Are you Putting a Happy Face on the Iceberg?
In my experience, what causes us to either push things away or pull them towards us is all about how we feel.
In the movie The Secret, they say it’s not so much what you’re thinking, but how you feel about it. If you don’t really feel what you’re wanting to attract, then you’re not going to attract it. In my experience, the Sedona Method helps you let go of whatever it is inside of you that feels like you can’t have it, or you shouldn’t have it. The Method actually gets into the feeling of “I have it now.”
Often, what we’re consciously thinking about is only the tip of the iceberg. It’s just a small fraction of our sum total thinkingness about anything in particular.
People who only change their thinking; who just think positively are simply putting a happy face over the tip of the iceberg. So, you have this happy looking iceberg from the surface, but the entire body of it, under the water, is still unhappy.
And then people wonder why they haven’t attracted what they want. It’s because they haven’t dealt with the whole rest of the iceberg -- all the feelings of ‘I can’t,’ ‘I don’t know how,’ ‘I’m afraid,’ ‘It’ll never happen to me.’
When you deal with the iceberg, it melts. This frees up all that energy that was tied into the iceberg of ‘I can’t, I don’t know how, I’m afraid.’ All that energy is now available for you to get into action and hold the mind what you want.
Also, the Universe is not separate from you. It IS you. It isn’t a catalog. There is no magical genie. In my experience, what happens is as you let go, harmony happens between what you’re consciously wanting, and what’s appropriate for you to begin with.
So the more released you are, the more present you are, the more open you are, the more your conscious thinking aligns with what is for your highest and best good. And it’s not you doing it because there isn’t a YOU separate with your checklist saying, ‘I’ll take one from column A and one from column B and why isn’t it here yet? I put in my order five minutes ago.’ It doesn’t work that way.
There’s no you here separate from the Universe. The more you let go, the more you find things that are healthy and right for you, and these things persist. Everything else falls away until you’re simply in harmony with what’s appropriate for you in this moment.
You’re not actually doing that though. All of us are being done. We are not the doers. Yes, there’s the appearance and you have to act as though there is a chooser, a thinker, a doer -- that’s how we function in life -- but in my experience there’s not two, there’s only one.
Lester used to say, “Even the most impossible becomes completely possible when you’re fully released on it.” But he added something to that: “You know you’re fully released when you don’t give a hoot -- when you’re okay whether or not you get it.”
When you’re okay whether or not you get it, then you either get it or you don’t. But either way, you’re okay. That place of the natural acceptance of what is, is the most powerful place to create from.
But remember, you’re not actually the creator – you’re the creation. Can you tell me with certainty what your next thought is going to be? You can’t. No one can. Thoughts simply happen.
Have you ever said ‘I’m definitely going to do this’ and not done it?’ Have you also conversely said ‘I’m definitely not going to do this’ and done it’? Yes, all the time.
This is the thing that happens most: have you ever done something without thinking? The thinking actually always comes after the fact. We make up a story about why we just did this – “Oh I just did this because…” No, you were just done in that particular way and then you’re making up a story about it after the fact.
As you release, you discover the hootlessness that you are. You don’t release to become hootless. Hootlessness is what’s there when you uncover or let go of all the other stuff. It’s already what’s here now… and it’s natural.
The most powerful way to attract what you want is to let go. Just simply trying to hold positive thoughts, without getting rid of everything to the contrary, doesn’t work
What most of us identify with is the creation. But what you are is that presence of awareness that allows for attraction and aversion. It allows for having and not having, doing and not doing. It allows for all of it.
Love,
Hale
This blog is an excerpt from the upcoming Inner Circle 4 Audio Program.