Hi:

Whenever I feel things are not going my way or when I feel like I dont know what I want to do. I have these negative thoughts and emotions that come up. They are like feelings of anger. I can rationalize all these things happen in the past. I know when I have success these thoughts and emotions dont creep up. But when I am down or confused these thoughts just come up and surface.

I realize I learned about the feeling exercise in the course and the Process Inquiry. I am thinking right now if Congruency and solution focus have anything to do with this.

I know these thoughts also come up sometimes when I feel at age 33, I have not been having a normal employment history. This job job I have with Time Warner Cable as a telemarketer, will be the first job that I will have that I would have a year in. I will have a year in by June 25th. In my shift just about everybody or almost everyone did not meet quota for understandable reasons. I mean they say if our group does not meet quota two more times in a row we are going to be dismissed. Well I think it might be interesting if I stay here for a year.

I realize I cant necessarily get rid of these negative thoughts or emotions. I realize that these negative thoughts and emotions are not necessarily good for me. I try to smile. Say next to negative thoughts. Play chess. Affirm I feel great.

Still it is challenging not thinking about. I want thoughts that really produce success instead.

I think by simply doing the feeling exercise you are doing yourself a lot more good than you think.

Thinking about your thinking and thinking about your thinking may get yourself somewhere, but then again it may not. In my case, I can see how thinking about my thinking and feelings is just me doing what I have always done to solve what I perceive to be problems. In doing so, I merely get the results I've always gotten.

An interesting thing happened to me today, however. We had to do a presentation for class. I didn't really prepare for the presentation all that much (except in terms of information, I didn't focus on presenting skills). I noticed as I waited for my turn to go and make my presentation that I was paying more attention to the other presenters than my anxiety about going up. Usually I am pretty anxious. When I went up, I made my presentation, and made a few stupid mistakes, but when I got back I just realized what I did that was wrong and shrugged. I didn't feel embarassed or ashamed as would be usual for me.

It was very weird. I just know it is because of doing the feeling exercise so often.

This reinforces the belief I have in general mental exercises rather than specific, on the spot, thinking techniques to solve problems. I experienced a similar sort of result with Kevin Trudeau's Advanced Mega Memory course. While I was doing the exercises every day, I started to have crystal-clear flashes of memory for things that I didn't do any of the exercises with. My mental muscles were truly being strengthened.

I feel that this program seriously strengthens some mental muscles.

I know it's hard not to limit your indentity and sense of success with a job or career history, but you are more than your career history. Your career history does not say everything about your potential or who you are now.

Maybe focusing on the indentity portions of the exercises would be a good thing for you? Focus on the sense of self as creator, witness, appreciator, and energy in the now.

Who you are is much bigger than your career. The answer you seek might not have its location in careers anyway.

Do the Feeling Exercise, with whatever emotions confront you.

Alex.

Babayada:

YOu have solved your problems with just the feeling exercise?

Parag

Yeah. I was thinking too much.

The conscious mind wants to fix everything by judging and controlling. Sort of like all problems look like a nail when you have a hammer.

I think Alex is right. Just do the feeling exercise with whatever you're feeling. Just feel it.

Sjaykum1,
I have not received my "Abundance for Life" course as of yet, however, I've been following the threads in relation to the "feelings' section of the course. I would recommend reading Lynn Grabhorn's book: "Excuse me your Life is Waiting". I found her methods "key", and extreemely useful in this regard.

97Kord,

How specifically do you find this book with be helpful in regard to the feeling exercises?

As before, I haven't received the Abundance course, so I'm not completely familiar with those exercises. I found I was spending most of my time in "negative" type thoughts. Using some of Lynn's methods, I am able to "switch-flip" into positive feelings, and overlay those feelings onto whatever, or whomever I wanted. It's a quick and effective solution to generate positive feelings. Expanding on those feelings over say half an hour, you can generate some incredible energy levels, which then can be overlayed onto manifestation goals, or reality creations.

