The way to allow all good things, to deliberately create your happiness, is to go with the flow. Esther Hicks calls this going downstream. Get in the stream and stay in the stream; learn not to fight it or swim against it. Accept the flow and let go.
Acceptance is acceptance. The stream is the stream. And acceptance means you are going downstream. And vice-versa.
If you are actively cultivating appreciation you are accepting. Choose to appreciate and you quit swimming upstream. Choose to appreciate, in this moment, and you immediately turn downstream and go with the flow.
Going downstream is joy.
And you can go downstream at whatever pace suits you.
You can lie on your back and float lazily along, letting the current carry you and staring up at the leaves on the trees. You can also put an Evinrude motor on your boat and speed along at ten times the current. Or any pace in between - the choice is always yours.
Sometimes it feels wonderful to lay back and let the current carry you; sometimes moving faster than the natural flow is uncomfortable, or even frightening. Sometimes you're so motivated by desire (to attain something...or to escape something) that you crank up the Evinrude and let fly at top speed!
I've experienced a wide rage of downstream paces. Currently, I'm floating along with the current and occasionally giving a stroke of my paddle to add speed. Last fall, when I erased almost $800,000 worth of debt in less than five months, I strapped two Evinrudes on my canoe and let 'er rip!
It's not that one pace is better than another. It's all about what you're motivated to do.
I know what you're thinking, "Hey, I want to experience the Evinrudes too. How do I do that?"
Good question. If you've got the motivation (mine was avoiding impending bankruptcy and the loss of our home and property), you can do it just like I did:
Make it your number one "job" to think only feel-good, positive thoughts all day long. You do that moment by moment. And, consequently, also make it your number one "job" to feel only good feelings all day long.
Use my process of vibration raising to identify your current vibrations on the particular issue you're dealing with. And then intentionally raise your vibrations on the issue, as I teach you. At the same time use the exercises in the back of Esther Hicks' book, Ask and It is Given, as your guides, every moment of the day, to think positive thoughts and feel good feelings.
Let me know how it works for you; you'll love the feel of the wind in your hair as you fly down the stream!
To the God in You,
Greg Kuhn
By the way, if you're interested in learning about the very real science behind the law of attraction and how to manifest abundance, read my lens on Squidoo.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Monday, December 17, 2007
Deliberate Attraction and Coaching Myself Up the Emotional Scale
Next I used an emotional guidance chart from Esther and Jerry Hicks Ask and It Is Given. The chart is a gradated feelings hierarchy ranging from the lowest emotion (depression) to the highest emotion (joy).
I asked myself to take the topic “being in debt.” I wrote about my heartfelt desires regarding this topic – as vividly detailed as possible. I wanted to be debt free; I wanted to get out of this disaster!
Then I wrote about my current feelings regarding being in debt. I forced myself to be brutally honest, no matter how painful. Ignoring how I thought I “ought to feel” about it (the type of Band-Aid, “positive thinking” I had engaged in previously), I found myself way down on the lower end of the emotions chart.
I was now very aware of both my desire to not be in debt and also my current feelings about being in debt. Now the healing began. Now I started to heal the divide between my current feelings and my desires.
After writing about my current feelings on the topic, I identified myself on the chart of emotions. I was way depressed as you’ve read.
Each day hereafter I coached myself (I’m a great coach, especially for helping people do “inside work”) to raise my feelings ONE emotion per day. I went up the emotional chart one feeling at a time, one feeling a day.
The system is so magical because I began to manifest different things on the very first day, since “anger” is a stronger, more positive vibration than “depression.” My vibration rose, slowly but surely, as high “freedom”. And magic happened every step of the way because I taught myself how to see it.
More about teaching myself to see the magic of deliberate attraction later. If you have specific questions, by the way, feel free to post them in the "Comments" section.
To the God in You,
Gregory K
By the way, if you're interested in learning about the very real science behind the law of attraction and how to manifest abundance, read my lens on Squidoo.
I asked myself to take the topic “being in debt.” I wrote about my heartfelt desires regarding this topic – as vividly detailed as possible. I wanted to be debt free; I wanted to get out of this disaster!
Then I wrote about my current feelings regarding being in debt. I forced myself to be brutally honest, no matter how painful. Ignoring how I thought I “ought to feel” about it (the type of Band-Aid, “positive thinking” I had engaged in previously), I found myself way down on the lower end of the emotions chart.
I was now very aware of both my desire to not be in debt and also my current feelings about being in debt. Now the healing began. Now I started to heal the divide between my current feelings and my desires.
