Archive for September, 2008

Monday mornings are usually quite drama filled. My boys spend all weekend long playing video games with occasional forays out into the back yard. I am very okay with their self directed activities. Everyone is happy so I’m good

When Monday morning comes, the realization that they have a week of teacher directed activities really causes quite the uproar. SJ (8) usually starts out really pissy, looking for reasons to be overly dramatic. Surprise, surprise – he finds reasons all over the place. Law of attraction is great that way!

This morning, the boys were getting their last rush on video gaming, before we had to leave for school, and intensely irritating each other in the process. Eventually the teasing and taunting turned into a pummel fest with both of them running my direction. I decided video games were done for the morning and basically yelled at them to go find something else to do.

Don’t know what I was thinking, but adding to the fire only served to create a bigger fire. SJ then went into dramatic overdrive and basically cussed me out, kid style.

Before he went stomping up the stairs to his room, he was yelling at me saying what a horrible mom I was. To punctuate his feelings about me, at that moment, he ended his tirade by yelling “You’re ugly and have a big butt!!”.

His brother, JD (6), was standing beside me at the time and was looking VERY shocked at the outburst while looking at me to see what my reaction would be. Much to SJ’s intense irritation, I burst out laughing! JD looked relieved and then rolled his eyes announcing “Dramatica!”.

JD does his own sort of Dramatica about school, but that needs a post of it’s own.

You don’t have to go back and deal with childhood issues, because those childhood issues produced a vibration within you that you are still offering — which is producing today issues. You can shift your vibration a whole lot easier when you’re dealing with today issues, than trying to deal with childhood issues. It’s the same vibration. That vibration that was creating childhood issues, now it’s creating today issues. Deal with it in your now. “Which thought feels better? Which thought feels better? Which thought feels better?”

Excerpted from a workshop in San Diego, CA on Saturday, July 31st, 1999

From the Works of Abraham-Hicks

Uncertainty … is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom. Uncertainty means stepping into the unknown in every moment of our existence. The unknown is the field of all possibilities, ever fresh, ever new, always open to the creation of new manifestations. Without uncertainty and the unknown, life is just the stale repetition of outworn memories. You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday.

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success – Deepak Chopra

I’ve been meaning to write up this post for QUITE a while now. Lyman’s post today, has spurred me on to finally do it.

Affirmations. Everyone knows about them. They sound like a great idea, but how many of us actually stick with it and see measurable results? Not many is my guess. When you don’t have something and you say, over and over again, that “I am” something that you are not, it just doesn’t feel right after a while.

It goes something like:

“Money comes to me easily and effortlessly.”

and then your brain pipes up:

“What about all these bills?”
“Nothing has changed.”
“This isn’t working.”

and so on.

When I went to the Andy Dooley workshop a while back, one of the things that he talked about was 2 magic words, beginning and becoming.

Just tweaking your affirmations, a small bit, with the addition of one or both of these words, makes them so much more palatable. Your brain doesn’t squawk nearly as much as it does when you are affirming something that currently isn’t your reality.

For example:

If you are having money issues, saying “Money comes to me easily and effortlessly.” doesn’t mean diddly squat and most likely just ramps up your vibration about the lack you are currently experiencing.

But, if you say “Money is beginning to come to me easily and effortlessly”, it feels like it is a process in the right direction. It feels better than making an absolute statement that, at the moment, is not true.

Let’s say you are trying to build up your self-esteem. Saying “I am confident in social situations” warrants an instant “Yeah, right. Not likely!” If you tweak that and change it into “I’m beginning to feel confident in social situations” or “I’m becoming more confident in social situations” then it softens the resistance to the affirmation considerably.

If you think about it, affirmations, if phrased the correct way, are very much in line with one of the Abraham processes in Ask and It Is Given.

Process #12 – Wouldn’t It Be Nice If…?

When you say, “I want this thing to happen that hasn’t happened yet,” you are not only activating the vibration of your desire, but you are also activating a vibration of the absence of your desire — so nothing changes for you. And often, even when you do not speak the second part of the sentence and you say only, “I want this to happen,” there is an unspoken vibration within you that continues to hold you in a state of not allowing your desire.

But when you say, “Wouldn’t it be nice if this desire would come to me?” you achieve a different sort of expectation that is much less resistant in nature.

Your question to yourself naturally elicits from you a more positive, expectant response. And so, this simple but powerful game will cause a raising of your vibration and an improvement in your point of attraction because it naturally orients you toward the things that you want. The Wouldn’t It Be Nice If…? Process will help you let in the things that you have been asking for, on all subjects.

Ask And It Is Given – p 226

So, if you have given up on affirmations, maybe a little tweaking is all you need!