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Pivot to Power
By karen | July 8, 2008
Well as promised a week or more ago this is now the 400th post! Kind of amazes me when I think of it and look back. 1 year, 10 months (almost to the day) and 400 times I’ve hit “Publish” here at Live the Power. My “what if” game today is “what if a real publisher of real books let me hit “Publish” just once…. or twice or ½ dozen times…..that puts a smile on my face!
So what is Live the Power?
It’s about creating your best life, using the power of your mind to create the things that you really want. Becoming the best You. It’s about making your life the way you want it to be.
It’s all about the thoughts that you think, the feelings that you feel and making the best of the situations of your life.
But enough with theories, what about some real, concrete things that you can do that will assist you in creating a joyful life? I recently started using a very powerful process that I learned sometime ago from Abraham-Hicks. All of a sudden I had the “aha, I get it ” moment and now this process is really working to help direct my thoughts to create a more joyful and powerful life. It’s effective, I can use it to dramatically change a negative vibration coming on and it is simple. Can’t get much better than that.
Whenever you are feeling a negative emotion it is because of the thoughts that you are thinking. Now I know some of you will want to argue with me there and say…
“No, it’s because this happened” or
“That other person did this or didn’t do that” or
“Woe is me….my life is so difficult…”.
But the fact is that it absolutely does not matter what is happening outside of you or what somebody else did (nobody here lives in a perfect world), the only reason you are feeling negative emotions is because of what You are focusing on.
When you blame it on conditions or other people you just give away your own power.
You cannot control conditions or other people but you can control the focus of your own mind. The focus of your own mind is really the only thing that you can control.
But that is enough and that is powerful.
Negative emotions are caused by you focusing on the things that you don’t want and the things that do not make you happy.
So how do you shift your focus back to the things that make you happy and the things that make you feel good?
Use the process of the Pivot.
Whenever you feel negative emotions coming on, regardless of the cause, stop yourself and realize that you are focusing on something that you don’t want. At that point recognize that your focus is not where you want it to be and turn it around by acknowledging and asking yourself….
“I know that something is amiss here and for some reason I’m focusing on something that I don’t want , What is it then that I do want in this situation?”
As soon as you identify some of the things that you do want or that you would prefer you will feel that feeling of relief. You will feel a shift.
The real beauty of this is that even when you can’t really pinpoint what it is that’s making you feel negative emotion and you really can’t even identify what it is that you want from the situation you still realize that you no longer want to feel the way that you are feeling so even if your answer to what you want is “no clue” you still know that you want to feel good (and of course, you don’t want to feel bad). Just acknowledging that to yourself will often shift your focus. It works wonders. It really does.
Use the process of the Pivot and you can change anger to acceptance, chaos to peace, fear to confidence. You can shift all of your negative emotions back to zero where you can start all over again and attract the life that you want.
No matter what I am doing,
No matter who I am doing it with,
It is my dominant intention to feel good.
Today I will look for that which I am wanting to see.
(paraphrased by me from Abraham-Hicks)
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“And be renewed in the Spirit of your Mind”
Ephesians 4:23
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July 12th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Good one!! you must be PRESENT to your feelings to find when you are starting to get upset!!
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:11 am
Hi Karen,
Yes, I am amazed at the power I have to be able to “feel good” whenever I want to. Like most people I used to think that circumstances were making me miserable and there was nothing I could do about it. Today, I still have (basically) all of the same circumstances but I am happy, grateful and “feel good”.
Tbea
P.S. You are a fantastic writer - how about that book?