Dreamboard

[Phil]

https://www.actualityofbeing.com/dreamboard-1

 

WHAT IS IT?

An apparent dry erase board, on which anything & everything desired is written. Essentially what’s written on the board, is the dream which is already within you, and which can be realized & manifested. What you write is entirely up to you.

 

WHAT DO I WRITE ON IT?

Anything! To get started, keep it simple - think of what you want to eat today, and write that. Do your best not to overthink it. If you want a car, write that. If you want a sandwich, write ‘sandwhich’. If you want a coffee, write ‘coffee’. If you want to move out & get an apartment or a house, to go on a retreat or take a vacation, to change jobs or careers, or create a new company - anything that comes to mind that you want - write that. There is nothing too big or too small, there is no right or wrong - there is wanted.

 

The more you add to it each day, the more you’ll see your unique preferences, desires and interests. With each day you go to bed and see it again in the morning, more clarity arises in seeing what used to ‘float around as thoughts’, right in front of you - from a bird’s eye view. What you are actually most passionate about will ultimately be right there, on the board.

 

WHY CREATE ONE?

Manifesting the dream within you and experiencing it ‘in the flesh’ is the most satisfying possibility of all experience and is the greatest contribution possible on behalf of your brothers, sisters and world. No words can truly communicate what exemplification so perfectly & silently speaks. It is the allowing of Self, into the world Self is being.

 

The dreamboard isn’t separate, and therein is a means of unveiling & unfettering the ineffable magic of reality, of experience, of creation - of Self.

 

Inspiration, self-recognition, awakening, enlightenment - effortlessly, via expression & alignment. Boldly write what’s wanted. Keep it between ‘you & You’, if you will. Lifestyle, changes, relationships, prosperity, abundance & all experience desired to manifest and actually be, experienced - write it on the board.

 

MORE SO THOUGH, WHAT IS THE TANGIBLE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS IN MY LIFE?

Navigating relativity, consciously. Attracting, consciously. Conceptualizations of life & the passing of time might arise, but in truth conscious creating is now, or not at all. The thrill, the ‘juice’, the ‘electricity’ of consciously creating - is far greater than the pleasures of the ten thousand things. But of course, you can have your cake & eat it too. Again, it’s ‘why you came’. It’s literally whatever you have in mind. What you write on the board manifests, because you are the creator. Creating is the ‘why’ of being.
 

 

IT CAN’T BE AS EASY AS YOU’RE DESCRIBING IT.

Use the emotional scale, as well as the other tools. When using the emotional scale - be sure to complete the emotional scale. Don’t stop short on “your self” - walk ‘your’ ‘self’ all the way ‘back to’, Self.

 

Feel the sensibility of allowing discordant thoughts to be as they naturally are, which is, to appear & disappear, to come & go. You are the creator and you are more powerful than you could ever know.

 

Focus - is more powerful, more relevant, and more effortless than you have yet noticed. This is precisely what is recognized in creating a dreamboard and using the tools, as healing occurs & limiting beliefs are therein dispelled.

 

WHAT KIND OF DRY ERASE BOARD IS BEST?

Large, double sided, on wheels, with an array of colorful dry erase markers. (Or whatever you prefer). 
 

 

HOW TO USE IT?

Write whatever comes to mind, that you want. That’s it.

 

Not what you believe you’re supposed to want or do. Let your brothers & sisters make their own boards. Feel the peace of this.

 

Not what you believe you need - what you want. Most often, what you believe you need, is actually what you want.

 

Not anything about ‘you’ - what you want. Whatever you want to experience. This includes anything & everything you want to be, as whatever you are being, you are aware of & experiencing.

 

HOW DOES IT WORK THOUGH… LIKE FOR REAL, JUST TELL ME HOW IT WORKS.

Be realistic to what is, so to speak, to ‘where you’re at’, or, what is ‘true for you’. Bypassing, vs inspecting and understanding beliefs and any discord therein which arises - does not ‘work’. You are The Creator. If the dreamboard “doesn’t work” - the emotional scale does. Use it, and then come back to the dreamboard.

