I hate to be the bearer of bad news.
But someone's gotta do it!
To those of you who are experiencing so much flux in your life. Relationships in crisis. Finances in ruins. Children running amok, etc. etc. etc. You've asked for it.
Ouch!
Now, I'm not really that big into 'law of attraction' stuff, I don't believe that just because you have a negative thought something negative is going to come of it.
What I have noticed though, in those who seem to be in chaos and crisis mode right now (and what I've noticed in my own life as well) is that what is coming about right now is an accumulation of negative thoughts, not just last weeks thoughts, but last years and the year before that and the year before that.
Yikes!
I don't know about you but I've thought and said some pretty negative/damaging things over the past years and yes I can see all of that creeping up and showing itself to me now in fits and spurts. I do understand where they are coming from and thankfully I've learned some tools on how not to let these things bring me back to that negativity. One of them is staying in the present moment.
I think it's extremely important to recognize where it was we may have asked for what we are currently receiving/experiencing. I'm kicking myself now for not knowing this before or I'd have been asking for a million dollars all those years ago! For those of you that had the foresight to do that, I commend and congratulate you on a job well done (can we do lunch?).
Anyway, I have a theory on all of this "past thought haunting" that happens to all of us. I believe that as we grow and mature and realize our personal responsibility to ourselves, these past thought accumulations come into our lives at beautifully timed intervals to help us hone our responsibility skills even further. It's not necessarily the Universe sending us 'tests', it's our own thoughts coming back to us.
Here's one: If your child has been giving you a run for your money since he was 2 and all your thought energy (and what you tell everyone around you) is put into "He's such a handful, he never stops, he's going to be the death of me, etc." then what you are going to experience when that child is 10, 14, 18 is exactly what you have been thinking about him since day one!
Here's another one: If your marriage (relationship, career) has entered a rocky area and that's all you can think about even when you have surpassed the rocky area and are doing well, and all you do is talk about 'when so & so did this or when so & so did that" a hundred and one years ago, then guess what? Yep, you guessed it, your marriage (relationship or career) is going to deteriorate little by little until one day it just doesn't exist anymore.
This one reminds me of a guy I knew who worked for one of the big 3 automotive companies years ago. Nothing this guy ever said about his job, the pay and the company was nice, not one grateful or appreciative comment. Then one day (as well all know) these companies started laying off their employees because of decline in auto sales. This guy went berserk! How dare they lay him off, didn't they know he worked for them for 20 years, didn't they know he was a committed employee, blah blah blah!
I couldn't help but say to him "Isn't this better than working for them? Aren't they doing you a favour? You seemed miserable working there, nothing they did was right. What's the problem?"
Needless to say he didn't like me pointing out the obvious.
Here's what we need to remember about life. Negative attitudes and people bashing don't get us what we want, they get us what we need. And sometimes what we need is a kick in the ass to get us on the right track.
From my perspective, all of his thoughts and words acted like a prayer "please, please, please get me out of this miserable job that doesn't pay enough, that I hate, that I despise going into every morning"!
And the Universe responded to that prayer.
It wasn't his version of what he wanted (suddenly the crappy pay was better than the alternative which was NO pay). But it was what he needed.
So my advice to you. When your faced with a situation like the ones mentioned above (or any of the other gazillion experiences we can have) take a moment to see where you might have asked for what you are experiencing.
And if you can feel this kind of situation arising (and trust me we can all sense when the shit is about to hit the fan), do something about it. You still have time to change what happens. You can do this by thinking loving thoughts and praying a new prayer. Change your attitude, put a smile on, do a happy dance.
Or accept what happens, learn from it and move on but don't make it part of who you are, don't let it establish another 10 years of unhappy thoughts and unappreciative words...
Because guess what you can expect then?
But someone's gotta do it!
To those of you who are experiencing so much flux in your life. Relationships in crisis. Finances in ruins. Children running amok, etc. etc. etc. You've asked for it.
Ouch!
Now, I'm not really that big into 'law of attraction' stuff, I don't believe that just because you have a negative thought something negative is going to come of it.
What I have noticed though, in those who seem to be in chaos and crisis mode right now (and what I've noticed in my own life as well) is that what is coming about right now is an accumulation of negative thoughts, not just last weeks thoughts, but last years and the year before that and the year before that.
Yikes!
I don't know about you but I've thought and said some pretty negative/damaging things over the past years and yes I can see all of that creeping up and showing itself to me now in fits and spurts. I do understand where they are coming from and thankfully I've learned some tools on how not to let these things bring me back to that negativity. One of them is staying in the present moment.
I think it's extremely important to recognize where it was we may have asked for what we are currently receiving/experiencing. I'm kicking myself now for not knowing this before or I'd have been asking for a million dollars all those years ago! For those of you that had the foresight to do that, I commend and congratulate you on a job well done (can we do lunch?).
Anyway, I have a theory on all of this "past thought haunting" that happens to all of us. I believe that as we grow and mature and realize our personal responsibility to ourselves, these past thought accumulations come into our lives at beautifully timed intervals to help us hone our responsibility skills even further. It's not necessarily the Universe sending us 'tests', it's our own thoughts coming back to us.
Here's one: If your child has been giving you a run for your money since he was 2 and all your thought energy (and what you tell everyone around you) is put into "He's such a handful, he never stops, he's going to be the death of me, etc." then what you are going to experience when that child is 10, 14, 18 is exactly what you have been thinking about him since day one!
Here's another one: If your marriage (relationship, career) has entered a rocky area and that's all you can think about even when you have surpassed the rocky area and are doing well, and all you do is talk about 'when so & so did this or when so & so did that" a hundred and one years ago, then guess what? Yep, you guessed it, your marriage (relationship or career) is going to deteriorate little by little until one day it just doesn't exist anymore.
This one reminds me of a guy I knew who worked for one of the big 3 automotive companies years ago. Nothing this guy ever said about his job, the pay and the company was nice, not one grateful or appreciative comment. Then one day (as well all know) these companies started laying off their employees because of decline in auto sales. This guy went berserk! How dare they lay him off, didn't they know he worked for them for 20 years, didn't they know he was a committed employee, blah blah blah!
I couldn't help but say to him "Isn't this better than working for them? Aren't they doing you a favour? You seemed miserable working there, nothing they did was right. What's the problem?"
Needless to say he didn't like me pointing out the obvious.
Here's what we need to remember about life. Negative attitudes and people bashing don't get us what we want, they get us what we need. And sometimes what we need is a kick in the ass to get us on the right track.
From my perspective, all of his thoughts and words acted like a prayer "please, please, please get me out of this miserable job that doesn't pay enough, that I hate, that I despise going into every morning"!
And the Universe responded to that prayer.
It wasn't his version of what he wanted (suddenly the crappy pay was better than the alternative which was NO pay). But it was what he needed.
So my advice to you. When your faced with a situation like the ones mentioned above (or any of the other gazillion experiences we can have) take a moment to see where you might have asked for what you are experiencing.
And if you can feel this kind of situation arising (and trust me we can all sense when the shit is about to hit the fan), do something about it. You still have time to change what happens. You can do this by thinking loving thoughts and praying a new prayer. Change your attitude, put a smile on, do a happy dance.
Or accept what happens, learn from it and move on but don't make it part of who you are, don't let it establish another 10 years of unhappy thoughts and unappreciative words...
Because guess what you can expect then?
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