This singing in my head somehow at 2:44am on June 22nd reminds me of my sister Laurie when she did a report on Lincoln, and sang in front of a stunned class of 4th, 5th or 6th graders (who remembers?!?!)...
"My old man was a man like Lincoln/my old man he was so brave and strong/my old man was a man like Lincoln/cause he knew right from wrong."
Then she started her report "Right from wrong, oh yes he did!...." And I don't remember any more (thank God, right?).
So, now revising at 4:12am, I am trusting Abraham when he says that sleep is only necessary to stop negative momentum, so I should be great tomorrow even if I only get 4 hours sleep (or less)... anyway, I had to do this. I had to restart this blog because my life is amazing and I want to keep talking about the wonderful and amazing and miraculous things that are happening to me as I move further and further into using and understanding the Law of Attraction. Now, what got me to really think about this was my new eating program Bright Line Eating (BLE). Amazing, wonderful, and able to create in us as Susan Pierce Thompson's tag line expresses... "happy, thin, and free," and oh yes it does, as the Lincoln song expresses (who knew I could tie it in). And I have to admit, the happy and free parts are the best - though I'm enjoying the thin part too.
On with the story. I LOVE Susan's program. Here's a link so you can check it out if you want. Bright Line Eating/. Take the susceptibility quiz if you are inspired to. I'm a 10 at least, probably a 10+.
Could YOU buy a box of 12 donuts from a great bakery and take it home and polish it off, alone, by yourself, in a matter of hours (maybe less?). Well, I can... and really, that makes me a 10+. I feel like saying, "but I digress." But really, this is not a digression, just an explanation of the out of control-ness I was feeling that brought Bright Line Eating to me.
I am a member of Bright Lifers. It means I've finished the bootcamp (8 weeks of learning and practicing (and for me) sticking with this amazing program) and decided to join up for life, or at least for the next year in order to "stay close to the mother ship." Us box of donuts people need to do that. Connection and support - I cannot over estimate the importance. In Bright Lifers we have monthly calls with the mother of the mother ship, Susan. In the bootcamp there are weekly calls with some other amazing, wonderful, and fantastic women (yes, there are men in the program too - not as many- but then society really penalizes women for being "fat." Not so much men (my words, not Susan's).
This program is chock full of interesting scientific facts, and strategies for helping one attain happy, thin, and free. There is one process called the WOOP. It's a way to get back on track. It was originally created by a woman at Stanford (Susan gives her the credit she is due), and it's a pretty cool process. HOWEVER, while watching the video on WOOP, she basically refutes the Law of Attraction which is basically my lifeblood. She refutes it with science, but the science is not really looking at Law of Attraction, because like Think and Grow Rich before it, the vibrational component was deleted from THE SECRET. So, the Secret that most people know, is a secret that leaves out the secret. A link, in case I've peaked your curiosity... Abraham talks about "the secret".
So, here is a "question/comment/etc" that I posed for our upcoming phone meeting, I sent it too late four our upcoming meeting, but I was inspired to send it, because I need to get my truth about this out there. I think it's not a good thing, even though there is a ton of research on "the secret that isn't the secret" that PROVES it doesn't work. I wish someone would really do a research study on the real secret so that people might know the truth, which is, it works if you work it. I was limited to 2000 characters, so I might add more to this later.
I've left out a few of the sentences that aren't so pertinent to this conversation.
"I've been thinking about this a lot. I went to watch the WOOP video, but I cannot comfortably watch that video, and so didn't when I went to look at it on Monday. The Law of Attraction works. It's not about sitting in a room wishing for something. It's about knowing what you want, focusing on that thing by talking about what is desired, NOT what is not desired which is what most people do without knowing it, and then following intuition. Since 106bc cultures everywhere have written about it... "Birds of a feather flock together,"
"Misery loves company,"
"Pigeon flies with pigeon, hawk with hawk" - Iranian proverb,
"Rats know the way of rats." - Chinese proverb,
"As ever, the god is bringing like and like together." - Homer's Odyssey,
"Like readily gathers together with like." - Cicero;
there are more. I would be willing to bet that many people who found BLE (if not most) found it in a seemingly miraculous way. I've heard people say they got an e-mail that should never really have been in their in-box. We are a group of Souls who had a strong desire, and then allowed ourselves to be quiet enough inside to allow the law of attraction to bring our answer in a way that we would be receptive.
