Two Processes To Get The Money Flowing In

This week I received a question from Jackie.

Here is here question and my response!

I have a question, maybe you can answer it for me? I’ve been working with the Law of Attraction for well over a year now, and have had some startling results, but there’s one area where I’ve repeatedly met resistance. Money. My health has improved no end - I had an ongoing medical condition which has vanished - it was easy to imagine my life as a well person, (having been well & healthy most of my life) and even when I felt really crappy I could do things that a healthy person could do, so it was relatively easy to change the way I thought about my illness. I’m having more resistance with the money thing though. This time of year is especially difficult, with people going on about Christmas shopping & parties etc when I haven’t the money to buy presents or get a bus back from a party in the next town. My idea of being “rich” can be having enough money to buy lunch at work tomorrow, which is tiny. How can I “fake” having money when the “reality” is so different? Any ideas on how I can break through this resistance? I KNOW this situation is only temporary & normally it doesn’t bother me because I’m so used to having hardly any cash, but right now, I’d like to be able to go to the pub with my friends & buy some Christmas presents!

Dear Gorgeous Friends and Beautiful Jackie,

The first thing that struck me in your post was that having enough money to buy lunch would mean being ‘rich’. I would work on expanding what being rich means to BIGGER things.

I can only use myself as an example and having enough money to buy lunch for me is a given. I have decided that all meals will be provided to me. My idea of ‘rich’ is traveling in a private jet. It’s very subjective

Know that the more you expand your desires the more you are lining up with who you really are. I love Abraham’s quote: It is as easy to create a castle as a button. It’s just a matter of whether you’re focused on a castle or a button”. When I first heard that on the Abraham-Hicks Hawaii Cruise I just couldn’t stop crying.

Hearing that quote was a huge release and a huge learning that I am still understanding on deeper levels.

From my experience I would say that it may be easier to create a castle than it is to create a button.

Why???

Because your Inner Being, your Spirit, the Divine part of YOU and the Universe know your value and worth.

If you are debating your value because of your limiting beliefs then you are limiting what you are creating. When you are shooting for the stars and feeling that owning the company you work for, or the catering company that provides the food you are in more alignment to who you really are.

The Universe wants big things for you. The Universe is expanding and wanting to expand through you. Hoping for lunch has a very different energy to hoping for a multimillion dollar company that provides lunch.

The best way to change that energy is to play with money on a daily basis.

I am going to share two processes with you:

Process 1)

The Money Game

Get the largest note of money you can get your hands on. If even that is beyond what you are capable of now, get a photo of one, or make one up yourself. (Technically, I have been told it is illegal to photocopy money. I’m assuming you can take a photo or make a drawing.)

Spend time every day spending that amount in your mind and keep that money with you. Say you have $50. Spend that 100 times in one day, in your mind. You’ve now spend $5,000. Do this every day for as long as it takes for you to start getting money in.

I did this game with incredible results. I kept getting cash in, so now I am working on checks and paypal payments. Not so long ago Julian and I counted all the cash I had lying around and it was an unbelievable amount.

I would suggest that you play this game until you have the physical evidence of the money coming in.

Process 2)

I Am God

For this concept you need to think of the most spiritual person you know or have heard about. For example, Jesus, or the Dalai Lama, Nichiren Daishonin. Imagine you are that person embodying your physical body. You have that persons faith, peace and connection to all that is. Spend some time walking around in your house being that energy. As you are walking imagine you are walking through your every day life but with the energy, presence, peace and faith of the Spiritual being that is embodying you.

I find this exercise freeing and empowering. I use it whenever I really need a reminder of who I am and what I am able to accomplish. I also use this with clients and walk them through it so that they can completely reclaim their power and get a fuller understanding of how much creative control they have.

It also is a great way to really ‘Nevelize’ what you want in a really positive way.

Use this technique to teach you how people view you on a deeper level. You are seen through eyes of awe, inspiration, unconditional love.

I love you.

With Love and Appreciation,
Angela Bear
http://www.angelabear.com

The Most Important Relationship You’ll Ever Have!

