Tell It Like It Isn’t

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.

When You Hate Anything, You Hate Yourself

Do you want the science behind the power of the mind?  Check out The Field:  The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe by Lynne McTaggart.  The book is about the zero point field, so-called because vibrational fluctuations in the field of all energy are still detectable in temperatures of absolute zero, which is the lowest possible energy state.

In this state, there should be no energy left because no more can be removed.  But there’s always some residual vibration due to virtual particle exchange.  Scientists discounted this vibration for years because it was always present.  In physics equations, physicists would subtract out the zero-point energy.  They called this process ‘renormalization.’  Their reasoning was that because the vibration was always present, it didn’t change anything and therefore didn’t count.  Seems a little cavalier to me, but there you go.

The zero point field turns out to be kind of important.  Think about it.  If you have all this energy, all the subatomic particles in constant flux, what you have is an inexhaustible energy force, a sort of supercharged link between all things.

The zero point field suggests that all matter in the universe is interconnected by subatomic waves that are spread out connecting one part of the universe to every other part.  Scientists now realize this field could be the explanation for all kinds of phenomenon previously unexplainable, such as the Chinese belief in chi, telepathy, and other psychic phenomenon.  It’s also why your mind can impact the world around you.

It’s also why anything you feel about something outside yourself is what you feel about yourself.  We’re all connected.  We’re all one energy.

Abraham Says

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.