favorite things

I'm now on my second or third reading of The Vortex: Where the Law of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships and I find new treasures to highlight each time. Before I went to sleep last night, my reading inspired me to dedicate today to a new experiment.

I don't think I mentioned here that I cleared most of my calendar this week to go on sort of a mini-retreat at home. I still drive my daughter around, and talk with her, and fulfill work commitments. But I'm not scheduling social visits or chatting on the phone. I'm not listening to any music in the car. I'm not reading the paper or listening to the news. I'm walking about two hours each day, stretching my body in new ways, eating very lightly, and spending as much time as I can in silence.

I've been more successful than I anticipated at wrangling my attention away from my mind and toward body awareness. It's become a fairly consistently effective strategy for settling my thoughts.

So now that I can put my mind in neutral, I want to learn how to put it in gear and go where I want, when I want, regardless of where the people and circumstances around me are heading. (sounds rather grandiose, doesn't it? LOL. This language will make more sense if you are an Abe fan.)

Anyway, my experiment for today is to practice steering my thoughts to topics that feel good. So I was very excited that when I woke up this morning, my first thought was I want to feel good.

Immediately, I kid you not, that song from The Sound of Music, My Favorite Things, started playing in my head. I love when I realize there is profound wisdom in something that's been around for ages and I just never noticed. (this song and Row, Row, Row Your Boat could have been written by Abraham)



All the guidance I need for today's experiment is right in the lyrics: when I'm feeling sad, I simply remember my favorite things and then I don't feel so bad. But since whiskers and packages aren't actually my favorite things, I think I'm gonna make up my own words.

Here's what Abraham said about it on page 164:

We are encouraging you to focus your attention upon thoughts that please you, even when there is no pleasing evidence to observe.

ps: ooh, and look at today's daily quote!

My Every Thought Is Attracting Its Vibrational Essence...

Whether you are thinking about wanted things or unwanted things, you are still sending out a request to attract more things like the subject of your thought. And all things that happen to you - all people, things, experiences, situations that come to you - come in response to your Vibrational invitation.

Noticing how things are turning out for you is one very clear way of understanding which Vibrational requests you are emanating, because you always get the essence of what you are thinking about, whether you want it or not. --- Abraham