Dear Beautiful and Loved Co-creators,

This past week has been a busy one for me. I’ve been working more with my favorite clients and reveling in their reaching new levels of peace and self awareness.

Everything I’ve dealt with this past week has been based on relationships. If you’ve worked with me or have been reading my posts you’ll know that the relationship that is the foundation of all your other relationships is the one you have with yourself. (Meaning the one you have between you and your Inner Being, Creator, Source)

How you feel about yourself is reflected in your relationships. If you don’t feel worthy or good enough that is going to show up in at least one relationship.

The way to improve your relationships with others is to improve how you feel about yourself and how you view yourself.

If you are in a relationship then use it to your benefit to really explore how you feel about yourself. Your partner is reflecting back to you what you truly believe inside of you.

If you are not in a relationship use this time to build on your relationship with you and your connection to Source Energy.

I love the saying that ‘you are born alone, you die alone’. Not because I believe it, but it reminds me of my reality. My reality is that we are always connected to that greater part of us that is connected to the infinite power and resources of Source. We come from that, we can tap into that and Create what Feels Good.

The other thing I love about that saying is that it reminds me of the gaps, the in between spaces in relationships. Regardless if you are in a relationship or not there are times when you might feel alone. These are the times to reach for and grab your connection to Source. Reclaim your power, your essence.

Society is big on teaches us that our partner provides this, that or the other. As humans it so easy to get wrapped up into the belief that we are providers of happiness for our partners. In reality we are responsible for our own happiness. Our partners our responsible for theirs.

We are only alone in ‘our mind’. In reality we are completely connected. We are all energetically linked and everything and anything is possible.

If you want to be in a loving and happy relationship use the image of what you DO want as your driving force to really get to know what you want, what would be perfect for you. If you don’t know than work through what you don’t want. Make a list of what you don’t want. Work on it a bit every day. Focus on what you don’t like. Then use what you don’t want as a way to get awareness of what you do want. Really clarify what you want.

All the time build on your knowledge that you always have the greater part of you, your Inner Being, the part of you that is completely connected and IS Source Energy with you.

Today my wish for you is to KNOW that nothing is final, nothing is as concrete and permanent as your ability to change things to how you really want them to be. You are a Divine Expression of Source Energy. You are beautiful and you are loved!

I love you.

Thank you.

With Love and Appreciation,
Angela Bear
www.angelabear.com

Ho’oponopono Upstream or Downstream?

Dear Gorgeous and Magnificent Co-Creators,

I got a lovely message from a client asking me if doing Ho’oponopono was going Upstream or Downstream because it brought up emotions when she thought of things to ‘clean’ on but then when she’d cleaned she felt much better. This is my reply to her:

“I’m not sure how upstream doing the Ho’oponopono process is. What I am sure of it that is does take me downstream and gets me more in the flow than I would have been had I not done Ho’oponopono in the first place.

I haven’t heard Abraham talking about the Ho’oponopono process. I know that Joe Vitale is friends with Jerry and Esther Hicks and that in the early days he used to get into their seminars for free because they loved him so much. I know from one of Joe Vitale’s downloads that I bought he plans on asking Abraham about the Ho’oponopono process and how it fits in with their teachings.

I believe that Ho’oponopono falls in line with my Native American medicine teachings. I was taught by an Oglala Medicine Man that our Chakra’s are made up of hundreds of pictures (facets) and that when we clean a picture then people can no longer push our buttons on that picture. A picture is literally a snapshot in time or a movie that is one of the facets of one of our Chakras. There is an initial incident that then each similar incident is placed upon the memory of the last. Each time a similar incident happens then the emotions of ALL of the incidents are brought up. The Natives I trained with called these ‘pictures’, Richard Bandler co-founder of NLP calls them ‘pictures’.

For instance as a child your dad calls you ‘stupid’ in fit of anger and that makes a picture. Then you go to school a few years later and get into an argument with a friend and she calls you stupid. That brings up the emotion of your dad calling you ‘stupid’ and you place the memory of your friend calling you ‘stupid’ on top of that. So say the first time it happened with your dad it made you feel not good enough, every time you get called ‘stupid’ you feel as if you aren’t good enough. That is a picture. It can be built on time and time again. There is no limit to how many layers are in that ‘picture’.

