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Bryan

Bryan

Hey Liz, I listened to the "I Don't Wanna" show on archives just now. Sorry I missed it live, the chat must have been fun.

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Laughing Lady

Thank you for marking the Virtual Laughter Club as a favorite. I see we have similar optimistic outlooks so I can tell we will enjoy encouraging and laughing together. To our success! ~Laughing Lady

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An Ocean State is a weekly show on BTR.com that discusses philosophies of ease and practices used to make life better with special focus on the Law of Attraction- What may just be the best way to An Ocean State. Thank you for joining!

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    Seriously Going with the Flow

    is it possible to manage to ALLOW at this most confuddled time of the month? This weekend I'm going to be discussing PMS And the Law of Attraction. Thank you

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    This or Something better is coming.

    Well, I'm wrapping up the Step-By-Step of the series I presented about the Law of Attraction. I'm really excited because Last week I had such a fantastic revelation and I want to see if it'll happen again. This week, we'll discuss Allowing. Reving up, maybe, but definetly allowing! thank you!

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    Into the Art of Allowing

    Last week, I did do a lot of rambling.  But I felt like I wasn't the only one going along that verbal stream.  I'm not sure it was anything like Esther and Abraham... I wouldn't care to put myself in their realm, they are truly wonderous.  It did, however, help me understand that some things are just not up to me.  What you get out of what I discuss is not up to me- you have to take what I say as you can take it. 

    It's not up to me and I'm actually pretty good with that.  Not that I don't want you to listen, but what you get out of whatever I end up saying is more or less unique to you!  You'll get what you can work with, I speak pretty well- do decently with keeping on points, at least!  So I'm not totally incomprehensible- and that's the story I'm telling, so there! :}   But I have to let go and allow you to listen, which will allow me to talk about what I can talk about, what I ultimately feel needs to be said.  

    This week I had a lot of experience with the concept of Allowing- including what can happen when you focus too much on what you want with regards to specifics.  It's great to plan and yes you do want to focus on what it is that you want.

    But then comes the Control-Freak-Fretting aspect that tends to bungle things up.  I get that way a lot and it's tricky for me to allow as much with my life- I, for one, look for DRAMATIC Change... But it doesn't really happen like that, nor does it happen the way I think that I want.

    There is a gift, however, in that part of the Law of Attraction.  You realize that, yes, you can determine what it is that you want; you find ways of accepting that you can have what you want and get to believing you can have it; that picks you up and gets you geared up for it...

    Then, you let go!

    One sticky part is the letting the universe take it from there.  I had a lot of problems with this, growing up and reading things like Shakti Gawain's "Creative Visualization."  I know, I know, I actually grew up reading Self-Helps, but hey- That's where I've been!  Anyway, I grew up reading this stuff and what confused the crap out of me at 16 is WAY Clearer at thirty-one! 

    The Affirmation that Shakti would end most visualizations with is this, and I've found this and others like it, recently, VERY helpful: "This or something better is coming to me easily and effortlessly."

    Thinking back, this is what helped bring my beloved Adam into my life.  I had forgotten, though, that I didn't want to be too domineering in my relationships, anymore.  It wasn't until I started doing this show and making more grand attempts at practicing the Law of Attraction- at least getting into it more regularly than I had before (Commitments like Hosting a Radio Show on the subject will do that to you!) - that I remembered the part about allowing...

    More than remembered, really understood!  I had gotten to my rote point of high anxiety and trying to control everything that I had forgotten my appreciation of the basics of how good I had actually gotten my life, especially since getting into the Law of Attraction (LOA) and meeting Adam and getting my job.

    When I got back to the basics, I was able to slow things down and get comfortable.  And with that comfortability, I was able to try out some things that I couldn't say really worked for me before.  Like the concept of a Higher Power- which I had always had some idea about, but it was the most Vague thing in my life!  Since delving more deeply, more routinely into LOA, I've actually come to accept, understand and trust this potential in my life- with my life.

    Everyone who teaches the Law of Attractions- almost everyone, I've noticed some rare, somewhat stunning exceptions- aknowledges a higher force at work that is always moving to get you what you want.  A universal Personal Assistant, in business terms.  And when you start believing you can have what you want, this notion becomes that much less of a stretch to the imagination.  Its there to provide you that with which you are most in harmony. 

    Consider that, what are you most in harmony with?  When you get to feeling better about things- you'll get into harmony with what you want that much faster.  When you feel REALLY GOOD- it will bowl you over with things that match, even exceed your expectations.  And by a certain point, your expectations are pretty big, high up there.

    When you're in harmony with the good you ultimately want in your life, you realize the struggle you've gone through is really you just not listening to your wisdom, higher power or whathaveyou.  You may also notice that you can tell when others are not in harmony with what they want, and when to start stepping back from that situation. 

    That will happen because you will come to focus one one thing- it seems like many things, but it's really one thing- that which makes you happy!  When you realize that focusing on what makes you feel happy and good is what brings good things to you, you'll start moving away from what brings you down.  And that will sometimes include... as I've recently realized was a hard step for me to take...

    Specifics!  The What and the Hows of a great life!  I had gotten into some spats with Adam and I realized that I was looking at specifics and wanting him to match me and be what I wanted him to be rather than appreciating what he had to offer.  I know he's a wonderful man... but I wanted some things from him that I felt I waddin't gittin'!  But then, I looked at my life this week and came to the conclusion that when I had focused on just feeling good at work, where I would generally be very anxious and fretful- I had become cheerful and really harmonious, I ended up having a really good time.  When I'd come home and talk to Adam on the internet vid-phone program we share called "Skype," I'd find it tricky to talk to him...