 

Do not write “$1,000,000” and “my own island” on your board and hold the expectation for it to manifest, if in earnestly and sincerely, you believe this is not possible. Start simply with something smaller. To ‘test it out’, write something far less significant to you. This might be elephants, cardboard, or key rings. Anything which there is little to no attachment with / to / about. Something which when thought of, feels free, easy, less significant, free of attachment, free of any pressure or expectations. Write that on the board - and you’re done. Then bring focus to perception & feeling through out your day as you experience the ever-playful universe ‘showing you’, appearing as - being - that which you wrote. Notice the ‘winks’, revel in the synchronicity.

 

If there is certainty of that which you wrote, the universe will be - then, awesome. There is nothing to add here.

 

If there is uncertainty - believe that what you write will manifest. Believe in yourself. That is not to say, ‘believe what you’re being told here’, nor ‘believe you are the separate self of thoughts’, but rather, check direct experience. See it first hand as perception, as experience. Words can only point, it’s the actuality which is miraculous. It’s feeling which is the guide & guidance, not the words, not any ‘teachers’ or ‘teachings’.

 

If you aren’t comfortable with believing, or, listening to feeling - then just be open minded. Be willing to be open minded. Be willing to simply not know, to remain inconclusive - to see for yourself.
 

 

WHAT IS THE BACKSIDE FOR?

Inspection. The vantage point of ‘what you’re thinkin’, written on the board, is a bird’s eye view which is far superior in terms of allowing clarity in regard to thoughts, vs trying to make sense of the activity of thought ‘swirling around in the ether’ (“in your head”). This can be most useful for inspecting the ‘tricky nature’ of Self Referential Thoughts and Subject Object Thoughts. This is ‘getting out of your own way’, allowing alignment.

 

 

HOW DOES THIS ALL CHANGE MY EXPERIENCE OF LIFE, AND MY UNDERSTANDING OF REALITY? PLEASE, JUST SPIT IT OUT. JUST TELL ME WHAT YOU’RE REALLY TRYING TO SAY HERE.

The direct experience can only speak for itself. These words are the handful of beans. The manifestation is the beanstalk. The actuality is the only reliable testimony, as therein testimony was merely a pointing. Embrace non-conceptualization. Allow the activity of thought to be a smaller and smaller portion of the Whole of experience. Be where you are, with, as, what is. Enjoy this everlasting moment first & formost. Allow what you are wanting to come to you, to ‘show up’ in this ‘now’. Allow the magic of being the chance, and you will not be disappointed.

 

WHAT DOES THE DREAMBOARD HAVE TO DO WITH THE EMOTIONAL SCALE?

Writing what you want on your board is affirmative & validating of, and you could say breathes life into, creates - what you want. There is indeed a Source of this wanting, of so called desire, and there is indeed a seed within you to be planted which will flourish. This ‘Source’ is The Truth. The affirming & expressing of your wanting, is most connective. Allowing begets alignment, and alignment dispels even ‘connectivity’.

 

This is inherently ‘shadow work’, or, ‘shining the light of awareness’ on any limiting discordant beliefs. Beliefs which sound like ‘I can’t’, are dispelled by alignment, by Truth.

 

These beliefs, while not things or objects in time, will arise to naturally ‘come up and out’, or simply put, naturally be let go - because they are in discord with what is natural, Truth, Creator-Creating-Creation. What might presently seem ‘woo woo’, or ‘just wishful thinking’ - too good to be possible - will come to be known & recognized as, the common sense.

 

Just like with the experience of any relationship, some discordant beliefs are naturally illuminated… so it is with communion, the not-of-this-world ‘relationship’ between ‘you and You’. What’s been bothering you, what’s been discordant, will naturally be illuminated, dispelled, seen through, relinquished - burned away by the light within.

 

What’s dispelled & seen through are conceptualizations of yourself and reality. Misinterpretations of old, of conditioning, of who you really are.

 

I UNDERSTAND THE WAY TO START HERE IS TO MAKE A DREAMBOARD, AND MAKE USE OF THE TOOLS. BUT HOW DO I LITERALLY START THE “CONSCIOUS CREATING”? WHAT DO I… DO?

