Feeling so up to speed! :D

[Zas]

Hello! I stopped posting here for a little while to focus more intently on my life . . .

To catch you up, I:
-Quit my day job in October to focus on my passion for art. (without a backup plan.)
-Have managed to just make it by in various random ways since then (it's been pretty funny how things can work themselves out.)
-Have been really intensely focused on the Teachings of Abraham. I listen to clips every day (because they're fun) and I play around with many of the offered processes . . . I've come to take my emotional state to be the SINGLE most important thing for me to mind in this lifetime. (f*** meditation, affirmations, visualizations- ANY of that if you're not feeling like it. stressing over "getting it right" does more damage to your vibration than good)
-Have made INTENSE progress with my emotions. I've just been feeling more and more incredible as time goes on . . .


. . . -Have started to see INTENSE results. Particularly in the past few weeks. I've felt amazing and seen shocking things happen. I've seen many strange and odd things over the past year, and could less and less write them off as coincidence. But once I started to really let go of all care for how anything really plays out (and the concept that I have to work hard), suddenly BOOM! I'm at an entirely different level of being! (different state of attraction.)

New Year's Day, I watched my parents win $500-$6,000 a hit on slot machines till the winnings they took home totaled around $14,000,from just a couple hundred to start. I got some of that for encouraging them to save instead of play a portion of each big win. They've been gambling for years and years- Some might call them addicts . . . But they suddenly happen to have been luckier than usual the last few times I've been with them, since I've been into LOA- What a coincidence!

The most incredible thing recently was that the funding for this comic book project a writer friend dreamed up for us came through yesterday. It was slow coming and didn't seem like it was going to go through, then we got recommended on Twitter by the right person and within three hours of that we'd hit and surpassed our monetary goal! (With still twenty days left to pass it even more!)

So that means that my rent/bills are handled for the next few months while I focus on my passion for painting and drawing. Rent has been the only semi-uncomfortable issue in my mind lately. And now that it's taken care of for the next little while (and in such a MAGICAL way), I'm seeing so directly how my positive focus is paying off. Like, before things were subtle and questionable, but now my life has just extended into an amazing place.

And I'm so very, VERY excited because I know there is more and more and more to come.



Anyway, I just wanted to share. It's helpful to hear people talk through their issues with a teacher, but I deeply love hearing when they talk about success, about their results. So I thought I'd just offer up a post and say, "Hey! It's working! It's REALLY REALLY working!"

I wouldn't have bothered listening to discussion of LOA 16 months ago.
12 months ago I was open to the idea.
6 months ago I was hopeful but not sure about it . . .

And now I'm a believer. And I know that if I can do it, you can too.

Much love to you all! <3

[cylon]

Great to hear the news Zas!

I can sense how good the energy is around you. The relief of knowing that all is well and things are just being taken care of. That you can do what you love and then Universe is literally and figuratively your best supporter.

I also agree about the Abraham... I listen to those recordings every day, and often they mean different things at different times for me. Always seems to be exactly what I need to hear.

[Zas]

I usually get up in the morning, focus on feeling good in bed, brush my teeth, then sit down and type out appreciative stuff as Abraham recommends . . .

Then I head over to youtube and do a search for "abraham hicks" and watch the most recent uploads. They TOTALLY offer exactly the right words at exactly the right time! (Well, lately I don't feel any need for new understanding, so it's more like funny joke time. Seeing how intensely/joyously/humorously the universe can playfully match things up.) These past few days I upped the intensity of this early morning practice by working out while I listen to Abraham. It was right after getting all heady from that that I found out our funding had gone through, and then I had to jump onto the elliptical again to burn off some of the excitement because the intensity of it almost gave me a migraine (I could physically feel myself catapult to a new level!)

When you're goal is to feel great and you meet it within the first half hour of your day, it's just impossible to not be bouncing off the walls with happiness all day long. I've been really satisfied these last few days because it's like the energy is so intense that people around me are starting to get zapped and inspired by it.

It's been so delicious to feel, but I'm at this new place where I'm starting to have so much to SHOW for it that I feel more comfortable interacting with others again. Like I took time to get spiritually toned before heading to the spiritual beach in my spiritual bikini, ha ha ha.

It's just incredible to feel so big and so powerful and like there's eternal room to stretch and stretch and stretch as I desire.

I hope you've been doing well also!

