Vision Keeping

April 26th, 2010:  The Vortex

What is this Vortex I’ve mentioned?  To get the full rendition of the Vortex buy a copy of The Vortex by Esther and Jerry Hicks and Abraham.  I’d like to tackle a shorter version for me and hopefully for you.

We are vibrational beings.  Science has actually proven that the smallest particle of matter is thought and have done a bunch of fascinating research to show that a change in thought changes matter as well.  So all is vibration and we vibrationally interpret the world around us by taking in images and processing those vibrations in our brains, etc.

Everything is thought before it exists.  You have to think about something before it comes about…that’s not hard to imagine when one thinks of inventions and plans and goals.  But matter exists as thought first before it manifests.  Now that’s a large idea and worth pursuing and there are plenty of resources to help guide you.  What the Bleep Do We Know is an excellent place to start.  It is understandable but pithy and amazing.

So, all is vibration before it is manifest.   Every time we are sick we want to feel better and we launch a thought of “I want to feel better”.  When we are needing money we launch a thought of “I want more money”.  Thoughts are matter as well and all of our individual thoughts go into what can be called our vibrational escrow accounts or our Vortex of creation.

You may have heard of vision boards.  People will create a collage of everything they want and find years later that they have nearly everything on the board that they were wanting.  That is a very common story these days among Law of Attraction people.  Everything that you are wanting exists in your Vortex.

The next question is how can things that I want manifest?  The easiest way to answer this is to refer back to the basic law of the Universe…The Law of Attraction…that which is like unto itself is drawn.  To manifest what you are wanting you, your physical body, must match the vibration of what you are wanting that exists in your Vortex of creation.  If you want a house on a lake or unlimited financial resources, your own present vibration must match that vibration of how that feels in the Vortex.  How does it feel to have that which is wanted?  It feels wonderful.  Do you believe you can have whatever you want?  Can you sustain that wonderful feeling?  Do you feel that it’s nice to think about but I don’t really think I’ll get it.  Then you won’t.  Your vibration of being must match your Vortex.   You must feel “as if” you have that which is wanted and it must come to you.  Sustaining a wonderful feeling vibration of getting what you want, even though you don’t know how it will come, where it will come from or who will bring it, is challenging.

This takes time and practice and it’s what I’ve been doing for years, really.  And I promise you it does work.    Most of us are so lazy in our focus that we let whatever is in front of us dictate how we are feeling and then we wonder why we don’t feel so hot.  Focus.  It’s all about focus.  And that does take commitment.  And the truth is that most people would rather feel bad that risk feel good.  Our culture thrives on fear which is the opposite of the energy of the Universe, Love.

So it’s the Vortex for me these days and now that I’m finally here more of the time I can’t go back.

With Love, Connie

April 23rd, 2010:  Keep the Faith

I saw a friend for lunch whom I had not seen for several weeks.  She remarked on how good I looked and how well I’m doing.  I am doing well. 

You know the most challenging thing for me is just to keep believing in what I’ve believed all during this writing…that I create my own reality and it’s not by doing anything special, it’s by knowing what I want and by feeling good and allowing the Universe to deliver it to me.  I don’t have to do anything but feel good in the knowing that All Is Well.

Because most of our culture believes that one must work hard to “achieve” what we want this hasn’t been an easy thing to do for me.  But I’ve learned and am learning so much that we don’t have to do anything and that life is supposed to be fun.  Also that when we ask it is given.   Now is the time of awakening, of remembering who we truly are, Source energy in physical bodies who came here to create and expand into new places and to have a good time doing it.

We will create what we believe.  Our beliefs are only things we keep telling ourselves over and over and our beliefs create our reality.

So for the past months I’ve been focusing on believing…believing that I’m worthy even without a job, believing that I can receive what I’m wanting by feeling better and better and that the Universe will bring me what I’m wanting when the time is right.  It always has and when I’m actually becoming more deliberate about it , why would it be any different now?