I think that the feeling exercise takes a different approach to the issue. Accepting and feeling rather than trying to change.

i.e "releasing"?
I have 97% of the Sedona Courses, books, and most of the LSC courses. I love what Lester Levinson has done, however in my circumstance, the releasing becomes more prevalent and more effective with the introduction of the energy of "feeling".
Is that not what "relaeasing" is all about...Change? For $16.00 CAN, one can certainly review Lynn's opinions and methods. They work for me.

Maybe I misunderstood what you were saying.

I thought by "switch/flip into positive feelings" you meant that the technique emphasized changing a feeling rather than accepting it.

Is it about change? In my estimation, yes and no. If you're too eager to change a feeling you're just "accepting" it to get rid of it, which is just kinda trying to fool yourself ... and the results will be as superficial as the attempt.

I am not saying that this person's book or techniques aren't of value, I'm just wondering how well they will mesh with the Abundance for Life program.

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I think the suggestion to read Lynn Grabhorn's book: "Excuse me your Life is Waiting" is a good one. It's easier to read than You can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought.

Looking at it from the point of view where you negative thoughts are leading you. Just because you do the Feeling Exercise after throughly noticing and accepting your feeling it doesn't mean you cannot allow your thoughts to move onto positive expectancies. Fact of the matter is negative thoughts and feelings are going to come back until you have fully acknowledged them. Even with the Sedona Method on of the way suggested for dealing with negative feeling is to go deeper into them. To own them and recognise them. What is difficult is figuring out how to go 'deeper into the feeling'. That's where the Feeling Exercise helps.

Ironically owning the Feeling often becomes the flip switch to the positive thinking.

Alex

Too True!

I found I couldn't really accept my feelings, and that trying to go "deeper" was difficult. At that time I was trying to solve some extremely devastating anxiety problems. When I finally released, it was such a rush! They've never surfaced again.

Now, I watch what type of thoughts I'm carrying. Negative thoughts generate negative results, maybe days to weeks down the road. Positive thoughts do the same. The "Syncronicities" that appear after a session of directed positive thought are sometimes amazing. Flip-switching is more of an action plan to gain more control over what happens in my life. Always a journey! I can't wait to get into the AFL course.

Hi...What you're describing is explained in the book Dianetics. Chap. 2: THE REACTIVE MIND.
The Reactive Mind is that part of our mind wherein are stored all your past experiences of pain, saddness, loss, fear, unconsciousness, sickness, etc. etc....
all in mental image form. These mental images form a cluster of negative energy that sometimes takes command over our health, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our joie de vivre.........

These past experiences become restimulated by daily living unknowingly..........and we feel bad, or downin the dumps, or tormented by bad thoughts, etc. etc........and don't know why.

The good news is that the negative energy (called Charge) in these past experiences can be released by
Dianetics therapy.

I'm a Dianetics therapist and have been using this technology for 19 years.
It's truly amazing.

I suggest getting a copy of Dianetics
from your bookstore.

Good luck

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Originally posted by sjaykum1:
Hi:

Whenever I feel things are not going my way or when I feel like I dont know what I want to do. I have these negative thoughts and emotions that come up. They are like feelings of anger. I can rationalize all these things happen in the past. I know when I have success these thoughts and emotions dont creep up. But when I am down or confused these thoughts just come up and surface.

I realize I learned about the feeling exercise in the course and the Process Inquiry. I am thinking right now if Congruency and solution focus have anything to do with this.

I know these thoughts also come up sometimes when I feel at age 33, I have not been having a normal employment history. This job job I have with Time Warner Cable as a telemarketer, will be the first job that I will have that I would have a year in. I will have a year in by June 25th. In my shift just about everybody or almost everyone did not meet quota for understandable reasons. I mean they say if our group does not meet quota two more times in a row we are going to be dismissed. Well I think it might be interesting if I stay here for a year.

I realize I cant necessarily get rid of these negative thoughts or emotions. I realize that these negative thoughts and emotions are not necessarily good for me. I try to smile. Say next to negative thoughts. Play chess. Affirm I feel great.

Still it is challenging not thinking about. I want thoughts that really produce success instead.

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