[cylon]

That's a nice routine. I have a couple of their iPhone apps... first thing I do is check my Abraham "perpetual calendar" for the day but I'm going to experiment with the random audios idea and see what comes up. I like the idea of just intense focus, first thing's first.

I'm glad to see how enthused you are. You've already said a few things in your posts in this thread that are synchronicities for me so I'm taking it as a very good sign.

[AthenaMarina]

I have other things I hope to learn and pursue and do in the future rather than my day job and career and so this was REALLY encouraging to me cos I was thinking maybe people who do (some of the things I want to do) have to have a full time job too to make ends meet. So it's VERY nice to be wrong about THAT! Gives me a lot of hope.

[Plays With Life]

Love to you, Zas!

Great to hear from you!

[cacheborn]

Amazing story, Zas.

I could clearly feel the energy while reading your post. You have found the right vibration. Wishing you the very best.

[roxyruby]

Originally Posted by Zas

Hello! I stopped posting here for a little while to focus more intently on my life . . .

To catch you up, I:
-Quit my day job in October to focus on my passion for art. (without a backup plan.)
-Have managed to just make it by in various random ways since then (it's been pretty funny how things can work themselves out.)
-Have been really intensely focused on the Teachings of Abraham. I listen to clips every day (because they're fun) and I play around with many of the offered processes . . . I've come to take my emotional state to be the SINGLE most important thing for me to mind in this lifetime. (f*** meditation, affirmations, visualizations- ANY of that if you're not feeling like it. stressing over "getting it right" does more damage to your vibration than good)
-Have made INTENSE progress with my emotions. I've just been feeling more and more incredible as time goes on . . .


. . . -Have started to see INTENSE results. Particularly in the past few weeks. I've felt amazing and seen shocking things happen. I've seen many strange and odd things over the past year, and could less and less write them off as coincidence. But once I started to really let go of all care for how anything really plays out (and the concept that I have to work hard), suddenly BOOM! I'm at an entirely different level of being! (different state of attraction.)

New Year's Day, I watched my parents win $500-$6,000 a hit on slot machines till the winnings they took home totaled around $14,000,from just a couple hundred to start. I got some of that for encouraging them to save instead of play a portion of each big win. They've been gambling for years and years- Some might call them addicts . . . But they suddenly happen to have been luckier than usual the last few times I've been with them, since I've been into LOA- What a coincidence!

The most incredible thing recently was that the funding for this comic book project a writer friend dreamed up for us came through yesterday. It was slow coming and didn't seem like it was going to go through, then we got recommended on Twitter by the right person and within three hours of that we'd hit and surpassed our monetary goal! (With still twenty days left to pass it even more!)

So that means that my rent/bills are handled for the next few months while I focus on my passion for painting and drawing. Rent has been the only semi-uncomfortable issue in my mind lately. And now that it's taken care of for the next little while (and in such a MAGICAL way), I'm seeing so directly how my positive focus is paying off. Like, before things were subtle and questionable, but now my life has just extended into an amazing place.

And I'm so very, VERY excited because I know there is more and more and more to come.



Anyway, I just wanted to share. It's helpful to hear people talk through their issues with a teacher, but I deeply love hearing when they talk about success, about their results. So I thought I'd just offer up a post and say, "Hey! It's working! It's REALLY REALLY working!"

I wouldn't have bothered listening to discussion of LOA 16 months ago.
12 months ago I was open to the idea.
6 months ago I was hopeful but not sure about it . . .

And now I'm a believer. And I know that if I can do it, you can too.

Much love to you all! <3

Aww that made me so happy reading that...I am so happy for you!!! That really is amazing and wonderful ^ ^

[On A Lark]

That was so great to start my day off with such a great post!!! I am so happy for you that you're feeling great emotionally and things have started to fall into place in other arenas.

Thanks also for the YouTube Abraham tip, I am going to check that out now. Have a blessed day!

[nicbrahms]

Originally Posted by Plays With Life

Love to you, Zas!

Great to hear from you!

I really like your pic, much better than last one.

Nic

[Obay]

That's soo good to hear, and I have really enjoyed your post.

Why did you quit your job? How has your art become a big thing on your life?

I am glad to raed your work .

[Plays With Life]

Originally Posted by nicbrahms

I really like your pic, much better than last one.

Nic

Thanks!

[Zas]

Hey, wow. I'm extra happy to have been able to provide positivity in other's lives. Hee hee, I love the way great energy feeds off itself.

Originally Posted by Obay

Why did you quit your job?

