{"id":996,"date":"2015-01-06T00:55:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T00:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesonline.org\/triciablog\/?p=996"},"modified":"2015-01-06T00:55:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T00:55:08","slug":"jan-4-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triciabatessmith.com:443\/index.php\/2015\/01\/06\/jan-4-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 1-4-15 Closing the gap"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhen you stand with your back to the sun, your shadow is before you; but when you turn and face the sun, then your shadow falls behind you.\u201d<\/em> ~ <\/em>Bowl of Saki, January 4, by Hazrat Inayat Khan<\/em><\/p>\n

Happy Sunday!<\/h2>\n

I found myself upset and frustrated for a couple of days this week.\u00a0 There is an issue in the family that was the reason I was letting myself be upset.\u00a0 I was aware that my disturbance was of no value, I was creating a problem about the future.\u00a0 I know everything is good today and that things will work out for the best.\u00a0 These thoughts were not enough though to settle me; I was searching for new thoughts to get me back to peace.
\nAs I searched for relief from the discomfort I was feeling I considered my lessons from last Sunday\u2019s blog where I reflected on assumptions of what is good and bad \u2013 perhaps it wasn\u2019t my role to find solutions to all problems.\u00a0 I tried to apply these ideas to try to keep my ego in check, to hold back on letting negative thoughts about others gain any momentum.\u00a0 I was aware of the right ideas and yet I found no relief.\u00a0 Then I spent some time listening to Abraham yesterday and got the relief I sought from new understanding about the emotions that I feel.
\nFrom a seminar Abraham-Hicks held in Atlanta in November I learned many new lessons about my eternal self and my connection with Source.
\nThe big A-ha came from the following idea provided by Abraham: \u201cdon\u2019t give up on the bad; that would be giving up on your guidance system.\u00a0 Just know when feeling bad that Source has different thoughts on that.\u201d
\nAbraham was emphasizing in this session that we need to pay attention to our emotions as they are our guidance system.\u00a0 When we feel negative emotions, this is guidance from Source that we are thinking or acting away from what will move us in the direction of what we want.
\nThat last sentence took some consideration to write as it would have been easier to write negative emotions are a signal to move from the bad toward the good but I intentionally wrote it to be neutral as I am learning that there is no good or bad \u2013 they are just perceived assumptions, judgements based on our beliefs. Abraham defined beliefs as just thoughts that we choose to hold onto, this brought me more clarity on how easy it can be to release a belief.<\/em>
\nWhen we feel good emotions it is an indication of high vibration that can move us into alignment with our true selves, our Source, wherein lies the opportunity to achieve all that we desire.\u00a0 When our emotions feel negative they indicate a lower frequency vibration that indicates a greater gap between ourselves and Source.
\nAbraham used the analogy of playing the childhood game of getting warmer and colder to find something.\u00a0 Calling out \u2018you\u2019re getting warmer\u2019 indicates the seeker is getting closer to the hidden object and \u2018you\u2019re getting colder\u2019 indicates the seeker is moving further from the hidden object.
\nAbraham is saying that our emotions work in exactly the same way.\u00a0 Good feeling emotions are saying that we are getting closer to alignment with Source and achieving the high vibrational desires we have wanted.\u00a0 Uncomfortable feelings (aka bad feelings) mean our vibration has lowered and we will not be able to align with want we want.
\nLaw of attraction has several stages to get through with the tough one seeming to be the creating\/manifesting of our desires.\u00a0 Abraham says it really is simple, just stay aware of our emotions.
\n\u201cSet a goal to do whatever it takes to feel good now.\u201d
\nIt is interesting to me that I have been so aware of the need to stay positive.\u00a0 I have written several times about our ability to choose to be happy wishing that other would become aware that they have the ability to do this to move through their perceived troubles.\u00a0 Now, with greater understanding of this law of our Universe of attraction, I realize that positive things will be attracted to me when I act positively \u2013 when my frequency matches the frequency of the good things that I desire.
\n\u201cThings are always working out for me.\u201d
\nThis morning Joel spoke about God being a merciful God.\u00a0 He spoke of Jonah who defied God\u2019s request that he go to Nineveh to preach.\u00a0 Jonah suffered troubles while he was turned away from God but when he was sitting in the belly of the whale he prayed to God speaking words of Faith that God had saved him.\u00a0 The story says that God commanded the whale to spit Jonah out on shore.
\nAs I listened I saw this story is a metaphor for law of attraction: Jonah suffered lower energy by turning from what he was inspired to do.\u00a0 He struggled in that lower energy until he chose to make a change.\u00a0 With his prayer he raised his vibration back up into alignment with his Source by affirming his state of well-being, his Faith in All That Is (God), and thereby Jonah manifested the well-being he wanted.
\nThis is a great and wonderful Universe that we live in.
\nI choose to feel good because there seems no logical reason to feel otherwise.<\/p>\n