Greetings dear Sunny Optimists,
How are you this fine day?
I hope there is a spring in your step and that you feel happy and settled.
I am in a period of transition since our Dreaming time together. At age 70, I have been exploring what is mine to do as I seek to live out the rest of my life in a good way. The Sunny Optimist has been a lovely part of my week for the last 18 months, and it continues to feel mine to do.
AND something new is emerging that I would love to share with you today.
The Dance of and Attraction and Resistance
I so enjoy the Abraham/Hicks books about The Law of Attraction. I have engaged with their guidance several times over the years. Yet, I feel I have gone much deeper with what is offered this time around. The process has helped me uncover a new understanding of what is needed for my wellbeing. It has been challenging and somewhat unsettling. However, I have found the insight I needed to move forward into 2022 and beyond, and I am happy.
The Law of Attraction states unequivocally that my reality arises from my thoughts, from what I believe. So I am the architect of my reality. Nobody but me! The guidance is to think happy thoughts, and life will magically all be sorted out.
Not so, I found. Ouch!
This realisation was painful.
I was unable to marry my thoughts with the happiness I was seeking. I oscillated between desiring the reality ‘I wanted’ and resisting a reality ‘I did not want’. I was getting rather annoyed with myself. LOL!
So during January, I took to furiously journaling to see if I could reveal where my resistance lay. It takes diligence to reveal the operating thoughts that take us away from happiness. I realised that it was what they call ‘The Art of Allowing’ practice that I was struggling with. Abraham invites us to focus on our thoughts and not pay attention to what is happening elsewhere. So if I don’t like what another person is doing, I allow it. I am not to give it any attention. I just focus on what I want.
This guidance was the bit I was not able to accept. The state of the world is deeply troubling for me. Over the last two years, I have been sad, angry and fearful at times. I understand now that I cannot just ‘allow’ things that I am not in agreement with. But rather, I need to acknowledge these challenges and then think about what I do want instead.
From this place of understanding, I can feel myself pulsing positive energy out for what I do want. I am so much happier in myself. I am not passive in allowing things that I am not in agreement with, but I am not resisting them either. I am learning to shift my thoughts to wholesome desires aligned to the Divine. I know I am a work in progress. I can still feel the twist of resistance in my tummy at times. But I am catching the opposition quicker and shifting more readily.
My new ‘Above and Beyond’ Newsletter
This understanding has led me to see another Newsletter birthing in me. This will be a place for me to share more about what I see in the world and what might be needed. A bit more political, I suppose than The Sunny Optimist. But also where I can go into deeper exploration using my Spiral Dynamics Integral (SDi) and Earth Wisdom training to explain what I see.
The tagline for the Newsletter is 'an elder's evolutionary view of everyday existence'. The Elder piece is foundational for me. What I offer has to come from a loving, incisive, holistic, and elevating place. The title 'Above and Beyond' came to me the same way as The Sunny Optimist. In my heart, I just knew it was right, and a space opened up inside me to imagine into. There is a lot to do to get organised, but I find myself dreaming about the various posts I want to write. I feel a confidence and settledness within that I am enjoying. I will be back:)
Thank you for listening.
As always, I would love to hear how things are for you.
Ann
What a wonderful ldea. It’s needed with some wise perspectives in a word where societies, groups and individuals have a tendency to go into black or white, right or wrong and we can’t solve anything by going into war - that just create more trauma history- and we can’t be completely passive either- I love the book “ The way between “ by Rivera Sun - It’s fantasy and is the first of 4 books - “the Heird” “Desset song” and “The crown of light” Yes please bring your wisdom wonderful Ann. Sending love and wishes for a bright and powerful 2022. 💥🎶🎈🌺🔥🌱🌟🌹🪶💫
Ann, it brings me great joy that you shared about the law of attraction, and our opportunity to choose to center on what we like rather than dislike. This option offers me such a joyful invitation—thank you! 🙏🏼♥️