Creating a Better Life

Taking Inspired Action

“It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling, than to feel yourself into a better way of action.” - O.H. Mowrer

I believe that it was Tony Robbins who said that the key to success was in taking massive action toward your goals.

Not just a little bit of action.

Massive Action.

So how does that mesh with Abraham-Hicks saying that it’s your vibration, not your action, that makes the difference.

Who’s right?

Personally, I think they both are… it just depends on how you are looking at it.

As human beings, we are naturally action oriented.  We do things.  Yes, I know that we are all human “Be”ings, but a big part of being human is in the doing.

We are creators, and our vibration both causes and comes from that creation.

There’s a saying out there - “Fake it until you make it.”

I’ve never much cared for it, but there is a lot of truth to it.

All creation begins in the mind.  Before a building is built, it’s mapped out on paper.  Before a car is built, it’s designed.  Before a book is written, it’s outlined.  Even before a meeting starts, an agenda is created.

We can do the same thing with our lives.

The plan, the design, is where we get into the vibration of our creation.  We see it, we feel it, we bring it into existence in our minds.

But then, in order to bring our creation from our minds and into the physical world, we take action - and the more massive that action is, the more quickly the manifestation will happen.

Sometimes, in our day to day experience, we feel like we just don’t know what to take action on, what to create, what to DO.

And sometimes the best way out of that is to take action on something… anything!

For instance… say one of your goals is to get the dishes done (My regular readers may have noticed how often I use doing the dishes as a goal.  If you saw my kitchen sink, you’d know why.)

We can sit around and try to get ourselves into the vibration of a person who has gotten the dishes done.

Or we can do the dishes.

But sometimes it’s hard to motivate ourselves to do the dishes.  How do we do that?

It can depend…

Something that works for me is seeing the dishes done in the first place.  As Stephen Covey said in “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”: Begin with the end in mind.

Sometimes, that’s enough to motivate me to do the dishes.  But not always.

Or, I can commit to working on the dishes for 15 minutes… after 15 minutes, I’m done whether they are or not.

Hmmm.. but I’m still just sitting here, not doing the dishes.

OK, how about I just walk over to the sink.

Now pick up a dish.

Clean off the major gunk, and put it in the dishwasher.

Now pick up another one.

Clean off the gunk and put it in the dishwasher.

Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

Suddenly, I’m in the “vibration” of doing the dishes.

And eventually, as long as I keep taking the action, the dishes will be done.

Sometimes, the action creates our vibration which will motivate us to continue, and sometimes the vibration is already there, spurring us on to take the action.

And it doesn’t really matter who’s right, or which came first.

Contemplation alone never got the dishes done.

Abraham on Martin Luther King

This video needs no commentary… except to say that it’s a beautiful way to handle any dream, not just King’s.

Law of Attraction Videos from Abraham-Hicks

Abraham-Hicks have released a series of five videos that make up a nice introduction to the Law of Attraction. They were filmed this month (February of 2008), which is especially nice - a very fresh perspective on both Abraham and their teachings.

Enjoy!

All 5 videos on one page

Links to individual videos:

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

Abraham-Hicks Video: What is God?

“We are choosing with you, but we are not choosing for you.”

In this video, Abraham talks about their conception of God.

I found it both inspiring and thought provoking.

I can see how it would really upset some people who have, as they say, created God in their own image. I used to be one of those people, and I can just see myself going on a tirade about how Jerry and Esther are sending people to hell.

It’s good to now know that my conscious mind simply cannot understand God. It’s undefinable in human terms.

If God is truly infinite, then to define it would be to limit it. Anytime we talk about God, we are talking about our own conceptions, not the great Reality itself.

And if God is truly infinite, I cannot separate it from me. Otherwise, there is something that God is not… once again limiting it.

The video also reminded me of something else… that This is as God as it Gets.

Never Get It Wrong - Never Get It Done

Yesterday’s daily quote from Abraham-Hicks contained one of the ideas that really attracted me to them:

“You’re never satisfied. That’s what life is, it’s just this ongoing, neverending vacation adventure, you see. You can’t get it wrong and you never get it done—and we recommend that you have as much fun as you can along the way.”

Excerpted from a workshop in San Antonio, TX on Saturday, November 13th, 2004

All Is Well

At first glance, this idea can seem, well, just plain wrong - of course we can get things done! Of course we can get things wrong!

If I’m a student, and I flunk a class - well, I got it wrong!

If I’m writing a novel, and it’s finished, well, then… I got it done!

But what’s important here is what the definition of “It” is.

The “It” that Abraham is referring to is life - and many of us confuse the test or the novel (individual instances and activities) with life itself.

Life never ends. I’m not so sure which side of the fence I fall on when it comes to our consciousness itself ending or not, but I do know that life doesn’t end.

My life is more than my thoughts, more than my heart beating and my lungs moving and my brain computing.

I breath in, and I take in millions of life forms and they become a part of me… are they me?

I breath out, and millions of life forms are expelled from my body, to become a part of something else… does that mean that those things that they become a part of become a part of me as well?

The stuff that I’m made of is the same stuff that makes up the stars, and the same stuff that makes up a stinking pile of garbage. My thinking mind would like me to believe that I’m “better than” or “less than” either of these… but I’m really not.

I am That, and That is I.

I can never get it done because life is never done.

And I can never get it wrong because, it the grand scheme of things, there is no wrong.

A billion years from now, the novel I wrote or the test that I flunked won’t matter.

The universe will just keep on expanding, contracting, expanding, contacting…

And I, the I of my essence, will be expanding and contracting right along with it.

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