In doing my morning non-negotiables (Abraham Hicks and Wii Fit Plus), I started thinking of the inaugural class of Get in Gear for the Next Tier and all the good work you’ve done.
As I moved through my light workout, I started thinking about how many changes you’ve experienced as a result of mindfully and consistently doing the INNER work along with taking control of all the Self-Management for Actors tools that help you get to the next tier.
This MP3 came up in rotation as my thoughts turned to how you might explain to others who ask, “What happened?!?” as you’re shining so brightly and having so much more fun along the way — whether the outer manifestations of your next tier have materialized or not at this point — and, well, as often happens, Abraham Hicks plopped the response to my wonderings right in my lovely lap.
Be the lighthouse.
Love you beautiful people! Stay inspired!
WOW. So I listened to this 4 times! 🙂
I love Abraham Hicks. I can practically FEEL my mind EXPANDING.
“I don’t believe in being a realist, I believe in being a creator of reality.” BRILLIANT.
Bonnie, thank you for ALL these treasures!!!!! YOU are a treasure! Thank you! 🙂
I love curating goodies for you, Laura. 🙂 So glad you enjoyed this as much as I did (and do). It just leapt out as a MUST SHARE item!!
Goooooood stuff! That line stood out for me, too, Laura! I find myself having to teach positive thinking to my husband a lot, but not like “think positively!” (which is what I used to do and then looked like a hypocrite when I was in an “unshakeable” bad mood), but “here’s what I am doing right now to work on this for myself. Git on this train, papichulo! It ain’t always easy but it IS rewarding! Let’s find this joy party together!!!” Also, loving the beginning of “War of Art” that I just started. Resistance is one rude dude and I will punch him in the face.
Thank you!! 🙂
Ooh, get ready for greatness with that War of Art train, girl. With the getting the hubs to come along thing, something that always worked beautifully when Keith would use it on me (yes, I recognize better what works by watching how Keith used it on me vs. what I’ve used on him, because I can’t know for sure the impact of that) is that I would grouse about something and he would say, “I love you but I can’t come out of my great mood to join you in that complaining,” and it was like a smack in the face of greatness! Because OF COURSE I would rather join HIM in the *not* complaining about whatever it was. OR I would really have to look at why I was looking for company in the lower vibrational place. GOOD stuff!
That’s GREAT! Nice move, Keith! I’m gonna work on this!
He knows some things. 😉
WOW!
That is AWESOME, Liz! This was very powerful for me: “Here’s what I am doing right now to work on this for myself.”
I’ve still been toggling with how to handle The Down’s since AH seems to encourage finding “a better feeling thought,” but it makes me feel like I might be trying to avoid sadness or depression by doing that. I don’t know. I’m usually VERY up, so when the Down’s hit me, it’s disconcerting. The tapping seems to help because it’s recognition of what’s going on in me, and by doing that, it releases.
Listening to this – and the other Mindset MBA piece about creating, because creating seems to LIFT me up, I also found this AH speech on depression:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndqcg4_Zbpo
“It’s good for you to feel good.” Changing vibration…. SO interesting!
Thank you, Bonnie, for reminding me of this incredible spiritual speaker.
This is Laura
Laura, I’ll ask you to consider why it is you think “avoiding sadness or depression” is a bad thing. I mean, if the primary reason we want ANYTHING in life is because we believe we’ll feel good in the having of it, what’s wrong with finding that “better feeling thought” at every moment? I’m just curious why it is you feel there’s a negative component to avoiding FEELING BAD? (Notice I’m not saying “avoiding issues that need dealing with,” I’m really focusing on the exact words you’ve said because they’ve made me quite curious.)
I love you, Bon. 🙂 Thank you for your thoughtful questions.
I think I got confused because my therapist was encouraging me to “feel my feelings.” There’s a lot of avoidance in my family, and I was concerned that by trying to get out of the depression (move up the AH scale), I might be avoiding it. Yet listening to the AH speech on depression made me feel better because I was changing the focus.
So I went home last night and journaled about it, and i discovered the WHY of the depression, which was that I was mourning the past because I was fearful I wouldn’t have that joy again in the future. Part of this had to do with closing Steel Magnolias, which was natural, I know, but it’s been over a month that I’ve been waking up with this depression in my gut, and that bothered me, because that’s not my natural state. You know me! 🙂
I noticed the sadness changed when I got back into acting class, when I started creating again, so there was a clue there, but it’s only a weekly thing, and I realize I want/need to be creating daily. HINT: Get to work on content creation, Laura!
