focus wheels

I'd been struggling a bit with the idea that I'll get discouraged with the whole alignment-with-source-energy thing eventually, and just quit. Or else I might struggle and struggle and never be able to change my vibrational setpoint, and spend the rest of my life somewhere between frustration and hope and never allow any physical manifestation. I've never manifested riches or a best-selling novel before, and physical evidence (or lack thereof) does tend to weigh heavily on my beliefs.

I was thinking and thinking about this, and yesterday in my car Abraham spoke to the very topic. It's all about raising your vibrational setpoint, getting to expectation, and until yesterday I didn't have much of a grasp on how to do that. I had some vague ideas, but only vague plans to implement those ideas in my life. Yesterday's listen gave me the impetus to start today, and I am having a really good day now.

The pithy statement that Abraham made in the middle of his spiel on the whole matter is this:

"The Universe is responding to your vibration, and your vibration is a habit you can change."

You can look at it as a habit, or as Law of Attraction bringing the same thoughts to you that you currently tend to think, but it all boils down to the same thing: find any way you can to think better thoughts and feel better feelings, and keep doing it until that's the habit, or what the universe brings to you, or whatever.

You've got to admit, you pretty much get what you expect, if not in specifics, at least in life in general. Think about the saying, "Life is hard." People who say that generally have hard lives, or at least perceive their lives as hard. (Voltaire is credited [possibly falsely] with replying to the question, "Compared to what?")

Even if a higher vibrational setpoint doesn't bring any physical evidence of an improved life, I can't imagine a better life than one spent always expecting the best and never being attached to when or how it might come. I like happy people, and I like being one of them. I'm doing what I can to stay that way, and to get happier and happier as my life progresses.

Abraham's quote above reminds me of something else he's said: A belief is only a repeated thought, and a truth is only a repeated belief. If we want to look at truth as something that we can see and show to others on this physical plane, or document with news stories or historical data, we can think of it as a post-manifestational belief. In other words, if what's physically real is truth, and people generally get what they expect, then truth is only a belief held long enough, firmly enough to bring about physical stuff.

So I'm going about changing my beliefs, and I'm taking Abraham's advice to just keep slogging away at them until they're more in alignment with what I want them to be. Abraham recommended focus wheels to help change that sort of thing (in a different conversation than the one noted above), and suggested that ten or fifteen focus wheels later the individual should feel a tangible shift in alignment.

So I did two today. If you're not familiar with focus wheels, it's Process #17 in Ask and It Is Given. If you don't have a copy, a Google search will yield all sorts of instructions, instructional videos and templates to make your very own focus wheel.

The belief/desire I started with for the first one is this: "I fear I can never change my vibration. I want to change my vibrational setpoint." I wrote that at the top of a page, drew a big circle with a smaller circle inside it, and wrote my desired outcome in the smaller circle: "I can and will be a match to source energy."
I then wrote these twelve statements around the wheel, beliefs I already have, each growing stronger than the last due to the improved emotion I felt from the last:
1. In a lot of ways my life is pretty damn good already.
2. I like how I feel about changes in my beliefs that I've already made.
3. The teachings of Abraham resonate truth in me.
4. I like how I feel when I think that I'm source energy.
5. I feel that I really am source energy, and when I remember that I feel strong and powerful.
6. If I really am source energy (which I do believe), then of course I can come into alignment with myself.
7. I don't have to figure this all out in one day.
8. I can relax and know that I really am changing my vibration.
9. I like feeling happy.
10. I like thinking that I really can change my life by changing my beliefs.
11. I know how to change how I feel.
12. The only thing I need to focus on is changing how I feel.

I then drew another circle around my desired belief in the middle, which sounded a lot more plausible by this point.

I thought of a couple more focus wheels I wanted to do then, and was so excited by the time I finished the second one that I didn't feel the need to do the third. The statement is in my notebook for me to do one when I feel the need to. I'll keep pulling myself up to these feelings until they're my new norm and I can reach even higher.

So here's the second one:
belief/desire: "I fear I will get bored with Abraham and return to my old negative ways, or stall at a midpoint on the feeling better/getting aligned journey. I want to continue to feel better and better for the rest of my life."
In the center of the circle I wrote, "I expect more and more fun and familiarity with the Law of Attraction and using it to my advantage."
Then something interesting happened when I started to write around the wheel. Here are my statements:
1. I really, really like working with Abraham's concepts.
2. It's easy for me to practice anything as long as I find it interesting.
3. Things are always interesting as long as they feel good, and feeling good is the whole point of Abraham's teachings.
4. I'm interested today, and that's all the really matters.
5. It's fun to find parallels and examples in my life and others' lives that demonstrate the Law of Attraction.
6. It's fun to develop my own beliefs and find my own truths.
7. I only have to hang on to the parts that resonate with me, and all the good parts do.
8. It's really not about following Abraham at all, but about following my self.
9. I love trusting my self over any one else.
10. I love the idea of being in the vortex; it's my old idea of enlightenment (I was very interested in Eastern religions for years).
11. I can only find ultimate truth within myself, and I now know it's there; I've always felt it's there.
12. I love the idea that love and joy and peace and freedom are all the same, and all within my self.

Then I went back to circle the statement I had written in the middle, and decided I liked another better:

I expect my joy to increase and to always be fascinated by life and the truth I find within myself. There is no truth without joy, and no joy without truth.

And now I feel like basking. So I think I shall.