Not working in this culture is difficult.  It’s difficult to feel worthy and not be “doing”.  But I’m getting there.  Someone asked me the other day, “What are you doing?”  And for the first time in a long time I said “I’m having a good time waiting to see what will come up next?”  And I meant it.  Good for me.

I had an appointment with my accountant yesterday that I had not been exactly looking forward to.  I have been supporting myself since this past November when my golden parachute hit the ground.  But I found out that my portfolio had actually grown overall even with the payments to me for support.  Thanks, Universe.

Truly, All is Well.  With Love, Connie

April 22nd, 2010:  New Air

I believe I’ve shifted gears.  I’m getting used to new air.  In my last entry I was talking about riding new energy.  Well, it’s still there and with it I’m learning how to breathe new air.  I wake up and feel a lot of energy which, at other times, I would have been thrown off into the bushes and felt fear.

But now that I’m riding the crest of the wave I’m breathing more deeply and inhaling more air.  Years ago I was attending my first and only sweat lodge.  We were out in the woods in rural Wisconsin and by a river where a sweat lodge had been built on private land.  The first part of the evening was spent in gathering rather large stones and then building the fire hot enough to really may the stones glow red.  That takes awhile.  There was a lot of talk around the fire and since this was my first time I was nervous and was shrinking back from the fire because it was so hot.  The lodge leader kept telling me to breathe more deeply.  I didn’t do it but kept being bothered by the heat and moving back from the fire.  About the third time she told me she said it firmly, breathe deeply! 

I got the message and consciously began breathing deeply and the heat quit bothering me.  I was amazed.  I don’t know how that was.  Could it be that the energy within me equalized when I breathed more deeply and so I didn’t feel the heat?

I thought of that story when I felt so much energy inside me.  Breathe deeply.  It works.  I could absorb the anxiety and even myself and ride/steer myself solidly from within.

After finding these fresh energy legs I’ve been feeling good and also feeling like I’m ready for something to happen.  I waked Dudie (bff dog) yesterday afternoon and was telling myself that I think I was ready for something to happen.  About one hour later I went online and discovered that through Match.com someone had written me who actually seemed like a viable lead on my partner quest.  That blew me away.  Someone actually emailed ME.  I had been out there emailing guys from Alaska to Hawaii to Florida usually with no reply or a thanks, but no thanks.   (Oh, I did receive a nice email from a 28 year old lad who thought I was sexy but I thanked him for the boost and turned him down.)

But, I am ready and breathing and someone knocked on my door.  We shall see.  And now is where the breathing is REALLY important!

With Love, Connie

April 20th, 2010:  Hold On and Ride

So for a baby recap.  I’ve been feeling really good and then more contrast which is a natural part of being alive.  You feel good and then something comes up that exhibits in negative emotion.  This last go around I was feeling SO not good yesterday that I could not help my tears.   I think the build up was cumulative.  Some funky disappointments of stupid Match.com.  Then my daughter experiencing some man related pain.  Are we sensitive in this area?  Duh.

I’ve become a bit suspect of my tears.  There is an addictive quality to them that I don’t trust on face value so when I feel like I want to cry I do ask myself if this feels like feeding the monster which has an underlying message for me that I’m defective in some way or do I simply need to let off some steam.  I’d been holding out for a couple of days but then they just came.

I woke up feeling deep wanting of an intimate relationship and community, of wanting some movement towards these things.  And the flood came and with it I could take with me further knowing of my NOT having a defect which was good.  I went back to trusting the timing of the Universe and all will be revealed in its own time.  And in between that time and this time I will focus on feeling good.  That’s the work.  And not bad work I’d say.

Today I feel great energy and if I worked at it I could mutate that into tears but I’d rather not.  I think my energy/power has frightened me in the past and I can hide in tears but today I don’t think so.  One time when a woman was doing an energy reading on me in San Diego some years ago she was rather astonished and said my energy was as if I were riding three stallions and sometimes it could be tricky to get them all going in the same direction.   I felt some resonance with this.  No wonder!!

