Obviously the law of attraction places a premium on your emotional state, and the pressure to \u2018feel good\u2019 can quickly mount. Chances are, your interest in a teaching like this stemmed from being unhappy with your life in some way, and you may not be feeling too great, at least about one particular area in your life.<\/p>\n
And there is a chance you may be feeling really, really unhappy, perhaps miserable, and any better-feeling perspective may seem light years away.<\/p>\n
Allowing any real shift in your emotional state before being presented with a \u2018reason\u2019 to feel better may be a very new concept for you, as it is for many of us. And our mind isn\u2019t so keen on this mode of operating.<\/p>\n
What are you to do? You know you need to work on shifting all that shit. But as you may have discovered, simply telling yourself you need to feel better because you now understand the importance of it, may not be working out too well.<\/p>\n
This whole \u2018feeling good\u2019 thing also tends to get you thinking about finding your \u2018passions\u2019 and your \u2018purpose.\u2019 And again, you may feel a bit stuck here, especially if you have been stuck in a lower vibration, and really entrenched in a life you don\u2019t want.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s post was inspired by the following question I received on the blog:<\/p>\n
Hi! Love your posts, def cheered me up when I was feeling down. I have a question though, what do you do if (when you’re not in your best mind set) you can\u2019t seem to think about or put your fingers on exactly what makes you \u201cfeel good\u201d or what your genuine passions are? How do you get in touch with these feelings when you’re feeling down and unwantingly putting too much energy on negative stuff that is out of your control and doesn\u2019t even exist? I\u2019d love to hear back from you!<\/em><\/p>\n Andrea<\/em><\/p>\n Like I mentioned earlier, the pressure to feel good can quickly build as you immerse yourself in a teaching like the law of attraction. After all, that seems to be the answer to getting all your \u2018stuff\u2019 so you best get cracking on that.<\/p>\n We quickly see positive emotion ,not as the goal, but a means to an end. And when we start having trouble cultivating it, we get all bent out of shape because we know this struggle is just messing things up for us.<\/p>\n Consciously we may not be aware we are operating from this sort of space, but we are; and that is why it frustrates us so much. It\u2019s almost as if we really don\u2019t care about being happy, but rather, just manifesting what our mind has set its sights on.<\/p>\n Now, just to be clear–it\u2019s okay you want to manifest certain things. Not a problem. It\u2019s not a terrible thing you have this \u2018ulterior motive\u2019 to wanting to improve your emotional state. We all have it so some degree.<\/p>\n But a big part of doing this work \u2018successfully\u2019 is making peace with where you are now, and realizing you may need to work up to \u2018good.\u2019<\/p>\n While in theory you can turn your emotions on a dime, most of us won\u2019t be able to do that, and that doesn\u2019t indicate any sort of \u2018defect.\u2019<\/p>\n There is a huge amount of momentum behind the energies you are contending with now, a shit load of conditioning that is very deeply ingrained.<\/p>\n Anyone capable of just dropping all that shit immediately would have already done so long ago, and would never be in the position in which most of us find ourselves by time we make our way to a teaching such as the law of attraction.<\/p>\n We all have a vibrational \u2018range\u2019 if you will, and the type of \u2018good\u2019 you are reaching for may not be in your current \u2018range.\u2019 .<\/p>\n This means that while you may be able to achieve these states of feeling really warm and fuzzy, and one with the Universe, at times (we always have access to that sort of vibration, we just have a lot of shit obscuring it) it probably doesn\u2019t last because it may be a distance from your current \u2018range.\u2019<\/p>\n The \u2018old\u2019 feelings and ways of being are still pretty dominant and it likely doesn\u2019t take much to to knock you back down there.<\/p>\n So if someone was really depressed for example, reaching right for a feeling where you can\u2019t wait to get out of bed every day and loving your life every second, will probably be futile.<\/p>\n Those two vibrations are really, really far apart from each other, and you\u2019ll probably have some stops in between.<\/p>\n So, if you can\u2019t feel \u2018good\u2019 that\u2019s fine. You may need to just work on feeling \u2018better.\u2019 Wherever you are now, what is a thought or perspective you can reach for that doesn\u2019t feel totally foreign to you, that can actually cultivate some emotion that is a bit more positive?<\/p>\n For example, if you are really hating your job, it may be hard for you to believe you can find an awesome job in line with your passions and pays great, and you excitedly wait for it to manifest. But from that space, you might concede that you don\u2019t know every job that exists in the world, and you will stop being so insistent your situation won’t change.<\/p>\n The key is something that actually sparks some emotion. Trying to think a thought that intellectually you know is \u2018positive\u2019 but has zero \u2018charge\u2019 behind it, won\u2019t get you far.<\/p>\n And for the most part, this is what we are often doing. We\u2019re \u2018thinking positive\u2019 but energetically, nothing of significance is really happening, which in turn means nothing is really changing externally.<\/p>\n If manifesting really boiled down to setting intentions, making vision boards, saying affirmations, filling your head with \u2018positive\u2019 thoughts, and the like, everyone who did these things would have everything they wanted.