People don’t understand their feelings. So, they react to them as if they MUST. Almost no one seems to get this. YOU are always creating, changing or perpetuating however you feel, about circumstances, events, experiences, others, yourself, past, present and even future possibilities. You create how you feel about everything, by how you think ABOUT everything.

And how you feel is directing your life, whether you know it or not.

“We create our own heaven or hell. Your thoughts can imprison you or set you free. Complications, conditions or people do not upset you, but the way you think about them causes your upset. Freedom is not possible until we discipline and retrain our minds.” - p. 124 of Choose To Live Peacefully by Susan Smith Jones, Ph.D.

Look around. Notice how people’s feelings influence what they can and cannot see, perceive or even do. If we can’t feel it, we can’t believe it. And we can’t do or be what we don’t believe. Many people seem to stay imprisoned in their feelings their entire lives. Like real life zombies.

Do you feel less than wonderful? Then, it’s only because you unwittingly ‘bought’ into unkind, less than wonderful ideas about yourself (most likely from others who had also bought into unkind, less than wonderful ideas about their selves and others). Do you really want to perpetuate these feelings?

When people (new to what I’m saying) hear about what I’m saying, they seem to feel guilty or angry. They seem to feel guilt because they were taught some version of, it is wrong to feel wonderful about yourself. Or, they feel angry because it sounds like I’m saying they are responsible for how they feel. (Well, I am saying this, but I’m not saying they did so intentionally or rationally. So, the anger is misguided.)

Are you feeling wonderful about yourself (and others)? If not, do you see the practical worth of taking incremental steps, at least, towards feeling wonderful about yourself?

"I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High." ' Psalm 82:6

If your feelings about yourself and others are less than wonderful, you could revise and improve them. But then the question is, will you?

“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind." ~ Gautama Buddha

Do you see the practical worth of ‘buying into’ the idea that your life can be more than it’s ever been, no matter who you are, or what your age or circumstance? Do you see that it’s only fear or false beliefs that keep you from ‘buying’ this idea?

“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” Luke 12:32

I believe, if you come to understand what I’m saying, you might just agree with me that, feeling less than wonderful about oneself is a form of ignorance and,… arrogance.

Phil

Hi Phil,

I know what you’re saying here and thank you for this.
I understand every letter you write here Phil and I agree with it for one hundred percent.
But….it is not always about how we feel about ourselfs, for there are many people, myself included, that are very positive and great about themselves, but when the situation you're in falls you heavy, then there is more to it than just thinking positively about yourself and feel so.

Aware of my mind I throw away all my negative thoughts during the day. 29 days per month I can ask myself the question: Does this thought serve me in what I desire?
However, when the last day of the month is approaching and I am still not able to meet my financial obligations, then there comes a heavy blanket over me and I just do not have the strength to the positive feeling to come up.

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... when the last day of the month is approaching and I am still not able to meet my financial obligations, then there comes a heavy blanket over me and I just do not have the strength to the positive feeling to come up.

Hi Yeddah,

I believe I'm only going to say what you already know. There is no "heavy blanket"; there is only some 'heavy thought,' a thought that you're clinging to that 'weighs' you down. This thought denies you access to some thought that would allow you to experience peace and even ease, even in the midst of unpaid bills, etc.,

It may be you've learned to feel GUILTY about being in such circumstances. And this may lead you to feeling angry, ashamed or some other 'heavy' feeling. But is it NECESSARY to believe the thoughts that cause such feelings?

Or, could a 'good' person in your exact situation believe thoughts that would allow them to experience more peace, inner calm and even GOOD feelings about their self, and even their circumstances?

“We create our own heaven or hell. Your thoughts can imprison you or set you free. Complications, conditions or people do not upset you, but the way you think about them causes your upset. Freedom is not possible until we discipline and retrain our minds.” - p. 124 of Choose To Live Peacefully by Susan Smith Jones, Ph.D.

Can you see that at the end of the month you are having thoughts that 'imprison' you and that emotional freedom is available to you, if you are willing to find a thought that you can begin to believe in, that would allow you to experience more peace, calm and ease (and even power, love, etc.)?

