I believe we go through cycles in life. Sometimes we’re in a pretty high cycle where everything is flowing naturally in a very happy, positive way. We’re feeling comfortable in our skin, enjoying life and the people we are engaged in living it with. The experiences that we are floating through are delicious and fun, and we’re feeling positive, productive and pretty unstoppable.
Then there are other times where our cycle is pretty darn low. Contrary to the Midas touch, it seems like everything we get our hands on turns to shit! Bills are piling up. Every phone call we receive seems to be from a creditor with their hand out. Our shin and toes seem to be magnets for the night stand and dresser as we rise to begin our day, and low and behold the crappy experiences seems to take on the feel of runaway freight train. Before we know it we’re past deadline on work projects and our boss is giving us the stink-eye. Then we leave work at the end of the day to find our car blocked in by an abandon construction truck.
This is why it’s important to leave breadcrumbs for ourselves during the positive times. There are many schools of thoughts when it comes to journaling and here’s my two cents on it. Journaling is an excellent tool for manifesting and transforming our lives. It’s a great way to purge all of the gooey sludge that gets lodged in the miniscule crevices of our minds, preventing us from seeing anything beautiful and positive because we’ve become completely bogged down by the frustrating or heartbreaking experiences our Negative-Nelly man-behind-the-curtain mind tricks us into focusing on. Before we know it we find ourselves believing this is the natural forgone conclusion of our lives. Since our thoughts precede our actions if we begin to spiral in this direction the law of attraction will suck in more and more experiences that clog our drain, which will become our predominant feeling and thus the cycle goes.
Ever notice when you’re feeling super high-on-life nothing can get you down and the happier you are the more happy news, people and experiences that seem to just pop up like toast throughout your day? This is the law of attraction at work. It is activated by our focus. The trick is to understand what we are actually focused on. Take money for instance. A lot of us (self included) have a strong desire to have more money in our experience. Whether it’s the desire to be wealthy or just to feel comfortable and secure, money is a thought on the minds of many of us these days. Knowing about the law of attraction many of us set out to create it but don’t seem to see it showing up in our lives as quickly as we’d like it to.
True to its form there are two sides, figuratively and literally, to consider when we’re looking to attracting more of it into our lives. Just like a coin there’s what we want (our desire) which is like the front side (or head) of the coin with the back side (or tail) of it representing what we’d least desire. Seems like everyone calls heads at the coin toss which represents our desired outcome but there’s a flip side. Often times we think we’re focused on what we want but what we’re really thinking about is what we don’t have. And the more we focus on something with passion and emotion the quicker we pull it in to our experience. I’ve seen this show up in my life over and over again, both on the desirable side and in its less than desirable form. It’s a pretty tricky concept to work with which is why I recommend we leave ourselves reminders of our journey.
When we’re in a happy, up cycle we need to journal about it in great detail. Writing down what we’re doing that we are enjoying and how we created getting there not only helps us in our efforts to maintain a happy, joy-filled existence it also will prove to be an invaluable tool in our arsenal. Likewise, it’s important to journal about the down-cycles. I don’t have to tell you to write about the bad stuff because human nature tends to want us to focus on what’s wrong, bad or not working but as I advise you to write down these things I have a BIG STIPULATION… “JTFM.”
“Just the facts Ma’am/Man,” should be your mantra when you are engaging in this process. Avoid delving too deeply into the story and drama of it all. Keep it simple and just record the important (relevant) facts. Do not infuse this type of journaling with a lot of emotion because whatever you pour your heart into flies right back at you at warp speed. Become an objective observer as you journal about the negative experiences you’ve had. Record the events as they occurred and the actions leading up to them. Leave emotion and judgment out of the equation so you do not inadvertently draw in the undesirable.
Remember, we are the creators of our occurring world. We manifest things in our lives every day. The process is as
natural to us as breathing. It comes so easily to us in fact that we have placed it on autopilot. Like air, it is everywhere we are yet invisible to our human eyes. This is why the breadcrumbs we leave ourselves through recording our experiences important. It serves as a gentle reminder of where we’ve been and what we’ve created in our lives. For the things we wish not to experience we have a road map for recognizing and avoiding the roadblocks and pitfalls, and for the things we most desire we have our individually crafted treasure maps that will lead us back to our beautiful pot of gold.
