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Zesty
Tue Mar 25 2008, 3:21pm
Hey amigos!

My flow pointed me in the direction of this forum for good times and like-minded vibrating peeps. I heard about it through Alex B, who posts on here also. I have made several desires recently to be more in tune with emotions and what I desire, hence this post.

This looks like an amazingly stellar place. I'll have to get used to the inane amount of smilies everyone uses :clap: :mrgreen:

I'm 22, and I have been aware of LOA for about 1.5 years since I watched The Secret. That movie left a bitter taste in my mouth that didn't feel completely harmonious to my being (appealing too much to popular culture by hyping materialism up, rather than joy), however the overall concept seemed to ring true to my CORE, like somehow I always KNEW it was true. That ecstatic and enigmatic feeling bubbling right beneath the surface that there is 'more to it' and all is well, but in most people is covered up with the ego. I became completely aware and mindful of this feeling, and that lead me on my journey through Abe, Seth, the enlightened bastards who were kicked off PI for being wonderfully in their flow, various books on the topic and most recently vipassana meditation and Holosync.

Over the course of this year or two, I have been able to look back on my journey. I can't see what is ahead, but I can clearly see what was behind me, emerging and standing out like stepping stones that move progressively up. I can see how my thoughts, feelings, awareness, mindfulness, feeling of oneness and generally ability to 'get it' have greatly evolved from the place where I started.

Because I have been in this for quite awhile, I haven't had as many days where I experience AMAZINGLY fucking out-of-this-world flows of source.
I remember immediately after I heard about Abraham (a week or so after I watched the secret and researched LOA online), I was in SUCH a brilliant state of PURE ECSTASY that it felt like my world was a sweet, delicious GLOWING nimbus of color and vibrant energy. I VERY distinctly remember that day because my flow was SO strong, it was probably the best feeling of wholeness and pure brilliance I have ever felt in my life. I felt instantly that I 'got it.' Well, I woke up and hehe... I didn't feel like that anymore and I couldn't understand why. That lead me to a complete breakdown... I felt so bad and it only spiraled farther down as I frantically tried to figure out what was wrong.

Well, 2 years later I have learned much about being in the moment, being non-attached, not identifying with desires or outcomes, not judging or seeing things as 'good' or 'bad.' All these concepts took a while for me to acquire through various sources, and now I feel I have a very strong logical understanding of them, but my challenge lies within my recent 'fizzling out' on my journey.

I have come to a place where I stand now where I simply can't think of any desires really. That sounds weird, but I have very enthusiastically written like 1000 desires out before when my initial ecstatic emotion was at it's strongest during the beginning of my journey. Now-- I know all is well, but I generally feel indifferent. It's obvious I should think of the next thing to feel good about, but lately in the last months I just have a general 'blah' attitude. When I 'look' for things to feel good about, or appreciate, none 'come to mind.' I can try to force it, but that's exactly it... trying and resisting.
For example, when you say "the car is red," that thought has a certain texture, a flavor and a weight. When you're completely in your flow saying "ALL IS WELL AND I FUCKING ROCK!!!" has a very very different texture, flavor and weight.

Well lately, my thoughts of gratitude and appreciation have the same texture, flavor and weight of a thought like "that car is red" or "baseballs are round." It just doesn't involve me emotionally. Because no emotion springs up, no further thoughts pop up, and I'm left with just simple thoughts with no weight that are weak like crisp autumn leaves. These aren't negative thoughts, mind you, just ones of a mild-like apathy. Perhaps it's because I've been in this for a long time and I have tried many different things, many I can think of. On one side of the coin it feels like they may help me move forward, but on the other side of the same coin, it feels like trying to do ANYTHING implies there's a problem, and thus I should do nothing. And yet when I do nothing, well.. I'm just here. Being here is grand, but even when I obsolve into the moment I don't have those amazing days like I did when I first started. Perhaps that is because I have gone round and round with this for months and months, and it's like a catch 22 paradox that I don't know how to get out of. I don't do anything and I just feel bland, desires don't have emotion, but then TRYING to do anything (such as finding things to be grateful for) ends up causing resistance because it's somehow inherently showing there is something 'to be solved.'

I do have my good days where I will be more in tune with flow, and I'll actually feel very enthusiastic and AWESOME. These happen maybe a few times a week. Mixed in are just as many days where I feel like how I described above... knowing that I can feel SO MUCH MORE, but for some reason not being there. The answer is quite obvious, what ideally I would do. Do what feels good... and be in the moment, but I find that with an idle mind I have a lot of random noise that doesn't aid in anything, and 'trying' to detach from it generally goes WELL for ... an hour, before I'm back to my same 'self' again.
It's like I have tried making a vision board numerous times, and every time the next day I'm back at square one where I don't really care anymore.

This is kind of rambling, hehe.. This is oh so tricky to explain because of it's innately paradoxical nature :mrgreen:

Basically my desire is to get to a place where 99% of my thoughts and feelings have INCREDIBLE weight, texture, and FLAVOR. Delicious positive, glorious flavor which just beams with positivity and good feelings. I feel like a mind like that could just FLOW OVER any possible negative thought that comes in. Creative power would be extremely POTENT and powerful. Creativity would flow so effortlessly... When I read abraham I FEEL like that, those words come across the page with such vivacity and power.