I believe, when you die God will not say, "Shame on you Yeddah. You're a bad person because you could not pay your bills. Therefore I'm not letting you into heaven." And I believe, neither would God 'say' this to you now.

Here's something from another 'saintly' kind of person:

“Let nothing disturb you, nothing affright you.” - Mother Theresa

Why do you think she said that?

Do you think she really meant:

Let nothing disturb you, nothing affright you,…” except unpaid bills at the end of the month.

I don’t think so.

Phil

The heavy blanket is an illusion just as the positive thoughts are the other 29 days. Just thoughts.

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Originally posted by annievt:
The heavy blanket is an illusion just as the positive thoughts are the other 29 days. Just thoughts.

Not sure what you mean by “an illusion” or “just thoughts.” Do you mean ‘thoughts’ are not ‘real’ or not ‘significant’ or without consequence?

It seems to me, a “heavy blanket” thought is as real as the pavement we walk on. We really FEEL it. (And from what I understand, we really attract things that match how we feel. That makes feelings pretty darn 'real', to me.) And if we have too many “heavy blanket” thoughts they will drain our energy, damper our enthusiasm and resilience, even make us sick. Doesn’t this make them much more than “illusions”?

Thoughts are REAL. We actually EXPERIENCE them. The degree to which we FEEL them is the degree of importance we’ve given them.

And, it sure seems to me, that our thoughts are SIGNIFICANT, in that they matter. They matter because they shape the content and quality of our life experiences.

“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind." ~ Gautama Buddha

But just because we really FEEL some thought does not mean we are stuck with it.

A friend of mine has many unpaid bills. He’s lost a significant portion of his income and many of his bills have been getting bigger. For awhile, a part of him associated his worth and self esteem with this, and he was starting to feel pretty badly. We spoke at length and I helped to get him to understand that his innate worth was really NOT tied to whether he could pay his bills or not. Neither was his self esteem. Now he understands this, and now, he is feeling pretty good about himself again, and experiencing mostly inner peace and calm, and he’s back to taking good care of himself, despite the unpaid bills, the calls and letters from the bill collectors, etc. (We also talked how he could lessen those calls and letters, and he’s been doing this.)

He even understands that it’s possible he could lose it all (lose even the ability to pay his rent) and become homeless, but he now feels he could honestly be mostly at peace with this and himself, should this occur.

I believe his changes of thinking may well be the thought resolutions he needs to attract more abundance into his life. I believe that, for so long he has had the erroneous beliefs that tied his worth to how much he earned, or whether he could pay his bills on time or not, that he may have attracted the very condition he feared.

As said in the Bible:

“What I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me.” Job 3:25

It seems to me, just as we energize, create and attract the good conditions we focus on and fuel with our good feelings, constructive thoughts and actions, so also do we UNWITTINGLY fuel, energize and attract the things we FEAR, if we don’t resolve our fearful thoughts about them.

I believe we need to face and resolve our fears. I also believe they don’t suddenly appear on the 29th of the month (as in the example Yeddah gave) but are with us long before then, as they were for my friend. I believe Yeddah would benefit by ‘redesigning’ her thinking so that she is practically completely unafraid of going broke or being without money, or unable to pay her bills. Or, it seems to me, she will unwittingly perpetuate or exacerbate the condition.

Value NOT Having, As Well As Having

It seems to me, if we are without something we desire – plenty of money, wonderful relationships, excellent health, conditions and circumstances we prefer, etc. – we may benefit with examining how we feel when we realize we do NOT have these things. Can we still like and even love ourselves? Can we still love life? Can we still experience peace, calm and happiness? I believe, to the degree that we can experience peace, calm and happiness when we do NOT have the things we want, to that degree are we then being Non-Resistant to having what we want.

I believe, so long as we erroneously believe our peace, happiness and well being depend on HAVING what we don’t have, so long will we be inadvertently ‘pushing away’ the very things we want.

Or, to maybe to put it more ‘positively’:

“Tending to your own thoughts and feelings and letting yourself become the perfect match to your desires brings you joy and peace. And I promise you that your own joy and peace are the keys to everything -- EVERYTHING -- you want, for yourself and others.” Rebecca Fine

Phil

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A “heavy blanket” thought is as real as the pavement we walk on. We really FEEL it. And if we have too many “heavy blanket” thoughts they will drain our energy, damper our enthusiasm and resilience, even make us sick. Doesn’t this make them much more than “illusions”?