Then there are other times where our cycle is pretty darn low. Contrary to the Midas touch, it seems like everything we get our hands on turns to shit! Bills are piling up. Every phone call we receive seems to be from a creditor with their hand out. Our shin and toes seem to be magnets for the night stand and dresser as we rise to begin our day, and low and behold the crappy experiences seems to take on the feel of runaway freight train. Before we know it we’re past deadline on work projects and our boss is giving us the stink-eye. Then we leave work at the end of the day to find our car blocked in by an abandon construction truck.
This is why it’s important to leave breadcrumbs for ourselves during the positive times. There are many schools of thoughts when it comes to journaling and here’s my two cents on it. Journaling is an excellent tool for manifesting and transforming our lives. It’s a great way to purge all of the gooey sludge that gets lodged in the miniscule crevices of our minds, preventing us from seeing anything beautiful and positive because we’ve become completely bogged down by the frustrating or heartbreaking experiences our Negative-Nelly man-behind-the-curtain mind tricks us into focusing on. Before we know it we find ourselves believing this is the natural forgone conclusion of our lives. Since our thoughts precede our actions if we begin to spiral in this direction the law of attraction will suck in more and more experiences that clog our drain, which will become our predominant feeling and thus the cycle goes.
Ever notice when you’re feeling super high-on-life nothing can get you down and the happier you are the more happy news, people and experiences that seem to just pop up like toast throughout your day? This is the law of attraction at work. It is activated by our focus. The trick is to understand what we are actually focused on. Take money for instance. A lot of us (self included) have a strong desire to have more money in our experience. Whether it’s the desire to be wealthy or just to feel comfortable and secure, money is a thought on the minds of many of us these days. Knowing about the law of attraction many of us set out to create it but don’t seem to see it showing up in our lives as quickly as we’d like it to.
True to its form there are two sides, figuratively and literally, to consider when we’re looking to attracting more of it into our lives. Just like a coin there’s what we want (our desire) which is like the front side (or head) of the coin with the back side (or tail) of it representing what we’d least desire. Seems like everyone calls heads at the coin toss which represents our desired outcome but there’s a flip side. Often times we think we’re focused on what we want but what we’re really thinking about is what we don’t have. And the more we focus on something with passion and emotion the quicker we pull it in to our experience. I’ve seen this show up in my life over and over again, both on the desirable side and in its less than desirable form. It’s a pretty tricky concept to work with which is why I recommend we leave ourselves reminders of our journey.
When we’re in a happy, up cycle we need to journal about it in great detail. Writing down what we’re doing that we are enjoying and how we created getting there not only helps us in our efforts to maintain a happy, joy-filled existence it also will prove to be an invaluable tool in our arsenal. Likewise, it’s important to journal about the down-cycles. I don’t have to tell you to write about the bad stuff because human nature tends to want us to focus on what’s wrong, bad or not working but as I advise you to write down these things I have a BIG STIPULATION… “JTFM.”
“Just the facts Ma’am/Man,” should be your mantra when you are engaging in this process. Avoid delving too deeply into the story and drama of it all. Keep it simple and just record the important (relevant) facts. Do not infuse this type of journaling with a lot of emotion because whatever you pour your heart into flies right back at you at warp speed. Become an objective observer as you journal about the negative experiences you’ve had. Record the events as they occurred and the actions leading up to them. Leave emotion and judgment out of the equation so you do not inadvertently draw in the undesirable.
Remember, we are the creators of our occurring world. We manifest things in our lives every day. The process is as
natural to us as breathing. It comes so easily to us in fact that we have placed it on autopilot. Like air, it is everywhere we are yet invisible to our human eyes. This is why the breadcrumbs we leave ourselves through recording our experiences important. It serves as a gentle reminder of where we’ve been and what we’ve created in our lives. For the things we wish not to experience we have a road map for recognizing and avoiding the roadblocks and pitfalls, and for the things we most desire we have our individually crafted treasure maps that will lead us back to our beautiful pot of gold.