Over the weekend, while Rascal was visiting with his sons,
our hamster went missing. The kids, all 4 of them, began the quest to solve the mystery of the missing hamster like the gang on Scooby Doo. Mommy, on the other hand, wigged out.
Well... they woke me up from a dead sleep at 7 a.m. to tell me this! And I LOVE that sweet little guy. Rascal remained calm and held no doubts that the hamster would appear. Still, I dragged him out of bed to help us search anyway. Minutes later, as predicted, our hamster approached Rascal from behind the refrigerator.
Hooray!
I'd jumped into Rascal's arms, so thankful, and he calmly spoke to me, "Can I say something to you? Something metaphysical?"
I was intrigued as he continued, "You were clouded in that moment that you freaked out."
Yep, as always, he reads me well. I WAS clouded and filled with doubt. But how did he pick up on that?
"I used to teach golf. One of the things I used with my students was positive thinking. If they thought, 'I don't want to hit that tree'... they'd hit it. You have to drop the 'don't' and remove the negativity. Instead the thought should be 'aim for the fairway'. Your thoughts were fear and worry about the hamster instead of knowing we'd find him."
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I've always loved to define fear as:
F alse
E vidence
A ppearing
R eal
Fear is nothing more than worry about something that hasn't even happened yet.
It hasn't even happened yet!! Why worry about it? Why focus on it? What you focus on, grows. So if you think about it, what you fear is what you draw to you.
I remember a rule that I learned in driver's education that said not to focus on signs or obstacles on the side of the road because you will aim right for them.
In yoga balance poses, instead of saying, "I hope I don't fall", we say instead, "I am stable and steady."
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I loved Rascal's golf analogy so much that I repeated it to him the next day.
On Sunday mornings, he slips right back into responsibility mode. This is when he begins to worry about money or time or things on his
to-do-list-that-never-get-done.
This morning, it was money that gave him that worried look.
"You're aiming for the tree." I reminded him.
"I don't have blind faith, honey," he told me.
"But you do!!! Don't you remember yesterday with the hamster? Don't you remember your golf students? Don't you remember every single time that I worry about this long distance relationship and how its ever going to work out? You're the one with the blind faith! You're the one who stays positive. You just need to do the same thing with money."
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We all have some sort of limiting belief. We all believe in lack of something.
Love. Money. Food.
But our thoughts are what's limiting us.... not our actions. If you knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there was endless abundance of something, you wouldn't worry. You wouldn't be scared. The fear would be gone.
Abundance would be all that you see. There are times that I refer to myself as a lucky girl to have Rascal in my life. Rascal's response is always the same, "You're not lucky. You got what you asked for. Isn't that how the Law of Attraction works?"
If lack of money is what he believes in or focuses on, that is what he will find. If I believe that landing a great guy was some sort of stroke of luck instead of exactly
what I asked for and
felt deserving of, then I will always worry that my luck will run out.
Whatever limiting belief, we both need to let it go - consciously and subconsciously. We both need to stop thinking about what we
don't want to happen and instead be grateful and at peace with all that we know we deserve.
We both need to aim for the fairway."Life is not what you see, but what you've projected. It's not what you've felt, but what you've decided. It's not what you've experienced, but how you've remembered it. It's not what you've forged, but what you've allowed. And it's not who's appeared, but who you've summoned. And this should serve you well, beloved, until you find, what you already have."
~ Notes from the Universe
Over the weekend, while Rascal was visiting with his sons, our hamster went missing. The kids, all 4 of them, began the quest to solve the mystery of the missing hamster like the gang on Scooby Doo. Mommy, on the other hand, wigged out.
Well... they woke me up from a dead sleep at 7 a.m. to tell me this! And I LOVE that sweet little guy.
Rascal remained calm and held no doubts that the hamster would appear. Still, I dragged him out of bed to help us search anyway. Minutes later, as predicted, our hamster approached Rascal from behind the refrigerator.
Hooray!
I'd jumped into Rascal's arms, so thankful, and he calmly spoke to me, "Can I say something to you? Something metaphysical?"
I was intrigued as he continued, "You were clouded in that moment that you freaked out."
Yep, as always, he reads me well. I WAS clouded and filled with doubt. But how did he pick up on that?
"I used to teach golf. One of the things I used with my students was positive thinking. If they thought, 'I don't want to hit that tree'... they'd hit it. You have to drop the 'don't' and remove the negativity. Instead the thought should be 'aim for the fairway'. Your thoughts were fear and worry about the hamster instead of knowing we'd find him."
---
I've always loved to define fear as:
F alse
E vidence
A ppearing
R eal
Fear is nothing more than worry about something that hasn't even happened yet.
It hasn't even happened yet!!
Why worry about it? Why focus on it? What you focus on, grows. So if you think about it, what you fear is what you draw to you.
I remember a rule that I learned in driver's education that said not to focus on signs or obstacles on the side of the road because you will aim right for them.
In yoga balance poses, instead of saying, "I hope I don't fall", we say instead, "I am stable and steady."
---
I loved Rascal's golf analogy so much that I repeated it to him the next day.
On Sunday mornings, he slips right back into responsibility mode. This is when he begins to worry about money or time or things on his to-do-list-that-never-get-done.
This morning, it was money that gave him that worried look.
"You're aiming for the tree." I reminded him.
"I don't have blind faith, honey," he told me.
"But you do!!! Don't you remember yesterday with the hamster? Don't you remember your golf students? Don't you remember every single time that I worry about this long distance relationship and how its ever going to work out? You're the one with the blind faith! You're the one who stays positive. You just need to do the same thing with money."
---
We all have some sort of limiting belief. We all believe in lack of something.
Love. Money. Food.
But our thoughts are what's limiting us.... not our actions. If you knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there was endless abundance of something, you wouldn't worry. You wouldn't be scared. The fear would be gone.
Abundance would be all that you see.
There are times that I refer to myself as a lucky girl to have Rascal in my life. Rascal's response is always the same, "You're not lucky. You got what you asked for. Isn't that how the Law of Attraction works?"
If lack of money is what he believes in or focuses on, that is what he will find. If I believe that landing a great guy was some sort of stroke of luck instead of exactly what I asked for and felt deserving of, then I will always worry that my luck will run out.
Whatever limiting belief, we both need to let it go - consciously and subconsciously. We both need to stop thinking about what we don't want to happen and instead be grateful and at peace with all that we know we deserve.
We both need to aim for the fairway.