it’s as easy to create a castle as it is a button” to heart. He knew he was a lottery winner.

But I didn’t succeed, and he didn’t win.

Then I read Twilight by Stephanie Myer. With all due respect to Myer, I know I write as well or better than she does. I knew I could write a great YA book. So I came up with what I thought was a great, unique plot line, wrote a manuscript and the synopses of all four books in the planned series.

I was sure I’d have it sold by now.

Not only hasn’t it been sold but the agent who was going to represent it decided (after getting me to rewrite it to address issues she had with it) it “wasn’t for her.”

And now we’re out of money.

So in the last couple months, I’ve been doing all this stuff to try and get money.

And I don’t like any of it.

So now, what is my path of least resistance?

We have 3 ½ months of money and no income at the moment.

Do I trust that money will come from someplace and just keep submitting my manuscript and doing things I love and not worry about generating an income in any logical way?

That was my plan at the beginning of this year. I was going to find ways to feel good and trust that the money would come.

Then friends started suggesting ways to bring in money: do editing for pay, look for freelance writing work, go out and get a job at McDonald’s.

I decided that made sense (it didn’t feel good, but it made logical sense). So for 6 weeks, I’ve been trying to get a freelance gig that pays something other than pennies per hour. I’ve submitted many proposals and haven’t landed a gig.

So I dropped my coaching rates really low and sent a promotion to people on my writing tips mailing list. Seven people decided to take me up on it. It helped me get some money, which is great.

But here’s the problem.

I really don’t enjoy writing coaching.

I have a couple clients I enjoy (one of you knows who you are ), but most of the coaching work I do is very tough work and I have to make myself do it.

Then there are the other avenues Tim and I are exploring. I don’t like them either.

We are submitting my manuscript, but so far, we’re just getting rejections. The submission process is slow (see how I’m aligning with what I don’t want??)

I find myself facing many paths of resistance:

1. Don’t do anything to create an income; trust that I will sell a book in time (the odds of that are something akin to winning a lottery).

2. Don’t do anything to create an income; trust that Tim will win the lottery as he vehemently claims he will.

3. Pursue one of 3 paths I’ve thought of so far to bring in money, none of which make me feel good at all.

None of these paths feel good. The first two sound good, but I have too much fear that what I want won’t happen in time, and so I know that’s not a place of alignment.

The last path has the potential for income, but at what price? Me spending my days doing things I don’t want to do?

As Abraham says, you can’t put a smiley face on top of an empty gas gauge and expect to be okay. Pretending doesn’t work. I can’t make myself feel happy about doing things I truly don’t want to do.

Anyone have any words of wisdom to share? Any experience with taking the non-action path and lining up with what you want so the universe brings it to you? Any experience with finding a way to feel good about something you currently feel lousy about?

I’d like to attract some ideas that can help me find a path of least resistance. I just can’t seem to get myself to skip gaily down any of the paths that lay before me now.

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I got this e-mail from someone selling hypnosis to help you align your energy so the law of attraction can work in your life.  I haven’t had much luck with hypnosis, so I wasn’t interested, but the story this person told in the e-mail did get my attention.

The story was about Seguro Ndabene, a man who has won FIVE Canadian lotteries.  He has won: $1 million in the Western 6/49 in 2004; $100,000 in the Super 7 Extra in Calgary in 2006; $1 million and $50,000 in the Western 6/49 in Airdrie, Alta., in 2008; and $17 million in January 2009 (apparently this last one was disputed but finally settled).

Okay, first, WOW!!  Five lottery jackpots, and I’m doubting that Tim can attract one?

And second, isn’t it cool how the law of attraction has brought me evidence of winning lotteries?

First, I found Cynthia Stafford’s story—I’ll admit I went looking for that one; I was googling “win the lottery on purpose.”  Now Seguro Ndabene’s story lands in my inbox.  I didn’t go looking for it, but given how much I’ve been thinking about winning lotteries on purpose, it’s exiting to have the story come to me.

If you google Seguro, you’ll see him described as the luckiest man around.  But I don’t believe in what people call luck.  The universe isn’t that random. I know that Seguro is aligned with lottery jackpots.

That’s what I want to be, and I’m making it my top priority to do that.

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This is it—the key to feeling good no matter what is happening:  You have to “tell the story” of what you want, not what you have.

According to Abraham-Hicks, the reason most of us feel stuck is that we keep ‘telling the story” of how things are, so we keep recreating how things are.  The truth of the universe is that nothing can ever be stuck.  Energy is always moving.  (Remember the Zero Point Field—physicists have PROVEN that energy is always in motion.)

So even though it feels like our lives are totally stagnated, they CAN’T.  It only looks like we’re standing still because we keep looking at what’s in front of us and therefore keep vibrating on a match with what’s in front of us.  In other words, our thoughts, which are the way we attract what we want in our lives—that to which the law of attraction responds—bring us more of what we have because we keep thinking about what we have.

Makes sense, doesn’t it?

What do we pay the most attention to in our lives?  We pay the most attention to what’s in front of our faces.

And even more than just paying attention to it, we TALK ABOUT IT.  How often do we communicate about what we desire, what we truly want?  Think about the e-mails you receive from friends, the phone calls you have, the conversations you have or overhear.  What are people talking about?  What do you talk about?  What is.

We’re all talking about how things are in our lives right now.

No wonder we keep getting more of the same stuff.

