The Secret Is Wags

I’m not the only person gathering law of attraction evidence. Here are a couple great law of attraction evidence stories from readers:

A Bike

Stacey visualized herself riding a bike, which was something she did often a couple of years ago, and has been missing lately. Shortly after she began visualizing riding again, her friend called and asked if Stacey wanted her bike back. She had completely forgotten that her friend had it!

So often, we already have what we need. We just don’t think to look at what we already have.

Nepal

Another reader chatted with a cashier in a deli. She asked the cashier where he was from. He said he was from Nepal and talked a little of his people. She was intrigued and wanted to know more. She decided to google Nepal when she got home. But when she booted up her computer and checked her e-mail, she found the latest issue of her New York Times travel subscription. The main article in this issue? It was on Nepal, of course.

Notice that this woman never took action to get what she wanted, which was information on Nepal. Many law of attraction teachers, especially those featured in The Secret, say you have to take action to activate the law of attraction. Abraham-Hicks disagrees, and if you pay attention to law of attraction evidence, you see that Abraham-Hicks is right. Attracting what you desire is a mental journey, not a physical one.

Here are a couple more of my little bits of evidence:

Boone’s Wine (3/20/10)

Friday evening, when Tim and I were sitting by a beach fire chatting with our friends, Lyn and Kathy, we talked about alcohol and drinking. Tim doesn’t drink, so Lyn and Kathy were asking him if he ever did. Of course, he doesn’t remember, but he’d told me before his memory wipe that he tried it twice when he was in the Army and wasn’t impressed.

Lyn, Kathy, and I then started talking about things we drank in college. We were reminiscing about bad wine, and Lyn mentioned Boone’s Farm apple wine.

Last night, Tim and I watched the movie, Juno. At one point, one of the characters mentions Boone’s wine.

I haven’t thought about Boone’s Farm wine in years and years, and there was a reference twice in two days.

Beaver (3/21/10)

Tim was watching golf. On the TV, Padraig Harrington was putting. Tim said, “There’s your favorite beaver.” Padraig (and if he ever reads this, I don’t mean this with any malice) looks very much like a cute beaver when he concentrates on a shot because of the way he bares his front upper teeth.

We were playing Scrabble at the time. Tim took his turn. I looked down at my letters, and guess what six of them spelled? B-E-A-V-E-R.

This, I’m discovering, is what it’s like to be in what Abraham-Hicks calls the vortex. It’s a magical place here.

And the better we feel, the better we feel. And the more evidence we see, the more evidence we get.

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In Money, and the Law of Attraction—Learning to Attract Wealth, Health & Happiness, Jerry Hicks says that he often hears people talk about wanting to win a lottery. Abraham’s response to this is, “If their expectation were in a place that would allow it, then that could be a way for money to come to them. But most know the odds against that, and so their expectation for winning the lottery is not in a powerful place….”

For two and half years, Tim has been more than expecting to win a lottery. He KNOWS he will. He has an absolutely unshakable knowing that he has a big lottery win in his vibrational escrow.

When people mention the odds to him, he looks at them calmly and says, “The odds are irrelevant. It’s about my vibrational alignment.”

Throughout the last few  months when I’ve been steadfastly putting my attention on what I don’t want (to run out of money), Tim has been calmly, contentedly going through his days acting as relaxed as a person with all the money he needs in the bank.

Yes, he gets annoyed from time to time. He gets caught up in the what is of little things like computer problems or broken household appliances or Ducky’s enthusiastic, mischievous puppyhood. But most of the time, he’s cool.

So am I happy about him being happy?

Why wouldn’t I be?

Well …..

I have this little problem with his happiness.

I’ve been gnawing at this problem for several months now. It doesn’t taste very good.

My problem is this:

If Tim KNOWS he’s going to win a big lottery and he feels good, isn’t he in the Vortex, aligned with his nonphysical self? And if he is in the Vortex, aligned with his nonphysical self, how did he manage to manifest all of our debt and our financial mess?

It makes no sense to me that someone who feels like a rich lottery winner would be attracting what he’s attracted.

Drives me nuts.

Whenever I start finding a feel good place, reaching for thoughts that make me feel better and better and better, this one nagging thought careens through my good thoughts, blasting them aside like a heavy bowling ball plowing into the pins: “But if feeling good is how you bring your desires into your life, why isn’t Tim closer to what he wants?”

Every week or two, I ask him, “Are you SURE you feel as good as you say you do?”

My wonderful husband … he heaves a little sigh, just to acknowledge that we’ve been here before and he doesn’t like it here very much, and he says, “I’m sure.”

“But if you feel so good, why are we rich?” I fling at him.

“I feel rich,” he says. “And our riches are coming.”

Yes, I do see what I’m doing. I’m taking stock of where we are, which is what Abraham-Hicks says NOT to do.

