The Positive Persuasion

Abraham Hicks has a group on Facebook that I encourage anyone with a profile to join. You will receive little quotes and positive snippets in your inbox every day. One such note that came to me a few days ago was a note on resistance.

“We want to make 3 powerful statements to you, and if these are the only 3 things you ever hear, they will be enough.

Number One: The ONLY problem, the ONLY thing that causes you any trouble, the ONLY thing that slows you down, the ONLY thing that keeps you from what you want, the ONLY thing that makes you sick is RESISTANCE.

Number Two: Resistance is always accompanied by negative emotion. Negative emotion and/or pain. In other words pain is an extension of the same thing. Physical discomfort.

Number Three: Resistance is always pushing against something.”

- Abraham-Hicks G 12/6/95

Think about your resistance.  Because resistance is directly tied to negative emotions, think about the little things in your day that get your negative motor running.  The cell-phone talkin’ SUV driver?  Getting cut off in traffic?  Coworkers drank the last of the coffee, and didn’t start a new pot?  These are just a couple pretty common ‘irks’ that most of us run into from time to time. These are little waves of resistance.  If these things are still happening to you, then you’re still requesting them on some level.  The next time they happen, react differently.  Smile and let it go.  So many of these events are minuscule and insignificant, that there’s no reason to get all hot and bothered about them.  

Your mission for today, and this weekend, is to be consciously aware of your reactions to any resistance, should it occur.  If you get into a situation  in which it could be very easy to get upset and feel the rush of anger or frustration flow through you, replace it with the notion that you’re on a path of greatness, and you’re not going to let something so meaningless interrupt your progress.  As your weekend comes to a close, see if your positivity made for less resistance.  Monday morning should be filled with a beautiful morning commute, fresh coffee when you get there, and smiling faces all day.  A life without resistance is a life of abundant creation.

Have a wonderful weekend.

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I just returned to Chicago from the Carolinas, and although I’m pretty bummed to be back to the daily grind, I picked up some pretty good signs from the trip. My friend Cori and I flew to Charlotte and stayed with some friends for a long weekend. We rented a little car, and checked out our directions. The moment we set foot on Carolina soil, we were lost. Our directions took us in all kinds of wrong directions, and the majority of our time in the car was spent searching for any major road to take us where we wanted to go. Saturday morning we got up early to make the trek across South Carolina to see Charleston, and find a place to build a house. Again, our directions were wrong. In fact, they lead us to a private driveway 20 miles outside the town we wanted!  The entire day went like that.

Then we decided we were done with the suburbs and the house shopping, and we were just going to head into the city and put our feet in the ocean. We didn’t have directions, or any knowledge of where we were going, other than get on the expressway and head East. Incredibly, all we did was open our eyes and follow the signs, and we ended up exactly where we wanted to be. We parked on the edge of the waterfront, and walked through The Battery (park in Charleston) taking pictures of all the beauty around us.  Feeling hungry, we got back on the expressway and again, without any directions, just followed the signs to Sullivan’s Island, and we hit the beach. We also hit an amazing little restaurant where we savored an unbelievably delicious meal. If you’re ever down there, check out High Thyme on Middle St. in Sullivan’s Island, SC. Order the swordfish and a bottle of the Jekel Riesling.

It’s only now I sit here and reflect on the moral of all of this. Read the signs. Sometimes we all get so caught up in the planning and organizing, that we miss out on chances that the Universe is giving us. Our directions were all wrong. We screwed every single turn up, and ended up in the wrong places almost all day. We met wonderful people in our travels, but it didn’t help us get there any faster. Once we stopped looking at the map and the phone, and started just moving in the right direction, we hit our destination.

In life, too many of us have this obsession with time and space, and hitting milestones by a certain date. We have this drive to be at a certain point on the track by a set age.  And we go in the direction that society tells us to go.  I think we are missing the true calling. There is no right and wrong time to fall in love. There’s no set time to be married and have kids. There’s no perfect age to experience something. Your life is your own, and you can make it anything you want tit to be. Set an intention to go where your heart leads you. See your future in a happy, wonderfully abundant place, and see yourself arriving. Now go. Don’t worry about the directions, your direction is forward. The world will point you, and turn you, and send you on your way when necessary. Follow the signs.

