Your emotions are the key.
Your emotions are a critical component in the application of the Law of Attraction. Learn to listen to them—they are an important internal feedback system that tells you of your body’s visceral response to the vibrational state you are creating. You are creating this vibrational frequency with whatever you are giving your attention to—the thoughts you are thinking, the beliefs you are contemplating, the television show you are watching, the music you are listening to, the book you are reading, with whatever activity you are engaged in.
Your feelings are part of your internal guidance system. When you are feeling joy and a sense of expansion, it simply means you are on course—the things you are focusing on, the thoughts you are thinking or creating, the ideas you are entertaining, and the activities you are engaged in are actively moving you in the direction of your purpose, dreams, and desires.
When you are feeling anger, sadness, depression, and hopelessness—any feelings that give you a sense of physical contraction—then you are thinking thoughts and attending to things that are not taking you toward your purpose, dreams, or desires. This is feedback that is saying that you are off course. Your emotions are telling you that it’s time to switch gears. They are telling you that it’s time to think a more uplifting thought, change your focus, change the channel, change the topic of discussion, and go do something different that will shift your energy and bring you feelings of joy and expansion.
Love is life.
And if you miss love,
you miss life.
Leo Buscaglia
Since your vibrational state is what attracts the objects of your desire, it is imperative to keep your emotions as positive as possible. Strive to keep your emotions in the positive range—feelings like joy, love, happiness, exhilaration, satisfaction, relief, pride, appreciation, relaxation, and serenity.
These feelings will raise your vibrational level and create a “vibrational match” for the experiences that you expect to have when your dreams do come to fruition. Remember, like attracts like. That which is like unto itself is drawn. So, by deliberately creating the positive emotional states that match the feelings we will have on the completion and fulfillment of our goals and desires, we are creating an energy field that will attract what we want. This is also why learning to respond to circumstances instead of just reacting to them, and thereby managing your emotional moods, is so important.
So, do the things that make you feel good—be passionate and enthusiastic about your life! When you feel emotions fully and deeply, you radiate more intense frequencies into the universe. The stronger and more intense your feelings are, the more accelerated the process of vibrational attraction becomes.
It is absolutely essential that you find the time to do the things that you love to do and take care of yourself in this way—no matter how busy your life already is.
Researchers are discovering that what you are feeling is actually far more important than what you are thinking or saying. Your emotions never lie. They are the true indicator of the thoughts you are having and whether or not you are acting in accordance with your personal truth, your heartfelt desires. Don’t ignore them or try to reason your feelings away. First, just notice them. If they are not in the positive range (hope, expectation, acceptance, appreciation, love, and joy), either release them or simply choose a better thought. This means choosing a thought that creates a better feeling, or simply changing what it is that you are doing, and doing something that you enjoy instead. Go for a walk, put some music on, pet the cat, take charge and do something to shift you back into this positive range of emotions!
Everything you see happening is the
consequence of that which you are.
David R. Hawkins
Internal and external feedback.
Remember, joy is your internal guidance system. It is your very own personal internal feedback device. If you are feeling excited, happy, and joyful, then chances are that you are on the right track, living in alignment with your personal truth. If you are feeling depressed, sad, or miserable, you probably are not. It’s as simple as that. When you are in a state of joy or happiness, you are doing something right, so keep doing it. Pay attention to how you are feeling, and keep your compass heading set for “joy.” Your happiness at this very moment is the key to attracting more happiness in the future.
Now, in addition to this internal feedback, you are also constantly receiving external feedback—messages from the universe. This feedback comes in many forms. It consists of the subtle and not so subtle signals that you get from other people, situations, and events in your life. You have surely experienced those times when things just seem to “click,” and everything comes together for you smoothly and effortlessly. You feel supported in your actions and endeavors. This is external feedback telling you that you are on course.
In stark contrast, there are times when you meet resistance at every turn, and nothing seems to go well, no matter how hard you try. This is the universe providing external feedback to protect you and let you know that you are off course. You are swimming upstream, against the current. These internal and external feedback systems will let you know when you are on the right path and when you are on the wrong one. You simply need to learn to pay attention to what they are telling you. They will guide you, if you let them.
Every time I’ve done
something that doesn’t feel
right, it’s ended up
not being right.