"I've been thinking about this a lot. I went to watch the WOOP video, but I cannot comfortably watch that video, and so didn't when I went to look at it on Monday. The Law of Attraction works. It's not about sitting in a room wishing for something. It's about knowing what you want, focusing on that thing by talking about what is desired, NOT what is not desired which is what most people do without knowing it, and then following intuition. Since 106bc cultures everywhere have written about it... "Birds of a feather flock together,"
"Misery loves company,"
"Pigeon flies with pigeon, hawk with hawk" - Iranian proverb,
"Rats know the way of rats." - Chinese proverb,
"As ever, the god is bringing like and like together." - Homer's Odyssey,
"Like readily gathers together with like." - Cicero;
there are more. I would be willing to bet that many people who found BLE (if not most) found it in a seemingly miraculous way. I've heard people say they got an e-mail that should never really have been in their in-box. We are a group of Souls who had a strong desire, and then allowed ourselves to be quiet enough inside to allow the law of attraction to bring our answer in a way that we would be receptive.
I've had a hard time being okay with BLE being my answer. I
wanted God to make me happy, thin, and free! But I finally realized, 'I live in
a physical universe, and many of my answers will come in a physical way.'
Sometimes things do just seem to fall in my lap from nowhere. But this program
also gave me something else I wanted - community, & a practical way to help
others with this issue, who miraculously find me. I LOVE this program and
everyone from Susan to the newbies. Law of Attraction is not easy, but it is
simple. 2000 is just not enough words..."
So, the point. The first point really, of this blog post is to introduce those of you who might want it to Bright Line Eating, the second point is to point those of you who are familiar with either the book, or the movie The Secret, to information about the Abraham vs. the non-Abraham version, and third, the part that is most important to me in this blog is to talk about how the physical universe is used by the non-physical to bring our dreams to life.
It's like the old joke - There was a raging storm and major floods, and a man was stranded on a rooftop and prayed to God to save him. A man in a rowboat came by and said "Jump in!" but the man said, "No, it's okay, God is going to save me." A while later a helicopter came by and they lowered a ladder to save the man but again he refused by saying "No, it's okay, God is going to save me." Finally a speedboat came by, and again, the man refused. Finally, the flood overtook him, and he drowned. When he met God in heaven he asked, "God, I prayed and prayed, why did you not save me?" God replied, "I sent a rowboat, a helicopter, and a speedboat. What more did you expect?"
So... I guess I was sent BLE to save my donuts infested soul. And as a note, something that should have clued me in early on to the fact that this program was a gift from Spirit to help me get "happy, thin, and free" is that it's been so so so so very very very easy for me. Truly I've had nearly no days with hunger, or tiredness, or any distraction about food. This is a new lifestyle with which I am more than happy. Does that mean it's forever? Maybe yes, maybe no. Only time will tell.
I've spent a lot of time, up to now, wanting the miracle to happen, when the miracle is really the inspired action. The great idea. The amazing procedure that will do what I want it to do. It can even be the drug that will heal a body even when it appears that that individual is doing everything properly, and is not getting the expected result. Abraham would, I believe call that, the path of least resistance.
In some of those cases, and maybe even all of them, I still believe that if we get deeply enough into the vortex (as Abraham calls it), the place where we are feeling so good and spending so much time being happy, that we are also spending a lot of time connected with our God-Self, or Source infused Self that we hear those subtle messages that tell us to go or do something. The perfect timing inspiration that says, hey, get up and write, it doesn't matter that it's the middle of the night. Now's the time. And it turns out to be perfect.
This might sound selfish, but as I told my middle schoolers (though I wasn't all that good at doing it then) The most important thing for me is to be happy. When they said Don't you think that's very selfish? I would respond I can either be up here in front of you enjoying myself and looking for every good thing in you, and looking for ways for us to have fun, or I can be cranky and pick on you and scowl at you all period long. They said, You can be happy. When I'm happy and feel good, I don't want to hold it all in. I want to spread it around. Give as much as I can. Love my life and everyone in it, including those on the periphery and beyond. When I'm unhappy - I have nothing for you.
I am doing what I can to listen to that inner urging more and more. And I want to say that there is never going to be a time when we aren't experiencing from time to time being what Abraham calls "out of the Vortex;" times of disgruntledness, anger, frustration, depression, etc., but the key is to get away from that as soon as possible. Just today, or yesterday at this point, I was turned inside out. I called a like-minded friend, who helped me to refocus to where I wanted to be, and not where I did not want to be. It works. It's not, like I said, always easy, but if you want it badly enough. And I really wanted happy, thin, and free badly!
