Get Happy, Be Happy, Stay Happy

I didn’t sleep well last night. I got up around 6:00 feeling drugged. My muscles were weak, and I felt like a ragdoll. I chalked it up to being on the computer until 11 p.m. and going to bed later than usual.

Still, I felt really, really weak. My face had no color. While the coffee brewed, I stretched out on the couch and wondered if something other than lack of sleep was going on. Using my favorite energy psychology technique (NET), I discovered that a blog post I’d read just before going to bed had triggered a DVD in my brain to play, subconsciously. That DVD contains a traumatic event in which I believed an anesthesiologist was trying to kill me. The physiology of the traumatic memory makes sense — drugged and weak.

I used another energy psychology method (Zensight Process) to “clear” the troublesome recording. Thirty minutes later I was full of energy and happily chatting with my husband (poor guy, he was barely awake).

I love EP. I don’t know what kind of shape I’d be in without it.

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“Consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.” -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Dear Swami:

I keep hearing about this Law of Attraction, but it doesn’t seem to work for me. Every time I am attracted to someone, they end up being attracted to someone else. And money? Forget about it. The more I affirm, the less I seem to have. I’ve tried meditation, I’ve tried affirmations, I’ve read books and attended seminars but somehow the Universe doesn’t seem to be getting my messages. Swami, am I missing something?

Erna Liddle, Lexington, Kentucky

Dear Erna:

You came to the right Swami with this question, because I had the same experience years ago. As a young seeker, I found myself unemployed and without money. Today, I refer to that time as my “Baroque Period” — you know, so Baroque I was Haydn from the landlord. Anyway, I knew with certainty that all I needed was to harness the power of the mind, and my needs and desires would be fulfilled. One Friday, I received a notice from the utilities company that on Monday, they would come to turn off my electricity for not paying. And so I began my intensive affirmation process that a large check I was expecting would indeed arrive by Monday. With each affirmation, I felt more confident and certain.

Sure enough, on Monday the doorbell rang. It was a huge Czechoslovakian guy who said, “I’m here to shut off your electricity.” And so I learned a valuable spiritual lesson. If you want the Universe to do your bidding, you have to spell it out.

But I really learned about the Law of Attraction when I did my apprenticeship in Texas as a sacred cowpoke with the legendary master of meditation and outdoor cooking, Baba Q. Every Sunday, at his ranch the I’m OK You’re OK Corral, we would have an attractor-pull where we would practice pure animal magnetism. I became a champ, and believe me, it’s quite a feeling walking around with a hundred or so gophers (and an occasional armadillo) stuck to you.

It was during that time (which I now refer to as my Gopher Baroque Period) that I learned something that might be of help to you. The entire problem with affirmations is that we use them to ask for what we don’t have because if we already had it, we wouldn’t be asking for it, would we? The problem is, that in doing the affirmation, we are first and foremost affirming we don’t have something. That is the thought we are broadcasting, and the Universe dutifully sends us more of the same. That is how the Law of Attraction becomes the Law of Repulsion.

So how do you trick the Universe into giving you something you don’t already have? By fully feeling that you already have it. That’s right. The key to fulfillment is full-feelment. And in solving this tricky problem, I inadvertently found the secret to health, wealth, relaxation and release of worry once and for all. After years of trying to live in the now, I decided to get ahead of the game. I bought a condo in a future of my choice, and I’ve been living there happily waiting for the world to catch up.

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