But … they also say that you can tell how aligned you are by what’s coming into your life.

I’m baffled by what seems to me to be a contradiction. Aren’t you taking stock when you notice what’s coming into your life (or not coming)?

So last night, I was bugging Tim with our bi-weekly “Are you sure…” conversation, and this thought popped into my head: “I haven’t stuck with tenaciously finding reasons to feel good because I harbor doubts that doing so will bring what I desire into my life. How silly is that? Why not tenaciously feel good just because it feels good and see what happens? Why not ignore what Tim is doing (I’ve resolved to do this before but didn’t stick to the resolve)?”

This thought felt very good. So that’s what I’m doing.

When my thoughts turn to why Tim hasn’t won yet, I can feel the shift in my energy. My new project (which I think I’m going to chew on even more than my old problem) is to turn it back to finding a reason to feel good.

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I first learned about “being present” when I was in therapy in my twenties.  My therapist liked to tell me to “be present” to my feelings.  She told me to face my anger, my fear, my shame, my depression.  She, and all the self-help authors whose books I read, advised me to be present to my pain.

A few years later, a friend told me I HAD to read Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now. I did.  More confirmation that I had to “be in the moment.”

I was never all that good at being in the moment.  I didn’t like feeling pain, so I ate to avoid it.  I did try to learn to sit and be present, though.  I managed to do it off and on.

About the time I broke my ankle and leg and was confined to bed, Eckhart Tolle came out with another book:  A New Earth:  Awakening To Your Life’s Purpose. Oprah had an online series of interviews with Eckhart to go chapter by chapter through the book.  With nothing else to do, I watched the series.  And I tried to be present to the extraordinary physical pain I was in.  I tried to be present to being stuck in bed.  When my injury left me with permanent pain and restricted range of motion (according to doctors—but give me some feeling good time—maybe that will change), I tried to be present to it.

But then I started thinking about what Abraham-Hicks say:  if we don’t feel good, we’re not in alignment with our Nonphysical selves, and when we’re not in alignment (not in the “Vortex”), we are not attracting what we want into our lives.

So why was I spending all that time being present to stuff I didn’t like?

A couple days ago, this was the Abraham-Hicks daily quote:

“People say, ‘If I’m always setting goals and reaching for the future, then am I not squandering my now?’ And we say if in your now you’re using a future event to make you feel good, you are still feeling good in your now. And that’s the best use of now that you could ever find.”

This makes sense.  It makes much more sense than being present to everything.  Why not be present to what is good and spend the rest of the time being present to what will be good?

That’s what I’m choosing to do now.  I’m starting to live my life more like I write fiction.  When I’m writing a novel, I pick the highlights of the setting I’m describing and put my focus on those highlights.  No one wants to read a blow-by-blow list of details about a place.  Readers want just a sense of the place, enough to bring the scene to life, but not so much that the action gets bogged down.  So as a writer, you decide what you’re going to focus on.  You put your spotlight on aspects of the setting that capture it in the most interesting and intriguing ways.

Why not live life like that?  Why not put my spotlight on something that makes me feel good?  I can leave everything else in the dark.

With all due respect to my old therapist and all those self-help authors, there’s no point in being present to things that keep me out of alignment.  No wonder I was miserable for so many years.  I was present to all that crap, so I kept creating more crap.

No more.

I’m present to feeling good.  When I don’t feel good, I’m future—I’m in a place that feels good.  That’s where alignment is.  That’s what will allow the law of attraction to bring me the things I want.

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Let’s see if I can throw out the fast food version of the Abraham-Hicks teachings as I understand them:

The universe is made of energy (quantum physicists confirm this).  We are all energy.  I’m energy.  I, like you and everyone else, came form from a stream of nonphysical energy, and I placed a small portion of that energy into this physical body.  As soon as I took physical form, I began interacting with my world and responding to it.  When I saw something I liked, I’d think, “I like that, I want that,” and the nonphysical part of me became what I wanted vibrationally.

In other words, everything in the universe has a vibration (quantum physicists confirm this too—if you want to know more about that—check out my next post about the zero point field.)  The way things are created in our universe is by matching vibrations.  Like vibrations attract like vibrations, hence, the law of attraction.  Your thoughts have a vibration.  They attract matching vibrational experiences.

So where do emotions fit?

Emotions tell you if what you’re thinking is a vibrational match to what the greater part of you, the nonphysical part of you, has become vibrationally.  If you feel good, you’re a match.  You’re aligned with your nonphysical being.  Abraham now calls this alignment The Vortex.  You’re in The Vortex if you feel good, satisfied, appreciative, loving, joyful etc.  If you’re not feeling good, you’re not in The Vortex—you’re not aligned with the nonphysical part of you.  In other words, if you’re not in The Vortex, you’re not moving toward what you want, or rather, it’s not moving toward you.