So today I decided to ride.  I feel the energy.  It’s hard to describe energy but I feel it…like a subtle whirling internally that could pull me off my square but I’m just keeping a focus that all is well and that I’m right on track.  So far I feel really good about that.

I know that this is “my next thing” at the moment…just riding my energy and getting used to it and not feeling afraid of myself.  I know I’m vibrating at a faster rate that I was a year ago and as I stretch into the person that I’ve become I need to get used to  different aspects of me.  Whereas anxiety used to take care of much of my energy…burn it off as that emotion…I want to get used to no being afraid of the full energetic me and riding, hair in the wind, sun on my face.  Let’s go!

With Love, Connie

April 16th, 2010:  A New Chapter

Does something have to end before something new begins?  I balked at saying something has ended.  Has anything ended?  As I think about it something has ended.  Old perceptions and beliefs about myself have ended…if not ended they are clearly in remission. 

I have decided to know what I know.  I have decided that I am not defected, if that’s a word.  And I’ve decided that I can do this.   I had been operating I’d say for my entire life as if those statements were not true, or that the opposite was true.  That left me with sometime crippling anxiety and a lot of time on the hamster wheel in my brain.

Having accepting new beliefs I’m beginning a new chapter.  I knew this several days ago but was not ready to proclaim it yet.  I needed that truth just to be my own for awhile.  But as I journaled this morning I thought, okay, now that I’m in a new chapter, I’ve made it to San Diego…what’s next?

I had an immediate answer.  Enjoy a much richer being in the now.  I am feeling the joy of being alive and I want to really embrace this way of being.  I want to relax more into my now knowing that the Universe adores me, has my back and that more will be revealed as the time is right.  With each day of feeling good I know more that this is true.  The better it gets the better it gets.

And I get my motorcycle back from its winter storage today or tomorrow.  What a great way to celebrate a new chapter.  Get on that baby and ride!

Have a wonderful day today.  With Love, Connie

April 15th, 2010:  Molding the Clay in San Diego

Waking up in the morning is a pleasant experience now.  I remember months and even years when that was not the case.  Waking has run the gamut from being frustrating to frightening.  Now for several days running it has been pleasant and has gone from pleasant to feeling really good after a wonderful relaxing meditation.

Usually when I’ve felt good I have this gnawing feeling that it won’t last and I’ll fall.  That isn’t the case but this morning I wasn’t feeling quite as good as before and it was enough to invite the hamster wheel of doubt to being the squeaky turning.  But I’m glad to report I turned down the invitation.

Instead I decided that I would explore San Diego…or in other words, explore my new arrival point of feeling more solid.  After all we are never finished growing.  We are vibrational beings who are constantly expanding.  So we will eternally have the situation where we feel completion of a creation or of the arrival at a destination only to begin the next journey.

I used to feel an anxiety at the start of the next journey.  The anxiety came, I believe, at knowing I cannot control situations,  even my natural tendency to want to expand and grow.  I can try to shut this down but it will only leave me anxious and angry.  I’ve seen so many older people who are just angry.  It’s their attemps at trying to control the uncontrollable and that can get very frustrating.

So rather than feel anxiety I feel curious and even an excitement.  That came with “taking the bounce” of the contrast this morning.  I was not feeling as good as I had the past few days, saw it as some contrast that causes me to ask for feeling better.  Then took that bounce into feeling better.

You see that if we ask it is always given.  So, if I don’t feel as good as I would like I automatically ask for something better and Source/Universe/God immediately gives us what we want in vibrational form.  Then it’s up to us to be a vibrational match to what we have asked for.  Taking the vibrational bounce is me expanding into what I’ve asked for.

Feeling myself do that…expand into something better… is wonderful.  It’s molding the clay.  It’s why we came here.  You might say, yes, but where’s the stuff, the money the house, the job.  The manifestations will come.  I have no doubt.  They already are coming.  My job is to know that they exist in my vibrational escrow account and I just have to line up my energy to match what I’ve aske for and Law of Attraction will bring it to me.