Hi Phil,
Thank you for the clear answers.
You touch the essence.
It's true in my situation that it matters feelings of shame, self-image, self-esteem and anxiety. And "heavy blanket" is absolutely not an illusion, they illustrate my own thoughts and my feelings. The energy I broadcast from my emotions finally bring situations and experiences to me which aren’t illusions too.
Shame, because right now I’m unable to pay my taxbills

Self-image, because I’m in a situation where I've helped others for years and now I’m unable to help myself.
Fear of losing what I have built all the past years.

I know what I want and I have expressed it in the affirmation that I've posted elsewhere on this forum yesterday.
"I am pleased and happy with 50,000 euros in my bankaccount and I am grateful that my calendar is always full of beautiful and billable tasks that come effortlessly to me."

I think this all is about the trust issue. The unconditional trust in the workings of the universe. I was confident in the times everything went well….
The trust is now in my head and I miss it apparently in the deepest layers of my subconscious. So there is still work to do

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(We also talked how he could lessen those calls and letters, and he’s been doing this.)

Wow Phil,

Can you tell me something more about that?
Thank you

Hi Yeddah,
It helped me to forgive myself for having debt. To truly look at my debt, accept I did it myself and forgive myself.
I understand you also have your own company?
What someone said to me was:"If something isn't working, try something else."
Sounds stupidly obvious. But at the moment it was an epiphany to me. I was doing what I was always doing, but the phone didn't ring anymore. Clients who always bought my services, suddenly didn't. It was dead quiet and my bank account emptied out.

Then I started to do 'something else'. Normally I advice other people in their business, but due to the crisis, people didn't want to pay me anymore. So I thought, I'll take my own advise and start doing the thing I normally advise other people on.
And, it worked!
So I learned I wasn't useless and unsuccesfull. When I take my own advise I can be succesfull in a business my former customers fail in.
The debt is not gone yet and we should make a lot more money then we do now to make ends meet, but..
I know we can do it. I know the business is growing, succesfull and we will get there. And, you know what? It feels great.
Now when its near 29th of october and I know I have to pay BTW (V.A.T.), I don't feel scared anymore.

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I was doing what I was always doing, but the phone didn't ring anymore. Clients who always bought my services, suddenly didn't. It was dead quiet and my bank account emptied out.

How recognizable Liesbeth.
Thank you so much for your reply.

I know that I am responsible.
I was successful and customers and orders came easily to me. Even in the economic recession of 2008 and 2009 my company grew to annual revenues of € 149,000. Until a dear friend died from A.L.S. I've coached him for free for three years in his disease process, in order to help him keep quality of life as high as possible. His death has hit me and from that moment my mind and living the centain way gradually changed.
I remember one year ago I wrote here that I found it increasingly difficult for me to feel grateful!.
I was only awakened when my accountant was finished with my results from 2010 and I woke up when I heard the profits of € 55,000 ... .. and when the tax company came to get the taxes over 2009 ... then came the shock and more anxiety-thoughts. This resulted in less and less calls from customers.
Me and my thinking and feeling have created this reality. Breaking me of that process is difficult. Ive been able to make agreements with the taxcompany, and I would like to meet, but it's just not possible at this moment ... .. and from there, the feelings I have described in my previous comment come.
The return of faith, thinking and enjoying everything I want and every day raising my vibrations seems to be the important issue. ...

I've stopped watching the news. It's like journalists love the economic crisis. Even when there is good news, they emphasize that it could still all take a turn for the worst.
All you hear is, it's a crisis, Greece will never recover and will take us down. The euro is unsaveble etc etc.
So, I've stopped watching and listening.
Most milionairs gain their wealth during an economic crisis. So, there must be tons off opportunities right now.

I'm so sorry to hear about your friend. And I completely understand how you ended up in a negative spiral. A.L.S. is horible. It's one of those things that makes you doubt the core of SOGR.
I don't want to say corny stuff like, you should be gratefull that you have known him, could help him, etc. Because that's just not enough when you've lost someone. You want them back, period.

