Angry, Sad, happy Your Choice

By sandralongmore | Published January 11, 2012
Feeling Is A Choice

Feeling Is A Choice

Sunday morning Sandy Jean sits in front of her computer with a cat in her lap.  She remembers in the book Power vs. Force that a Cat’s purr calibrates at a high feel good number.  There is a debate about what feelings calibrate higher in the scientific world but to her in this moment with the cat in her lap she feels happy.  Sandy Jean is interested in the feeling scales because she has been learning and experiencing that we really are suppose to feel good and that through becoming a deliberate creator we can reach good feeling states.

The other day while at her local grocery store she was strolling down the meat counter when she observed the butcher coming toward her.  She observed  his nostrils were were flared and he was breathing  like a bull right before they let him out of the pen with a unwanted rider on their backs at a rodeo that she didn’t want to be in his way.  She quickly swerved her cart as he sped past her and utters some words to a customer trying to cover his agitation with a customer service smile.  The customer uttered words of equal intensity back at him and they went back and forth for a few min and then both turned and left.  The customer was still ranting as she pushed her cart toward the front of the store. As Sandy Jean began rolling her cart down the same isle she thought of the feeling scale and Law of Attraction.  This was a perfect match of feeling states between the butcher and the customer.  Neither had wanted any other state of mind at that moment and the emotional energy was too charge to be shifted.  It was a perfect example of Law of Attraction.  Sandy Jean was smiling now, as she was grateful to have observed the law in a scenario that she was not emotionally in the middle.

Law of Attraction is operating all the time.  It is auniversal law like gravity.  To become a deliberate creator you must practice where you are putting focus, energy, and feeling.  We continually define our own reality word-by-word, thought-by-thought, and feeling-by-feeling.

Four Tips for Deliberate Attraction Creation:

  1. It is interesting to look at feeling charts and you can check out several at this site or just Google feeling scale
  2. To deliberately create your own reality study “The Law of Attraction.
  3. Daily write down proof of what you are attracting in your journal.
  4. Law of Attraction is like learning a foreign language like Spanish, or French.
  1. Summary

Life really is suppose to be fun all of it the highs and lows.  True integration comes with all the emotions on the feeling scales.  No one can do this for us.  Our own daily experience will provide us with enough learning and entertainment once you become a deliberate observer and creator.

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Eating Ice Cream Should be fun!!!

By sandralongmore | Published January 3, 2012
Eating Ice Cream Should be fun!!!

Eating Ice Cream Should be fun!!!

Vampire’s and zombie horrors reached Sandy Jean’s ears as she was guiding her art students through their creative projects.  She announced to the class this is an Art Class and all we need to know is how to create Art and think of wonderful things.

Feeling she had soothed the rumbles of impending doom and that the talk of monsters had passed, she went happily around her art room until she came to a little six-year-old girl and her basic shape exercise.  With great flourish Sandy Jean drew an example of how a triangle could be made into an ice cream with drips and a cherry on top.  This was an exercise that new students always loved and she was surprised when the little girl hid her eyes and said, “I don’t like that ice cream cone”.

Sandy Jean was confused.  She had never heard that emotional reaction  from any  child she had shown the ice cream exercise.  Wanting to be a  good teacher and also very curious Sandy Jean asked, why don’t you like that ice cream cone?  The student uncovered her eyes and looked at her with tears in her big brown eyes and said because it has FANGS.

Sandy Jean looked at the cone and sure enough the way the drips were did resemble fangs if you had that thought in your mind.  Being quick to sooth and create an enjoyable artistic moment Sandy Jean quickly wiped out the offending drips on the cone and carefully redrew drips that the young artist could associate with her favorite ice cream.  The little girl proudly  looked at the new drawing of the ice cream cone that was made of her favorite flavoring, Peanut Butter Chocolate chip with a red cherry on top and smiled big as she said “I like that ice cream cone and it is fun to eat ice cream.  I am going to ask mom if we can stop tonight to have one because I drew a new one that tastes good.

This story was a perfect example of how words create thoughts and thoughts create feelings and feelings create results.

Tips for attracting good feeling thoughts

Discriminate about what you choose to watch or read.

Become aware of what you are thinking and feeling.

If you are thinking thoughts that make you feel weak shift them to a better feeling thought.

Know that practice makes perfect and perfect feels so good.

We live in a world of wonder and diversity and it is almost impossible to only listen to positive things all the time but with practice we can learn to pivot our thoughts from negative to positive.  It is a law that we attract exactly what we think.  The Law of Attraction teaches that our words create thoughts and thoughts create feeling and feelings create results.  We are word for word thought for thought and feeling for feeling right now in this exacting moment

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Pivot your negative thoughts

By sandralongmore | Published December 28, 2011
Pivot your negative thoughts

Pivot your negative thoughts

Sandy Jean is disturbed by the fearful thoughts that are filling up her mind and she wants to change them.  As she thinks about how to do this she remembers a process from the Law of Attraction Book by Abraham-Hicks called the focus wheel. She signs deeply with appreciation as she knows she can get relief from these thoughts that fill her mind by the process of the focus wheel.  She has used it on clients in the past and many times on her self sometimes as much as five times a day with wonderful success. Sandra Jean knows from experience that the focus wheel is a process to get you into a good feeling place so that everything shifts in her favor.  She has been on the sweet spot on the focus wheel so many times that now not being there in that sweet spot feels awful. Today she is riding in a car on her way to Spokane, Washington, with her husband, Lawrence, to visit their daughter and son in law and their grandchild and she is feeling uneasy about the weather.  In the past this same drive has taken several hours longer of dangerous driving when there was snow and icy conditions.

