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Light at the End of the Tunnel
21st April 2008
Over the last three days I’ve been stuck in a very negative vibration. It’s not normally like me to allow myself to feel down in the dumps, but for reasons that I haven’t worked out, I wanted to remain miserable over the weekend.
I haven’t even worked out the cause for this unexpected misery, but what I did notice extremely clearly is that negative thoughts were so accessible to me that I wanted to remain there.
I wanted to take the easy route…
I wanted to stay unhappy because that was easier than trying to get myself out of this negative mood.
Ironically, I just launched my first ever DVD, Remaining Positive When Bad Stuff Happens, and I didn’t follow my own advice!
Even though I was fully aware that I was putting out a negative vibration and I had all of the tools and knowledge available to me, I continued to feed the negativity and wanted to stay miserable.
I found myself eating more and more junk food.
I found myself wanting to do nothing but watch TV.
I found myself not wanting to speak to anyone.
I found myself saying over and over again… “who cares!”.
Thankfully, I have some extremely good friends who were able to help me through this weekend lapse and knew just what to say to help me through it.
What I found extremely interesting is how my business completely froze in synchronization with this negative vibration. Personal emails stopped coming in, sales were non-existent and everything that I wanted to happen simply did not occur.
This isn’t something that I experience very often and so it was all very noticeable to me.
After listening to some excellent advice given to me by my friend Dean, I began to wake up out of this nightmare weekend and started practicing raising my vibration. There’s dozens and dozens of ways to do this, but my favourite way is to take my attention away from thoughts and become present in the now.
So, I listened to the latest part of the Eckhart and Oprah web event that’s been running for the last seven weeks. After the one and a half hour session I was feeling so much better. I was much calmer and had found peace within myself.
After sleeping for 8 hours I awoke feeling like myself again.
When you’ve practiced a good vibration for such a long time, any negative vibrations that try and creep in are quite noticeable. In future I will be making an extra special effort to ensure that I do not sink that low again and try to catch the vibration slip at the earliest possible moment.
I do not want to go through the last three days ever again, but what this weekend has done for me is given me greater clarity on what I most certainly DO want from life, and I can assure you… feeling miserable isn’t it.
Dear Gary,
I’ve noticed that the lows are lower when we are used to have a high-vibrating life. But the great thing is that we do know, as you say, what we want, that we want to feel good and successful and therefore those moments do not last long.
Also, having access to so many resources to boost our mood makes the hell of a difference with previous times when we needed some ‘coincidence’ to take us out of a negative period.
You know what’s funny? I had a very sad couple of days on Friday and Saturday! And it was a veeeeeery long time I didn’t feel bad. Something like one year or so. I felt bad and kept there not knowing how to step out! And the result was noticeable in many aspects too, the worst that I left my drums lesson after 10 minutes because I couldn’t coordinate my legs or hands!!… and as drums playing is my number one intent right now… that was the worst outcome to my bad vibrations.
But, somehow, I got out of it on Sunday. PDP was empty those days!!!! I couldn’t believe it!!! But finally I took Ask and it is Given from my shelf and that was my way out.
I just had this idea…. maybe next time one of us has a moment like this, we should write an e-mail to the others or at PDP asking for help? Maybe we should start a new thread called: Need help?
I’m happy you are back on track.
Cheers,
Patricia
Hey Patricia,
Thanks for stopping by and spreading some of your positivity
Sorry to hear that you had a couple of skew-wiffy (I’m pretty sure that isn’t a real word!) days as well.
Nice idea for a new thread/forum at PDP. I guess it depends on how many people would actually use it. I know when I feel down in the dumps the last thing I want to do is speak to someone who is on top of the world full of glee. Having a ‘real life support’ type of a hang out would be a neat idea.
Thanks for being you, Patricia!
Gary
I just got this from Neale Donald Walsch which is quite appropriate … thought I’d share it here in case you didn’t receive it.
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On this day of your life, dear friend, I believe God wants you to know…
….that life was meant to be FUN! It’s hard to believe sometimes, but it’s true. It’s all about point of view.
Even our most difficult moments bring us gifts. And so life may call upon us to be a bit “philosophical” now and then; to embrace the “low’s” with the “high’s.”
The trick, of course, is gratitude. Therein will you find both your peace and your joy.
Hey Gary,
At least through this weekend you know you are human and that we all have those “off” days. I must say I am strangely confused with my life at the present moment, I have not been depressed or having “off” days but I have become strangely quiet, normally I joke around at work and tease some of my colleages but the last two weeks I have just been very quiet, hardly saying a word to anyone, now that is very confusing to me because as I say I am not feeling depressed, maybe a little stressed but nothing serious… Maybe you were feeling a bit stressed without realizing it and Bang it all just came down at once… I think some kind of support group/forum is an awesome idea… Well I’m glad you are back “on top” of things again.
Have an awesome week my friend
Meredith
If the sad and the night don’t should be parts of our life, we don’t would can worth the joy and the light. Margareta
Sometimes we teach what we have to learn,
When I am doing the negative vibe thing Des , my partner, asks me ” And i am enjoying that?” That makes me laugh and the vibes are automatically high
Suzie
Hi Meredith,
Thank you for your comments and for stopping by. It’s strange when things change, yet I know that everything happens is ultimately to help us awaken whether it is perceived as good or bad.
I’ve been doing more of a “quiet thing” myself too. Maybe its something in the air?
Thanks for being you!
Gary
Hi Margareta, absolutely! If fear didn’t exist we wouldn’t know love. It’s all just excellent contrast to help us decide what we really want.
Gary
Hi Suzie,
Thanks for stopping by! That’s some great advice your other half has
It’s always far easier to spot the negative patterns in others than it is with ourselves.
Aloha!
Gary
Yeah, the awareness becomes stronger the more we look at our inner “self” and focus on what serves us well. (Am still improving my own awareness and sagacity.)
Take care, Gary!
~Marcus
Hi, It was so nice to have you join some of us for a visit, Thanks for being honest and let us know that reality is a part of us and we need to allow it and not feel like we blew it all to pieces. We need to follow in your example and go to that positive place and realize that it is definitely possible for us all, including me. Thank You very much….
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