I'm gratefull to have read your post though. Feels like I'm not alone.

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Originally posted by Yeddah:
The return of faith, thinking and enjoying everything I want and every day raising my vibrations seems to be the important issue. ...

That’s what I believe. And I also believe that none of what you are going thru is ‘bad’ per se. In other words, it may feel bad, of course, but I believe it is also a GIFT in disguise.

“Every adversity contains within it an equal or greater opportunity.” -- W. Clement Stone, created a personal worth of over $500 million in the 1960s

What is the hidden gift? It seems to me it may well be that thru these difficulties you may learn, at a more deeper and profound level, how YOU are really in control of your life; and that you can improve how you think and feel, no matter WHAT the situation.

If you REALLY learn and know that YOU are more powerful than any circumstance, how meaningful and powerful would that lesson be? It would be EXTREMELY powerful, wouldn’t it? And, maybe, that is the lesson you may learn from this.

I believe how we feel matters greatly. I believe it may matter more than any situation, relationship, or any other condition dealing with things outside of us. Consider the following.

“If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.” Bernie Siegel MD, Yale Professor, author

“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” - Chinese Proverb

“When something difficult or painful happens, always look to see what it makes possible that wouldn't have otherwise been possible.” www.tut.com

“Your feelings create the pattern from which your world is fashioned, and a change of feeling is a change of pattern. The subconscious never fails to express that which has been impressed upon it. The moment it receives an impression it begins to work out the ways of its expression. It accepts the feeling impressed upon it, your feeling, as a fact existing within itself and immediately sets about to produce in the outer or objective world the exact likeness of that feeling. The subconscious never alters the accepted beliefs of man – it out-pictures them to the last detail whether or not they are beneficial.

To impress the subconscious with the desirable state you must assume the feeling that would be yours had you already realized your wish. In defining your objective you must be concerned only with the objective itself. The manner of expression or the difficulties involved are not to be considered by you. To think feelingly on any state impresses it on the subconscious.” Neville Goddard in ‘Feeling is the Secret’

“We must vibrate in the SAME frequency, or in synchronicity with that which we want to attract/experience.” Wellington Rodriques, Mental Science & Prosperity Teacher

“My belief is that feeling good should be your number one priority in life.” Rick German richgerman.com

"It is never too late to find a good feeling place about anything. Things will constantly change to match the feeling you have inside." Abraham-Hicks

“Your personal energetic frequency is what determines whether your efforts will translate into reality. If you’re not vibrationally aligned properly, nothing will happen no matter how hard you try.” Christie Marie Sheldon, Intuitive Healer and Medium - Excerpt from: loveorabove.com

“If you say, “I just can’t help the way I feel,” you will only make yourself a victim of your misery ~ and you’ll be fooling yourself, because you can change the way you feel.
If you want to feel better, you must realize that your thoughts and attitudes--not external events--create your feelings. You can learn to change the way your think, feel, and behave in the here-and-now.” - from The Feeling Good Handbook by Dr. David Burns

“If you let the world affect how you feel, what you are saying is, "I do not make my own decisions, I just have a Pavlovian response to anything that may twang my emotions."” Stuart Wilde in ‘Life Was Never Meant To Be A Struggle’

“I can't emphasize this strongly enough... If you haven't been able to feel how you want to feel and haven't been able to get yourself to do something you want to do... then you are being victimized by your own disempowering thoughts, beliefs and attitudes.” - Mike Brescia, President, Think Right Now International

“Suffering is always optional.” From ‘Restore Your Magnificence’ by Dr. Joe Rubino

“You are the sovereign authority for your life. You are the ruler who makes the decisions regarding how you will act, what information you will accept. You do it anyway -- but if you recognize that you do it, you can gain much greater control over your future.

But whether or not you accept it, you are sovereign. You rule one life -- and you rule it totally.” Harry Browne, in ‘How I Found Freedom In An Unfree World’

“If things go wrong in my world, something is wrong in me. Therefore, if I am sensible, I shall put myself right first.” Carl Jung

It seems to me, one of the realizations we are meant to grasp is, we are each the authority of our own lives.

