The Secret Is Wags

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

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

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

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

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“Seeing is a believing.” Most people live by this cliché.

Of course, anyone who understands the law of attraction knows the opposite is true: “Believing is seeing.”

I’ve known for a long time that believing in an outcome is important to achieving the outcome; but in the past, I’ve had trouble developing the beliefs I need to achieve what I want.

Years ago, I attended a week long self-improvement seminar that focused on drilling through your past to find your dominant “story,” the one belief about yourself that impacts everything you do.  The belief I found (and it wasn’t difficult—it was lying right on the surface) was “I’m not good enough.”

I’m not going to rehash all the reasons I developed that belief about myself.  Why would I want to go back and activate a vibration around all sorts of negative stuff?  But that is the belief I carried around for a very, very long time.  And it’s a belief that creeps back in from time to time, like the occasional bug that manages to get past an exterminators’ chemicals.

My book shelves used to be stuffed with self-help books designed to help you ferret out your limiting beliefs and patterns.  All these books—I’m talking literally hundreds of them—asserted that if you can find your “core beliefs,” your “imprints,” or your “self-repeating patterns” (and other similar catchy names), you can change them and transform your life.  Every one of these books was usually full of helpful programs or systems or exercises that were supposed to excavate the crud in your psyche and clean it up.

Before I bought all those books, I paid thousands to a therapist who was supposed to help me do that too. She too had plans and tasks that were supposed to change my old beliefs.

If I were to total up all the hours I’ve spent making lists, writing out old memories, repeating affirmations, doing meditations and visualizations, and journaling about belief systems, they’d probably fill a whole year of my life.  And did I ever get rid of my old beliefs?

Some of them, yes.

Am I a transformed person? Somewhat, yes.

Did this process make my life all wonderful?

No.

So what am I going to do with all these beliefs that may still be holding me back?

I’m going to ignore them.

Abraham-Hicks says, “If your desire is strong enough, it doesn’t matter what your beliefs are. If you have a desire that is strong enough, that desire will be the dominant vibration, and it will over-ride any other vibration that you have.”

It doesn’t matter what your beliefs are.  Wow.  I wish I’d known that before I invested in all that therapy and those books and workshops.  But that’s okay.  All those experiences provided contrast that showed me what I truly want.

What do I want?

I want to be happy without all kinds of work attached to it.

Self improvement can turn into a job unto itself.  I believe we shouldn’t have to work so hard to be okay.

And we don’t have to.

I have finally come to understand that the old beliefs, the old patterns, the old imprints are irrelevant if we follow Abraham-Hicks’ most basic teaching:  find reasons to feel good.

You don’t have to go looking for negative beliefs if you’re paying attention to how you feel.  If you start feeling bad, you can be pretty sure that some negative belief has erupted from within and is guiding your thoughts.  Why bother to drill for the things if they’re going to jump out and wave their arms around right in front of your nose?

Let’s say you have moles in your backyard.  You used to drill down into the earth to throw in smoke bombs or poison or bleach or whatever other mole-killing concoction you heard about.  Then some very smart person told you about a vibrational sensor you had built into your lawn.  This sensor goes off every time a mole is creating another dirt mountain on your grass.  All you have to do is go out there and redirect the mole.

Wouldn’t that be handy?

Well, we have such a sensor for our industrious old beliefs and negative thought patterns.  Abraham-Hicks calls it our emotional guidance system.  It is absolutely fool proof.  When we’ve activated a negative belief or thought, we feel bad.  All we have to do is find a thought that feels better.

Simple.

Picture that robot in Lost In Space flailing its mechanical arms about:  “Warning! Warning! Danger, Will Robinson!”

Who needs a drill when you have a helpful robot?

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The lecture was supposed to be about beachcombing, which is one of my passions.

Tim and I joined our friends, Kathy and Lyn, for a talk given by Alan, a man who knows all about the critters and flotsam and jetsam that land on our beaches. I settled in, all ready to hear about glass floats and shells.

Alan starts talking about a novel, The Highest Tide, by Jim Lynch. One of the characters in the book, he said, was based on him. He went on to say that the book, Lynch’s first novel, sold over a million copies and is now being turned into a movie.

I started feeling very, very pissy.

I’m pretty attuned to my emotional guidance system.

(The emotional guidance system, if you don’t know the term, is what Abraham-Hicks calls your emotions. Your emotions are the way you know whether you are in alignment with your nonphysical self, your inner self, or what some call your higher self.  When you feel good, you’re aligned. When you don’t, you aren’t.)

I know when I’m feeling good, and I’m immediately aware of when I start feeling bad. I’m also getting very good at finding the thought that made me feel bad.

So when I started feeling pissy at the lecture, I immediately knew what I was thinking: Why haven’t I had success like that with my books? I am so ANGRY that that kind of success is possible and it hasn’t found me yet. I don’t even have an agent anymore. My first book should have done better. Etc, etc.

What I was feeling was the relative position of where I was compared with where my nonphysical self is.

My nonphysical self is aligned with me being a hugely successful author. My nonphysical self has become the vibrational equivalent of a bestselling author with a million sales.

I was feeling pissy because my thoughts were light years (in terms of vibration) from what my nonphysical self knew to be true and had become.

When I feel pissy about my writing, it feels really, really, really, really (are you getting this?) BAD.

Why?

Because I really, really, really, really want to be a bestselling author with over a million books sold. I’ve wanted it for a very long time.

This means that my energy has been flowing in that direction for a long time. That flow is powerful and fast.

When I have thoughts that are contrary to what I want, the contrast between what I want and what I think I can have is what makes me feel so miserable.

It helps me to be aware of this.

I didn’t clean up my thoughts last night (I was having too much fun feeling pissy—at least it wasn’t frustration and despair—it was anger, which is higher on the emotional scale).

But I cleaned them up today. Tim helped me with that.

A couple days ago, I got my weekly update on YA placements to editors. It included the announcement of a $1,000,000 deal for a debut YA series. When I saw that, I got really, really pissy.

Do you see a pattern here?

Today, Tim pointed out that hearing about great success for debut books twice in a few days could be an indicator that my own coming success as a debut YA author (I’ve had an adult novel published but not YA).

I tried out that thought.

Yeah, that felt really good.

It is odd to hear about that kind of success (it’s rare) twice in a few days. Maybe this is the universe telling me I’m heading toward it.

Of course, I can head toward it if I think more thoughts that feel good.

So I’m moving from pissy to hopeful.

Hopeful isn’t the exuberant expectation I need to fully line up with the success I want. But it’s an improvement.

And I’m going to keep looking for better feeling thoughts about this.

What about you? Are you listening to your emotional guidance system?

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