Conscious creating is not a doing, and is not a ‘new thing’ or ‘way’, which you learn. Quite similar to meditation, conscious creating is allowing - receiving. The use of the dreamboard, and of the tools like the emotional scale… reveal the truth - that you are already creating reality effortlessly by being.

 

Again, that may very well seem like an outlandish claim, and this is why The Truth is referred to as absolute, or, The Truth. The Truth can not be thought, as in ‘thunk’. The direct experience of using the dreamboard, and the tools… truly - can not be explained, and can not be, technically, understood. To believe it could be, would be to believe one can think the taste of a double chocolate, chocolate frosted donut with chocolate sprinkles. The thought of the taste is not the taste.

 

 

WHAT ABOUT WITH RELATIONSHIPS? I KNOW YOU’RE NOT ABOUT TO TELL ME THAT I CAN MANIFEST THE IDEAL PARTNER HERE.

Yep. Works for that too. Already is. The difference lies in the ‘consciously’, of consciously creating. The universe is being me and you and all that is - isn’t it so? It be’s them too. Take a moment to reflect on past relationships. What resonated, what didn’t? What was fun & easy, what was difficult? What did I attract, and why? In terms of wanted - what was clarified?

 

The ‘universe’ is the only teacher. Words can only point to what is ineffably already guiding. One must listen, and ‘go and see’.

ALRIGHT. MAYBE I’LL TRY THIS OUT. WHAT IF I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO WRITE ON MY DREAMBOARD? WHAT IF I DON’T KNOW WHAT I WANT?

If the aim is to discover what you do want, notice the habit of focusing on what you don’t want. Use the simple tool of Improv Writing, to change that habit to consciously (and effortlessly) focusing on what you do want, by more or less simply applying the ‘rule’ of: “Yes…and”. 

 

On a piece of paper, write a list of everything experience has revealed that you don’t want. Then write the opposite of each of those on your dreamboard.

 

It feels really nice to experience seeing the board filled with lots of what you do want, since inherently what you do want feels good, to you. Mindfully create; be mindful you are a, the, creator. Be mindful there is no rewind, no stop, and no fast forward. There is only play, and this is already the case.

 

 

WHAT ABOUT ‘GOD POWERS’ AND STUFF LIKE THAT? LIKE, IF I WRITE ON MY DREAMBOARD I WANT TO BE ABLE TO FLY, GIVEN WHAT YOU’RE SAYING HERE, SHOULDN’T THAT COME TRUE?

While there definitely is ‘flying’, often referred to as floating, streaming or stream entry, oneness, or most simply, wakefulness… this question brings about the matter of ego, of identity. While in truth, no one can tell anyone they can’t fly - as it were, you’d have to stop being gravity (inversely speaking) first. Be most open minded… perhaps what is, as is, is already the perfection in which you begin consciously creating. Consider - what is the second half of a movie, without the first, without the story, without the stage having been already set. Such is the miracle of now, and that there truly is no past. Such is the ‘unfolding’ of This.

IN TERMS OF ATTRACTING, WHAT ABOUT BAD OR NEGATIVE THOUGHTS, OR THOUGHTS ABOUT STUFF I DON’T WANT TO HAPPEN TO ME OR PEOPLE I KNOW? IF I START ATTRACTING OR CONSCIOUSLY CREATING, IS THERE A CHANCE I START ATTRACTING THAT ALSO?

Just as you are attracting, so too is everyone else. You aren’t attracting on behalf of anyone else, no one is attracting on your behalf. We are all collectively attracting, and we can all help each other to consciously create.

 

There is no source of bad or negative, and no source of what you don’t want to happen. Analogously, focusing upon an empty gas tank doesn’t result in a change of scenery. Similarly, focusing upon what is undesirable, and or the absence of wanted, doesn’t result in the changes one desires. There is a source, and ‘it’ is Good, and the alignment of thought with ‘it’s’ substance & source,Goodness - is conscious creating.