“How does one go about achieving vibrational harmony with well being? Well, little by little you reach for thoughts that feel good. In other words, it is an incremental thing. You did not get to the place of ‘not letting it in’ completely overnight. In other words it was one thought that you picked up along your physical trail at a time. So, for the most part, we encourage you just pick up more thoughts that feel good.” (8:38 – 9:03)

“You have to be ‘selfish’ enough to say, “Nothing is more important than I feel good.” … And as you find reasons to feel good, you feel good, and as you feel good, you let it in. As you feel good you let clarity in. As you feel good you let abundance and well being – abundance of all things you consider good – you let in.” (9:04 – 9:52) Abraham-Hicks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12BhS22ZySA

Phil

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I'm gratefull to have read your post though. Feels like I'm not alone.

Hi Liesbeth,
I am grateful for your support and warm words.
Indeed, you are not alone. And that is the great value of this forum.
I receive daily newsletters from many people who share their knowledge and insights in the area of the law of attraction parts, and they give lots of support, but I realize now again how valuable this forum is for me.
Every time I show my vulnerability from, there are answers that help me.
THANK YOU!!

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If you REALLY learn and know that YOU are more powerful than any circumstance, how meaningful and powerful would that lesson be? It would be EXTREMELY powerful, wouldn’t it? And, maybe, that is the lesson you may learn from this.

Wow Phil,

Thank you for all your insights and all those quotes. You've helped me really moving forward. You hit me in the right place.
Just to letting go, I have made a short walk with my dog. Her name is FLOW. During that walk, I spoke with myself and I’ve changed MY story.
MY story was a story of struggle and effort to receive customers and thereby earn enough money to meet my obligations.
In my new stry I told myself how my business is growing, how easily my customers sign up and how crazy my earnings grow ... .... And it feels amazing!
Thank you for all the input and help, because the way I feel now right at this moment, I have not felt for days!
Your words and support are gold to me!!

What a fantastic thread!

I have been practicing feeling good in the midst of unpaid bills. It is probably the most important exercise I could do. SOOoooo much better than stressing.

This thread has brought into clear focus something that I have been uncovering over the last few weeks: deep down part of me doesn't believe I deserve to have what I want. I have a kernel of resistance to a lot of things because I haven't done whatever action I think is required of me.

In my better moments, I can burn right through that resistance and feel FANTASTIC no matter what. But sometimes, in contemplating my CMI, I notice that part of me is digging my heels in -- trying to slow down.

It reminds me of when I used to do a little downhill skiing. I was really scared to go too fast, my main goal was to learn how to slow down and to stop. Yet my instructors wanted me to learn how to turn. Once you get going, speed is an asset and all you really need is the ability to steer.

But it's like Rebecca says -- we sometimes spend too much time aiming and never fire. Part of me wants to slow down -- I suppose in an effort to control everything.

I have done some eft, and pstech on the resistance and I feel better temporarily. Yet the resistance seems to grow back again quite quickly. For now, I'm remembering that I can carry on with my goals "even though I have this resistance." It helps to remember that many people have managed to be successful without completely eliminating their issues.

I can act "as if" that resistance weren't there. It also helps to remember that I don't have to believe those thoughts. Having thoughts -- no matter how persistent -- doesn't necessarily mean that those thoughts control me. I can keep going back to the thought that all good things are naturally for me and that deserving doesn't enter into it.

Thanks again for the wonderful discussion!

Love and blessings,
Rachel

Here are some simple guidelines I use some version of every day that seem to help me immensely.

Remind yourself that how you FEEL matters.

Then, as you go about thinking what you might do to improve your life, or as you go through your day,… just take pauses and notice how you’re thinking and how those thoughts make you feel.

Notice, breathe, and adjust accordingly.

Make it a point to experience good feelings.

Read my signature line.

Phil

Thanks, Phil.

What has helped is realizing that thoughts, even persistent ones, do not have any power over me. Just noticing that those thoughts are there and that certain feelings are habitually attached to them GREATLY lessens their power.

For a while, I tried to root them out -- get rid of them. Turned out I was inadvertently giving them more attention than they deserved.

