January 22, 2010:  It’s good to feel good

Isn’t it wonderful when you know that the absolutely best thing that you can do for yourself is to feel good!  We are so used to feeling so-so a lot of the time that we take it as “that’s the way it is.”  Well, it’s NOT, people, it’s just not.  For most of my life I experienced being happy or really feeling great as something that just happened to me and if I was looking for a reason it came from something outside of myself.  And then when that reason became diluted over hours or days then the good feelings went as well.  Feeling really good was always elusive to me.

From Louise Hay and Abraham (see side bar) I learned the important of my thoughts in creating my life and then began to see that feeling good was more than feeling good, it was a way to bring me my heart’s desire.  Law of Attraction shows us the energy we are putting out by simply looking at our current experience.   If we are putting out positive energy then we are likely to have cars that work, uplifting clerks, meet interesting people, etc.   If we are putting out a complaining, angry energy, a depressed energy then our lives will likely be unhappy as well.  Angry energy, depressed energy brings us traffic jams, people angry with us, crabby clerks, lost, keys, etc.  Being in sync with our dreams brings us the parking place we need, the friends we want, interesting people, great food, green lights.  And it brings us this on our way to showing us our dreams.  I’m sure you can think of examples of your own.

For me, daughter of a depression mother, a bible belt mother, feeling good was not really high on the list of what was important in life.  She literally said to me and I’m sure this sounds common, “Life isn’t a bowl of cherries.”  Plus the fun thing just sounds too close to sin.  So, for me to finally get it that feeling good is important was big. 

I remember the specific moment when I had that ah-ha moment about the importance of enjoying myself and having fun connected at a deep level with having my soul’s desire.  I felt tears on my face in the recognition of truth and of the love in the Universe.

I’ve reached a point in my journey from depression where I’m much more confident in my ability to feel good.  I have used the focus wheel (see yesterday’s entry) to get myself to a good feeling place every morning and am finally waking up actually looking forward to doing the focus wheel to feel even better!  Practicing on feeling good has kept me in the feel good place long enough that I know good things are in my future and feeling good is the best way for my path to emerge.  The better it gets the better it gets.  That was my path emerging this week.  I’ve come a long way.

In my next entry I’ll share with you some of the tools I use to keep myself feeling good.

With Love, Connie