So when I realized the sadness came from focusing on what I don’t have, on what I’m NOT doing, I realized I could change that by focusing on what I DO have, and focusing on how I want to feel, what I want to do, and taking steps to do it!
The Work session you did with Jen Ponton – I don’t know how I found that on your site, because it’s from last year, but I was being guided, I think, and it – helped me with this. I started writing about gratitude in my journal, and my husband and I went to bed last night, talking about 3 things we’re grateful. And you know what happened? I woke up with the idea, “What do you want to create today?” So I’m really going to focus on that.
Having the tools of SMFA is so helpful, because I came into my deskjob and had time to update my Show Bible, and I’m going to open a word doc and start writing that script that’s been begging for attention. I’m scared, but I’m also curious and excited about seeing what I can create today.
So here I go! 🙂
I! Love! This! (And you.) *smooch*
THINGS ARE ALWAYS WORKING OUT FOR YOU
loooooove this!!!! new screen saver
I used this just today. I was in traffic and right as I got up to the light at which I needed to make a left turn, it went yellow, therefore stopping all the cross traffic so I could just make my turn without even slowing down. Then I made it through the next intersection just as the light was changing. Instead of saying, “Phew! Glad I made it!” at each of those moments, I said, “Y’know why that happened? Because THINGS ARE ALWAYS WORKING OUT FOR ME.” And then I thought, “Ooh… I need to share the choice to always reinforce SEEING things that way with my woo-woo crew.” And here you are, having brought comments back up on my admin dashboard here, giving me the perfect opportunity to share exactly this.
Y’know why? Because THINGS ARE ALWAYS WORKING OUT FOR ME. 😉
WOW WOW WOW!!!! Thank you! 🙂
LOVE YOU! 🙂
Things are always working out for me.
I just raised my vibration. 🙂
Thank you, Bonnie.
I had to come back to this, because I saw this message again today: “THINGS ARE ALWAYS WORKING OUT FOR ME,” and I felt resistance to it. My critical side, which has been rearing up lately, said, “Really?” And I was like, “YEAH! Why not?” And then the vulture, as Jack calls it, tried to start a list of why I might not to deserve to have that, but it didn’t hold water, because I thought, “NEW CHOICE! I DO deserve to feel good, to have things work out for me,” and there goes my vibration, rising again. 🙂
Anyone else go through this?
Wow! Good work, Laura! Bree asks us, “How does my SOUL see this?” when those ego snaps from the vulture come back in too powerfully to fight. That always helps me settle down and get back into that state of enoughness. Sometimes it takes more time or effort than I’d like, but it does always reset… eventually. 🙂 I just have to get out of my own damn way!
Love this, Bonnie. Love YOU!
YESSSSS!!!!!
Had to share this with y’all, as this has been really resonant for me:
On being prepared: “You don’t throw someone into the middle of a raging sea and use that time to teach them how to swim. Their success rate is very low under those conditions. But really good swimmers can survive and actually enjoy very rough waters. It’s about pre-paving… You usually teach someone to swim in calm water until they get their confidence.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj0iNZjQ0CU
Ooh! Another one that’s NEW to me. Thank you, Laura! XO
can’t wait to watch this, thank you Laura!!
Hey Alexandra, it’s actual audio only but it’s a good listen 🙂
Hurray for woo-woo! I think I need to focus more deliberately. No,I *know* I need to focus more deliberately and make my goals and intention not only clear to myself, but to the universe.
I’ve been putting it off, and I think tonight post-shower, post-yoga is going to be the perfect time to sit down and do that, which will translate and affect every other stress/concern/problem I’ve been batting around lately.
The thing that’s been resonating with me this week, and it’s from listening to AH clips on Youtube, is to get in receiving mode. I’m so used to focusing and pushing my intention out there. I’m realizing how important it is to be in receiving mode, to allow intentions to manifest without pushing or pulling or forcing. It’s an interesting place to be, and one I’m not used to being in, so I’m breathing it in.
What can you allow yourself to receive today?