I feel much more free now that I can simply look at those thoughts and feelings dispassionately and then go about the business of focusing on what I do want. Yay!

Love and blessings,
Rachel

This week I read an interview that is made a few years ago, with the deceased Dutch beer magnate Freddy Heineken.
He asked the interviewer, "What is your lifedream?
I ask you this question because your dreams precedes your success. If you know your dream, you can start telling stories.
I'm not a brewer at all, I like to sit in the bathtub during the day, while most people are working extremely hard, dreaming about my future.
I am a storyteller and my stories, I get myself into, I direct my focus and I get all my staff along"

I know my life dream. Since I read the interview three days ago, I’ve transformed my dream in the present tense and every time I walk with my dog or when I make long drives, I tell myself my own life story incorporating all of my successes.

I notice that every time I tell my story in the achived form, spontaneously nice details come up. It strikes me that I sometimes spontaneously start to smile, and tonight I bursted into laughter.
That's the feeling that Phil is talking about I suppose. Already spontaneously beginning to laugh, when I tell myself about my lifedream.
Isn’t that what its all about?

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Originally posted by Yeddah:
It strikes me that I sometimes spontaneously start to smile, and tonight I bursted into laughter.
That's the feeling that Phil is talking about I suppose. Already spontaneously beginning to laugh, when I tell myself about my lifedream.
Isn’t that what its all about?

Yeddah,

Do you recall this passage from SOGR:

“In the mental realm, enter at once into full enjoyment of the things you want.” “See the things you want as if they were actually around you all the time. See yourself as owning and using them. Make use of them in your imagination just as you will use them when they are your tangible possession.” Wallace Wattles, in Chapter 8 of the Science of Getting Rich

And other wonderful teachers seem to say the same thing in their own way:

"Enter into the joy of the answered prayer and your wish, idea or desire will become God's will, which is the consciousness of having or being what you long to be or possess. This is the consciousness of conviction, which manifests itself in your world as a condition, experience or event." - Joseph Murphy in ‘Traveling With God’1956

“The important thing is that you actively put yourself in the vibration you must for your desired outcome to be created.” - Multimillionaire John Assaraf, from p. 168 of his book ‘The Street Kid’s Guide To Having It All’

To me, what they are emphasizing is the FEELINGS you want to experience, should you have what you want. So, to me, you need to ask yourself: What do I want to FEEL that I’m not feeling enough of?

The answer to that question may likely be many fold. For example, you might want to feel more secure, more loved, more powerful, more independent, freer, more at peace, calmer, more glad to be you, happier with life in general, more beautiful or attractive, more alive, etc. You might want to feel you’re having more fun and are more excited about life and what’s to come. You might want to feel more thrilled, more delighted, more inspired, braver, kinder, more significant, etc., etc.

So, I think, look at the many wonderful feelings you want to feel more of, and design and imagine a life and lifestyle and idea of self and what’s possible, around all those wonderful feelings.

But, it seems to me, this is not about finding a good feeling just once in awhile, and then expecting miraculous results to appear. I believe it’s really about evolving your whole state of being. I believe it’s quite like falling in love, where the person is on your mind, because you feel so wonderful just thinking about them, whether they’re in your presence or not. Or, when you fall in love with an idea, a dream, so much so that just thinking about it excites and thrills you and makes you feel wonderful and full of possibilities.

“After you have assumed the feeling of the wish fulfilled, do not close the experience as you would a book, but carry it around like a fragrant odor.” Neville, from Awakened Imagination, p. 76.

“In order to obtain what we want, when and where we want it, we must continuously and persistently affirm our oneness with the thing we want.” - from ‘How To Attract Success’ by F. W. Sears, written in 1914

But then, it seems, one thing that almost everyone has to overcome is,… resistance. We seem to have learned so well to resist what we want. We hear the thoughts – and feel the feelings – that seem to tell us we can’t have what we want. Or others tell us. We don’t want to listen to these thoughts, but we feel afraid not to, or we believe we’re fooling ourselves. But what is more foolish and causes the deeper kinds of regret? Do you want to get to the end of your life wishing you had dreamed more and dared more? Or do you want to get to the end of your life knowing you had the courage and daring to really dream?

