Daily Shorty 2/22/2014

Do Not Put Those Unwanted Ingredients in Your Pie

Imagine yourself as a chef in an extremely well-stocked kitchen that
contains every imaginable ingredient. Let us say that you have a clear idea
of the culinary creation you desire, and you understand how to combine
these easily accessible ingredients in order to fulfill your desire.

And as you proceed, there are many ingredients that are not appropriate for your creation,
so you do not utilize them, but you also feel no discomfort about their existence.
You simply utilize the ingredients that will enhance your creation—and you leave the
ingredients that are not appropriate for your creation out of your pie.
Some of the ingredients in this well-stocked kitchen are harmonious with your creation,
and some of them are not.

But even though adding some of these ingredients to your creation would absolutely
ruin your pie, you do not feel the need to push against those ingredients,
or to ban them from the kitchen, because you understand that there is no reason
 for them to end up in your pie unless you put them in it.

And since you are clear about which ones enhance your creation and which ones do not enhance it,
you feel no concern about the great variety of ingredients that exist.

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"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."
~ Abraham Lincoln

                                      

Daily Shorty 2/21/2014

An Example of Consciously Moving Up Your Emotional Guidance Scale

So, something has happened in your experience that makes you feel terrible.
Nothing sounds good, nothing feels good, it seems as it you are suffocating,
and each thought is equally painful.
The best word to describe your nearly constant state of emotion is one of depression.
If you could throw yourself into taking some action, you might teel better;
if you could put what is bothering you out of your mind altogether and focus
upon your work, you could feel better. There are many thoughts that you could
entertain that could free you from your depression.

However, vibrationally, you do not have access to most of them right now.
But if your intention is to find a thought, any thought, that feels better, and you are
consciously aware of how that thought feels, you can begin to move up
the Emotional Guidance Scale immediately.

It is really a process of thinking a thought, any thought, and then consciously evaluating
whether the new thought gives you any feeling of relief from where you were
before that thought.
So, you think and feel and think and feel, with one intention only: to feel even the slightest bit of relief.

Let us say that someone has said something that made you angry,
or someone did not keep her word. And as you focus upon this angry topic,
you notice that you do feel some relief from your depression.
In other words, in the midst of this angry thought, you are no longer having any trouble breathing.
The feeling of claustrophobia has lifted, and you do feel slightly better.
Now, here is the crucial step in effectively utilizing your Emotional Guidance System:
Stop, and consciously acknowledge that your chosen thought of anger does feel better
than the suffocating depression that it replaced.
And in the conscious recognition of your improved vibration, your feeling of powerlessness
softens and you are now on you way up your Emotional Guidance Scale,
back into full connection with who you really are.

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"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions."
~ Pablo Picasso