What Ho’oponopono does is cleans and erases those layers, in my opinion. What Ho’oponopono says is that the limiting beliefs, the pictures can be there from the beginning of time. This falls in line with the Native belief that ‘pictures’ can be built upon lifetime after lifetime.

It seems as though just like me you are getting results from doing the Ho’oponopono, so just keep doing it! Does it matter if Abraham is for or against something? Abraham is usually FOR processes. They used to say affirmations were good, now more recently they say that it is going a bit upstream, but if it works to take you downstream you should do it! Do anything that takes you downstream.”

I love you.

Thank you.

With Love and Appreciation,
Angela Bear
www.angelabear.com

The Perfect Marriage

Hello Beautiful Co-Creator,

Today I got a message from a Facebook friend about his upcoming marriage and how he’s been told that a marriage is a lot of work. I totally agree, but probably in a completely different way.

For me the work that is needed in marriage is for me to stay as connected to Source Energy as I possibly can. My job is to build my relationship with my Inner Being and Source Energy.

Why is that my job? Because if I’m not at my best and not feeling safe, loved or adored the first person that is going to hear about it is my husband. It is my belief that people want to be in a relationship with happy people. At least I can speak for Julian and I and say that what WE want is to be in a relationship with happy people. It just makes the relationship more fun and loving.

My relationship with Julian is always evolving. In the beginning I based more of my happiness on him and my relationship with him. That was in the Honeymoon period, the first one. As I continued to study and learn about spirit, the Laws of the Universe and Personal Development I learned how my happiness was truly based on me and my way of thinking.

Yesterday I worked with a client from Facebook and it was hard work. It was hard work because although she knew the Abraham teachings inside out and could quote them better than me she was basing her full happiness on having a lover. She was adamant that true happiness would only be hers when a man came into her life to rescue her. That just doesn’t fly in my book. But the funny thing is that I same into the same trap later that evening when speaking to Marketing Guru Russell. I did the whole woe is me and I bow to your knowledge. Fortunately Russell is not only a Marketing Genius but also a great friend and Abraham follower and he called me on my own crap.

Marriage is not about the other person making things right, neither is any other relationship. Marriage is an absolutely delicious experience when both people are whole and living their dreams knowing that they are responsible for their own happiness.

This week I have been amazed at how many people I’ve come into contact with that are gaging their value and worth by the happiness that their partners are experiencing. You are only responsible for your own happiness! You are most definitely responsible for your own happiness and problems arise when you make your spouse even partially responsible for your happiness.

The only way to truly be happy is to take the time and make the effort to connect with Source Energy.
Putting conditions on your marriage and spouse will only cause tension and strain. I felt so much freer once I learned that I am not responsible for how Julian feels. I will occasionally fall into the trap of feeling responsible, but mostly I leave him to sort out his own stuff. At times it may irritate him that I am being bright eyed bushy tailed bunny, but he gets over whatever it is a lot more quickly then he would if I doted on him trying to make things better.

We all have the choice to feel better when we feel bad. No one can take that choice from us and make us feel better. We are responsible!

Your value is based on how good you feel and how much you connect to who you really are. It really has nothing to do with whether your spouse is pleased or not with what you do or don’t do.

Find better feeling thoughts about the things you want to experience in life and know that you can create them yourself. You don’t need a lover, spouse or marketing guru to do it for you. You are able to live the life of your dreams.

You are gorgeous and I love you!

Thank you.

With Love and Appreciation,
Angela Bear
www.angelabear.com

Forgiveness, How do I Forgive?

Last night I was doing my affirmations and I got to the one on forgiveness (Thank you Divine for the forgiveness that I’ve had and the forgiveness that I continue to experience.) and I started thinking about forgiveness and how much easier it is for me to forgive now. That got me to thinking HOW did I learn to Forgive?

