Meditation, Manifesting, Gratitude & The Law of Attraction

[CMF]

Hi everyone,

Not sure where to start so hope I can express myself clearly and maybe with others' input we can expand on this. I'm interested in people's thoughts/ experience with meditation, manifesting, gratitude & the law of attraction. I've recently started using the Smiling Mind app to meditate when going to sleep and sometimes when feeling a little anxious, like tonight. It is something i thought i could never do as my mind rarely stops, however, with persistence, I find I enjoy it. I guess i tend to have a negative mindset which I am determined to change.I always felt uneasy about thinking positive things as i thought i would jinx myself, and that whenever I made a positive comment or felt happy it would go wrong or something negative would happen. So i refrained from allowing myself to be too happy, I guess to 'protect' myself. Recently i have been feeling happier, stronger, expressing gratitude and taking note of when things have come to me when i needed them. Coincidence, or answers to what i put out to the Universe? I like to think the latter. A work colleague one day told me to manifest something i wanted, put it out to the universe , so I'm trying. Example, recently we needed to measure the floor space at reception so we could calculate how many people we could have in at one time. I needed a tape measure, which i did not have. At that moment our handyman walked into the office. Guess what he had? I am getting into the habit of practising positive thinking instead of thinking/expecting negatives. If something 'negative' does crop up, it can be dealt with, it's not the end of the world. I look for the positive in every negative situation. I am becoming more aware of being grateful for little things, things like getting a good car park at work, a warn cosy bed, a tidy house. I feel when i am expressing gratitude I am putting positive thoughts out into the universe and I notice more positives instead of focusing on negatives. Late last week we had internet issues at work and a colleague i found a little annoying. I've been feeling very drained, agitated, negative for a few days. This morning things were not running smoothly for me. A result of my negative mind perhaps? Little things became a big deal, my morning was crap. If i look back, it wasn't really an issue, i just did things in a different order which gave me more relax time this evening. The Law of Attraction, positive thoughts, positive experiences.

What are your thoughts?

cmf x

[CMF]

Hi therising and all friends reading,

Reminds me of a few weeks back my little miss and I were chatting about car colours. I m mentioned id8never seen a Yaris is yellow or any other colour besides black, white, grey, red, silver and blue. I dropped her off st school and on my way out saw a yellow Yaris and another on the way to work. I see them often now, yet I had never seen one before that morning.

Have a wonderful day. Raise those vibes!

Cmf x

[ecomama]

Hey therising, those are such beautiful things to say & FEEL, awww. Hugs. 💚🧡💜

We come to new levels in various ways ofcourse, the way doesn't really matter (ugh not meaning to offend anyone bec it DOES matter at the time but then it doesn't lol) but the levels & destinations are important to focus on. Don't limit yourself.

I also get a physical reaction, goosebumps, when I hear soul penetrating truth. High five sister! ✋😆

You said 'learning to trust your gut'.... it's more "remembering" to trust your gut instincts.
I get a bit deep here (surprise surprise 🤨).
We are mammals.
Animals have excellent instincts & follow them. (Discounting those who've been abused same as humans).
Ever remember seeing a usually happy, friendly dog react angrily to a person & we later find out they're a bad person? Tha dawg was right on!

We have the same gut instincts. We are mammals after all.

What we do is ignore them! And suffer the consequences

Even in that Course I did for women escaping dv, which was Govt approved, had a huge theme & the priority point was for women to follow their gut instincts. Amazing!
Remember them peeps!! 😀

IDK how I feel about this therising, bit sad awww..
"...if someone was to degrade me I might THINK 'They're right, I'm a horrible person'. Nowadays, if someone degrades me, there are times when what comes to mind is 'I can literally FEEL what you're doing to me. You're bringing me down. Why is that?!' Thinking and feeling are 2 completely different experiences."

Perhaps once we master enough knowledge to KNOW that when person 2 is degrading person 1, it's p1's shyte, NOT ours, then it's easy to flick it. (I find usually it's in attempts to bring us down to their level ewww).
I never spend time any more trying to work out WHY others are bitty lol. (Unless I have to oppose them in Court ofcourse lol).

Gut says NO.

Boundary UP.

Move on. Happily.