After writing about my current feelings on the topic, I identified myself on the chart of emotions. I was way depressed as you’ve read.
Each day hereafter I coached myself (I’m a great coach, especially for helping people do “inside work”) to raise my feelings ONE emotion per day. I went up the emotional chart one feeling at a time, one feeling a day.
The system is so magical because I began to manifest different things on the very first day, since “anger” is a stronger, more positive vibration than “depression.” My vibration rose, slowly but surely, as high “freedom”. And magic happened every step of the way because I taught myself how to see it.
More about teaching myself to see the magic of deliberate attraction later. If you have specific questions, by the way, feel free to post them in the "Comments" section.
To the God in You,
Gregory K
By the way, if you're interested in learning about the very real science behind the law of attraction and how to manifest abundance, read my lens on Squidoo.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Deliberate Attraction is No More a Secret than Gravity
My attorney had already given me a warning that her ability to hold off my lenders to whom I was in default was coming to an end. It was July, 2007 and I was given a window of, optimistically, November, 2007 before it would all be over and I would be facing bankruptcy and the loss of all our possessions.
Obviously I was very motivated to make changes that would bring about the deliberate attraction of money!
I Asked for Solutions and They Were Given
The very first thing I did was acquire the Hicks’ phenomenal book, Ask and It Is Given. In my last blog entry, I mentioned my misgivings about the concept of channeling and I must admit I was comforted to see the forward by Wayne Dyer (my first introduction to deliberate attraction). I tore through that book like a thirsty man who finds a jug of fresh water in the desert!
By the time I finished Ask and It Is Given, I agreed with Neale Donald Walsch (Author of the Conversations with God series) that it was the only self-help book anyone would ever need (except mine, of course!) I already had a good understanding of the quantum physics behind deliberate attraction and now I was learning how to actually apply that knowledge in my life.
The Hicks Taught Me Things I Already Knew, But Didn’t Know I Knew!
Of course, that last sentence in the previous paragraph is not technically correct. Because you, me, and every other person is already applying this knowledge in their lives on a daily basis. You couldn’t stop deliberately attracting if you tried.
As Esther Hicks has said, calling the law of attraction a “secret” is like calling the law of gravity a secret. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know about the law of gravity, you’re still falling when you step off the roof! Likewise, it doesn’t matter if you know about the law of attraction, you’re still deliberately attracting every second of every day.
And it doesn’t matter whether you believe in the law of attraction either! Does it matter if you believe in the law of gravity? Of course not! You couldn’t stop deliberately attracting your reality if you wanted to.
Now Armed with the Proper Information and Instructions, I Was Ready to Attract Abundance
I learned all this from Ask and It Is Given and I was filled with hope! I now understood how the law of attraction was bringing me all this incredible stress, strain, and failure. Now I was ready to start deliberately attracting the stuff I actually wanted!
The law of attraction was bringing me stress, strain, and failure because of how I felt. Plain and simple. End of the story. My beliefs regarding money were all about money being scarce, evil, and necessary to “fix” me. It didn’t matter how well-guided my actions were regarding money, my beliefs were not only chasing it away but also punishing me for wanting it!
Consequently if I examine the huge successes I’ve had in my life (such as my marriage, my family, and my profession – to name a few very important ones) I was always very certain that I was making the right decisions, that I would be successful, and that things would work out for the best. And I was right!
Deliberate attraction at work in my life is easy to see, and not just in my failures. I was a believer and I set out to put things right! I’ll get started on what I did to put things right next time.
Stay tuned…
To the God in You,
Gregory K
By the way, if you're interested in learning about the very real science behind the law of attraction and how to manifest abundance, read my lens on Squidoo.
Obviously I was very motivated to make changes that would bring about the deliberate attraction of money!
I Asked for Solutions and They Were Given
The very first thing I did was acquire the Hicks’ phenomenal book, Ask and It Is Given. In my last blog entry, I mentioned my misgivings about the concept of channeling and I must admit I was comforted to see the forward by Wayne Dyer (my first introduction to deliberate attraction). I tore through that book like a thirsty man who finds a jug of fresh water in the desert!
By the time I finished Ask and It Is Given, I agreed with Neale Donald Walsch (Author of the Conversations with God series) that it was the only self-help book anyone would ever need (except mine, of course!) I already had a good understanding of the quantum physics behind deliberate attraction and now I was learning how to actually apply that knowledge in my life.
The Hicks Taught Me Things I Already Knew, But Didn’t Know I Knew!