<\/p>\n But that\u2019s not the case because that stuff, while certainly helpful, isn\u2019t enough. That stuff really doesn\u2019t address the true blocks to a different reality taking shape for you.<\/p>\n One of the reasons we struggle with feeling good is because we simply don\u2019t and there are lots of reasons why we don\u2019t feel good.<\/p>\n One of the reasons we try so hard to engage in \u2018positive thinking\u2019 is because our current line of thinking isn\u2019t so positive.<\/p>\n We are trying to cultivate more positive emotion from a space of fighting against our \u2018negative\u2019 emotion. We are trying to manifest from a space of intense resistance to our current reality.<\/p>\n Again, we try to use positive emotion as a means to an end, a way to get what we want, a way to make the icky feelings go away.<\/p>\n But they probably just won\u2019t go away. The \u2018positivity\u2019 is kind of weak, and not strong enough to fully \u2018override\u2019 them.<\/p>\n A space for that positive emotion needs to be cleared out in our energy field for it to really take root, and to really build some momentum.<\/p>\n And the only way to clear that space is to allow ourselves to feel all the crappy feelings, to be honest with how we feel about our lives now, to examine the feelings triggered by the absence of the things we want in our life.<\/p>\n Now this doesn\u2019t mean intense inquiry into your emotional state for hours a day every day. But if you\u2019re feeling shitty, if you are really focused on what you don\u2019t have, and it is making you feel really badly, you have to look at that stuff.<\/p>\n When it comes to things you want a lot, and you are having a hard time thinking \u2018positively\u2019 about these things, truly believing it is possible to have them, and constantly focused on its absence, you have to look at what\u2019s going on there.<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t comfortable and I know you don\u2019t want to be bothered doing that. You just want to know what you can \u2018do\u2019 to get what you want, and hopefully sidestep this portion of the manifesting journey.<\/p>\n But if you truly want to feel happier–which is the true desire that lies at the root of every manifestation you have set your sights on–this is the ticket.<\/p>\n So dive in. It\u2019s not as scary as you think.<\/p>\n There is a lot of talk about passions and purpose in the personal development world, and with good reason.<\/p>\n It feels good to do things that you feel passionate about. It feels good to think you have a purpose.<\/p>\n I feel really passionate about reality creation and the law of attraction, and I love helping people on their own journeys of conscious creation. I love that I can earn money doing something I love.<\/p>\n And because of the importance placed on these concepts, it doesn\u2019t feel too good when we are not indulging in things about which we feel passionate, when we feel like we have no purpose.<\/p>\n We may feel a lot of pressure to \u2018figure it out.\u2019<\/p>\n There are a couple of things I would say about this that will hopefully ease some of that pressure.<\/p>\n Like I said before, we may need to climb the ladder gradually as far as our emotional state goes. So in your current state, you may not be able to get in touch with what you feel passionate about.<\/p>\n You may not be able to quite tap into that sort of energy and that\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n If your life has been the stereotypical \u2018grind\u2019 where you work a job you hate,or you fell into some life you never wanted and got too deep to see a way out, bowed to societal or familial pressure,etc…you may not have given any real thought to what you feel passionate about, what type of life you actually wanted.<\/p>\n This whole idea of being a powerful creator, and being able to shape your reality by way of your inner world, is really new and foreign.<\/p>\n It might take a bit of digging to really get in touch with yourself. This work really helps you get to know yourself at depths you have never reached down to before. Embrace this journey, embrace the uncertainty and discomfort–it will make it a lot easier.<\/p>\n It will all reveal itself, but you may be to be a bit patient. Don\u2019t expend a lot of mental energy trying to \u2018figure it out.\u2019<\/p>\n And \u2018passion\u2019 is closely tied to \u2018purpose\u2019 so I wanted to work that in.<\/p>\n I believe we are \u2018on purpose\u2019 the second we get here. I believe our \u2018purpose\u2019 is to experience this reality from our wholly unique perspective, and add to that expansion of \u2018all that is.\u2019<\/p>\n I believe our purpose is to be \u2018happy.\u2019 While I think our soul may have come here with some general intentions, I don\u2019t think there is one thing we are \u2018supposed\u2019 to be doing, and we are tasked with figuring out what that something is, and until such point we do, we are basically wasting precious time.<\/p>\n I do think though, that we all have unique contributions to make, and things that interest us, things that make us feel good are not \u2018random\u2019 and can clue us into what avenues may maximize our fulfillment and well-being.<\/p>\n For some of us, it may be some grand mission and for others, it might be more \u2018modest.\u2019 Some people may feel driven to save the world, while others just want a nice simple life, with a happy marriage, some money in the bank and a satisfying job.<\/p>\n The former is not \u2018better\u2019 than the latter. If you\u2019re working to become the best version of yourself, and to be a happier person, you\u2019re on purpose in my book.<\/p>\n So that\u2019s that. Hope you enjoyed my thoughts on this question.<\/p>\n What did you think of the post? Anything resonate in particular? Any advice for shifting that energy? Have you figured out your \u2018passions?\u2019<\/p>\nYou May Have to Work Up to \u2018Good\u2019<\/h4>\n
You Gotta Deal with Your Shit<\/h4>\n
Finding Your \u2018Passions\u2019 and \u2018Purpose\u2019<\/h4>\n
Your Turn<\/h4>\n