 

God bless, and Godspeed in your creating.

“There is no path; but only a fool doesn’t walk it.”

[WhiteOwl]

Why make a dreamboard if what you write on the blog is true;

 

" What’s truly wanted is, in fact, what’s unfolding.

Peacefully.

Without added resistance.

Without concern or the need to know.

Without illusion."

 

Sounds like its unfolding no matter what you write on the board. 

[Phil]

@WhiteOwl
Great question!

 

The unfolding is not predetermined. It’s not like A is unfolding even if B is written on the board. As B is written, B is unfolding. The unfolding isn't a fixed path; it’s dynamic, responsive & infinitely fluid.

 

Clarifies what’s truly wanted.
 

Contributes to recognizing one is the one and only creator of all that is. 
 

It’s a centralized readily visual tool, as opposed to a file, picture or app in a device. 

Preferences change, the dry erase aspect makes it easy to have an ongoing visual of what’s wanted. Sometimes what’s wanted next is sparked by visually seeing what’s wanted. 
 

Along with the scale, it helps the dots connect between what’s wanted manifesting, and any discordant limiting beliefs which might otherwise seem unrelated. 
 

In that it wasn’t on the board and now is, this can affirm the simplicity of conscious creating, that you are the creator, and possibly curb a false sense of needing to control the outcome. 

Looking at what’s on the board vs an experience of only thoughts may make what resonates and what doesn’t more readily simple and self-evident, and what’s wanted, clarified,  might resonate more deeply and inspire. 
 

Seeing what’s unfolding next in what’s unfolding is an experience of foresight and precognition. 
 

Appearance might shift in ways which though aligned with and indicative of what’s on the board, might not seem so - and what’s on the board can clarify or remind that it is. 

 
It’s an easy, maybe the easiest way to remain ‘connected’ with what’s unfolding, reducing an inclination to force or make anything happen. 

The process of creating a dreamboard is engaging in consciously creating as the creator, and contributes to a deeper trusting in and remaining open to the unfolding. 
 

Contributes to more readily noticing the opportunities and experiences unfolding that align with your desires.

[Bob Seeker]

@Phil All that you are saying seems quite true to me. But for some reason I don’t have much to write on the board in areas that have a large effect on daily happiness like career. Even though my job is not what is preferred, my dream board has nothing career related written on it.

 

like @WhiteOwl is insinuating, what is the point of wanting anything? Isn’t peace more apparent to us when we just like float and trust? Isn’t Love, which already is, the only thing that matters?

 

Like I don’t know what is good for me. Like I could come up with some random career idea that would be more pleasant than my current job but I don’t seem particularly inspired to do that, as is evidenced by the fact that I don’t have anything career related on the board. Just “Do What I Love With My Time” but I still just go to the same job that is “meh”, and have not expressed strong will to do anything more fun.

 

If anything the dream board just makes me chill out and be more okay with doing nothing.

 

I put Elect Kamala on the board.

Edited October 10, 2024 by Bob Seeker

[Bob Seeker]

@WhiteOwl We’re probably just looking for a purpose, lol. Nothing wrong with it.

 

Just put “A Purpose” on the dream board

Edited October 10, 2024 by Bob Seeker

[Phil]

5 hours ago, Bob Seeker said:

@Phil All that you are saying seems quite true to me. But for some reason I don’t have much to write on the board in areas that have a large effect on daily happiness like career.

The “reason” is actually the obscuring belief that happiness comes from, will come from, or could come from experience. Such as ‘areas’ or a career. 

 Which emotion is felt with that belief? 

 

5 hours ago, Bob Seeker said:

Even though my job is not what is preferred, my dream board has nothing career related written on it.

The current job is experienced as not preferred only through the lens obscured by the belief about happiness. What you are experiencing is not about a job or any career - it’s about the belief - it’s about the reality of happiness and the cart being before the horse. 

 

Write a list of single words, anything & everything that is not preferred about the job. 

Then write a list of opposite words next to those words. It’ll reveal the preferences.

The more specific you get, the more specific are the preferences revealed to you.

