One of the mental/emotional patterns that many of us have reminds me of a see-saw or a pendulum. The mind swings in one direction, taking the emotions with it, and then it swings back the other way.
Example: let’s say you have an experience with a loved one where they disappoint you.
The first type of thought you might have is: “they’re bad, wrong, out of integrity, unloving, inexcusable” or some kind of complaint.
Then, the next type of thought you might have is the boomerang coming back which is a thought such as, “I must be bad, wrong, unworthy, unlovable, inappropriate or they wouldn’t have done this to me.”
When there’s an attack thought then there’s a lack thought and we bounce back and forth between lack and attack until we have a change of mind.
We bounce between lack and attack.
When we’re willing to choose Love, we change our mind, and go the other way we interrupt the pattern and then we open ourselves to the flow of Love and Prosperity. The healing occurs.
The belief in lack actually preceeds the attack thought, but sometimes we notice the attack thought first and the lack thought afterward. We each have our own unique way of experiencing this particularly pervasive pattern of dysfunction and suffering.
It doesn’t matter which thought, lack or attack, comes first.
If we believe in lack, then we’ll feel attacked.
We’ll feel unworthy.
If we feel attacked then we believe we’re justified in attacking back.
If we attack others then we feel guilty and ashamed. We feel a lack of Love.
And so it goes: the hamster wheel of misery.
What matters is HOW TO GET OFF the hamster wheel of these repetitive thought patterns.
We have the power to get off that wheel of misery.
We absolutely DO have what it takes.
Willingness to listen to the Divine Guidance is the key to getting off.
It makes our healing SO MUCH faster. It’s unbelievable and miraculous how much healing we can have when we’re willing!
Interrupting the patterns again and again, rather than just going along with them, is precisely how we train ourselves to have a new experience rather than repeat the same thing again and again. And we only do it if we are truly interested in having a NEW experience of the UNLIMITED flow of good.
You can say to yourself:
I’m not interested in that old pattern anymore!
That’s not my way anymore. I’m done with that old way of lack and attack!
I’m interested in Love, Prosperity, Wholeness, Freedom and living abundantly!
We replace the old thought with the new thought and we’re on our way to a new experience of Love and Prosperity!
My Self-Love Workshop is March 17th – let’s launch into spring with love! Love is the great healer of EVERYTHING and we can actually love ourselves free of the past and the pain. If you find you’re hard on yourself, this may be the workshop for you. Follow your intuition – if it’s right for you right now, you’ll know.
NEW PODCAST EPISODE! The most recent episode of my podcast’s topic is The Quiet Answer. Have you ever asked God for something and didn’t get it? Haven’t we all? In this week’s episode, Jennifer shares what ACIM teaches about how to go to God and the Holy Spirit for answers and to be able to actually “hear” the answer. This is a spiritual practice we can learn and use for great results! The Holy Spirit is part of us, always available.