20 minutes after I put the book down, or 20 minutes after i write down 50 things I appreciate... I'm back to this... my mind seems to have lots of idle random thoughts and no weight... not enough to get the snowball rolling.

Everytime i get the snowball started to roll down the hill to get bigger, the sun comes out, and then it melts. after all the snow is melted... is snows again, and i have to start to reroll a snowball into something big... then the sun comes out before it rolls down the hill. etc. hehe

When I envision the person who has really gotten to a place of FEELING GOOD much of the time, like esther or a CEO of a good corporation (maybe they don't know of LOA, but they are very aware of the way thoughts affect them, and they always have very disciplined minds), I see them as having that awesome mindset. I can't seem to 'allow in' this mindset though because allowing is just PASSIVE. But when I set forth to consciously THINK and APPRECIATE, to be ACTIVE in developing this mindset, this 'thinking' and 'trying' tends to just cause resistance rather than moving towards that FLOWING mindset that is ALWAYS aware and mindful and ENJOYING that I oh so so desire.

How do I get THERE.

With love and threesomes :dance: :mrgreen:

Nattydread
Tue Mar 25 2008, 4:24pm
Hi Zesty~
You indeed DO ROCK, so why are you limiting yourself?
I think it's just a simple matter of switching your perspective to a Positive Expectation.
In other words, move your focus away from the "two-sided coin"...
See the limitlessness of your Divine Genius.

It's obvious you've already asked...

"Basically my desire is to get to a place where 99% of my thoughts and feelings have INCREDIBLE weight, texture, and FLAVOR. Delicious positive, glorious flavor which just beams with positivity and good feelings. <snip> Creative power would be extremely POTENT and powerful. Creativity would flow so effortlessly..."

Your words & vibe flow as in a passionate dance... Yummy.

And you know that it's been given...
Remember, it's not your job to figure out "how"...
Or to do an "Action Journey"...
Just EXPECT it to happen.
Is "Expectation" passive???

There are infinite ways for the
"brilliant state of PURE ECSTASY" to flow to you.
How do you get THERE?
By talking as if you are ALREADY THERE...
"No more paradox... Only a blissful, vibrant flow of energy just like I experienced the other day..." :love: (<---I couldn't resist that one, y'know.)

AttractionFactor
Tue Mar 25 2008, 4:45pm
Hey Zest,

Your signature line is very creative and funny.

...ha...ha... I'm laughing right now.

HA! HA!

OK. I can stop now, and just enjoy the laugh.

Since I was laughing and it made me feel better, I'm going to
focus on that emotion because I've had a bitchin day
at work and I would rather feel better than to feel
like a "bitch."

Ha! Ha!

Abraham teachings are about focus. It can be summed up
by this quote "You get what you focus upon... there is no other
main rule."

So you have a choice to focus on feeling good or on feeling worse.

For example if you were to write a funny story about pimps
and life, and see how that makes you feel, and if it feels better,
then you got it. You would focus on that feeling, as much as you can,
since it feels better.

Law of Attraction would be serving you since you
would be in a state of allowing since your focus would
be on feeling good only.

And you would continue to focus in that direction.

However if you were to write a story that your life is not
working out the way you want it, you just aint pimpin
and life's been bitchin, and it makes you feel worse, then you
don't got it. You would be focusing on the feeling that made
you feel worse.

Law of Attraction would not be serving
you if your focus was on feeling worse.

So you should focus on feeling better.

That sums up Abraham: feeling better or feeling worse.
If you can just focus on feeling better, and stay there
deliberately, you would be like Esther and the CEO that
you talked about. Enlightened!

You won't be no bitch; you would be pimpin!

Steve

sara
Tue Mar 25 2008, 6:05pm
DEAR ZESTY, :welcome:

I think that I understand where you are coming from...I am there a bit today ...and Steve has great wisdom for you as does Natty!!!
We are all in this together and We all (even Esther) have days or moments when we feel like you do now...and it is just small steps, one at a time, in each moment to take..as Steve said to choose the better feeling thought.....We can not expect to bliss out every day and every moment when we are just starting out...remember that Esther and Jerry have been at this for over 20 years and they are still not perfectly blissing out all the time...I think that we need to go easy on ourselves and love ourselves right now where ever we are in the stream=NOW= LOVE ZESTY!!! Just like he is all perfect and wanting more for himself tomorrow (like us all).

So if you are not now in #1 on the emotional scale....if you are down the scale and into maybe #22..I will help you out right now by giving you an opportunity to get mad as Hell cuz I am one of those gals that just loves these smileys and here they come to help drive you up the emotional scale!!! HA HA :)))))))))))))))) rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl
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Zesty
Tue Mar 25 2008, 9:50pm
Before I read these replies, something amazing happened today.

After I posted this I sent off a 'rocket of desire' (not that kind... not at the moment anyway :D) to evolve into a new mindset passively. Just to GO there to a new mindset without trying to do anything or trying to control my mind.
All the sudden at work I noticed I was more in my flow than I have been in a very long time. I guess just posting that really allowed me to let go and let go and let go and let it come right in

Rock out!