If an emotion is felt, acknowledge it & allow it to be felt. 

 

5 hours ago, Bob Seeker said:

 

like @WhiteOwl is insinuating, what is the point of wanting anything?

The manifestation. 

 

5 hours ago, Bob Seeker said:

Isn’t peace more apparent to us when we just like float and trust?

Peace is appearing, yet is never apparent. If floating & trusting resonates - float & trust.

 

I don’t see any reason peace can’t float, trust, be aware of preferences, and allow & experience the manifestations of the preferences, while new preferences arise, bringing about new manifestations. It’s challenging to see how reality would make any sense otherwise, given that you, happiness, peace, are right now creating your reality. 

 

5 hours ago, Bob Seeker said:

Isn’t Love, which already is, the only thing that matters?

Apparently, but love’s venturing off to shop at Conceptual Mart in Abstractionsville.

Peace, (contentment), and happiness & love… are at the top of the scale. Go directly, see that the cart is indeed already before the horse.

Fear, doubt, pessimism, all stops along the road of alignment. 

 

You, consciousness, are conscious of ‘areas’, jobs & careers - not the other way around. Experience does not precede you - experience is contingent upon you.  

 

Discordant beliefs are like puddles - don’t skip over them - jump right into them and get wet. Don’t be afraid to make a mess. 

 

5 hours ago, Bob Seeker said:

Like I don’t know what is good for me.

Question the belief, the duality of good & bad. Scrutinize thoughts / beliefs & direct experience. 

Point to good & bad. 

Point to the alleged I and me which doesn’t know what is good. 

Maybe it’s just thoughts, obscuring. 🤷‍♂️ Have to check. 

 

5 hours ago, Bob Seeker said:

Like I could come up with some random career idea that would be more pleasant than my current job but I don’t seem particularly inspired to do that,

It’s not about you getting anything, including inspired. You’re like a cork. Unfettered via acknowledging and allowing emotions already felt to be felt and not obscured - you in fact very much do float. Naturally. Not by force, and not by getting. By allowing. Not as the result of anything. And certainly not in a future. 

 

Question thoughts about this alleged doer. See that it’s a conceptual overlay, not a second self. 

Notice all taken for granted which happens without any thoughts claiming doership. 

Notice thought claims doership of certain activities. Those activities are the same. Just happening. No doer needed. No doer already. 

Thought just makes it seem so. 

 

The ego is not your friend. Don’t care for it. Don’t support it. Don’t excuse it away. Address “it”. 

By acknowledging & allowing emotions to be felt. 

 

5 hours ago, Bob Seeker said:

as is evidenced by the fact that I don’t have anything career related on the board.

That preferences haven’t arisen does not in any way determine that preferences won’t arise. The preferences are already, but are obscured by beliefs & discordant emotions. 

 

That preferences will arise & be written on the board does in fact determine - that preferences will arise and be written on the board. 

 

Un-obscure & focus wisely. 

 

5 hours ago, Bob Seeker said:

Just “Do What I Love With My Time” but I still just go to the same job that is “meh”, and have not expressed strong will to do anything more fun.

As happiness is un-obscured, the same job magically seems delightful and there is a visceral inspired looking forward to what it’s bringing about or unfolding as. The more un-obscured happiness is, the more obvious this is to happiness - including literal clairvoyance & precognition. Not to mention delightfully playful synchronicity with & as consciousness unfolding as the new preferences. 

 

5 hours ago, Bob Seeker said:

If anything the dream board just makes me chill out and be more okay with doing nothing.

There’s no such thing or experience of “doing nothing”. Nothing, not a thing, is appearing as the very narrative of thoughts, about a second self - a doer. 

 

Careful not to write that off as semantic - it’s a fundamental self conceptualization. A deep seated belief & misunderstanding. The doer, sep self of thoughts, is outright claiming it’s doing awareness (nothing, not a thing), which is aware of the very thoughts (about a doer). The cart is actually already before the horse. You, awareness, consciousness, peace, happiness, love - are already prior to & aware of these thoughts, beliefs and emotions. There is only to un-obscure of beliefs. Doing is an illusion of believing thoughts (beliefs). 