If what’s going on in our lives right now is great, talking about it is perfectly fine … because it makes us feel good.  But if the things we have in our lives right now aren’t things that please us, no wonder we can’t find a way to feel good.  The way to feel good is to think about the things we want and not things we don’t like (whether we have them in our lives or not).  In other words, we have to tell it like it isn’t!

Since yesterday, I have absolutely refused to talk about anything I don’t like.  Of course, I can’t control what other people talk about, but I can control what I talk about.  And thankfully, my husband is in this with me, so he’s agreed to talk about what we like too.

Just by making this one small change, I have completely changed how I feel.  I am full of joy and promise!  I am excited about what’s coming because the more I talk about it, the more it feels like it’s already happening.

Today, Tim and I talked about how fun it is to be lottery winners, and while we talked about it, I felt like a lottery winner!

So I’m telling it like it is if I like how it is, but if I don’t like how it is (current condition), I’m telling it like it isn’t (virtual truth):

Today I had a fun day (current condition).  I spent the day grinning because I’m a lottery winner.  I played with my dog and took a long bath and we’re going out for a grand dinner.  (virtual truth).

The more I think about what I want and talk about it, the better I feel.

And here’s the amazing thing:  I can do this and still be doing things I wouldn’t be doing if my virtual truth was my current condition.  For example, today I worked on a freelancing services blog and preparing a portfolio for bidding on projects.  Obviously, I wouldn’t be doing that if I really was a lottery winner.  But in between the work, I was thinking about the life I want to have.  So when I did the work, I was in a good mood and it was fun.

I think I’m on to something here.  I plan to be the next Cynthia Stafford.

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An ordinary day—making bean soup, dusting, cleaning the kitchen, talking to my mom, working, sticking to my new eating plan.  Nothing to get excited about.

But I’ve found many reasons to feel good today.

The cereal I discovered at Amazon, organic cornflakes sweetened with fruit juice instead of sugar are SO good—crunchy and yummy.

Watching the stove go from greasy to sparkling is so satisfying.

Seeing Ducky curl into a ball to rest after her romp in the woods makes me smile.

Did you know brown rice cakes can actually be tasty?  Spread them with a little garlicky hummus, and they’re a savory treat.

I have clean sheets on the bed.  The taut coolness is like a spa treatment for my skin.

The house is orderly and fresh.  It’s fun living in rooms you’ve redone to suit you.

I love red.

When Tim leaves to run an errand with Ducky, he kisses me and says, “love you.”  He does the same when he gets home.

When he calls me from another room, he says, “Hey, beautiful?”

Life is good.

I can even ignore the relentless creditor’s phone calls.  Oops.  NI!

I may be getting the hang of this “find ways to feel good” thing.

We didn’t win the lottery last night.  NI!

But how do I know it’s not growing bigger just for us?  I don’t know.  So I’ll decide that’s what’s going on.  It makes me feel good.

I don’t have a specific number to focus on like Cynthia Stafford did.  I just want enough to be gloriously free.  I want to leave 50 percent tips for great service in restaurants.  I want to send my friends big checks just because I love them.  I want to give to animal sanctuaries.  Have you heard of the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee?  A very cool place.  I want to donate to it and visit it someday.

This is where my thoughts are today.

Oh, and it took me only 8 days to write a 63 page proposal/outline plus 70 pages of sample chapters for my book, the memoir, Puppies Interrupted—The Story of Muggins, Me, and Our Unfinished Work. Woo hoo!  It’s done.  Tim will be submitting it for me next week.

Like I said, life is good.

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Cynthia Stafford was a single mother raising five kids, a woman who’s life wasn’t what she wanted, but who believed in the power of her mind.  Her favorite author of books on that subject was Divine Science minister, Joseph Murphy.  Murphy teaches self-healing and manifestation through the power of visualization and focused thought and feeling.  Stafford followed Murphy’s teachings.  She decided she wanted to win $112 million.  Heeding Murphy’s advice, she wrote the figure “$112 million” over and over.  She meditated on it.  She imagined how excited she would be once the money finally came into her life.

Four months of obsessive focus later, she stopped and let go. “Once you’re in the flow of the energy,” she says, “it’s going to happen.”  In May 2007, Stafford won $112 million in California’s Megamillions lottery.

True story.

I’ve never read Dr. Murphy’s writings, but from quotes I’ve seen, his ideas are similar to those of Abraham and many other mind-power writers.  Dr. Murphy says the healing presence of God is within each one of us and with focused direction, it can heal the mind, body, and life situations of “all disease and impediments.”

Here are his steps for tapping into this energy:

1. Don’t be afraid of “the manifest condition,” i.e., accept what is
2. Realize all current conditions are only the product of past thinking
3. Celebrate the power of God (nonphysical energy) that lies within you, i.e. own that power

Dr. Murphy says, “Live in the embodiment of your desire, and your thought and feeling will soon be made manifest.”

Abraham says you have to feel as if you have the thing that you want to have.  You must be it before you can become it or have it.  Since we want what we want because it will make us happy, we must be happy now if we want to get what we want.

Cynthia Stafford is the shining example that odds don’t mean anything.  Your intention is what matters.  What do you intend today?

I intend, as I have since Sunday, to find reasons to feel good.

Note:  I am now writing and sharing videos about manifesting our desires at Up From Splat, my new blog.  I would love for you to join the fun on that site!

Related Posts:

This Lottery Thing

Abraham-Hicks & The Lottery

Attracting Lottery Jackpots

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