I thought about how I had gotten irritated with Julian, my husband, in the kitchen during the evening, but I couldn’t remember what it had been about. I’ve been on my spiritual path for a very long time and the honest truth as to why I have is because I was one very unhappy person. I had anger that I had built up and nurtured for years. Frankly I had a lot to be angry about. In the not so distant past me getting upset with Julian could have escalated into a big blow out with me feeling unloved, unwanted and not good enough.

These were my childhood issues and the slightest thing not going the way I wanted would trigger them.

I’ve had years of training, courses, therapies and the most effective tools I have found have been NLP (this includes the Native American healing techniques that are in my opinion NLP), Ho’oponopono and the teachings of Abraham (brought to us by Jerry and Esther Hicks).

Abraham teaches to find better feeling thoughts. This is a concept that took me at least a year to master. It would probably take the average person a fraction of that time. It’s not that the concept is difficult or that I needed a book called ‘How To Find Better Feeling Thoughts For Dummies’, it’s just that I was more used to feeling a bad feeling thought and choosing a better feeling thought was not normal to me.

Abraham also teaches choosing to feel good rather than being right. I can totally understand how choosing to to be right played a huge role in me needing to forgive. It has been easier for me to say ‘oh that person did that thing I have every right to feel bad’. Also my natural state of being was that of feeling bad about something. Because the Law of Attraction works so well, I just kept getting opportunity after opportunity to feel bad.

On the last Abraham Cruise I went on I deeply connected with Jules, an amazingly loving and insightful man. He had been doing Ho’oponopono for over a year and I was drawn to him like a moth to a flame. His wisdom and ability to soothe me was awesome and during one of our encounters he reminded me of the Abraham concept of how our perception and interpretation of something that has happened is what causes us pain, it’s not the actual event.

From Source’s perspective when Julian goes shopping and forgets the one item I really want it means I wasn’t aligned with it. How I feel about him forgetting is up to me. In the past it would have been common place for me to have it mean that on some level that I wasn’t good enough. I would tell myself that if I was good enough I would have the blueberries he forgot.

What I was dealing with from my past was much more severe in my mind than my husband forgetting something that I really wanted, but in the clarity of seeing things from a Source perspective I was able to revisit my past and change the meaning of the things that hurt me the most.

I was able to forgive people, places and things for there was nothing left to forgive. The thing about holding on to accusations is that you make yourself right and the other person wrong. Making someone wrong and at fault immediately gives them power over you and makes you the victim. You are in effect saying ‘That person has the power to hurt me any time they want’. Then every time you think of that ‘hurtful’ incident you are making the other person stronger again and making yourself weaker. It’s a really bad cycle to be in.

As difficult as it may be when things happen that you don’t like the best thing to do is to take a step back and ask yourself what where the kind of thoughts and feelings you were having that allowed that situation to take place. Taking that step puts you in control, it gives you your power back. It allows you to feel good about yourself.

Holding anger, pain or resentment towards someone or something perpetuates that incident and holds you in a place of not feeling good. It is giving your power to feel good away. Choose to feel good rather than be right. Remember that everything from Source perspective just ‘IS’, it’s neither good or bad. It just is. We are the ones that add value and meaning to what transpires in our life. Knowing this, go back and decide on a different meaning, a meaning that is either void of emotion or that makes you feel good.

Also remember that whatever happens in life, regardless of how you feel about it, you were guided there on your way to what’s waiting for you in your Vibrational Escrow!

You are beautiful and loved!

I love you.

Thank you.

With Love and Appreciation,
Angela Bear
www.angelabear.com

Feeling High or Inner Knowing?

Dear Magnificent Expressions of Divine Love,

Today I got an email from a client that has been using the Ho’oponopono to connect with Source Energy but finding that she is crashing down from that great feeling when she runs into things like her boyfriend being stressed. I am including a portion of my response to her because this is something you can benefit from.

