Creating My World

I'm reminded again how important it is to use creative visualization and emotional investment in creating my reality. What brought this on was because in my imagination, I've been previewing the end of my world as I know it, otherwise known as worrying about my financial situation. It felt like the world was closing in on me.

As an antidote, I decided to re-read the Abraham books for a crash course correction. It's obviously not going to self-correct, so I knew I'd have to do something different. Truth is, I've worried about money since I was a child, taking on the predominant concerns in my family of origin. Old habits of thought and feeling are hard to reroute without a map of the new terrain, and that's what these books provide.

I'm using metaphysical principles to consciously change how I think and feel about money issues. It's like it says in the Bible, "As a man thinks, so is he."

I'd like to take it one level deeper and say "as a man believes, so is he." It's the beliefs that create the reality. Beliefs are simply thoughts held and run so frequently that they become ruts. As I believe myself to be financially impoverish, so I am.

And to move beyond it, I can't just think differently once in a while. I have to take it on, heart and mind: feel myself to be comfortably well off while knowing what's actually in my bank account. It's called "acting as if it were so," but the kicker is it can't be mental pretend. It has to migrate to the emotional matrix.

The next step is to be able to relax with what is, expecting and believing it is changing, without my having to take physical action to force the changes. Now that's a stretch! Long ago, I bought into the dominant belief pattern of most of the world, which says you have to set a goal, plan, work hard and MAKE things happen.

But as Abraham says, "the real work is in changing your vibration," meaning the thought patterns and emotional responses. Further, the book makes it clear that you gauge how far you've progressed by how emotionally comfortable you are. You are looking for emotional relief and ease.

I'm getting there. It's a question of inner attitude and my feeling levels. I have managed to move from chronic anxiety to calm ease, but I still need to get to happy expectation. In the process of making these adjustments, I've learned I can change my emotional responses by changing my attitude toward the offending subjects.

I'll let you know how it turns out. I've had successes in other areas using these principles, and I realized it was time to tackle this one. In the meantime, I highly recommend the Abraham-Hicks material along with the Louise Hay products if you truly want to effect changes in various areas of your life.

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