Abraham says it’s as easy to create a castle as it is a button.  Everything is possible.  The only things we haven’t yet created are those we don’t fully know are possible, those with which we haven’t yet aligned.

Emotions are your “guidance system,” your nonphysical self (inner being, higher self, God) telling you if you’re on track or not.  Feel good = on track.  Feel bad = heading for something you do not want.

Abraham has a lot of techniques for feeling good, or more accurately, feeling a little better, then a little better, then a little better.  They admit that you can’t get from despair to joy most of the time.  But you can move up the “emotional scale.”  You can go from despair to anger and from anger to optimism and from optimism to belief and from belief to joy.  They say the work is to “get easy.”  Find a thought that feels better than the thought you’re feeling right now.

We are deliberate focusers, they say.  We can think our way into the life we want.

The problem with most of us is that we don’t pay attention to what we’re thinking, how we feel.

Hence the failure of most of us to take advantage of the law of attraction.

Over the last several months, I’ve become a keen observer of focus.  Mind you, I haven’t been a keen practitioner of it, but I’m all over watching it.  I see how people focus in on what’s bothering them, what makes them angry, what’s wrong in their lives and the world.  Even people who claim to known and understand the law of attraction will lead with thoughts or comments about something they don’t like and don’t want.

Just recently, I received a communication from an author who teaches that we create our reality with our thoughts.  She knows the value of focus and paying attention to the way we want to the world to be.  Even so, she talked about her frustrations with self publishing and how the publishing world is in a bad way these days.

Mind you, I’m not judging her.  I do the same thing.

I know my thought and focus create, and yet, I complain with the best of them.

Abraham says that as long as you keep focusing on what is, you’ll get more of what is.  If someone is doing something wrong and you point it out, they’ll do more of it or more like it.  If a person is annoying, you have to find something good about them.  Focus on what’s right, and that will grow.  Focus on what’s wrong, and the wrong goes on and on and on and on.

Abraham-Hicks have a seemingly endless number of CDs, DVDs, and books, which could leave you with the impression that all of this is difficult, complicated stuff.  I haven’t listened to, watched, or read everything Abraham-Hicks has available, but I’ve heard, seen, or read much of it, and I’m finally getting that it comes done to one basic principle.

Feel good, get good things in your life.

And how do you feel good?

Abraham has a lot of ideas, such as:

1. Find something in your life that pleases you.
2. Visualize something that you want (if thinking about what you want makes you feel good, this works—if it makes you feel longing for what you don’t have, this won’t work)
3. Talk about thinks you like or want.
4. Deliberately look for better thoughts when the thoughts you have are making you feel lousy.
5. Play expectant games like, “Wouldn’t it be lovely if … (fill in with something you want).

It all comes down to that bottom line:  feel genuinely good and get good.

The universe, Abraham says, knows what you want as soon as you desire something.  You don’t need to keep restating what you want.  You just need to match up with it by feeling good.

Abraham warns that the whole point here is the point of attraction, the vibration.  You may say you’re feeling good, or you may be doing something to try and make yourself feel good, but if you don’t TRULY feel good, it won’t work.

You can’t pretend to feel good.  Acting happy and perky when you feel lousy doesn’t do it.

Trying to convince yourself of something you don’t believe doesn’t do it.

I think this is why that 4 months I thought I was so happy didn’t result in the lottery win or grand book idea.

I recently stumbled into a message board for people who study Abraham.  One woman said she was beginning to wonder that feeling good when things were bad was just deluding yourself.  She felt tense about it.  The responses to her post pointed out that if she truly was appreciating what she had, she wouldn’t be feeling like she was deluding herself.

In other words, if you aren’t comfortable with the belief that appreciating what you have and thinking/talking about what you want isn’t what it takes to get what you want, then you’re not really feeling good.  You’re tense, anxious or hesitant.

I think that’s where I was in the fall of 2007.  I was happy with my day to day activities, but underlying that happiness was the nagging fear that I shouldn’t have been “playing hooky” from my work.  I wasn’t aligned with the belief that I was doing the right thing.

I remember I spent quite a bit of time surfing the net, looking for evidence that you could create a lottery on purpose.  I never really found any.  Since then, I have read of a winner who claims to have done it on purpose—more on her later.

I think my broken ankle from the months before I decided to stop working a business I hated.  In those months, I remember often thinking that all I wanted to do was stop, lie down and not have to get up for awhile.  I was SO tired and wanted to escape from the world.

Damn, I’m a powerful creator!  Poof.  One fluke broken ankle and sprained ankle to land me in bed for six weeks.  I got exactly what I wanted.  Too bad I wasn’t specific about what I wanted.

I’d forgotten that I do have that kind of power.  I’ll tell you how good, but first, a few words about the zero point field.

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