Some call them guardian angels, others call it fate, and others still call it the Universe – any way you look at it, there are signs all around you that give hints to facets of your life, and your travels. Whether it’s an abnormally large stop sign telling you to turn back, or a truck blocking the exit you thought you wanted (ultimately caused us to exit at the wrong road, but took us exactly where we wanted), you need to pay attention to the world around you. Your life is full of incredibly powerful energy, and if you intend something to God or the Universe, all you need to do is travel in that direction and the signs will deliver it to you. 

Our trip to Charleston and Sullivan’s Island was electric. It was filled with beautiful people, breath-taking scenery, and such warm Southern hospitality, that we had trouble getting back into the car and making our way home. It really turned into a beautiful day when we threw out our maps and just drove blind. We were led to everything we wanted, and we never made a wrong turn. 

Just a little food for thought. I hope you are all having a wonderful day, and I hope your signs are telling you great things.

Blake

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Many, many, many people have the hardest time clearing out the negativity from their vision of the future.  This is a serious problem, because you get what you give, so you give negative connotations to the future, you get negative results. Joe Vitale, in his book ‘Spiritual Marketing” gives an absolutely incredible exercise to help get yourself clear.  First of all, let’s take a second and touch base here.  If you haven’t picked up ‘Spiritual Marketing’ or at least ‘The Secret’ yet, what’s wrong with you?  Even The Science of Getting Rich, and The Master Key System are downloadable for free on my main site, and although The Secret and Vitale’s book will cost you a little over $10 a piece, they are absolutely necessary.  The Vitale book I read in a sitting – she’s only 120 pages or so! 

Alright, on with the exercise.

Take two sheets of paper.  On the first sheet I want you to write out, in ridiculous detail, the negative condition your life is currently in. Describe the situation in its entirety.  I want you to really feel the emotions attached to this description. You shouldn’t feel good writing this.  You need to let your feelings come to the surface on this one.  Every emotion you feel is either expressed and let go, or it’s suppressed until a later date – where it will be expressed anyway.  Bring these emotions out – the anger, depression, helplessness, hopelessness, fear – whatever you feel when you describe your current situation.  Now put this sheet aside.

On the second sheet I want you to describe, in the same amount of ridiculous detail, how you want your current conditions to be.  Describe how it would be if everything was ‘perfect’ for you.  Feel that joy and happiness associated with that sensation of having, or doing, or being the thing you desire.  Let the emotions flow through you.  Let it lift you up as you describe your perfect 180 of your current life.  The trick here is to paint the picture of your ideal life so vividly that simply reading it again takes you there instantly – sensations and all.

The negative emotions need to be expressed so they can be released, while the positive emotions need to be expressed so they can be anchored into your subconscious with this picture you’re painting with your words. Think of it as clearing space for new emotions and paintings on your subconscious wall.  You need to take the negative pictures down, study them for a second, and the toss them out.  With this new mind space, you can put up incredibly vivid paintings of your future.  When they become anchored and begin guiding your subconscious, you’ll manifest exactly what you paint. Crazy simple, huh?

Take that first sheet of paper and look it over.  Don’t read it word for word, however.  Just skim it.  You wrote it.  The strongest parts will jump out at you anyway. Now take that sheet of paper and burn it.  Shred it. Do whatever you have to do to destroy it. Throwing it out doesn’t really have the same impact of physically destroying your old life, so take ‘destroy’ literally.  Take that second sheet and read it again.  Word for word.  How does it feel?  Take the sheet and fold it up, and put it in your wallet, pocket, or purse.  Carry it around with you for a week.  Watch what happens.

It’s that simple to get clear.  It’s amazing what having that painting on you will do to your mind.  If you ever feel like you’re losing sight of that vision, read it again.  If you want to change it up a bit, or get clear all over again, just make two new sheets and try again! There are no rules here. The only guideline to this exercise is to FEEL the emotions associated with each the negative, and positive sheets.  Release the negative, and anchor the positive.  I love this exercise, and being a writer, I poured every detail of the experience into these sheets.  The first one nearly brought me to tears, and the second made me smile so much that my cheeks hurt for an hour afterward.  Try it! If your cheeks hurt from smiling, you’re on the right track!

Peace, Love, and a million successes to all of you! 