The other day I had a brief encounter with a co-creator that is doing very well, but is very much ungrounded. I attempted to impart the importance to being grounding but was hit with the other person’s belief that being in a place of happiness and anticipation was what being connected is all about. I disagree, this is how I know it to be:

Grounding allows you to flow the energy of Source through you but in a down to Earth way. It is easier for us to whip up our energy and connect to Source by taking our awareness There but when we let go of that energy we do come ‘crashing down’. There is too much contrast in what you are used to thinking and feeling and what you feel when you raise your energy to that of Source Energy.

Alas you have grounding to connect in a completely different way and to stop you from crashing down.
Grounding keeps your awareness in YOUR BODY, instead of in your thoughts and outside of you. It allows you to connect to Source Energy but in a way that pulls Source Energy down TO YOU, as opposed to you raising your awareness to meet up with it either in your head or above you!

So, you Ground, you do your Ho’oponopono, you keep grounded, you bring the Energy of Source down to you and when you meet up with your reality through a stressed out boyfriend you are grounded, how can you crash? You may let go of your connection to Source, but not as completely as you had before, because you are grounded. You built your connection on a strong foundation and the more you practice Grounding the stronger your foundation is.

Energetically the way I see you connecting at the moment is like skyscraper on really long stilts reaching up to the clean, fresh air. Little breezes create huge movement and it can be a bit like being on a carnival ride. Gusts of wind come along and knock you down and then you have to start the whole process of rebuilding all over again. This is frustrating and let’s face it, it can also be tiring!

Energetically when you Ground you are building a deep foundation and building upon that is a solid structure that every day is reinforced through your practice of grounding. You don’t build yourself up as high as a skyscraper, because you realized you can bring down that cool clean fresh air down to you. You can feel the breezes and the wind but they don’t rock you.

Al ot of people associate the buzzy ‘high’ feeling as being connected. And it is being connected. It definitely is being connected to Source Energy. And yes when you are feeling that you are lining up with the things you want. But you are also precariously balanced on stilts. You can have the same results and very similar sensations flowing THROUGH your entire body and experiencing a deep sense of knowing and connectedness when you Ground.

Both ways of being connected are so similar at times that it can be a challenge to judge whether you are grounded or on a high. If you are excited and in a place of expectation then you are on a high. IF you are in a place of complete knowing, acceptance, allowance and good where you are in the moment not looking forward to anything then you are Grounded.

My recommendation is that you practice grounding 4 times a day and whenever you feel you need it.

If you need any more clarity on this let me know.

I love you.

Thank you.

With Love and Appreciation,
Angela Bear
www.angelabear.com

The Most Comforting Pillow

Here’s a story I was inspired to write earlier this year! I just had the inspiration to share it with you today!

The Most Comforting Pillow

This morning I woke up and was contemplating my Mother’s view on reality. A lesson that she is determined to teach me at all costs is that ‘bad’ people are out there. I’ve been studying spirituality for years and
I keep coming across the concept that there is no good or bad everything just ‘is’ or my favourite Buddhist concept which is everything is how you view it. Taking on the responsibility of how you view things can feel massive at first, but ultimately it is the way to true happiness.

So I am lying in bed on my feather mattress with my head on my feather pillow and I am thinking if there are ‘bad’ people in the world what percentage of people are ‘bad’. I’m going on an Abraham cruise in a couple of months and I thought I could ask Abraham. (www.abraham-hicks.com ) Now I am truly blessed with the ability to channel Source Energy myself. Credence is the name I was given for those who asked what to call that energy. There are times when I relax enough myself that the energy flows over and through me and answers my questions, this morning was just such a time.

I was shown an image of being in bed when I lived in Alabama and feeling a pricking feather. I just breathed and let the image unfold.

I used to have a problem with feathers poking me from my feather pillows. I preferred feather pillows as they have always represented luxury and comfort. I loved being able to mold them into the perfect shape. The only trouble was I kept getting poked.

I still remember the first time my pillow was anything but comfort. I felt a sharpness that even produced a tiny scratch. My mind reeled attempting to understand what had taken place. I thought perhaps a needle had found it’s way into my pillow or at the very least some sort of metal. It took me a while to find the intruding pain giver and then some time to worry it out a bit more.