Mario Cuomo
Naturally, there will be times in our lives when sadness, grief, and sorrow are present. There is a natural ebb and flow in life, and without the lows, we would not appreciate the highs. Without the darkness, we would not appreciate the light. These painful times are often highly underrated opportunities for emotional and spiritual growth. They can provide us with a much needed frame of reference and help us by contrast and comparison to recognize and appreciate the many blessings in our lives.
It is obviously more difficult to keep our thoughts and feelings positive in the face of pain and darkness. Just know that you do have a choice about how you respond to or perceive any situation. There really are no “good” or “bad” events in our lives; we just have our own preconceived ideas and perceptions about certain things that make them so for us. Everything that happens in our lives provides an opportunity to grow in some way. Try to remember that any seemingly negative event can also become the seed of something beautiful and beneficial.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences.
All events are blessings given to us
to learn from.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Positive and negative emotions.
You may have noticed that when you are feeling grateful, happy, or joyful there is a sense of lightness and expansion. You feel connected. You feel alive! This is your natural state of being. This is what your life was intended to be. Strive to live in a state of joy, wonder, and gratitude. These expansive positive emotions feel good and raise your vibrational frequency. In this place of love and joy, you are one with God, and you are a magnet for all of the beauty and abundance that the world has to offer.
Negative emotions, on the other hand, such as hatred, anger, jealousy, and fear create the opposite effect. They lower your vibrational frequency and make you feel anxious, tense, and constricted. They can create physical ailments and disease. Negative emotions invariably create a sense of separation, a feeling of disconnection. They are like a stone wall—a barrier to the joy that is who you really are. These emotions will effectively block the flow of positive energy into your life and will only serve to attract more negative energy.
So, if you have been holding onto feelings of anger, fear, resentment, or betrayal, now is the time to let them go. Release those old thoughts and patterns of behavior, and start living in the present. By focusing on your pain or anger, you are only drawing even more negative and unhealthy circumstances into your life. You need to make room for the positive feelings and experiences that you want to attract.
Anger makes you smaller,
while forgiveness forces you to
grow beyond what you were.
Cherie Carter-Scott
Forgiveness.
The act of forgiveness is a necessary and truly transformational process. You must be willing to forgive any person or situation that has caused you pain, and release them. By hanging on to old negative thoughts and emotions you are only harming yourself and attracting even more negative energy. It’s been said that when you are unwilling to forgive someone, it’s like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to get sick! So, just bless the person or the situation and wish them well. Forgive them, let them go, and be willing to forgive yourself as well, if need be.
By acknowledging your positive past and releasing your negative past—you can make room for a beautiful future. True forgiveness is extremely cathartic—it will cleanse you and set you free. It is an incredibly powerful process, one that will immediately shift you from a place of pain and anger to a higher vibrational frequency of love.
If you haven’t forgiven yourself something,
how can you expect to forgive others?
Dolores Huerta
Since the Law of Attraction responds to the energy vibration of your thoughts and emotions, you need to focus your attention on the things that bring you into a state of positive vibration. Many experts on the Law of Attraction say that nothing is more important than feeling good. So, find the time to do the things that bring you joy and make you happy. Listen to the music you love. Take a walk on the beach. Do something nice for someone else. Treat yourself well. Make a conscious decision to choose thoughts that are positive and to be a vibrational match for what you want to attract into your life. Be intentional and deliberate in your creation of positive feelings and circumstances, and the universe will respond accordingly.
You must bring yourself into
alignment with what you are asking for.
That’s what joy is, that’s what appreciation is,
that’s what the feeling of passion is.
But when you are feeling despair,
or fear, or anger, those are strong indicators
that you are not right now in alignment
with what you are asking for.
Esther Hicks
Remember, nobody else can tell you how to feel. Only you can make that decision. If you find yourself feeling bad, then you need to look at what is creating the negative feelings—it’s not the external things, it’s you, and the judgments, beliefs, ideas, and thoughts you have about those external things. So, the way you choose to perceive a situation will determine your emotional response, and you can deliberately choose to see anything and everything in a positive light.
You must make a conscious decision to choose happiness. Choose optimism. Choose to live in a place of constant gratitude and joy.
Settle for nothing less than magnificence in your life. Your emotions fuel your energy, and your energy fuels your future.
Dwell not on the past.
Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind.
Nothing really matters except
what you do now in this instant of time.
From this moment onwards
you can be an entirely different person,
filled with love and understanding,
ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and
positive in every thought and deed.
Eileen Caddy