So things get a little quiet around here whenever I bring up the subject of the nebulous swirl of wisdom and love that is Abraham. I get it. No worries.
I'll just pretend I'm writing only to myself for this one. It will reinforce what I learned at the workshop I attended last week. There was much to do about a tool called "the focus wheel." It stems from the concept: there is that which is wanted and its opposite. If you are feeling negative emotion and want to get out of it, identify the feeling, and then identify its opposite.
Put the opposite feeling or desire(the one you do want) in the middle of a page and draw a circle around it. Draw spokes off of it. In each section between spokes, write down reasons what you do want is possible. It takes you out of the negative loop and into a positive one. Here's the kicker. Sometimes if you are in the negative loop, you can't even fathom the positive. When that happens, find something else to do. Focus on something that makes you happy and then, when you are feeling better, go back to your focus wheel on the original subject. Don't force the focus wheel, you won't get very far with it.
For instant happy, I tend to think of Mother's Day, 2004 a couple of weeks after we started MB12 and the little smiling dancing thing that was Riley. Those big sparkling eyes! She was back from the depths of despair and I cannot think of a time I've ever felt happier. I also think of the day Seth's Martian Matter was delivered by UPS, and how he kangaroo bounced across the couch with glee. He'd earned it and it was a long time coming.
After you get to a "happy place," go back to your focus wheel and fill it in. What the exercise does is change your energy on the subject you want to turn around, making a more pleasing situation or outcome likely for you.
The focus wheel exercise is one of many in the best selling book Ask and It is Given. That book was my intro to the teachings of Abraham. If anyone is still reading this post and does want to know more, they might read that book, or they could watch the film The Secret Behind the Secret, which explains the much criticized lameness of The Secret as it was mass marketed. You may be able to rent it by now, I'm not sure.
Happy attracting. I wish you all your heart desires, and then some.
Love.
I'll just pretend I'm writing only to myself for this one. It will reinforce what I learned at the workshop I attended last week. There was much to do about a tool called "the focus wheel." It stems from the concept: there is that which is wanted and its opposite. If you are feeling negative emotion and want to get out of it, identify the feeling, and then identify its opposite.
Put the opposite feeling or desire(the one you do want) in the middle of a page and draw a circle around it. Draw spokes off of it. In each section between spokes, write down reasons what you do want is possible. It takes you out of the negative loop and into a positive one. Here's the kicker. Sometimes if you are in the negative loop, you can't even fathom the positive. When that happens, find something else to do. Focus on something that makes you happy and then, when you are feeling better, go back to your focus wheel on the original subject. Don't force the focus wheel, you won't get very far with it.
For instant happy, I tend to think of Mother's Day, 2004 a couple of weeks after we started MB12 and the little smiling dancing thing that was Riley. Those big sparkling eyes! She was back from the depths of despair and I cannot think of a time I've ever felt happier. I also think of the day Seth's Martian Matter was delivered by UPS, and how he kangaroo bounced across the couch with glee. He'd earned it and it was a long time coming.
After you get to a "happy place," go back to your focus wheel and fill it in. What the exercise does is change your energy on the subject you want to turn around, making a more pleasing situation or outcome likely for you.
The focus wheel exercise is one of many in the best selling book Ask and It is Given. That book was my intro to the teachings of Abraham. If anyone is still reading this post and does want to know more, they might read that book, or they could watch the film The Secret Behind the Secret, which explains the much criticized lameness of The Secret as it was mass marketed. You may be able to rent it by now, I'm not sure.
Happy attracting. I wish you all your heart desires, and then some.
Love.
6 comments:
The opposite desire that I would put in the middle of the circle:
"I do not want to eat that fourth donut I have in the box. No, not at all."
Mmmm. It has sprinkles.
I've never understood sprinkles. They really have no taste. What's all the fuss about?
Love it!
Off to focus!
hmm, michelle ..
i'm so sorry, but i think we might have reached an impassable gulf in our relationship.
i love you dearly and i cherish our friendship. i truly want to be a bigger person than this. i want to try to find the common ground. i want to see things from your perspective and understand why you feel the way you feel about all of this.
but honestly?
i'm just not sure i can really be friends with someone who doesn't understand sprinkles.
Love the focus wheel - I think I'll try it out on all three of us!
Thank you...wandering around the blogs I had linked to my blog, just to remind myself of why I added each...and I found this tidbit of wisdom. It was no accident that yours was the first blog link I clicked on today...thank you!
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