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.

Life Is Good

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.

She Won The Lottery On Purpose

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.