Of course, that last sentence in the previous paragraph is not technically correct. Because you, me, and every other person is already applying this knowledge in their lives on a daily basis. You couldn’t stop deliberately attracting if you tried.
As Esther Hicks has said, calling the law of attraction a “secret” is like calling the law of gravity a secret. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know about the law of gravity, you’re still falling when you step off the roof! Likewise, it doesn’t matter if you know about the law of attraction, you’re still deliberately attracting every second of every day.
And it doesn’t matter whether you believe in the law of attraction either! Does it matter if you believe in the law of gravity? Of course not! You couldn’t stop deliberately attracting your reality if you wanted to.
Now Armed with the Proper Information and Instructions, I Was Ready to Attract Abundance
I learned all this from Ask and It Is Given and I was filled with hope! I now understood how the law of attraction was bringing me all this incredible stress, strain, and failure. Now I was ready to start deliberately attracting the stuff I actually wanted!
The law of attraction was bringing me stress, strain, and failure because of how I felt. Plain and simple. End of the story. My beliefs regarding money were all about money being scarce, evil, and necessary to “fix” me. It didn’t matter how well-guided my actions were regarding money, my beliefs were not only chasing it away but also punishing me for wanting it!
Consequently if I examine the huge successes I’ve had in my life (such as my marriage, my family, and my profession – to name a few very important ones) I was always very certain that I was making the right decisions, that I would be successful, and that things would work out for the best. And I was right!
Deliberate attraction at work in my life is easy to see, and not just in my failures. I was a believer and I set out to put things right! I’ll get started on what I did to put things right next time.
Stay tuned…
To the God in You,
Gregory K
By the way, if you're interested in learning about the very real science behind the law of attraction and how to manifest abundance, read my lens on Squidoo.
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Deliberate Attraction and the First Day I Accepted Real Responsibility
I remember it like yesterday. July 16th, 2007 at 7:35 pm. I went jogging with some files on my MP3 player titled “Abraham Hicks”. I had no idea what they contained except that the topic would be the law of attraction.
Channeling? I Almost “Turned the Channel”
I had never heard of channeling until that evening. I almost switched to a music file when I first heard channeling mentioned. I still can’t say that I’m totally on board with the idea, even today.
(Esther Hicks channels Abraham. Abraham is a spiritual teacher who speaks through Esther Hicks. But don’t worry if you have any doubts about channeling. I still have them too! Channeling is the least important thing about the Hicks’ beautiful message, as far as I’m concerned)
But I didn’t turn it off and what I heard was a very clear, precise message that sounded and felt just like the missing keys to the kingdom. Esther Hicks described, step-by-step, exactly how to deliberately attract my desires! I finished from my jog and continued listening excitedly in my living room.
Having spent so much time studying quantum physics I knew that what I was hearing made scientific sense. (You can read about all that on my manifesting abundance lens on Squidoo) I was filled with an incredible hope that, perhaps, there was a way to dig my family out from this huge financial mess I’d created.
And, perhaps, that hope did involve all that self-help, positive-thinking stuff I’d thrown to the curb a couple years ago. This MP3 file from the Hicks, I thought, was showing me the action steps I was getting wrong for all those years.
And in fact, it was my “actions” themselves that were wrong! Esther Hicks revealed that our feelings (not our actions) are the most important thing in our deliberate attraction. Feelings are 1000 times more important than any actions; how you feel about something you do is always going to trump what you do.
I’d Been All Action and No Feeling
In an instant I recognized that my actions to remedy this financial disaster had been filled with, and motivated by, dread, fear, and worry. Although I was now consulting all the right people and doing all the right things to extricate my family, I constantly worried, stressed, and played out all the worst-case, “what-if” scenarios! Consequently, I was seeing no positive results – I was manifesting what I had always manifested!
And when I thought back to when I was making my original investments I recognized that, although I took some right actions, my actions were filled with, and motivated by, fear, lack, need, and scarcity. Although I had done a lot of work to make my investments successful, I had been constantly plagued by fears of failure, worries of not having enough, and a need to be “fixed” by becoming rich. Consequently, I manifested exactly those same horrible things I constantly thought about!
I wouldn’t have mattered if I had been tutored by Warren Buffet himself, that night I finally understood why my ventures were 100% doomed to failure. And it was not because of bad luck, God turning his back on me, or my business partner turning out to be a crook. It was because of how I felt!
The Freedom of Accepting Responsibility (Healthily)
Oh, I’ve got plenty of what my favorite LOA teacher, James Arthur Ray, calls “good stories” to justify the absolute, terrifying mess I was in. I won’t go into them here, but you know what I mean. All my reasons and explanations, which sounded great as a sob story on a bar stool, for why I failed.
