If you're not feeling good, you're not feeling good-ness!

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If you’re not feeling good, you’re not feeling good. 

Stating the bleeding obvious?  Perhaps.  Then again, perhaps it is not always so obvious.

Let’s try it this way:

If you’re not feeling good, you’re not feeling good-ness J

See what I mean?

If you’re not feeling good, chances are you’re not seeing and feeling and APPRECIATING the goodness within you and around you.

Instead, you’re focused almost exclusively on all that you perceive to be ‘not good’, to be awful, ugly, painful, undesirable, inconvenient, evil…

And what do you know about what you focus on? 

That’s right.  You get more of it. 

Focus is the summoning of energy to the object of focus. 

What you focus on, you create and get more of.  (They should be teaching this stuff in schools!)

Right, so, when you’re focused on what you have learnt to see as ‘problematic’, ’undesirable’, ‘ugly’, ‘unwanted’, ‘awful’, you summon energy to its continued presence.

But, when you focus instead on what you want, what you see as desirable, wanted, beautiful and life-giving, you summon energy to its continued presence.

You cannot see and feel and focus on your illness and expect to summon energy to wellness.

You cannot see and feel and focus on poverty and expect to summon energy to wealth.

You cannot see and feel and focus on war and conflict and expect to summon energy to peace and harmony (whether within yourself or in the world ‘out there’).

You cannot see and feel and focus on racism and expect to summon energy to acceptance, honor and respect.

You get the point.

So, what is the quickest and most effective way of shifting your focus from what you don’t want to what you want? 

Appreciation

Stop.  Breathe deeply and gently.  As you breathe, appreciate this marvel that is your breath.  Appreciate the fact that your breath breathes you even when you are not paying attention to it (which is almost all the time). 

Appreciate the wonder of your being.  

Your aliveness.  Your sight.  Your hearing.  Your taste.  Your touch.  Your sense of smell.  

Wow, what would life be if you didn’t have these faculties?  Not half as good as it is with them, right? J

Appreciate the power of your mind to summon things into being. 

You want a coffee.  You think of a coffee.  Next thing you know, you’re making a coffee or buying one…

It’s as simple as that.  Really.

What gets us confused is that sometimes, we find ourselves doing other things before we get to that coffee.  Someone rings.  Or the dog needs her dinner.  Or the kids want some help with their homework.  Or you remember you have an email to send….

And when you finally get to that coffee, it may not be exactly as you’d first imagined and intended it.  It may have a bit more froth.  Or a different blend than the one you usually have. 

Then again, it might not even be a coffee.  By this time, you may be feeling like a hot chocolate or a cup of tea or even a gin and tonic…

(Think of the coffee as a metaphor J)

But, there it is – the power of your mind to summon things into being, to create…

You can appreciate that!

And from there, there is no limit to what else you can appreciate and before you know it, you’re feeling good because you’re feeling good-ness J

And in case this point eluded you, let me state it now:

You cannot be in a state of appreciation and not feel good and attract more goodness to yourselfJ