    It was because I wasn't allowing as much, and I was going online when I really can't say I wanted to... so I ended up being all crabby anyway.  I had gotten into a mindset that I had to do something, so maybe he might have to, as well. and that's not allowing very good things to come.

    I wasn't allowing my truth (I was tired and irritable and din't want to be on the phone/net), and I wasn't allowing him to be himself in that event!  I had plopped myself out of harmony and the best thing in my life got foggy and a lot less comfortable.

    It helped me come to this understanding of the Law of Attraction and the art of allowing.  And I hope to share that with you, here and on the show this weekend. 

    Also, My dear friend, Regina, is having me guest on her brilliant Monday night spot, here on BlogTalkRadio.com, called "Regina's Universe!"  She wants to learn about LOA and see if her listeners can gleam some inspiration and wisdom as my listeners have.  I'd like to hear from you, so drop by then, or during my show, or drop me a line at AnOceanState@Gmail.com.  Thank you so much for joining me on this wonderous journey.  Enjoy yourselves!

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    Feel Good Time

    a song that I kind of like, redone by lady P!nk, points to this week's topic of getting into the Feeling place of what you want. I'll be discussing ways of looking at what you may already have to appreciate or feel gratitude for as well as other ways of getting to what Lynne Grabhorn called "the FEEEEEEEEEELing" place of what you want. It's gonna be fun!

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    Positive Thinking Redifined.

    How do you understand the term "Positive thinking?"

    To many of us, it is basically synonymous with affirmations- notions of how one would like things to be.  Affirmations are definetly useful and are certainly positive thoughts- and a path to positive thinking. 

    But a major pitfall to applying Affirmations, as well as other routes to personal improvement, is to try to stretch the use of affirmations to cover you even when you feel like they are not working.  It's a stretch when you're seeing your finances in the gutter, but try to say "I am in charge of my finances." or "I am good with money." You're not going to back that up with the good feeling that it's supposed to inspire because it's diametrically opposed to what you're seeing around you.

    Which is why Esther Hicks and her Non-physical counterpart- Abraham- emphasize finding the next-best feeling thought to where you are; a slow, gradual approach to getting where you want to be.  In their book "Ask and It Is Given," (www.abraham-hicks.com) they offer a process that suggests Talking yourself UP!  As you talk or write out your situation, try to look at it in slightly more positive terms- only slightly, to avoid pulling an emotional muscle and letting it backfire on you:

    "I'm not where I want to be with my finances...  But I have some friends who know people at H&R Block and my niece is in school to be a CPA..."

    One aspect of positive thinking that is often overlooked, as the focus tends to fall on Affirmations, is basic human resourcefulness- looking around at what you have available to you.  This helps you feel better and can lead to the next oft ignored aspect of positive thinking-

    Appreciation!  When you see that you have some resources or, at the very least, some things working for you in your situation, you start to appreciate those things all the more.

    Please avoid any struggle to appreciate things- that can also backfire on you and make you feel strained or frustrated.  A tendency I have- and I'm working with most of what I get tripped up by as well as what I've experienced around me- is to try to appreciate things.  It's hard to appreciate birds chirping as a nice thing when they seem to always wake you up in the morning- an hour or so before your alarm.

    What is positive for you may not be for others- One of my best friend finds comfort and joy from his two snakes... Not the most comon source of positive thoughts, but it works very well for him!

    The basic thing we want to do, in our studies of philosophies like the Law of Attraction, is to feel good- That's it!  When you feel good, as Lisa Nichols points out in "the Secret" (www.thesecret.tv,) You draw to you more things to appreciate and that will get you thinking better and better.

    One thing generally leads to another.  You need not struggle in this process, just consider something to make you feel a little better.  Allow yourself a little leeway when you're not feeling up to affirmations and crawl up the steps to a next-better feeling thought.

    There will be some back and forth between a bad feeling thought and a better feeling one- it's a process, but reach for the better feeling one and see how far you can get.

    Here's a link to a listing of the emotional scale referenced from "Ask and It Is Given" On www.Contemplatethis.com.  See if you can figure out how your feeling along this scale, set a point about three-to-five levels up, and notice how close you get, or even how far you go up from that point.

    I've had a pretty good week, so I'm around a seven- Contentment, though I tend to slip off to 11, 13... even as low as 16...  and I've been down by 22!  The general goal is relief- relief from the low you find yourself in. 

    Notice I said relief- any better state is a state of relief from where you were when you felt crappy.  The Biggest trip in the journey to your best life is when you think you need to feel GREAT to feel better...

    It's gotta start somewhere- Begin where you are, see how you feel, try to understand what that is and look for something to feel a little better about.  notice when you feel better and you can start appreciating that, which will get you appreciating more things to appreciate- which will help you feel even better.

    Positive thinking doesn't have to stop with Affirmations, whatever helps you feel just a notch better is a sure path to finding your Ocean State.  Thank you!

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    What Do You Want/The Trick Question.

    I advertised this on the Facebook page using J. Micheal Straczynski's Babylon 5 character, Mr. Morden, As a reference because he did ask this question to practically everyone- And it's an important question... but with much less dire consequences than presented in the show. Join me and I'll try to explain.

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