by Lori Hamann http://www.lorihamann.com
Tonight
I tucked my little one into bed, and she said to me, "Mommy... I just can't
get last night's bad dream out of my head!"
She tossed and turned and whined a bit, seeking a bit of empathy from me. "Hmmm...you just need to start thinking about something else that makes you feel happy... like butterflies, or kittens, or playing with your brother." I said. "I just can't do it, I don't know how! She whines again.
The bad dream is in my head and it won't go away!"
The two of us went back and forth about it a bit more...I of course telling her she can think about what ever she chooses to, and she of course fighting for that last ounce of attention, holding onto that bad dream for all it's worth.
I am wondering if this scenario sounds familiar...
I am wondering if you can see yourself - yes your adult self - in this little scene? Here is what I mean. Life, has dished you up a heaping serving of something not so pleasant. Something that you would rather have done without. Perhaps your relationship is on the rocks, your car broke down, or you have new bill to pay. Your jobs sucks, you have a cold, and you are probably never getting married. Whatever the situation - we all have them.
How are you choosing to view these situations? What is your dominant thought? Your dominant feeling? How are you holding onto them, with your pattern of negative thought?
People often deal with negativity in life with just more negative thought.
You may observe
something that you don't like in your life, feel bad about it, mill it
around for awhile, and then you mill it around some more. You tell your
friends how bad it is...you lose sleep over "why" this is happening to
you in your life...and you are certain that no one has ever had it this
bad. You focus on all the negativity about a situation, you get swept up
in your negative feelings - and you feel trapped.
The Law of Attraction,as you know says, like attracts like. It says, what you focus on grows. It says you are a powerful magnet, and you pull into your experience that which you vibrate on an energetic level. So it would make sense that if you are choosing to hold onto negative feelings in your life, you are choosing to create even more negative experience. It would make sense that if you think life controls you, it will, you will get more things in your experience that are "out of your control." Life then just happens to you.
I can hear you saying - "But, I don't know HOW to have it be different. I want to create my life the way I desire, but I just can't. ...
Back to my
little story for a moment. So...I tell my little one that I am going to install a
little switch on her arm, right about at her shoulder, and all she needs to do
to help her get thinking about something that makes her feel good is "flip
the switch". She found a bit of joy in our game,
and she chose to flip the switch to "kittens"...and went to sleep. Simple
as that. And it is as simple as that for you too. You can choose to
flip the switch, and basically create a new reality - a new dream.
We have a tendency to walk around feeling like we are not at choice - we "know" we are at choice, but what we "feel" is like victim of circumstance, history, and yes even karma. Negativity can be a little addictive. It can get our needs for attention met. It can give us excuses and reasons, outside of ourselves, for not living and creating the life that we want. ...
Imagine trying to
get thin by focusing on how fat your are. .... What you want and what you are "vibrating"
(feeling) MUST be in alignment. Here is where choice comes in....
Understand this: YOU are the only creator of your life. ... When you are in a space of pure, positive energy,
this is your point of attraction, and your are literally a magnet for all good
things and desires in your life.
Today, is a new day.
Remember that your point of attraction is how you are feeling at any moment, its how you are feeling right now. Choose to operate in the now, and pay attention to how you are feeling. Choose to acknowledge yourself as the empowered creator that you are. Choose to "reach for a better thought" as Abraham-Hicks would say, and vibrate in alignment with what you want to attract in your life. Choose to flip that switch!
The challenge: Beginning today - start to pay attention to how you are feeling. If you are feeling bad, or negative, or resistance to something, stop, check in, and reach for a better thought. A happier thought, even a neutral thought, or a different topic all together if you have to.
...Nothing is more important than feeling good. This is most important to manifesting abundance in your life.
Lori Hamann © 2004
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