I pulled on it gently until a soft fluffy feather was revealed. And I thought this can’t be right. I tried every which way to scratch myself with that feather to no avail. It seemed that once I had examined it and came to the conclusion that it was a fine specimen of soft feather I could no longer get it to act like a needle.

For a while I kept having the same experience with protruding feather quills that felt like needles until I pulled them out and found them to be soft and bendy little feathers. Then one day I thought about all the feathers that I was pulling out of my pillow. At the rate I was going I wouldn’t have a pillow any more. So every time I was poked or pricked I would take the time to push it back into the pillow and then I would move the feathers around so that it would get lost amongst all the others.
After a while there were no more incidents of pricking feathers and I only remembered that brief period of my life this morning.

The answer I received from Credence this morning is that I can notice one ‘bad’ feather in the crowd of all the good feathers and pluck it out and keep doing that with each naughty, painful or disruptive feather and end up with no comfort or I can blend it in with all the others and focus on the divine comfort of the whole and soon my focus, my reality will be on the benefits of my pillow and ultimately there will not be repeated incidents of irritating or painful quills that turn soft when you pull them out of their environment.

When you go out into the world and get irritated by someone or something remember that in a certain light if you were to examine that person or thing you would find that they are just a part of this Divine experience and their role is essential to the Universe.

You are loved more than you know. Today let that love flow over you and into you and to keep coming in gentle waves to ease your worries and bring you comfort and joy.

With Love and Appreciation,
Angela Bear
www.angelabear.com

How to Get MORE Self Esteem

Today I received an email from a friend on a topic that I often discuss with clients; Self Esteem.

Self Esteem is something I have personally worked on a lot. I grew up having virtually none. So I have read, studied and trained in all sorts of methods to improve my own self esteem.

The one thing that has worked for me is having a daily consistent practice of doing something for myself. In the early days it was chanting for 5 to 10 minutes every morning. It doesn’t matter what it is that you do as long as it is for you.

I had a client once that had a real lack of self worth and esteem, she was always doing for others and getting her joy from theirs instead of experiencing it herself. It took a while for her to understand that this commitment was about her. She kept insisting that if she did something for a friend or for her children that would be the thing to lift her self esteem. Each idea she came up with was about pleasing someone else.

It soon became obvious that she didn’t feel that she was allowed to feel good or happy if anyone around her was unhappy. She felt responsible for the happiness of each person in her life.

I have one off clients and I have clients that work with me on a regular basis until they have achieved a desired outcome. She was a one off client. There are people that want and can take more and more of me and there are others that have to digest for 6 months to a year on what I’ve given them.

In the end she agreed on having a bath for 10 minutes every day, just locking herself in the bathroom on her own for 10 whole minutes. Doing that on a consistent basis would build on her relationship with her. She loved baths, by the way. The whole point of this is doing something that feels good.

With students and clients I have them do something of spiritual nature to build on their relationship with the Divine. I have them do a specific meditation (this would include chanting which is an active meditation), or listen or read to a specific author like Joe Vitale or the teachings of Abraham by Esther and Jerry Hicks for a minimum of 15 minutes a day.

Doing something every single day and sticking to it is reaffirming and restating that you really want the life you say you want. It builds the foundation of not only your self esteem but also your value and self worth. Each day that you do that thing you do for you another piece of your dream is fitted into place.

I have all my clients knowing and remembering their clear goal to focus on so they know WHY they are following through with their commitment each and every day. It’s not something that we work on for just self esteem. I have a client building a huge networking business and she wants to do it quickly, so she is using this process. It keeps her focused and it gives her the energy, courage and strength to do what she needs to do each and every day.

The key is to start with something manageable. For really super busy clients I have them download a meditation on to an MP3 player and go to bed 5 minutes early and set their alarm clock in the morning 5 minutes earlier so they can listen to a short meditation. Then we work on extending the time on both ends.

I could write a billion posts on the importance of connecting to the Divine energy. It gets you aligned with who you are and what you want! It’s where I get my unlimited amount of love, peace and happiness!

I’m off to connect even more to the Divine!