I had blamed God, my parents, my business partners, my friends, and my family for my failure - any easy target available was a focus at some point (“…someone has to be responsible for this!”) Mostly I blamed it all on myself. But, as I’ve described in this blog, not in a healthy way.
Now I accepted responsibility for this disaster, but in a healthy, productive way. This was a different sort of responsibility; it was hope that I felt. Because if my feelings had caused me to manifest scarcity and failure, I knew that my feelings could also manifest the abundance I had always sought!
But first, I knew that I had to use my feelings to manifest an escape from this crushing, impending financial apocalypse. Time was running out! I knew what I had to do; I had to save my family!
There is so much more to tell. Stay tuned…I’m telling it all right here.
To the God in You,
Gregory K
By the way, if you're interested in learning about the very real science behind the law of attraction and how to manifest abundance, read my lens on Squidoo.
Channeling? I Almost “Turned the Channel”
I had never heard of channeling until that evening. I almost switched to a music file when I first heard channeling mentioned. I still can’t say that I’m totally on board with the idea, even today.
(Esther Hicks channels Abraham. Abraham is a spiritual teacher who speaks through Esther Hicks. But don’t worry if you have any doubts about channeling. I still have them too! Channeling is the least important thing about the Hicks’ beautiful message, as far as I’m concerned)
But I didn’t turn it off and what I heard was a very clear, precise message that sounded and felt just like the missing keys to the kingdom. Esther Hicks described, step-by-step, exactly how to deliberately attract my desires! I finished from my jog and continued listening excitedly in my living room.
Having spent so much time studying quantum physics I knew that what I was hearing made scientific sense. (You can read about all that on my manifesting abundance lens on Squidoo) I was filled with an incredible hope that, perhaps, there was a way to dig my family out from this huge financial mess I’d created.
And, perhaps, that hope did involve all that self-help, positive-thinking stuff I’d thrown to the curb a couple years ago. This MP3 file from the Hicks, I thought, was showing me the action steps I was getting wrong for all those years.
And in fact, it was my “actions” themselves that were wrong! Esther Hicks revealed that our feelings (not our actions) are the most important thing in our deliberate attraction. Feelings are 1000 times more important than any actions; how you feel about something you do is always going to trump what you do.
I’d Been All Action and No Feeling
In an instant I recognized that my actions to remedy this financial disaster had been filled with, and motivated by, dread, fear, and worry. Although I was now consulting all the right people and doing all the right things to extricate my family, I constantly worried, stressed, and played out all the worst-case, “what-if” scenarios! Consequently, I was seeing no positive results – I was manifesting what I had always manifested!
And when I thought back to when I was making my original investments I recognized that, although I took some right actions, my actions were filled with, and motivated by, fear, lack, need, and scarcity. Although I had done a lot of work to make my investments successful, I had been constantly plagued by fears of failure, worries of not having enough, and a need to be “fixed” by becoming rich. Consequently, I manifested exactly those same horrible things I constantly thought about!
I wouldn’t have mattered if I had been tutored by Warren Buffet himself, that night I finally understood why my ventures were 100% doomed to failure. And it was not because of bad luck, God turning his back on me, or my business partner turning out to be a crook. It was because of how I felt!
The Freedom of Accepting Responsibility (Healthily)
Oh, I’ve got plenty of what my favorite LOA teacher, James Arthur Ray, calls “good stories” to justify the absolute, terrifying mess I was in. I won’t go into them here, but you know what I mean. All my reasons and explanations, which sounded great as a sob story on a bar stool, for why I failed.
I had blamed God, my parents, my business partners, my friends, and my family for my failure - any easy target available was a focus at some point (“…someone has to be responsible for this!”) Mostly I blamed it all on myself. But, as I’ve described in this blog, not in a healthy way.
Now I accepted responsibility for this disaster, but in a healthy, productive way. This was a different sort of responsibility; it was hope that I felt. Because if my feelings had caused me to manifest scarcity and failure, I knew that my feelings could also manifest the abundance I had always sought!
But first, I knew that I had to use my feelings to manifest an escape from this crushing, impending financial apocalypse. Time was running out! I knew what I had to do; I had to save my family!
There is so much more to tell. Stay tuned…I’m telling it all right here.
To the God in You,
Gregory K
By the way, if you're interested in learning about the very real science behind the law of attraction and how to manifest abundance, read my lens on Squidoo.
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