That is the work, isn’t it, Laura?
Receiving Mode – I think that is something that I struggle with but * I am working to get better at*. I tend to do all the work at getting my intention out there and trying to set so many things in motion and just put in this massive amount of effort. Then, I get uncomfortable waiting to receive things.
Think about breathing. Think about your blood running through. Think about your hair growing. Your skin. Your nails. Think about the creation of POOP or BOOGERS or anything else your body creates out energy in another form! How much effort a day do you spend on breathing? On your heartbeat? On CREATING poop?
When you really think about the things that come effortlessly, we are ALWAYS in receiving mode for them… so we actually have a TON of practice with this. We just have to apply it to other areas of our lives. Just try. The next time you poop… think about me. 😉 You know what I mean!
That made me laugh so hard, Bonnie! 🙂 But the point is definitely taken. The EASE of it all! “When you really think about the things that come effortlessly, we are ALWAYS in receiving mode for them.” YES! Thank you! 🙂
Because I could spend all day listening to Abraham Hicks, I had to share this new one I found about the importance of meditation and “allowing.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQO0ULi0NwQ
Good one! Thank you!
** Everything is always working out for me** I LOOOOOVEEEE THIS!
I also loved how she said, ” I am a creator of reality not an observer of reality.”
Another takeaway for me was when she talked about “flying high” and how if people are bothering you, you aren’t flying high enough. That made me stop and think for a minute. I liked that! I am going to give it another listen and see what else resonates with me the 2nd time around.
Absolutely. When I get “hit,” I just say, “Ooh… I was a low-flying target then!” And up the emotional scale I go!
Found another AH talk which reminded me of so many things I’ve seen in the Dojo, and this got me SO excited!
“Buy a notebook and call it your Book of Positive Aspects… Inspiration to act in new ways will begin to occur to you. And as the inspiration occurs, follow through with it in the moment that you can. Move in the direction of it.” BRILLIANT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN8kaQntAG8
Love!!
“This is a good day.” I’ve been meditating with this one almost daily since the summer and I’ve actually expanded it for situations. For example, I’m working through a fear of flying, which is fascinating because I fly at least twice a year, but turbulence scares me, so on my two recent bumpy flights, I affirmed, “This is a good flight,” and they were! It was amazing to sit in this place of peace and expansiveness.
Hope you dig it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kMQhQFWBjc
Thank you!
This is one of my favorite Vault goodies.
Combined with Day 15, starting my day with Abraham Hicks definitely aids my best, Next Tier self. I feel my vibration raise higher. I feel more relaxed and expanded.
This Rampage to Activate the Receiving Mode is one of my favorites. I’ve listened to it several times, but new info came to me today. “If you’re worried that someone will judge you… then you’re not in the receptive mode. The receptive mode is all you have to give to anyone. When you are in the Receptive Mode, you are in the Replenishing mode, and when you’re in the replenished mode, then you have good timing. When you’re in the receptive mode then everything (will) rendezvous for you.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7df4g20js&t=676s
Hope you’re having a great day!
Outstanding! Love the treasures you ALWAYS find, Laura!
Hey ninjas!
While I wait for my new woo woo track to arrive, I kept exploring AH and came across this new video that reeeeeally resonated with me! It also made me think of the relationship track.
Hope it’s as helpful to you as it was to me. Mind you, I need to watch it at least another 3 times to reeeeeally absorb all this goodness! Haha
https://youtu.be/01EI7LXJxCA
Xx
I. Just. Love. Them. So. MUCH!!!
A nice little woo-woo hit for the afternoon; as I look out my window to a sunny open sky, the words “fly higher” arrive. 🙂
Perfection!
Not sure how I got here today but everything really is always working out for me because the thing I needed reminding was, “You can’t get sick enough to help sick people get well, you can’t get ornery enough to help ornery people get happy, you can’t get unsuccessful enough to help unsuccessful people get successful” I just wrote it on an index card to carry with me in my notebook. “The best you can do is keep flying high and they’ll catch on or they won’t but it’s really not your problem.” OMG. I love this so much I’d like to kiss it. 🙂
Thank you for sharing this at Expansive Capacity, Laura. Yes, it’s so important to remember we don’t help others with ANYTHING by becoming what they are. It’s just not possible.