Applied Happiness Coaching

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!