I started listening to some crazy philosophical ideas that stated you can have whatever you want, just feel good to start. I wanted more freedom, I wanted more movement in my life, I wanted to see what would happen, I wanted to be in a place where I really had to build faith, I wanted to spend my days being me and doing me things . . .

A big inspiration was the opening part of Richard Bach's The Reluctant Messiah about the water creatures (iJourney: Tired of Clinging). I had been toying with the idea for awhile, then a friend lent me that book and that passage pulled at my heart so much I WAS DOOMED. I read it during lunch at work and sent my supervisor a three-week notice right then. (Of course, everything really feels like a path . . . So it doesn't feel so reflective of the way things work to discuss so weightedly the little details/stepping stones along the way- The whole momentum is just continually building and progressing.)

Originally Posted by Obay

How has your art become a big thing on your life?

I've always loved drawing and painting since I was little and it was very natural of me to pursue it in school. After letting go of my "secure" job, I thought I'd dive fully into art, but that actually didn't happen. A source of resistance in me has been this idea that I *have* to work HARD at art DAILY to be an artist. But all that pressure hadn't really been working out . . . Growth came with a better and better understanding of the creative power of the universe; I've ended up seeing art in everything. So I'm coming more and more to see life as this great work in progress which shows a flow of creativity, regardless of whether I spend 10 hours today painting or put that off in favor of watching porn and eating ice cream.

Of course, once I let go of that pressure it's easier and easier TO regularly put 10+ hours into art. Oh, Universe. <3

[Silenced140]

God that does sound like its all working out for you.

So your getting buy doing something you love while getting your bills paid while unemployed.

The casino money you guys were making really surprised me. 14,000 is quite a bit to go home with.

i wouldn't doubt that thats like a 1 in 200 possibility to make that much at Vegas.

In Fact the casino's try to make the odds against you to make that much money. So some universal power must be at play.

Maybe your whole philosophy of " **** visualization, affirmation and meditation" wouldn't be a bad idea. Theres so much to worry about, like your saying if your not doing it right.


So is that what finally helped understand LOA ?

[Zas]

Yeah, the fact that they won so many times was pretty intense. It kind of put me in a place where I can't doubt LOA anymore- I have (exciting) doubts about myself to still play with, but I'm at this new place for sure. Of course, I had to start toeing that level of faith enough that such largescale manifestations COULD come in, which was a good amount of time of de-learning things. (But the path is always upward emotionally, so there was always less and less room for discouragement, you know?)

If affirmations and visualizations do make someone feel better, then I fully support them. But for me it felt more like "work" than "excitement" when I would think, "Okay, now I'm doing a visualization!"

Originally Posted by Silenced140

So is that what finally helped understand LOA ?

I don't think there's a "finally" to it. Like, I don't think there's one thing that clicks and then you live happily ever after. To me, it feels more like a video game character leveling up. And sometimes there's an intense feeling of having hit a new emotional level, and then things will flow in to match that. Sometimes I look back a few days or weeks or months and go, "Hey, this is different!" without having been aware of the changes as I was going through it, given that it was so gradual . . .

I do sincerely believe that life is about continual expansion now. So now I get the feeling that in a couple months I'll look back at these questions (from a more evolved vantage point) with entirely different responses.

Right now I can say that this last big "leveling up" for me happened when I more intensely focused on living happily ever after NOW, outside of any manifestations. Like, I've been looking at my now and my past and been saying, "You know, life has been amazing. Even if I somehow saw no more progress, all that I have lived has definitely been a worthy experience."

It feels like a lot of the best news that has come to me recently came right as I was more intensely feeling satisfaction for what I've had and where I am and not thinking about the future. I'm having a piece published in a book this year, the news came last month or so when I let go of something I was working hard on and just appreciated where I was then. And my parents started winning money just as I was thinking, "I've had an amazing day, I don't need anything extra to view this experience as wonderful and beautiful." And the news of our funding came through while I was exercising on my elliptical, listening to Abraham talking about breathing, and focusing on my appreciation for my lungs and my air and my growing physical wellness.

I can tell a lot of things that have helped me along my path, but nothing is really more powerful than any other- and a lot of their power comes from how they fit into my particular life and experience. It seems like it's mostly about developing how you feel on average. Like, tons and tons of little choices throughout the day rather than trying to make the single right choice that makes everything better (especially since within that thought is the belief that things are not good enough now.)

I'm full of more energy and better focus than I've ever had, but I'm much more of a learner/student now than I've ever been.