So, my job is feeling good…feeling as if… 

That’s saying a lot and is essentially a recap of everything I’ve talked about since I began this writing in November.  It’s just so gratifying to finally see more of what I’ve been asking for in ways that are really affirming big time for me.

I take the bounce.  With Love, Connie

April 14th, 2010:  Hello San Diego

Abraham (see side panel) talks about growing and feeling consistently more positive.  They have described this growth or change process as a journey, a road trip.  They said that Jerry and Esther Hicks have traveled many times from Phoenix to San Diego.  The drive involves a long trip through the desert.  If you compare the trip to the growth process they say that many people would be halfway to San Diego and then get frustrated because they are not in San Diego and so give up and go back to Phoenix.

My growth process has, over the past several months and even looking back over the past years has involved returning to Phoenix.  For so long I’ve wanted to feel good consistently and every time I hit a good feeling period I fear that I can’t sustain it and, of course, I don’t because I create out of my beliefs.  I would crash and feel shitty.  I returned to Phoenix so to speak.  And the whole process begins again.

Over this past year I’ve been feeling better and then crashed.  This has been a process that has helped me grow but always with a crash at the end.  Well, something has happend which I’ve described earlier about knowing what I know.  And making a decision.  I did make a decision to know what I know and I began to feel better and then over the weekend I began to feel more solid and I can say now that it feels to me at an internal level that I have arrived in Phoenix.  Ta-dah. 

I feel solid and good and wake up and can meditate myself into a Vortex of well being that feels amazing.  I kept listening to Abraham when they would say that it takes practice of again and again turning my focus to what feels better.  Practicing feeling good over and over and over and over until it finally clicks in.   I think my vibrational self has finally stabilized at a level that feels much better and finally feels normal.

Abraham says we are born to feel good and that life is supposed to be fun.  That goes against so much of what I was taught that it’s taken awhile to internalize different beliefs.

I’m finally knowing that this will be the best phaze of my life and I’m not afraid.  I don’t pretend that I will never have another doubt again but I can feel that my “set point” of normal has raised considerable.  It’s not as if I’ve never felt this good before but I’ve never felt this confident before that I can sustain it more evenly.  I’m hoping the roller coaster is fading for me and I can expect more consistency.  I’ve wanted this my entire life.  I’ve had it at one other point in my adult life…when I first began taking anti-depressants.  But that time is over and I’m different and I’m requiring more now.  And it feels good to have gotten here on my own focus.

I will keep you posted.  But all is very well today.  With Love, Connie

April 10th, 2010:   Feeling Forward

I’ve talked about feeling forward but it is becoming more a part of my daily reality, especially as my energy picks up and I’m looking at more things.

I mentioned awhile ago about going on Match.com.  That is a fun thing and not without its anxieties.  I remind myself of my 25 year old daughter and her involvement with male relationships.   I can get on a hamster wheel of obsessing about this or that.  Having been out of the dating world for over 25 years and coming more into my own spiritually I don’t want to obsess about anything over which I have no control, which is nearly everything.

So, I remind myself that I don’t have any control over outcome and that the only thing that matters is my relationship with me.  That I want to focus upon and then a sense of calm returns.

Feeling forward is about feeling good because I know that what is coming to me is going to be great.  The more I know that the better it is.  Feeling forward is knowing that my future really is vibrational present tense.  That could be a lot to take in.   Everything is vibrational before it becomes physical.  We are vibrational beings.  So as Abraham says (see side panel) the present physical reality is past tense at a Universal perspective.  What is present tense is what is becoming in vibrational form in the Vortex of creation. 

So, I look to the Vortex of my creation, of my future, or I feel my way there and it feels good and sure and abundant.  When I’m feeling forward, I’m clear and positive and interested.  I’m co-creating with Source in an active way when I’m feeling forward.  I’m accelerating the arrival of what is wanted when I’m feeling forward.  And I cannot obsess when I’m feeling forward.

I hope everyone is having a lovely weekend.

