January 24th, 2010:  Tuning Up

OMG, feeling good is so important.  Feeling good means you are in sync for other good feeling things, people, events to come to you.  Feeling good means you are on the way to your dreams and really isn’t feeling good so much more preferable to feeling crappy or feeling blah.  Actually we have become used to feeling “blah” much of the time thinking that it’s just the way it is…..NOT.  Or at least it doesn’t have to be.  Some people just seem to pop from the womb feeling good.  There are those people in my life who are always up, always expect to find the parking spot and they DO!  It’s all about expectation.  But most of us have to learn to expect those good feelings and learn to expect those parking spaces.  I know.  I’m one of those people and I’ve done it.

So, there are several things you can do to amp up your feeling good vibrations and I practice all of them, some more than others.  I’ve already explained the focus wheel which is probably the single most powerful tool for me.  If you haven’t read that entry I invite you to do so.  Another thing I do almost daily is writing affirmations.  If I’m having a negative thought that is pestering me I can take that thought and turn it around 180 degrees and express that thought in a positive way.  If I’m fearful about an upcoming situation I can say to myself, “I know that the outcome of this meeting will be what is intended and I can relax and allow the Universe to be in charge.”  If I’m worried about my daughter I can say, “I know that she has a brilliant spirit and she will become who she is meant to be.”

There are endless ways to express affirmations and you will know if the affirmation is working for you literally by how it feels to you as you say it.  It will just speak to you if you get the right words.  Play with the words.  Words are very powerful in expressing energy and play with them until you get the feeling you are looking for of clarity and of knowing.  Louise Hay (see side bar) is the Queen of Affirmations and I encourage you to look at her material for further information and support regarding the use of affirmations.

The most important thing about affirmations other than it must be a “fit” for you, it must feel right, is that you must use the affirmation like a mantra.  When I began to use affirmations to reprogram some negative thinking I would say the affirmation over and over.  While I was walking my dog I would say a particular affirmation perhaps one hundred times.  Write it down and put it in a place you will see it over and over during the day.  Sing it in the shower.  Shout it in your car.  Say it in different rythms.  Affirmations are powerful, they do work, but they must become a part of you.

I have so much more to share with you and look for them beginning in the next entry. 

As I look back at even the past two months when I began this memoir I feel so much better.  I continue to have greater confidence in knowing that tomorrow may be even better than today.  And I promise you this did not come out of the blue.  I used the tools I’m giving you.

With Love, Connie