 

5 hours ago, Bob Seeker said:

I put Elect Kamala on the board.

That’s lame as hell. Erase that shit. 

[WhiteOwl]

15 hours ago, Phil said:

The unfolding is not predetermined. It’s not like A is unfolding even if B is written on the board. As B is written, B is unfolding. The unfolding isn't a fixed path; it’s dynamic, responsive & infinitely fluid.

But the unfolding is always what you want, even if you didn't write anything on the dreamboard. So not writing anything seems kind of interesting? Not even thinking about it. Maybe that would be what you REALLY wanted.

 

12 hours ago, Bob Seeker said:

@WhiteOwl We’re probably just looking for a purpose, lol. Nothing wrong with it.

 

Looking to feel love and have fun. If thats a purpose then yes 😃 I don't find anything wrong with that either. Things are getting simpler.

Edited October 11, 2024 by WhiteOwl

[Phil]

1 hour ago, WhiteOwl said:

But the unfolding is always what you want, even if you didn't write anything on the dreamboard. So not writing anything seems kind of interesting? Not even thinking about it. Maybe that would be what you REALLY wanted.

Cessation, yes, absolutely. 🎯 

 

[Bob Seeker]

11 hours ago, Phil said:

The preferences are already, but are obscured by beliefs & discordant emotions. 

So maybe there is beliefs about unworthiness or guilt or “wrong decisions” or “missing out” that are getting in the way. I could see that being the case. 

 

11 hours ago, Phil said:

Un-obscure & focus wisely

What do you mean by this? 

 

11 hours ago, Phil said:

That’s lame as hell. Erase that shit. 

Hahaha why? Ballot says Trump or Kamala, and I prefer Kamala, cuz I think she is better for the rest of my preferences.

[Phil]

4 minutes ago, Bob Seeker said:

So maybe there is beliefs about unworthiness or guilt or “wrong decisions” or “missing out” that are getting in the way. I could see that being the case. 

Yes! Maybe unworthiness & guilt are felt, and are how the thoughts or beliefs about wrong decisions or missing out feel. Like guidance for the thoughts or beliefs. I mean - who can say what is wrong? You? Me? Some person? It’s just subjective. Opinion. Judgement. Separation based. 

 

7 minutes ago, Bob Seeker said:

What do you mean by this? 

Exactly what you just said. Un-obscuring is the acknowledgement - maybe there are some beliefs. Acknowledging a belief is a belief - is no longer believing it, as it’s seen to be, a belief. Belief = not true. Seemed true, but is not true. “Oh! And that’s why it feels so off, so discordant - cause it’s not true!”

 

It’s like a conceptual “layer” (beliefs) is peeled away, simply by being seen through - being seen for what it is - conceptual - beliefs. What’s un-obscured is you, awareness. 

 

There’s nothing in this regard which needs to be known, learned, understood or remembered. Why? The guidance is felt. 

 

The guidance is ever-present & infallible. Old belief comes up - guidance of unworthiness & guilt are felt. The self-inherent guidance is like a ringing phone. There’s no requirement to answer it. But, answer it (acknowledge the emotions felt), and the message - it’s a belief - is received. “Oh! It’s just simply & self-evidently - not true!”

 

Focus wisely - as in, on what does actually resonate.

 

20 minutes ago, Bob Seeker said:

Hahaha why? Ballot says Trump or Kamala, and I prefer Kamala, cuz I think she is better for the rest of my preferences.

I was just trying to inject a little humor & lightheartedness. There’s no seriousness is spirituality. Trump & Kamala are just beliefs. 

[Someone here]

@Phil thank you for this thread and offering this information. 

Man I have a billion and one question about the dreamboard but not well organised in my mind right now ..I'll ask Them soon when I can organise them🙏

[Blessed2]

I don't get how to utilize it on a daily basis. There just isn't enough room. Even if there was a big whiteboard. There is like a hundred things I can come up with what I want. And if this is supposed to be done every day, the list gets bigger every day. There just isn't enough room.

