Hi… it’s me again.
First response was very enthusiastic, thank you very much, although I haven’t heard from a lot of you. Please remember that responses are encouraged, you know…conversation being a two way street and all. So, being ever optimistic…
Creation Vibrations is visiting again to an e-mail address near you. Onward to the second topic of conversation (bathroom, drink, popcorn, blah, blah, blah…). It seems I am chatty.
Conversation 2:
While sitting in the pool the other day enjoying the relief it was giving my back, something caught my eye. It was the little Christmas lights strung around the base of the hot tub deck. I love little twinkie lights. I always have. They remind me of holidays and Disney. But today I noticed something else about the light string. The string portion on the front looked different than that on the side.
At eye level the two views looked like this…
Funny how the same exact thing could look so radically different depending on how one looked at it.
Looking at the string by the straight on, end view the lights looked all crowded together with no spaces between. It was difficult to see what was supporting them if anything. Changing my view by 90°, looking at the string by the side view, it was easy to see that all the lights were separated by distinct spaces and were attached to a set of supporting wires.
These two views of the Christmas lights reminded me of the two views we can have of any situation. We can see our problems as coming one after another with no breathing space in between and no support from anywhere. Or we can see our problems as individual challenges with space (although sometimes small, space none the less) in between with a strong supporting system.
These days it seems we focus on the end view most of the time and why not, the problems seem endless and ever mounting. There’s never enough money, enough time, enough of anything! And that’s how the down spiral begins.
Segue (don’t you hate it when that happens… snicker) – I don’t know if I have spoken to most of you about down spiral. Let me paraphrase.
Most of the population feels that life goes like this…. 
With an occasional cycle of repeated negative behavior. 
We are up, down, up, down, a crisis occurs and we run around and around looking for a solution and then we start with the up, down, up, down again. But speaking spiritually, we don’t have to oscillate back and forth in a narrow band of vibrations. We can travel to higher vibrations… and unfortunately to lower vibrations, hence the up spiral (travel to higher vibrations) and down spiral (travel to lower vibrations).
Okay, so where were we… oh yea… down spiral. It’s all too easy to get stuck in one. It’s especially difficult if it goes so far as to infect the whole household. When Rick and Dama are cranky, our usual healthy selves not so healthy, and the animals not up to their usual good health it drives me to examine myself. How is my energy? Am I all dark and sludgy inside? Am I running a repeated negative pattern of thought through my head? Sometimes I find I am. I would rather catch this situation before it spreads. But if it does, can anything be done to turn it around? Thank the hey hoo, yes!
The first thing I remember is that high vibrations cancel out lower vibrations sometimes by 100s of times. That’s 100’s of times! So just one positive, high vibrational thought can cancel out 100 or more negative thoughts. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that with just a few good thoughts thought persistently things can turn around.
So more positive thoughts, enough to drown out the negative. The nest thing is ferreting out unconscious negative thought patterns, like…
Thank goodness that’s over, that’s one less thing to worry about.
I don’t think I can handle another disappointment.
What else can go wrong?
Wonderful (said with a sarcastic sneer), that’s just my luck.
I can’t have that – I can’t afford it.
And what positive thoughts do you replace these with…
Thank you, thank you for a successful resolution to that issue.
Let’s take a deep breath and remember that there is always a good solution to everything.
What else can go right? (one of my favorites)
Okay (said with a smile), how do I change my “bad luck” (which doesn’t really exist) into fulfilled desires?
I can have that – How can I afford it?
Like they say, attitude is 90% of success. So back to the Christmas lights. When things look like the end on view, nothing but problems, I try to remember that attitude is 90% of success and switch my view 90° and look at the side view. The one with spaces between the challenges and support. I try to remember to keep my positive thoughts outweighing (by as much as I can) the negative ones. And that my goal is to spiral up, not down.
I love you all,
Donna
Tags: Attitude is 90% of success, Christmas Lights, Coversation 2
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