Process #22: Moving Up the Emotional Scale – Ask and It Is Given

Sometimes, circumstances have you focusing on the lower end of the emotional scale. Process #22, Moving Up The Emotional Scale, may be of help to you when it appears that there is no way things will ever look better.

Abraham suggests that the lower levels of the Emotional Guidance Scale can benefit greatly from this process. Personally, I find it valuable even in the middle range of the scale.

Situations that can cause this low end vibrational focusing include a loved one dieing or leaving your experience, experiencing unexpected crisis or serious illness (in yourself or loved ones), or anything that happens that feels like you have been knocked off your feet. There are many other variations of these circumstances the feeling that you are powerless will have you vacillating between anger and powerlessness.

Once you have found your place on the emotional scale, your work is to try to find thoughts that give you a slight feeling of relief from the emotion you are feeling. A process of talking out loud or writing down your thoughts will give you the best reading of the way you are feeling. As you make statements with the deliberate intention of inducing an emotion that gives you a slight feeling of relief, you will begin to release resistance, and you will be able to move up the vibrational scale to a place of feeling much better. Remember, an improved feeling means a releasing of resistance, and a releasing of resistance means a greater state of allowing what you really want.

So, using the emotional scale, and beginning with where you are, look at the emotion that is just about where you believe you are, and try to fashion some words that lead you more into a slightly less resistant emotional state of being.

Ask and It Is Given – pg. 298

I know I have been caught in the low end holding pattern in this past year. It isn’t a pretty feeling. Doom and gloom was a cloud that followed me around until I was able to work myself up the emotional scale.

The purpose of this process isn’t for you to jump up the emotional guidance scale, but rather, to move you to a slightly better place up the scale.

Moving from powerlessness to rage is an improvement in the way you feel and DOES give you a feeling of relief. If you can ignore everyone around you who is telling you how inappropriate the rage is, you can then take another step forward, perhaps from rage to anger. The small steps are doable. If you listen to what others around you are saying about your “mood swings” then you could end up in a circular pattern which can bring you to anger and then back down to powerlessness.

In Ask and It Is Given, starting on page 299, Abraham uses the example of a woman whose father has died and is overcome with grief. Abraham gives example of the conscious statements that the woman can offer to improve the way she feels.

For example (there are 2 pages worth of examples and WELL worth the read so you can see how it flows),

I did everything I could think of doing to help my father, but it wasn’t enough. (Grief)

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I should have stayed right there so I could have told him good-bye. (Guilt)

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I was there day and night, day and night, and I still didn’t get to say good-bye. (Rage)

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She has seen many people die, and she should have warned me that it was close. (Anger)

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She gave him more medication than he needed just to make it easier for her. (Blame)

I wish I could have said good-bye. (Disappointment)

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I’ve been neglecting so many things in my life; I need to regroup and get organized. (Overwhelment)

The health-care professionals are insensitive to the families of sick and dying people. (Frustration)

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I know that in time I’ll get to feeling better. (Positive Expectation)

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I do appreciate all of those people who have cared for my father and mother. (Appreciation)

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He’s in a place where sadness doesn’t exist. (Knowledge)

That is truly a wonderful place to be. (Joy)

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Ask and It Is Given, pages 299-303

Remember, you do not have access to emotions that are far from where you are currently vibrating. Although you may spend an entire day beating the drum of the emotion where you are, on the next day, try to establish a different set-point even if it is only a slight improvement.

If the negative emotion you are feeling is slight, you will quickly move up the emotional scale. If the negative emotion you are feeling has begun only recently, you will quickly move up the emotional scale. If you are experiencing something extremely serious, or it is something that you have been living with for many years, it is conceivable that you could spend 22 days moving up this emotional scale, each day deliberately choosing the improved emotion just above the one you are currently feeling. But 22 days from Powerlessness to Empowerment is not a long time at all when you compare it to people you know who have been in a state of Grief Insecurity, or Powerlessness for many years.

Ask and It Is Give – page 303

The journey up the Emotional Guidance Scale can seem daunting at first, but it really isn’t that bad. You just have to tune into how you are feeling and find just a little bit of relief in the thoughts you are thinking. Abraham is fond of saying that it always feels better to blame someone than to feel guilty. When you stop and think about it, you can FEEL the way blame feels better when you compare it to feeling guilty. Each step up the scale gives you back some of your power, even if it is just a little bit and that is relief.

In a previous post, I made the journey up the emotional scale in regards to my mother. It wasn’t something that was making me feel powerless, per say, but it was something that I had carried with me for a LONG time. When I pair my journey up the scale with EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), I found an immense amount of relief. It was very nice to be able to put that issue in the past where it belonged. My Experience with EFT and Abraham’s Emotional Scale

Extra Stuff

Connee Chandler offers an exercise in how to move up the emotional scale by imagining a 12 inch ruler.