Your points about "Thinking and feeling".... hmm.
They're beautifully connected within this one organism being YOU!
And me and each other person.

They create a 'feedback loop'. (Research is showing this, esp in the work of Dr Joe Dispenza).

Bringing them into line with each other creates this feeling of 'total freedom'.

Talk about RISING therising .... having this feedback loop occur with clean thoughts purely following our instincts... well what can I say!

I can say this took me ages to write bec I was watching this AWESOME make-up tutorial lol.
Fanceee.

Love ya awesome lady,
EM

[therising]

Hi EM

You got me really thinking about that feedback loop. I suppose it's kinda like a 'feel, question, answer, feel, question, answer' loop in a way, a feeling and mental processing loop. How we use the loop is dependent on what we've been taught or what we've learned. Two very different scenarios:

• Someone who's been conditioned to think poorly of themself will feel degradation, with this feeling leading them to question whether what the abuser says is true, possibly answer with 'They're right, I am stupid', feel more down and will degrade themself further, question the point of their existence and mentally process their 'truth' with the answer being 'There is no point to me being in this world'. So incredibly sad and heartbreaking
• Someone who's managed to reform themself out of destructive conditioning will feel degradation, question why the other person is degrading them, possibly answer with 'That person is thoughtless and manipulative', perhaps feel the need to question why that person possesses that nature and then feel positively charged through having had some epiphany/answer and having walked away without a (psychological) scratch

Agree, there are times where I don't even question a person's nature, I just feel what they're doing and think 'Oh no, I'm not going there to the place of deeper contemplation. There's no point in wasting my time on you dude!'

I've said to my kids on occasion - When someone is leading you to feel down about your self, be careful when playing 'follow the leader'. Be conscious of your own leading question, often an intuitive question, 'Why is that person being so mean?' Whether we're someone with high self esteem or low, this will often be the 1st question that comes to mind and it's a good/valid one. It's a 'fork in the road' question, leading us in one direction or another. The ultimate challenge is to choose wisely. It's sad when a person's upbringing/conditioning leaves them with no sense of choice, when conditioning has always led them to question themself and not the abuser.

Meditating on and manifesting inspiration is one of the most beautiful forms of 'Follow the leader', from my experience. Inspiration always leads me in the best direction, sometimes to heaven on earth. Meditating on the words and actions of cruel or thoughtless people can be like hell on earth. We've all been there, in one way or another.

Sending loving vibes while you travel your liberating path of personal evolution (the path of self love)

🙂

[ecomama]

Hey therising

Your "spectrum" you described is one way of putting it that makes sense to you. I chuckled a little as I also try to articulate thoughts and processes in ways I understand with a focus of teaching my kids stuff too.

I used to be more of a 'validating' and observational parent. Basically that and some teaching too ofcourse lol.
Now I'm a "my gut instinct is telling me NO for some reason, I don't think you should do that BUT if you want to, then we can wait and see" parent... seriously EVER-Y time I've 'measured' this... 100% correct - thanks gut instincts!

Sometimes when my gut instincts are to push the kids OUT of a situation... it may call for boundaries to be explained and give them examples of how to do this (at school at work or in friendships) AND / OR just keep saying "Jump into the abyss! My instincts are telling me you'll soar!" and they do.

So I think your spectrum have those and all sorts of variables in between and more but impossible to articulate in one tiddly post! lol.

We need to check in and see AND feel how our own feedback loop is travelling.
Like monitor the 'health' or 'success' of it.

My daughter's instincts are so more attuned than mine. Very quick. Spot on.
My son's are more like mine which is fine, they're young so it's all good.

"..there are times where I don't even question a person's nature..."
perhaps when an individual is in an outer circle OR when we just "know" OR when we can identify their M.O. - this is good.

More harm is done when they're very "close" to us ie the abuser in a marriage, abusive direct supervisor at work, narc psych etc.
Can we pick 'em?

Bec of FOO, I couldn't for many years.
My gut instincts were confused by the abusers. (Apparently our confusion is the first gut instinct that something's not right).

You can see my main work, initially, has been detangling from abusers / abuse.
I needed to Study all sorts of disorders (narcs, sociopaths, psychopaths) to understand this person, mainly to fight them in Courts and win.
It took A LOT of study.
Awful but immensely beneficial.

