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If Not Hugs, Then Shrugs

I release any urge I have to straighten someone out or teach someone a lesson.

Although there’s usually no deficit of people who could use some advice or some manners immediately-if-not-sooner, most people aren’t receptive to unsolicited feedback. Further, when I focus on someone’s foul-ups or rudeness, I’m asking for more of the same to turn up in my experience – from that person or from someone else. (Law of Attraction in action.)

My mental focus acts as an expanding and empowering agent wherever it goes. This is reason to direct my attention to people’s strengths, not their flaws, to their potential, not their problems.

Today I practice shrugging off aggravating, irritating behavior I encounter in others. I grasp for a positive, neutral, or humorous thought about them or simply turn my attention to something else entirely.

And the grouch-jerk-clueless person census in my life will begin to dramatically shrink.

–Soulsong #186

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Today's LOL: My first job was working at an orange juice factory, but I got canned. Couldn’t concentrate.

 

 

Working in the Field

If I’ve been beating my head against the wall, trying without success to make a particular thing happen in my life, I consider re-directing my efforts.

I begin to ease off trying to force the issue, whether it regards a relationship, work, health, leisure, or finances. Instead, I shift my energies to cleaning up the environment.

Well, not the literal environment, although that’s a nice idea. But my most immediate and important environment is the one created by my thoughts. And therein lies my most pressing and important work.

The overall positive/negative quality of my thoughts creates an electromagnetic field of sorts around me. Nothing comes in unless the field allows it, and the field recognizes only that which has a vibration similar to its own.

The very thing I desire is waiting, this moment, to be allowed entrance. But up until now, my field has not vibrated on the same happiness level as my happy desire.

My work is before me: a little more contentment here, a little appreciation there, some shrugging-off/laughing off irritations, a bit of seeing the proverbial glass as half-full.

This is how my heartfelt wishes arrive.

They match up with my daisy-filled field.

–Soulsong #188

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Today’s chuckle: “My idea of a Super Bowl is a toilet that cleans itself.” –Maxine

 

 

 

 

Picasso, Please Step Aside

As I practice focusing more and increasingly more on what I want, I draw into my experience increasingly more of those very things. We’re talking direct correlation here.

My thoughts have a magnetic quality, pure and simple, and I attract people, circumstances, and events that match up with my long-term thought patterns. My health, wealth, and relationships ever reflect of my habits of thought.

If I want to make an external change in any area, I can do so by work, will power, and sheer determination. But change will likely be temporary until I adjust my thinking about that subject.

Today I spend less time ruminating about the way things are and, instead, give thought throughout the day to what I want to happen – light, pleasant images of joyful situations. The delightful scenes that I repeatedly paint in my mind will eventually turn up in my reality.

This is the art of living.

–Soulsong #188

 

Bumper sticker: “Wag more. Bark less.”  :lol:

 

 

The Pity Party Is Over

Sometimes it seems compelling to dwell a while with hurt feelings, indignation, disappointment, or guilt. Maybe anger and resentment seem the only logical responses to an outrageous situation. There is nothing inherently wrong or bad about any of these feelings – no need to compound the problem and chastise myself for being human.

On the other hand, I will do myself a favor by gradually moving beyond the thoughts that fuel these emotions. That doesn’t mean I can go from downer feelings to “Ain’t life awesome!” in one fell swoop. It does mean I can take baby steps towards thoughts that feel better – perhaps some grudging acceptance, a bit of shrugging-things-off, and some deliberate thinking about something other than what upsets me.

This isn’t easy work when life’s icky side is “in my face.” But I continue the work so that life’s wondrous side can start flowing to me in unprecedented ways. The happier I think and feel, the happier the circumstances that I’m ordering for tomorrow.

 

Silent Solutions

If I’m wrestling with a problem, if I’m overcome with frustration and perplexity, I remind myself that the solution is here for me now. The very moment I desire an answer, it is sent from a Universe designed to respond to my wants. Each of them. All the time.

My job is to become sufficiently calm and relaxed in order to receive my solution, for thoughts of “This shouldn’t be happening!” or “@#%!” and the resulting emotional upset will block the resolution of my dilemma.

I take time to sit in silence as long as necessary for my mind to clear. I settle down and remind myself of the broader theme of existence: All is well.

In peace and quiet, I allow my divine nature to flow forth without restraint. Thus I set in motion the process by which my answer will find me – perhaps with surprise, amusement, even a “miracle” or two.

–Soulsong #190

“I relax and allow my solution of how to rid myself of the family cat to surface easily.”

Push the Parameters

This and every moment, I’m giving off a signal, an electromagnetic vibration. The signal is created by my mental focus, and it registers the degree to which I like or dislike whatever has my attention. Naturally my signal ever shifts and changes as quickly as I change my thoughts. But it generally stays within certain parameters on a happy/unhappy scale because my range of thoughts generally stays, due to habit, within certain parameters.

Everyone and everything in my experience is responding to my signal. My boss, the checkout guy, friends, family, even the traffic and weather react to my signal. All of life participates in this amazing and intricate dance. The happier my signal, the more I will encounter what I want, for my outer experience must match my vibration. Universal Law of Attraction, as immutable as gravity, decrees it.

Today I resolve to venture beyond usual parameters. I deliberately choose to shrug off irritations, aggravations, and unsettling thoughts about the future. I deliberately choose to think about what I like and want. Thus I deliberately ramp up my vibration, and delightful results will ensue.