Have a lovely day!!!!!!
With Love and Appreciation,
Angela Bear

www.angelabear.com

What’s Your Story?

Dear Delightful Co-Creators,

Today I am experiencing resistance. It happens. I’m human and I’ve got my own experiences to play with.

We all have something that happens in our lives that just doesn’t feel good. One great way of changing the story of how things are is to write or tell the story of how you want things to be.

I want to tell you my story, but I know what I really need to do is write my story how I want it to be……….

So, I ask you as a co-creator to read my story as I want it to be:

I had contrast, I learned to get into alignment with lots of good things. These good things including learning how to find better feeling thoughts and feeling good. My relationships improved. I was able to LOVE LIFE! There was still some resistance with the flow of money. I used the processes I knew and focused on feeling better. Before I knew it I was having money flowing in from clients and in unusual ways as well. I realize now that my resistance and fear that I had before was lifted and that I might have to continue to tweak my vibration on this a bit more but for now I have all the money I need.

What is your story? I want to know your story of how you want things to be as if they really happened! Be detailed as much as possible, but only on the really great stuff! The more detailed you are the more powerful your story is! Be ever so brief with the contrast.

With Love and Appreciation,
Angela Bear
www.angelabear.com

Feel GOOD Now!!

Today is a day that I wish I had a magic wand to wave around to improve things in my environment. Alas, I have a magic wand, it is just harder to pick up and use because I have to decide to feel good to use it. My magic wand is a process called ‘Find a Better Feeling Thought’.

Last night my Aga went cold. An Aga is an awesome huge cooking God (I don’t know what else to call it, I LOVE it!) that stays hot all the time and heats all my water and keeps my house nice and toasty-feeling. Honestly, I am blessed to be able to cook straight away, I have completely forgotten how to preheat an oven!

It turns out I’ve run out of oil, or maybe I haven’t. My Aga is one of my huge teachers, it replaced my mother. My mother taught me that when things went bad it was because God didn’t love her. I learned that teaching really well and I was able to let go of that with most everything apart from not having oil for my Aga. I kid you not, running out of oil used to be a big fat drama for me! I literally felt that God had removed his love from me and I even felt like the Universe was pooing on me. It is amazing how bad I allowed myself to feel over it!

The reason I say maybe I haven’t run out of oil, even though it looks like I have, is because the last time this scenario played out I went out and checked the oil gauge, my ex husband had also checked it and it was definitely out. I came back into the house and I purposefully found better feeling thoughts. Now I’d been working on this issue for years, yes, it is years! Like I said, I cleaned up my vibration with lots and lots of other things, but running out of oil was the the Rollover Jackpot of Feeling Bad. I must say that when I had gone out there last time I wasn’t feeling particularly bad, I also wasn’t skipping while singing and having robins plait my hair. I had accepted my fate and I did feel a bit weary. My weariness seemed to be set in stone once I had gone out and seen that there was no oil.

On the way back into the house I already started thinking of things that would make me feel better. I thought I could go back to bed with a good book for a while. That would be a comforting thing to do. Just thinking about that felt good. I got into the house and called the people that supply the oil and they scheduled a delivery. Gone are the days where I would blame them for not keeping it topped up properly or filling it soon enough. Then I continued to go about my day but looking for better feeling thoughts. I got myself into a really good place and for some reason got the inspiration to go back outside and look at the oil tank. Being the type of person who loves to follow inspiration, I went out there and looked at it. Surprise, surprise the tank was actually showing that it was half full.

Of course I questioned the whole incident in my own mind for a while. But I decided that what ever had actually transpired was all based on me changing my vibration. Was I in a bit of a funk and because of where I was, I wasn’t vibrationally aligned with seeing how much oil was there? Or was I not vibrationally aligned with having it and then when I got aligned the Universe provided it? I don’t know, and in fact I don’t really care.

What I DO care about is that it gave me proof that finding better feeling thoughts can actually change my environment for the better. It doesn’t really matter to me if my environment is changing to accommodate me or if I see things that were previously invisible to me. What I want to hold on to is that it works.