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Many of us feel that our demands are too high – that we’re too picky, and we’ll never find what we’re looking for in love.  I think we’ve got it all wrong when we settle.  Our hearts are often insatiable. We want, and we want, and we want, and we never seem to get enough. Whether it’s love, or lust, or money, or just connectedness – we strive for this level of perfection that very often we believe is unattainable.  This is especially true when it comes to finding the perfect person.  I know many of us have found someone we thought was perfect in every way, but he or she was unattainable – and, of course, is now married.  Don’t let them go just yet. Here’s an idea to wrap your head around. Declare what you want, and accept nothing less.  Use your relationship with that perfect person (you know, the one that got away) as a catalyst to good experience.  Let me explain a little further.

I’m friends with someone that blows my list of perfection away.  She not only meets the criteria; she adds in her own flavor and creates new qualities I didn’t know I wanted until now.  She is smart, gorgeous, independent, athletic, driven, positive, sexual, and armed with a quick wit.  She is unattainable.  Our very friendship is sometimes missing in action because we’re both busy people.  Another friend asked me last night about what I honestly thought would come out of it.  Would we just stay friends? Would we eventually get together and become something more? I discovered at that moment, whilst put on the spot, that it didn’t matter.

The greatest quality my relationship with this person brings, is the experience of knowing, and befriending the unattainable.  I get to experience the sensation of having a relationship – friendship with what I would consider basically perfect. Simply having that basis of feeling allows me to create what I want to feel from other people by manipulating my energy. It’s not about judging others against this ‘perfect person’ as much as it is discovering that he/she does exist, and that you know what it’s like to have them in your life on some level.  From this point forward, you can bring people into your life that are of the same caliber.

The Law of Attraction states very simply, that like attracts like.  The secret to manifesting incredible people is experiencing the sensation of incredible people in your life already. This is why many of us have a gratitude journal to appreciate and recognize the incredible in our lives every day. We make ordinary extraordinary by appreciating and experiencing the greatest qualities of the people around us. That which we like attracts more of itself – more incredible people start coming into the picture.

So the bottom line here is to appreciate and take in all your experiences with gratitude, especially when you are communicating with your unattainable someone. He or she allows you to experience having what you want most, and you can use that energy to bring similar people into your life.  Suddenly the unattainable doesn’t seem some out of reach, does it?

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Too many of us sweat the small stuff.  We spend all this time worrying about what we’re going to do about this, or that, these, or those, and we miss out on everything that truly matters to us.  Your life does not revolve around the love of a single person (any significant other), and it certainly doesn’t revolve around your workday activities.  Here’s a really great story to illustrate how we all need to re-prioritize our lives a little more.

A professor of philosophy stood before his class with some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a large empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks about two inches in diameter. He then asked the students if the jar was full. 

They agreed that it was full.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly and watched as the pebbles rolled into the open areas between the rocks. The professor then asked the students again if the jar was full.

They chuckled and agreed that it was indeed full this time.

The professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. The sand filled the remaining open areas of the jar. “Now,” said the professor, “I want you to recognize that this jar signifies your life. The rocks are the truly important things, such as family, health and relationships. If all else was lost and only the rocks remained, your life would still be meaningful. The pebbles are the other things that matter in your life, such as work or school. The sand signifies the remaining “small stuff” and material possessions.

If you put sand into the jar first, there is no room for the rocks or the pebbles. The same can be applied to your lives. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are truly important. Pay attention to the things in life that are critical to your happiness and well-being. Take time to get medical check-ups, play with your children, go for a run, write your grandmother a letter. There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, or fix the disposal. Take care of the rocks first – things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just pebbles and sand.

It’s a great story, and a great lesson.Think about all the people in your life(including yourself) who constantly worry about the pebbles and sand.  This also reigns true to anyone that concentrates on a single rock as well.  Too many people are hung up on the love of another – usually an ex.  This rock can still be a rock, but it isn’t the only one in your jar!  This is your life, and your happiness!  It can never depend on someone else’s acceptance.  You lose your existence if you let that happen.  You just become an extension of that person, and they can do whit you what they wish – including love you, but also throw you away forever.

Stay yourselves, FOR yourselves.  You’re all beautiful.

Blake

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