With Love, Connie

April 7th, 2010:  It’s Good to Want

Most of us don’t realize what our beliefs are let alone how deeply they are embedded.  I’ve been working on feeling good and feeling good about what I believe is coming for me.  Focus is key.  Focus on feeling good and focus on anything that will put you in the zone of Well Being.  Some days that is easier than others.

Listening to Abraham (see side panel) is soothing to me and many times will give me that boost into the “zone”.  And today I came to a deeper appreciation of a belief I was holding.  Like many of us I came me a “lack” perspective.  In other words a shortage perspective.  There is not enough for everyone, we could run out, we ARE running out…of whatever.  This was reinforced at home from parents who lived through the depression and their reality confirmed this belief.  There just isn’t enough. 

Now an offshoot of this is you might as well not want too much because 1) it just isn’t there for you and (2 having is closely connected with sin in some way and 3) it’s better not to want that to just be disappointed.

I know I’d grown up with that to the point that I just decided it was better not to want much of anything.  It’s good to be appreciated of what I have but don’t push it.  This has been changing as I allow myself to have dreams and feel my life changing.

This morning I realized on a deeper level that it is good to want.  Not is it just good to want but essential to want.  That’s why we came here…to want and to create.  As we want and as we create we expand all that is.  We are on the front edge of expanding the Universe.  Our creating out here on the leading edge of consciousness assures eternity.  We are God Force, Source Energy and we came here to create.

So, our very existence is connected with wanting and creating.  This put me in the zone just thinking about it and when that happened I realized that I had been carrying remnants of  false premises.

I can feel myself relaxing into the goodness of desire, the sacredness, if you will, of wanting and I breathe deeply into that.

Have a great day.  Dream. Desire.  Know its goodness. 

With Love, Connie

April 5th, 2010:  Focus, Focus, Focus

So, I made a decision to feel good or as the Abrahamsters say go to the Vortex.  My daughter said there ought to be a bumper sticker that says “Honk if Your In the Vortex”.  I’m lovin’ it.  From my last Abrahamster cruise we got pins per usual with the Abraham logo on it and now they’ve added a big “V” that goes through the middle of the pin.  Very nice.

In case you’ve never been to the the Abraham-Hicks website, I would strongly recommended it.  There are a lot of video clips on it that are very good as well as a lot of information.  It’s www.abraham-hicks.com.

Now back to the decision.  I knew that after making a decision to stay in the Vortex of Well Being I would need to re new that decision.  Today I realized that takes physical focus.  Mental focus and visual focus.  I’m a bit near sited and I had laser surgery a few years ago so I don’t wear glasses for for near sightedness any more but I do wear reading glasses now.  I’m noticing that my eyes are becoming a bit lazy in that the more I wear reading glasses, the more I need them.  I believe I can practice myself out of wearing them.

Just as I need to practice feeling more positively, I believe I can see things more clearly if I practicing focusing on that level as well.  The more I’m used to feeling well, the more I’ll feel well and the more I’ll figure out just how to find that rabbit hole of feeling good.  I know it’s there and I can just “feel” for it as Abraham says.  You cannot think your way to Well Being.  It’s a feeling job.  I can focus my feelings to the rabbit hole.  I call it that not only because I saw Alice and Wonderland but because I believe there is such a thin veil between what we tend to call reality and the vibrational world of Well Being.  We can just focus, feel, focus, feel, there it is and we’re in.  Then allow that feeling to expand and be. 

I’m going to use my eyes more without glasses purposefully to help me focus.  As all physical problems have their roots in negative energy I expect my early near sightedness had to do with there being things in my life that I just didn’t want to see.  But now I can adjust that energy knowing that nothing I see now can hurt me.  I can relax in the knowing that there is nothing to fear.  Just writing that has helped the focusing process as I stare at the monitor.

I’m beginning to bask in good feeling thoughts as I go to sleep.  It was a suggestion from Abraham.  I did that last night and did not have fear this morning.  I’ll try again tonight.  Focus in feeling good the night before and wake up feeling good.

Good evening my friends.

With Love, Connie