I ended up phoning the lady from the oil company back that day and telling her I had made a mistake and to cancel the delivery. She was most pleased with my call and thanked me. (Yet another thing happening for me to feel good!) She’d somehow scheduled an emergency delivery for that day. Which in itself was a miracle.

So, today I went out and saw that the tank does in fact look empty. I call the oil people and spoke with a nice man who tells me that maybe the oil tank really isn’t empty and asks have I looked inside. I have no idea how to look inside, maybe I will investigate later. But I am using his questioning as a way to feel even better. He can’t get anyone out here until Tuesday. That was the one thing that I felt bad about. Not being able to do big cooking until Tuesday did not fill me with Joy and Glee. SO, I keep going back to the thought of him not being convinced that I am out of oil. I also pulled on the really outlandish thought of going away on holiday until Tuesday. That’s not going to happen, but it feels GREAT to think about going to a Manor House hotel in the country and having all my meals prepared by a chef. I like that idea. Anyway, what’s important is that I feel loved. I know that the Divine adores me.

I’m also looking at this incident as yet another opportunity to clean up my vibration even more on thism and it’s giving me practice on finding better feeling thoughts.

Each and every obstacle and challenge that comes into your life is an opportunity for you to find ways to feel better. The whole point of being here is to have focused feelings of love, joy and happiness. Look at each challenge as an opportunity for you to feel better, and know that feeling better is how you get into alignment with everything it is that you really want. That is one concept that really keeps me going when I am struggling with letting go of the feeling bad. I think of what it is I really want, like a log house in Canada, and I tell myself that to get that I have to get over this feeling bad. I know that every challenge I have is a way to add energy to what I want by my turning it around to something I can feel good about.

That may sound flippant and that I find it easy to do. I don’t mean it that way at all. Not so very long ago Julian and I had a huge argument where I just couldn’t stop feeling bad. I’ve been playing at the “finding better feeling thoughts game” enough that I get a strong inner voice that coaxes me in the right direction, but sometimes I feel so bad that I want to stay in that place. That night I just kept digging myself into a bigger and deeper hole of bad feelings and thoughts and before I knew it Julian was saying he had enough, as in enough of our relationship. Now that was something that left me feeling even worse than I had before. I’d hit the bottom of that hole I had been digging.

Luckily I have worked with enough people and relationships to know that people make decisions while feeling bad that they wouldn’t make in their normal state of alignment. I’ve helped quite a few couples get back together and have greatly improved relationships on the basis that things were said and decisions were made when both were not a vibrational match to Divine’s LOVE. Yes, better feeling thoughts in the midst of a break up were much harder to find than they were for running out of oil!

Yet I learned three valuable lessons: 1) I from then on wanted to listen to my Inner Guidance about finding better feeling thoughts, 2) I preferred my contrast and lessons taking place with smaller things, like running out of oil, 3) That my theory that you can decide on what you WANT, rather than what is really works.

It took me a good couple of days to get over the emotions of that argument and Julian is still here. Our relationship is better than ever. I think a lot of that is down to the fact that I want to stay at a higher vibrational level. Something deep inside of me has clicked onto how feeling good actually feels good, and I get a lot more out of it than feeling bad.

My past is full of contrast. I’ve only read books about contrast that was worse than the contrast I had for 25 years. It doesn’t matter what that contrast was, what matters is that I learned extremely well how to feel bad; really, really bad. But things are different now, they have been better for a very long time. What wasn’t different was how I felt about myself and my life. What I’ve been working on along my spiritual path is to improve how I feel and in turn that improves how I see things.

I’m telling you this because it is MY process and I figure that if I can do it then so can you. This isn’t a competition of who had it worse, or who feels the worst. This is an opportunity to feel better than you ever did before.

Today I got yet another opportunity to feel good! How good are you willing to feel? I want for you more than anything to be able to choose feeling good, to fully grasp the concept of finding a better feeling thought and expanding on it.

“Life is supposed to be fun” Abraham - Channeled by Esther Hicks

With Love and Appreciation,
Angela Bear
www.angelabear.com

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