I hope this is helpful, or at least interesting to read. If you like, and it's not too much of a hassle to sign up and log in, you can leave a message, or a thought or idea, and I will do what I can to respond if that seems appropriate and if I can figure out if I even can!
Much love and light and joy and peace to all you blogger land folks!
Here are some current photos of me - 22 weeks into doing Bright Line Eating along with one that has a pic from 2014, and the other 2017 pix were from March (around week 10 - it happened kind of fast! - hmmm.... how could that be since it took from Janaury 2015 to January 2016 to loose the first 25 pounds on my own - which was good - I don't want to "diss" myself - but this is better).
So, the point. The first point really, of this blog post is to introduce those of you who might want it to Bright Line Eating, the second point is to point those of you who are familiar with either the book, or the movie The Secret, to information about the Abraham vs. the non-Abraham version, and third, the part that is most important to me in this blog is to talk about how the physical universe is used by the non-physical to bring our dreams to life.
It's like the old joke - There was a raging storm and major floods, and a man was stranded on a rooftop and prayed to God to save him. A man in a rowboat came by and said "Jump in!" but the man said, "No, it's okay, God is going to save me." A while later a helicopter came by and they lowered a ladder to save the man but again he refused by saying "No, it's okay, God is going to save me." Finally a speedboat came by, and again, the man refused. Finally, the flood overtook him, and he drowned. When he met God in heaven he asked, "God, I prayed and prayed, why did you not save me?" God replied, "I sent a rowboat, a helicopter, and a speedboat. What more did you expect?"
So... I guess I was sent BLE to save my donuts infested soul. And as a note, something that should have clued me in early on to the fact that this program was a gift from Spirit to help me get "happy, thin, and free" is that it's been so so so so very very very easy for me. Truly I've had nearly no days with hunger, or tiredness, or any distraction about food. This is a new lifestyle with which I am more than happy. Does that mean it's forever? Maybe yes, maybe no. Only time will tell.
I've spent a lot of time, up to now, wanting the miracle to happen, when the miracle is really the inspired action. The great idea. The amazing procedure that will do what I want it to do. It can even be the drug that will heal a body even when it appears that that individual is doing everything properly, and is not getting the expected result. Abraham would, I believe call that, the path of least resistance.
In some of those cases, and maybe even all of them, I still believe that if we get deeply enough into the vortex (as Abraham calls it), the place where we are feeling so good and spending so much time being happy, that we are also spending a lot of time connected with our God-Self, or Source infused Self that we hear those subtle messages that tell us to go or do something. The perfect timing inspiration that says, hey, get up and write, it doesn't matter that it's the middle of the night. Now's the time. And it turns out to be perfect.
This might sound selfish, but as I told my middle schoolers (though I wasn't all that good at doing it then) The most important thing for me is to be happy. When they said Don't you think that's very selfish? I would respond I can either be up here in front of you enjoying myself and looking for every good thing in you, and looking for ways for us to have fun, or I can be cranky and pick on you and scowl at you all period long. They said, You can be happy. When I'm happy and feel good, I don't want to hold it all in. I want to spread it around. Give as much as I can. Love my life and everyone in it, including those on the periphery and beyond. When I'm unhappy - I have nothing for you.
I am doing what I can to listen to that inner urging more and more. And I want to say that there is never going to be a time when we aren't experiencing from time to time being what Abraham calls "out of the Vortex;" times of disgruntledness, anger, frustration, depression, etc., but the key is to get away from that as soon as possible. Just today, or yesterday at this point, I was turned inside out. I called a like-minded friend, who helped me to refocus to where I wanted to be, and not where I did not want to be. It works. It's not, like I said, always easy, but if you want it badly enough. And I really wanted happy, thin, and free badly!
I hope this is helpful, or at least interesting to read. If you like, and it's not too much of a hassle to sign up and log in, you can leave a message, or a thought or idea, and I will do what I can to respond if that seems appropriate and if I can figure out if I even can!
Much love and light and joy and peace to all you blogger land folks!
Here are some current photos of me - 22 weeks into doing Bright Line Eating along with one that has a pic from 2014, and the other 2017 pix were from March (around week 10 - it happened kind of fast! - hmmm.... how could that be since it took from Janaury 2015 to January 2016 to loose the first 25 pounds on my own - which was good - I don't want to "diss" myself - but this is better).