 

What then when it's written on the board? Just stare at it? There just isn't any juice to it.

 

I've been doing it for a couple of years now and it goes the same way every time. Every now and then there's an inspiration to write something on it. Then I just kinda forget about it. And maybe a month later I erase some of it, most of it or all of it and write something again.

 

And then it gets even more confusing when advice like "write the big dream on the left and small steps on the right" comes. I don't understand how that's supposed to be drawn on the board. It's all just a big mess.

 

[Bob Seeker]

@Blessed2 For me, by using the scale and only by using the scale, and using it often, I do start to notice, slowly, that more and more things that are sitting on the board start coming more and more true in my experience.

 

I haven’t had this rush of creative inspiration yet, though granted I haven’t been using the scale all that long.

 

My approach is to put the most relevant and most deal-breaker items on the board first and what doesn’t fit I might write down somewhere else, like I started using OneNote more recently.

 

 

Edited October 11, 2024 by Bob Seeker

[Blessed2]

1 minute ago, Bob Seeker said:

For me, by using the scale and only by using the scale, I do start to notice, slowly, that more and more things that are sitting on the board start coming more and more true in my experience.

 

How do you use the scale?

 

Actually experiencing joy and relief, not just a pat on the back that you did what you should do?

 

[Bob Seeker]

3 minutes ago, Blessed2 said:

How do you use the scale?

If I am feeling an emotion that is lower on the scale it is not long before I will notice my head spinning with “unfortunate” or self-limiting thoughts. By looking at the scale (I keep an index card sized laminated version in my pocket, as well as a big version in my room) I can go to the emotion that is the predominant one experienced, and feel into it, breathe through it if I need to. This will take a lot of energy out of the thought train and help me see “oh, these are just thoughts”, and the reality is feeling. Is the emotion. 

 

Then I am more free to let the thoughts go and, at whatever pace I feel like, I can climb up the scale from that initial emotion. I do this by either just feeling into the emotions one by one, or if I am having trouble with that, I can think a specific thought that brings up that emotion in me. Once I get myself anchored in feeling the emotion above the one I was just feeling (meaning I am feeling it consistently for at least a few seconds and am getting thoughts that primarily resonate with that emotion) I am ready, if I prefer, to move further up the scale.

 

Sometimes I just skip some or a lot of the emotions, or skate through it really quickly for the sake of time/effort, like if I am at work and am only glancing at the scale. Going thorough every emotion can be a lot so that is not always necessary. 

 

Regardless of whether I go up the scale, at least finding and feeling into the emotion I anm experiencing is very grounding and takes power out of my thought stream.

 

If you had anxiety, there are some emotions more associated with that like worry, doubt, irritation, impatience, fear, for example. In my case I was able to feel into worry, while dealing with chronic anxiety, and notice a specific thought that was causing that worry. Once I saw that thought and allowed myself to feel the worry associated, the thought lost its power and after just an hour or so, I have never had that anxiety since, or not any more than a flutter at least, which I can fix with the same approach.

 

If I reach contentment on the scale but find that I  cannot remain there without falling back down the scale, I will know that by repeatedly feeling into the lower emotions I am feeling and working my way back to contentment, I will build a more and more stable contentment, but I usually just go straight to the top of the scale. The only reason to do this jumping around approach to sturdy up the contentment is to prevent yourself from repeatedly falling back down the scale quickly when you put it down.

 

While using the scale like this you notice thoughts/beliefs you did not even know were there and were heavily influencing your mood, as in, weighing you down. Once you see them clearly you can feel right into them. This can be intense, but by feeling right into them, (and I like to stare at the emotion on the scale while I am feeling into it) you will start to see how silly the thought//belief is and it won’ t hold the same power over you.

 

As time goes on, and rather quickly in my experience, you will find that more and more minutes of each week are spend feeling higher up emotions on the scale and that you are holding more “aligned” outlooks. The more you resonate higher on the scale, the more quickly you are moving toward what is wanted a.k.a what is on the dream board.  It’s the law of attraction, they say.

 

THis has been my experience over a few months using the scale pretty religiously.