Thoughts Become Things....
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...what are YOU creating ?
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Seriously, if you haven't gotten it by now: we are the creator of our own experiences. Our emotions are our indicators of our alignment, our direction, and/or connection to our future and our source. Like a sculptor, painter, potter, or writer molding and crafting through the focus of our minds, we broadcast our signals at every moment, with these signals easily understood and received by many. What we are feeling and thinking creates our world. The stronger the feelings, the stronger the alignment with those thoughts. You are inviting your highest good, or sentencing yourself to a term of "in your own way-ness."
Our emotions are our compass. With this knowledge, we can now guide our direction or even what we attract, using our emotions to feel our way to joy or happiness. And once we are in control of our emotional direction, we feel a sense of relief, with less doubt. We see and enjoy our life, as a prisoner of nothing.
To help you navigate the path of infinite possibilities, we've created an EGS, an emotional guidance system, a tool, a chart, a visual for you to cut out, paste up on the wall, the desk, fold in the planner or purse to be utilized to help you "move up" on the scale of joy and happiness. Some of you may be feeling bad, and not really know how bad till you grade yourself on the scale. Fret not. As your goal would be to just allow yourself to do the best you can to feel the best feeling you can at that very moment, allowing yourself to find relief by reaching for the best feeling that you can resonate with on the scale. And with practice, you'll find yourself moving up the scale quicker, easier, and with less resistance, feeling better, more frequently, enjoying your day, your week, your month, your life with more flow.
Recently I read about the USA’s own Mary Lou Retton, Olympic Gold medalist, world-class gymnast, 39-year young Mom of 4 beautiful kids, needing to go through a hip replacement after being so fit and energetic all of these years for us to witness. I was thinking the challenge it must have been for her to go from an assertive, smiling inspiration every day to limping and painful each day as the hip deteriorated. From +10s in life, just as she had in the Olympics, to questions about her future.
Ironically, that was the day that my own hip began to deteriorate: the high of running my 51st marathon with a client, along with, being presented Team USA’s All-American award days later - a +10 for me - this new 50-year-old -- to barely walking from the pain six months later. I sat in church, tears flowing down my cheek, feeling depressed, a negative 10 out of 10 on the scale of ultimate emotions, worrying about not being able to serve my clients, compete for my country, make a living in what I loved or even energetically move as I have the other 49 years of my life.
But then it hit me, “What about that new hip resurfacing procedure just approved by the FDA like Tour de France winner Floyd Landis just received?” This started to move my emotions from the lowest of lows, from devastation, up a few notches to worried (“Can I do this?”). As I allowed this possible solution to take center stage, my emotions climbed to contentment (“Okay, I need to get researching”). From there my mood edged up to hopeful (after I found out more) to optimistic (after phoning a recent athletic patient and hearing his results) to positive (being a life coach after all, we know that what we focus on we attract !) to passionate (about having the surgery) to freedom when I did it!
Yes, I am 5 weeks post-op from flying to see the best surgeon in the world (located in India) for this new hip resurfacing procedure and I’m feeling, seeing, and moving like I never have in my life. I’ve been given a new opportunity in life to do all the things I’ve always wanted to do by not allowing myself to live in that depressed state. Rather, I had faith, and a knowing if I just moved up on the scale of better emotions, that I would manifest better solutions to help manifest a better outlook: all while not knowing, however, the how, where, why, or when it would all get done but just knowing that my own state of optimism and faith would connect me with the universe’s best results for me. Just as Mary Lou did for herself in her moment of “movement despair”.
So with that energy I have created a scale for you to use: an emotional guidance scale structured for you to go from the negative or bad: a –10, to the positive or good: a +10.... with the positive being in alignment with source energy and with the negative being disconnected from that same love and source energy, that of which we were made. Or putting it another way: "The negative is as far from the answer as universally possibly".
The Emotional Guidance System. (EGS)
10: joy, love, freedom.
09: empowered, grateful.
08: passion, appreciative.
07: enthusiasm, eagerness.
06: belief, positive.
05: expectation, knowledge.
04: optimism.
03: hopefulness.
02: contentment.
01: average.
00: boredom, pessimism.
-1: frustration, irritation.
-2: impatience, overwhelm.
-3: disappointment.
-4: doubt, worry.
-5: blame, discouragement.
-6: anger, revenge.
-7: hatred, rage, jealousy.
-8: guilt, unworthiness.
-9: fear, grief, powerless.
-10: depression.
So the next time you're in an emotional bind: go ahead: plot yourself on the scale.... and start moving on up.
The EGS: Show your kids, your spouse. Share it with a friend.
Until next time:
Train smart. Live, race, recover smarter.
Gary.
