We are on the brink of significant change on this planet and every light beacon (that means You) is needed to to lighten the imposed darkness, and shift the global energy towards a community of intentional and conscious creation.
I’ve been listening to a lot of Abraham-Hicks lately, who’s focus is “The Law of Attraction” (TLoA).
“You get what you focus upon” is the main message of TLoA and this concept is not dissimilar from “what goes around, comes around” or “you go where you look”.
Our feelings are potent indicators of where we are focusing our thoughts.
If it’s really a universal “law”, why can’t we just “change our focus” and have our world, and all that we desire, magically “fall into place”? Because, unlike the “law of gravity”, the Law of Attraction operates through the Quantum Field, which requires our conscious awareness. Largely, we are unaware of our focus, let alone what we are even thinking about. To understand how to consciously create our lives, we need to recognize where we are placing our energy.
Abraham-Hicks shares a powerful message: our feelings are potent indicators of where we are focusing our thoughts. In a nutshell, Abraham calls our emotions our “guidance system”, and when we are out of alignment with our higher selves, and we are thinking habitually painful thoughts, we feel negative emotions which, by TLoA, attracts more negative thoughts and hence painful emotions.
There’s an unspoken assumption that we can “simply control our thoughts”
What seems to be left out of TLoA equation is how to manage our own minds.
Over the past few years, this has become a tricky awareness for me. Sometimes I can become so enmeshed in my habits of thought that I don’t even recognize where I am pointing my own mind. These habitual thoughts have become so “automatic pilot”, that they fly under my radar, and I’m virtually unaware that I’m even thinking thoughts at all. There’s just a constant stream of internal chatter, like having the TV on while you’re working, and I don’t stop to notice what I’m thinking… until I notice that my feelings have begun a downward spiral.
It becomes a vicious circle of painful thoughts, leading to bad feelings, leading to more painful thoughts and round I go, feeling trapped in an endless loop.
How do we start to recognize which thoughts are leading to the hopeless feelings? On one level, it seems like a weird question. We are in our thoughts, right? We are thinking them, aren’t we? What could be so difficult about recognizing them?
Recognizing our thoughts requires that we slow down long enough to look within.
We’ve got to slow down, pause, and look within. This shift requires that we check in with our Inner Observer. This Observer is that part of us that is capable of being somewhat detached; it can notice what we are doing and feeling. Remember, we are not our thoughts or feelings, but rather we experience, and often feel victim to them… and sometimes, when we stop to look, we can observe them.
When feeling blue, or out of sorts, my in-the-moment perceived “thoughts” like: “I feel confused, overwhelmed, despair…”, “I feel bad, sad, lost, pain…” are actually “feelings”, right?
Here’s the bit that sometimes happens so quickly that it goes unnoticed. There’s a thought/belief that precipitated these feelings. My thought/belief might have been: “I’m not good enough.” Or “I am not enough.” Or “I’m going to be abandoned.” This thought then unleashes the feelings in response which well up in my chest and overwhelm my mind, heart and spirit until nothing else seems real, or important.
What do I do when I find myself there? I need to ferret out and catch the thought!
Whenever possible, I’ve got to catch the painful thought the moment it surfaces and find the nearest, best possible alternative thought I can.
Catch the thought before it stops You
I’ll use myself as an example:
As we know I’m a writer. I get an idea, and I sit down to write. Suddenly, I feel crappy, and have a hard time starting. That might be the end of the “writing session” as I propel myself out of my chair and go do something else. Why do I suddenly feel shitty and like I don’t want to bother? This is when I need to stop myself and take a closer look. What just happened? What am I feeling? Inadequate. (If any of you follow Human Design, that’s Gate 48 in spades). What triggered that feeling? I had a thought that went something like “nobody is going to read this, so why waste my time?” And that’s the tricky bit. I wasn’t fully aware that I just had that thought, I just felt like I didn’t want to write, despite my triggering idea! It was the feeling that clued me into the thought that precipitated it.
One thing my inner Observer will often do right away is ask (à la Byron Katie) “is that thought true?” If I can’t honestly answer with a resounding “Yes!” then it’s time to reach for the best, true alternate thought I can find.
My thought sequence could be: does it matter whether anyone reads this or not? I feel complete within myself when I write. There is a deep well inside of me that wants to share what I’ve learned through experience so that if even one other person is helped by my writing, then I have performed a service. Not to mention, I’ve fulfilled my creative instinct.
And there I’ve found two possible, good feeling thoughts: 1) I feel complete in myself when I write, and 2) “if even one other person is helped by my writing, then I have performed a service.”
Your sequence might go something like this. Let’s say you’re an artist. You have the desire: “I wish I could make a wonderful living creating art”. For whatever historical reason from your past, that desire immediately triggers the thought/belief neural pathway, “I’m not good enough” which then leads to feeling despair.
Cheerful stuff, right? But stay with me here, there’s a positive outcome in all of this.
How to get off this merry-go-round of self-defeating thought? STOP.
If your habit of thought is “I’m not good enough”, you cannot attract the manifestation of your desire to make a living creating art, because your daily focus is on the belief of your personal lack! Remember, we get what we focus upon. From our example, if you’ve been focusing on the belief that you are not “good enough” this is out of alignment with what you’re wanting (to create art) so you feel awful and you continue to get more of that feeling as the thoughts perpetuate the feelings.
How to get off this merry-go-round of self-defeating thought? STOP and find a thought where the opposite is actually true. If the thought is, “I’m not good enough”, consider what piece of your art is good? What piece of art have you have created that expressed precisely, or as closely as possible, your intended message? Go there in your mind’s eye. See that work of art. See yourself creating it. Remember what it felt like when you recognized that you were on the brink of, or actually succeeding in, expressing your unique message, and know that the more you practice your craft, the closer you will get to its fullest expression. By allowing there is some beauty, some unique expression of You, you have already created, you can begin to turn the thought around.
Manifesting with TLoA requires that we re-train our brains, by re-training our feelings, to feel into the space that lines up with what we are creating/desiring.
Manifesting with TLoA requires that we re-train our brains and it starts by observing our thoughts.
I believe that every one of us struggles with living in the Luminance of our conscious creation because, unwittingly, our minds become trapped in our day-to-day habits of thought. Our cultures, our families & friends, the media, feed us a constant stream of suggested thought, and we must be mindful of choosing what we allow to influence us.
By consciously catching and shifting our own thoughts, as often and as consistently as we can to the vibration of what we are desiring, we create new habits of thought which, person by person, shifts the global awareness moment, by moment, by moment.
Remember… Always Infinite Possibilities, Always Your Choice.
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