–Soulsong #191

Pause for a fluffy, feel-good moment.

 

Question About Animal Cruelty

A friend asked a very good question this week.

She has heard Abraham say that a victim and a perpetrator must be a vibrational match somehow for a crime to occur. But what about animals — whom Abraham says are the closest thing to pure Source energy on our planet. How can we explain it when people are cruel to animals? How can an animal be a vibrational match to that, including to things such as factory farms?

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My answer:

Yes, Abraham has said that victims and perpetrators must be a vibrational match. If a person is feeling fearful and vulnerable, for instance, they might be a match to someone who is also feeling a similar level of emotional pain and lashes out in unkind ways as a result.

I’ve always heard Abraham speak differently, though, with regard to animals. I would say they’re in a separate category entirely. They’re definitely the closest thing around to pure Source Energy on a regular basis. They don’t live in emotional pain, and they certainly don’t fear death.

Animals came forth with far different intentions from humans, and they’re quite content, according to Abraham, to have brief lifespans with regular returns to non-physical. They’re fine with a revolving door type of entrance into physical experience and back into non-physical.

If animals ARE in pain, they usually find a way to make their exit from physical experience quickly. They don’t hang around because they know that they can return to non-physical and then have another run at physical experience — on and on and on. (Abraham has mentioned that even the gazelle who appears still alive in the jaws of a lion has actually withdrawn its consciousness and re-emerged into non-physical.) The exception to this might be domesticated pets, who tend to absorb some of the vibration of their owners and thus lose some of their connectedness and broader perspective.

As far as farm animals go, Abraham says that they came forth with the willingness to be somebody’s lunch. It’s OK by them; they’re fulfilling their purpose and intention. They’re fully aware there is no death, and they’ll get to come back into physical expression again and again.

I was a strict vegetarian for some years while living in Oregon, and I must say that when I heard Abraham’s explanation about farm animals and their intent to be someone’s lunch, I could hardly fathom it. But now, after some years, it has sunk in and makes much sense to me.

Even with this broader perspective now, if I have an opportunity to do something kind for animals, I absolutely delight in it. Even though I now believe that animals don’t allow themselves to go through anything horrendous in the way we’d perceive it, I still love to help them in any way I can. These days, though, I do it from a place of joy rather from a place of disgust with fellow humans, and that feels so much better. 

    Make yourself comfortable, Fluffy.  

 

Video Gaming for Fun and Profit

Think about a video game in which your goal is to keep your little human-like figure (avatar) inside a fairly small yellow circle in the middle of the screen.   

Outside the yellow circle is a large grey zone that offers no rewards or points when the little figure enters there. The yellow circle, on the other hand, causes the avatar to rack up points every second that it stays there. And that’s how you do well at this game: keep the little character in the yellow zone as long as possible.

How do you keep your avatar in the yellow zone? With your emotions – by feeling emotionally good.

How do you feel emotionally good? By directing your mental focus, moment-by-moment, to aspects of life that are pleasing to you.

How do you feel emotionally bad and get bumped out of the yellow circle into the grey zone? By focusing on what you don’t like and don’t want.

Simple concept. Simple game. Yes, it takes lots of practice to keep the little guy in the happy zone for long, but what a fun challenge! And the rewards are far more than points on the screen.

The rewards are a better and better and better life.

Hit start button. Play game now.

 

“I’ve told you time and again to stop playing the Birds Gone Wild game on my Nintendo system!”

 

Happy Campers Don’t Need to Rough It

I am part of Source Energy/God. I dwell in a Universe designed to respond to my desires, whether voiced or merely felt. Events are ever orchestrated so that I can receive my wishes and enjoy my time on Planet Earth.

But there’s one catch: The happier I am, the more effectively this works. When I’m happy, I allow my true divine, joyful nature to flow freely. Every good thing proceeds from that state of being.

This is where thoughts come in. Happy thoughts give rise to happy emotions and pull to me, marvel-by-marvel, the life of my dreams. Wherever I am in my life today is the result, the culmination of my habits of thought. There is no luck, determinism, or cosmic puppet play.

Today I choose to think a few more appreciative, optimistic thoughts than I did yesterday. Today I open my life to a heaping serving of delight.

–Soulsong #192

“What? We’re waiting for the UPS guy to pull up with our gargantuan order.”  

The Road to Financial Improvement

What is my financial situation today?

What do I want my financial situation to be?

If there’s a gap between the two, I can rest assured that
the gap can be bridged.

I think for a moment of blades of grass or grains of sand -
seemingly boundless, unlimited.

I even think of weeds or monthly bills or junk mail – also
seemingly unlimted.

Money can also play this proliferation game with me. It can
flow with such ease that I may eventually find myself nearly annoyed! Another check in the mail? That means yet another trip to the bank. (Oh well, I’ll make the best of it!) :)

To increase my cash flow, I refuse to focus on how much I
don’t have, how much I’ve been deprived or bilked in the past, or how expensive and out of reach items are priced.

While paying my bills on time, I refuse to feel irritated by
them. Then, anytime throughout the day that the subject of money comes up, I use that as a trigger to fantasize about what it’s like to be prosperous.         

The Universe will orchestrate all sorts of  “luck” and opportunities in response to a significant shift in the way I think and feel. The degree to which I begin to think and
feel prosperous is the degree to which I will become exactly that.

This information: priceless. For all else, there’s Master
Card.

http://www.lulu.com/soulsongkaren  –Soulsong #193

 

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