I believe we simply must keep dreaming. And fuel the images of your dreams. Ponder them more freely and imagine more wonderful details or possibilities. It seems to me, when you do this you get to where you actually start FEELING the feelings you want to feel, more and more of the time.

'Dream no small dreams, for they have no power to move the hearts of men.' -- Johann von Goethe

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -- Eleanor Roosevelt

How do you know if you have the ‘right’ dream, or a big enough dream, or if you’re dreaming the ‘right’ way? I believe, you can know by how you FEEL. Does it excite you? Do you feel wonderful when you think about it?

“We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.” -- Wilbur Wright

“Thought being the cause, we cannot help realizing that if we control our thoughts, we control effects; then it follows that our health, happiness and prosperity our under our control also. When you understand this glorious truth, and realize the wondrous possibilities open to you through your connection with Omnipotence you will have found ‘the Kingdom of Heaven within you’.” From ‘Key to Yourself’ by Venice Bloodsworth, PhD

“,… take some section of your life that seems beyond redemption and rearrange it in your mind's eye. Make it as you would like it to be. Persuade yourself of its truth and wait, because its fulfillment has its own appointed hour. It ripens, it will flower. If it be long, then wait, for it is sure and it will not be late. It will come into your objective world to bear witness to the reality of your assumption.” – Neville

"First, have a dream, and by a dream I mean a day dream, a glorious, wonderful day dream. Then ask yourself, 'What would it be like if it were true that I am now the man I am dreaming I would like to be. What would it be like?' Then catch the mood of the wish fulfilled and drench yourself with that feeling. Then for all your tomorrows try to the best of your ability to walk faithful to that assumption, and I am telling you from my own experience, in a way that no one knows, it will come and it will come suddenly." - From "Immortal Man" by Neville.

“Whatever you think and feel yourself to be, the Creative Spirit of Life is bound to faithfully reproduce in a corresponding reaction. This is the great reason for picturing yourself and your affairs as you wish them to be as existing facts (though invisible to the physical eye), and live in your picture.” Genevieve Behrend 1921, in ‘Your Invisible Power’

“Get in the habit of honoring yourself every night before going to sleep. Go to sleep feeling wonderful about yourself.” Sasha Xarrian

“Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?” John 10:34

What if it’s true, the idea that we’re always creating our reality, and that we can know what we’re creating by how we FEEL? Are you willing to get yourself to genuinely feel better, in order to have better? Is that too big a price to pay? Or, maybe it's the 'perfect price' to pay?

Phil

Something to notice/pay attention to, I think:

We want whatever we want.

But the reason we want whatever we want is, we believe the getting it, or having it, will allow us to feel better.

But we don't really need the things we want, in order to feel better. How we feel really just depends on how we think.

But when we learn how to feel better, simply by evolving or improving our thinking, surprisingly, the things we want begin to 'somehow' just show up in our lives.

Isn't that interesting, or revealing? Doesn't that tell you something about how we feel, and how how we feel changes things? And how we're really already free to feel just about however we want, but need to understand this?

Phil

Well said, Phil. It seems so simple and so obvious once you get it.

So the key -- feeling good. Instead of the mantra "just do it" - it could be "just feel good".

Since starting to really study TSOGR, I sometimes go in circles around this very subject. It's like "Great! But how do I DO that?"

I now know that the only way is to change my thinking. Fine. How do I do THAT?

There are actually MANY, MANY ways! But the basics are:
1. Focus on what makes me feel good.
2. Do not focus on what doesn't.

The book mentions a number of things NOT to focus on (very helpful), i.e., yesterday's work or regrets, tomorrows work or worries, negative influences, etc.

The book also talks about what to focus on and how to focus on it, i.e., contemplate your CMI and "enter into full enjoyment as if you have it now..."

I've found that helps to have to have a couple of other things up my sleeve to help bring me to my feel-good place. They are my short-cuts. These are things in my life that I ALREADY have good thoughts about - so when I go to those things, I can change my thinking quickly. For instance, the minute I am outside in nature, I feel better. I have certain pictures, music etc. that will immediately change my state of mind. Moving my body helps. (To name just a few things.)