Once you "know" them, you know.
Then you can identify more quickly and take action to exit lol.

Just my ramblings since it's not all always straight forward.

Love EM

[CMF]

Hello dear friends,

Those that know me know that my partner and his sis live together and although she is lovely, she does my head in. We have no privacy, she interrupts and everything is about her. I've been wishing for a while thst she'd go away, not be there every time I go over. Well, the last 3 times I've been there she hasn't been there. Wow, it's so good. M and I can chat. We've watched the footy. I feel like a couple. The Universe has responded to ehst I want. I hope it continues 🙂

[therising]

Hi CMF

Gee you're a legend. I wish I could remember to practice manifesting as much as you do. Wondering how you got into the habit of remembering to do this. What prompts did you use? Maybe I need to put bright sticky notes all 'round the house. I find I'm kinda on auto pilot in life to some degree. I'm lucky my kids are there to wake me up as much as they do. I suppose this is one of the benefits of raising them to be their soulful, adventurous, imaginative natural selves. We keep each other 'awake' through life to some degree.

So, how to form the habit of manifesting. Any tips? The more the merrier.

Continue to enjoy quality time with your partner. I imagine he's come to realise he's been missing out on spending one on one time with true magnificence.

🙂

[CMF]

Hi Therising,

What great question. You know, I don't consciously practice manifesting all the time. I Just wish for things and picture them ie, when I'm frustrated with my partners sis being around i wish that she wasn't. When i feel that negativity i picture us without her being there and make it a positive thought. I guess that's where the manifesting begins. Catch the negative thought and turn it into a positive about what you want. My v work colleague us negative

[ecomama]

Hey CMF and therising,

CMF I love your new quotation on your name thingy. Nice!

IDK too about keeping our visualisations present in our minds...I guess we run the danger of NOT enjoying the moment too?

My dream folder is a great reminder.
But over many years, I've written or printed out quotes or photos and put them up in places I would see most often. A bit like that guy on The Secret who put a $1 000 000 cheque on the ceiling above his bed so he saw it the MOMENT he woke up every day.
(He got there btw too lol).

My fave place is behind the loo door lol.
Atm it has the 2021 Astrological Calendar with lots of stuff to read on it.

I kept alot of positive statements on the loo door during the Court era and the best Full Restoration Prayer. Getting there...

Love to you all
EM

[therising]

Hi CMF and EM

Thanks for the tips. In both cases you have conscious prompts. A negative thought is a prompt and a visual cue is a prompt. It makes sense as to why I don't remember to practice manifesting; there are no obvious prompts in my life for me to remember to practice.

It's amazing how you can be helping to manage the lives of everyone around you on a daily basis but forget to manage your own self in a way that serves you best. At 50, this is the first time in my life where I've experienced a degree of sickening anxiety. It's only happened on a couple of occasions lately but it really impacted me. I feel the Universe is kinda saying to me 'It's time you got your poop together girl! Start managing differently!!!' You know what it's like, you start to feel a little stressed and overwhelmed when it comes to all the things and people you gotta contribute to managing so you start putting some things off so as to fit other things in. Then the deadlines for the things you've put off start getting nearer and then, bamm, your mind and body go into states of super hyperactivity and not of the good kind. Anyhow...

Again, thanks for the prompts. I'm already starting to visualise what is going to manifest...the people around me are going to become more self sufficient. I can already see it happening. Actually, I can also see them beginning to serve me more. Magic 🙂

[ecomama]

Hey therising

I really love the way you SAW those 2 responses very differently and compartmentalised them so efficiently!

You are one SMART cookie!

If you're talking about "anxiety" then I can only guess and HOPE that visualisation would help that too...

BUT there are specific things for anxiety, including:
~ SELF-care
~ SELF compassion
~ true empathy for yourSELF and so many other things.

I LOVE the prompt of "catching" a negative thought and turning it around.
I'm going to try it but I think I do that already... I'll see lol.
I'm pretty sure I don't 100% when an event occurs that takes me by surprise.

The wonderful things about being TAKEN by surprise is that I must not have been anxious to venture into the world and then get that shock.

But I was diagnosed with C-PTSD and have done oceans of work on that specific type of anxiety.

Bestest wishes
EM