One year they passed 12 cars that had slid off the road because of ice on the road. Sandy Jean received a text from her daughter, as they got closer to Spokane telling her that the roads were slick and it was starting to snow.  As Sandy Jean glanced at her husband she saw a beautiful peaceful smile on his lips as he sings “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas with Johnnie Mathis on the radio and she makes a decision.  I am not going to tell him of the text I just got from our daughter about the possible fearful weather conditions that await them.  Instead She reaches into the back seat and opens up her briefcase and pulls her red moleskin journal where she had been keeping her focus wheels. Pen in hand she draws a small circle and enters in the middle of the circle with her pen my now moments are always guided by my highest source, the power that creates worlds. The idea of the process is to hold a vibration of what you desire for 17 sec or more and your reality will be one that you desire and in this case not fear based.  In the middle of the circle she writes, I love knowing the power that creates worlds is unfolding and orchestrating a wonderful drive to Spokane and around the circle she writes:

- I can feel my heart beating in anticipation of this power working for my highest good on small things and big things.

- I am so happy that I have learned how to pivot energy

- I love feeling happy now and about my future with Lawrence.  We are making plans for travel, and fixing up our house.

- I feel so happy with the happy times of this Christmas and it feels like past Christmases are all melding into happy feelings May all people be happy May all Christmases be happy.

- I am excited to learn how to work with the power that creates worlds

- I love thinking that this focused thinking of more than 17 sec. has made my vibration come up into positive expectation so good comes to me and those I love which is all of you from the power that creates world

I have great positive feelings now in the car as the radio gaily sings “Let it snow”, Let it snow.  As we enter Spokane it is snowing but it is the kind of snow scene you see in the movies and my heart feels warm and as I see the glow a porch light and my family standing in the door way waiting for us with the love of Christmas in their hearts and I think May all Christmases be happy for all the loved ones in the world.

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Laughter is Good Medicine

By Traci Vincent | Published December 26, 2011

two female teenage friendsHave you ever noticed that your day can completely change for the better when someone smiles at you? How about the mood boost that comes from a moment of laughter with others? It is difficult to feel negative when you are surrounded by laughter. Laughter has been said to be contagious. Is this a coincidence or are we designed that way?

Scientists have been studying laughter all the way back since the time of Aristotle.  Current research indicates that laughter is an evolutionary tool that bonds social groups together.  Through connection, social groups excel and progress. But what produces that “feel good” feeling that we get with laughter?

The act of laughing, the movement of the muscles that produce laughter, stimulates endorphins in the brain.  These are the chemicals that increase our pain tolerance and help create that “feel good” feeling.  This is physiology 101.  When we have more endorphins, our perception of pain is altered and our perception of life is altered for the better.  Scientists have more to learn about the brain, but they proven that endorphins are powerful in changing our mood and our performance.

So next time you are having a tough day, find a way to laugh. Your brain and your body will thank you.

Traci Vincent

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Three Sneaky Ways to Cheat Yourself into Feeling Happy

By Luis Rosario | Published December 16, 2011

Sometimes, you just don’t want to be happy.  I mean, you say you want to.  You think you want to.  But you don’t really want to, because you mope or youThe Secret to Happinesswhine or you just grunt. Yes, there are times when we can all be our own worst enemy.

But you can trick yourself into being happy against your own will.  Here are three sneaky tricks you can use against yourself…and the best part is that you will never be the wiser.

SMILE

Yes, pretty sneaky, isn’t it?  Who cares how miserable you are.  Smile anyway.  This is the sneakiest of all the tricks, because it works on multiple levels.

First, the minute you smile, the muscles in your face move so as to increase the blood flow to the pleasure centres of your brain.  Yes, happiness makes you smile, but smiling also makes you feel happy.

But wait!  There’s more.  When you smile, it prompts people to smile back at you.  This is the law of reciprocity at work.  Smiling is contagious.  Yes, by smiling you not only make yourself happy – you make people around you happy, too.

But wait!  There’s still more.  We’ve just noted that smiling makes you feel happy.  And smiling is contagious.  So you want to surround yourself by smiling people, who will infect you with smiling, which will make you happy.  Now where on earth will you find a group of smiling people?  Hmmm….aha!  You create this group by smiling yourself, making them smile, which in turn makes you smile.  Like I said, smiling works on so many levels.

SLEEP

If smiling is too tough, try sleeping.  This is also a sneaky tactic, because it works on so many levels to help you feel happiness.

First, when you sleep, you can put aside worries, frustrations, anger, stress and fatigue – all things that might be making you feel unhappy.  When you wake up, you can start over with a clean slate.

I did mention fatigue. Well-rested people are a lot less likely to get frustrated and feel stress and act grumpy and let things get to them.  So sleep not only reduces your burdens, but is great preventative medicine, too.

APPRECIATE

Every notice how excited you are when buying a new car.  And you are still excited about it a few weeks later.  But a year later,  who cares?  You spend a huge amount of money for a big rush of joy, and then…well, the car is still convenient, but it is no longer bringing you pleasure.  What a waste of money.

But what if you took a few moments to look around at all the things you take for granted.  It is so very hard to feel unhappy when you think how fortunate you are to have all the stuff around you.  A paper clip appreciated will make you happier than a cottage or a car or whatever you take for granted.

So these are three sneaky ways to cheat yourself into feeling happy.  It might not be ethical to play such tricks on someone like yourself, but I suspect that your victim might just forgive you.

Guest Blogger: David Leonhardt is author of Climb Your Stairway to Heaven: The 9 Habits of Maximum Happiness.  He blogs at the Self-Help Happiness Blog.

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