could be that easy, to give up our right to feel sorry for ourselves, to
relinquish the comfort we take in knowing a thing
or two based on our past
experiences, and to, erm, take responsibility for our lives instead of being
like,
I can barely afford to buy a bag of Fritos, how am I supposed to hire
someone to get my Web site up and running?
Meanwhile, we use our mighty power of focus all the time and we don’t
even realize it—we use it to create unhappiness in our lives via our dear pal
worry.
Worrying is praying for stuff you don’t want.
Because you’re focused on the worst possible scenario and all the
reasons you can’t possibly have what you want, and there are lots of
emotions and specifics and faith involved,
you create more of what you
don’t want over and over with expert precision. But the beautiful news is, if
you’re one of those people who are particularly skilled at worrying, this
means your focus muscle is in great shape, and all you have to do is choose
to focus in a different direction.
Let’s say, for example, that you’re twenty thousand dollars in debt,
you’ve got twelve children you need to support, you hate your job, and you
live in a shoe. Choosing to focus on these
aspects of your reality and
freaking out about them will do the following:
Anchor in the belief that your life sucks the big one.
Trigger thoughts about how hopeless your situation is.
Activate emotions of terror and sadness and loseriness.
Inspire you to get in the fetal position.
Now, ’twere you to make the conscious choice to shift your focus and
view the very same situation in a new light, such as:
When I needed twenty
thousand dollars it was there for me, which means if I need money again it
will be there for me again, I’m so grateful I have money coming in from my
job, and believe that since I got a job once, I can get an even better job,
because I am clearly very hirable, I am surrounded by love and family, and
I live in a shoe—how cool is that?!
This new perspective allows you to:
Anchor in the belief that you have things to be grateful for.
Trigger thoughts about how blessed you are.
Activate emotions of joy and hope and excitement.
Inspire you to get out there and make more awesome stuff happen.
Changing your focus to the positives of what you have and what you
desire changes your attitude and raises your frequency so you can align
your energy with, and open yourself up to, everything you need to change
your life: the moneymaking opportunities you didn’t notice before, the
people you can help and
the people who can help you, and the ability to
visualize a bigger life for yourself. It also sends thoughts of what you
desire, not what you fear, out to Universal Intelligence, so it can start
moving it toward you.
Here’s another important aspect of focus:
It’s impossible to focus on one thing and see another.
Which is why when you’re trapped in worry, you not only keep creating
more of it, you literally can’t see all the other possibilities that are
surrounding you.
For example, once when I had a hankering
for a tuna fish sandwich, I
went to the pantry to grab a can and found my craving crushed under the
realization that I was tunaless. The little blue can of albacore was nowhere
to be found (insert sad trombone sound here). Right before I left the pantry
in defeat, I thought to myself,
I KNOW I have some damn tuna, so I kept
looking and suddenly, lo and behold,
right in front of my face, there
appeared two cans of tuna. The thing is, the cans were red, not the usual
blue (I switched brands, you see), and because I was looking for blue, not
red, I did not see them.
I’m sharing this lunchtime suspense thriller with you because it
illustrates how often we miss out on the golden financial opportunities, life-
changing connections, and heart-opening experiences that we crave because
we’re
stuck in old ways of thinking, believing, and hence, focusing.
When you focus on your past, you are blind to your present.
You are the master of your reality, and your perception is manning the
control knobs.
EMOTION
When it comes to ramping it up to rake in the dough, any positive thoughts
you’re choosing to think that lack emotion are flaccid, useless, and
windbaggy.
Affirmations like I love money, money flows to me effortlessly, I
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