The Emotional Guidance Scale - The Key to Your Success

When I was at the Asheville workshop, one of the segments was about how Esther got to the very bottom of the scale with issues surrounding the Secret (It was actually a NY Times reporter that got her that very uncomfortable low.) Knowing what she does about the Law of Attraction, she knew that the only thing she could do was reach for a better feeling thought. In her case, she started at the very bottom in despair and reached for revenge and played with that emotion for a little while. It felt so much better to her to be in revenge than in despair. When her images and thoughts of revenge didn’t feel like relief anymore, she reached for another emotion that was further up the scale. Abraham said she found the revenge thoughts funny after a while because it was very much not in line with who she is. She made the conscious attempt to go up the scale, bit by bit, until her vibration around the issue had changed to a more positive one, closer to who she really is vibrationally.

Where ever your emotional set point is, you will attract things into your experience that match the dominate vibration you are giving out. If you are feeling really bad, there is no way you can get those things that you really want. They don’t match in vibration. If you can take small steps to get to a better feeling thought, you will be turning in the stream and heading back downstream to where everything you have put into vibrational escrow is.

In your moving yourself up the Emotional Scale

“In your moving yourself up the Emotional Scale, your business will begin to prosper in new and profound ways! Your business, your relationships, your finances cannot grow beyond your emotional response—nothing can grow beyond your emotional response. Everything matches your Set-point of emotions on every subject that exists.”

Excerpted from the workshop in Tampa, FL on Saturday, December 6th, 2003 - CD - 2003/12/06 Tampa, FL, Part A

So, what is this Vibrational Scale that Abraham is so emphatic about?

The Vibrational Scale is a list of feelings and emotions that you can aspire to from where you are. It is a map showing you how to get into a more positive vibration. In most cases, you can’t go from Despair to Joy, unless croaking is involved. Croaking is Abraham’s pet phrase for the experience of death. So what you can do, instead of trying to make a quantum leap from really bad to really good feeling thoughts, is to take smaller, easier steps up the ladder to feelings that give you relief.

What you need to do is identify how you are feeling and try to find thoughts that feel better. The emotional scale below lists where the feelings lie on the scale. For example, if you are feeling DESPAIR about something in your life, you could probably find feelings of ANGER about the situation that you are experiencing. Anger is one of those feelings that society frowns upon because it has a tendency to make people feel uncomfortable but if you are in despair, anger is a relief giving emotion. The goal is not to sit in the anger for long. You want to be there long enough to feel better from the place you were in while you were feeling despair.

It isn’t a linear progression. You don’t have to hit every rung on the scale to use the emotional scale to your advantage. You can skip several rungs and move closer and closer to the vibration that is rightfully yours, Joy. From Anger, you could make a jump to Blame or Worry and it would be going in the right direction and help you shift your dominant vibration.

It isn’t the easiest thing, at the beginning, to work your way up the emotional scale. We are creatures of habit and have a tendency stay in the same thought pattern rut. With conscious effort, you will find that, in time, it becomes easier and easier. I’m still working on this and will always be doing so. I am trying to commit the Emotional Scale to memory so I can have a reference point to help me choose the next logical emotion in the right direction. It will also help me be more understanding of those around me as they reach for better feeling thoughts. It is difficult to deal with Anger in my space if I don’t realize that it is an attempt to leave despair and feelings of unworthiness behind.

You will never reach the place…

“You will never reach the place where you will not need to be diligent about your choice of thought. Because you live in a world that is determined to show you every pocket of despair. So you must diligently choose. But it gets easier and easier and easier to do so. Right now, it may feel to you like those moments of Connection are the rare ones. There will be a time when those moments of Connection will feel so normal that it will shock you when you get into a place of disconnection.”

Excerpted from the workshop in San Antonio, TX on Saturday, November 24th, 2001 - CD 2001/11/24 San Antonio, TX

In my search for relevant quotes about this topic, I have come up with a list of very useful resources where your emotional set-point and the vibrational scale are concerned.

Reach - The Law of Attraction Game
The Emotional Meter & The Set Point Process

Abraham Gems
Emotional Journey from Fear to Hope
Make Peace With Where You Are
It’s All About Vibrational Relativity
Vibrations, It’s All About Vibrations
A Simple Choice: Which Thought Feels Best?
Take the Emotional Journey First
Life Without Contrast Is Life Without Fulfillment

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