Hello beautiful people!
Let’s get emotional!
Of course, I got past that belief, but it took a pretty significant amount of work in my adult life. It’s work I’m *still* doing today. I’m certain I chose a career in an industry committed to expression through storytelling so that I could be “allowed” to let emotions swirl freely, because I spent so much of my life fearing them.
As with most things in my life, though (and as evidenced by the work I’m having you do all through this course), I found there is power in labeling. “What’s that feeling?” “That’s fear.” “Oh, okay. Is there a risk of physical danger?” “No.” “So, how do we fix that kind of fear?” “We love the hell out of it.” “Got it.” Repeat, repeat, repeat.
In 2008, I was faced with a cancer scare and a dear friend said, “From the day they take stuff out to biopsy ’til the day you go in for the results, you listen to this,” while handing me a hard drive filled with Abraham-Hicks MP3s. I had never heard of Abraham-Hicks at that point, but I dutifully started listening (and have never stopped). I’m still convinced — especially due to everything the medical team said about the “disturbing” and “disconcerting” things they were seeing, going in — that my focused attention on my nonphysical state (and away from my fear) had everything to do with the results everyone was shocked to deliver at the end of this little experience.
Feelings first. Everything else we experience follows.
Listen up!
I’ve asked you to do some deep emotional work in this course. I’m not finished asking this of you. It’s all in service of the next-tier you that you committed to meeting when we started this journey together.
Nothing about staying low on the emotional scale for a moment longer than you absolutely must is serving you. Ever. You don’t get bonus points in Heaven for having struggled through your time on Earth. You don’t get a larger trophy for having fought harder to win at a tough game. You don’t get to prove that you earned your riches because you went through Hell to get them.
This life, this journey, this whole dang ride can be EASY. It can be joy-filled. It can be gifts from the universe delivered one after the next after the next in ways that make others scratch their heads, as all logic is defied by the efficiency with which we collect the abundance that is waiting for us… if we’d just lean into it more often, more consistently, more joyfully.
But this is not easy work, y’all. Here’s what I mean: From an evolutionary perspective, we are wired to experience FIVE core emotions. Everything else is an extension of those five emotions — and only one of them is a positive one.
Here is a quick vid from our Expansive Capacity mastermind, to get you up to speed with this.
See, we are evolutionarily wired for negative emotions as they contribute to our survival far more than positive ones. When I dug in on the science behind this I was elated to learn that it’s not a PROBLEM that we “go negative” so often. In fact, it means we’re fighting to survive — exactly as we’re designed to do from an evolutionary perspective. Rewiring the convo is a part of our modern evolution. This is how we break out of survival mode and into our next-tier reality as the new normal… without upper-limit problems.
If you prefer a less linear measuring device, use the Mood Meter map or the Mood Meter app to plot out how you’re feeling and to explore what types of feelings are nearby options for a better-feeling place when you don’t like where you happen to find yourself. Most of us rarely map out where our emotional setpoint may be. It’s fascinating to see whether you hug a particular axis or have wild swings out to the extremes throughout the day.
Extra credit: Check out some Abraham-Hicks on YouTube. There are thousands upon thousands of MP3s running with various imagery up there. You can watch one and just keep watching the suggested vids that follow. If you’ve never experienced Abe but are already sure you’re going to love this, start here (or wherever you’d like)!
Whatever route you take to lean into better-feeling thoughts, enjoy it! There is nothing we can’t choose to feel better about. Nothing. Knowing that choice is ours is incredibly empowering. Ooh… and that’s pretty damn high up on that Emotional Guidance Scale, huh? Ah… that’s good stuff!
’til tomorrow… stay ninja!
