Emotional Set Point and My Miracle

Vonnie

Miracle Return . . .

It has been a long while since I last posted a blog. Plenty has been happening since that last post, but I didn't feel safe in writing about it.

To catch you up, Irfan and I have returned to the United States from 8 months living in India.

Irfan, Abby, Brent and Liam

We arrived in St. Johns, MI, at the end of July 2018, and are staying with my aunt until we are able to re-establish ourselves.

We are safe. We have shelter. We are nourished.

We have been enjoying the green of Michigan with my brother Brent and his children Abby and Liam. GREEN TREES! WATER! Wide open spaces!

Goldie

We have purchased a 2008 Chevrolet HHR.
I have been to a doctor and my diabetes is being treated.

Happy Vonnie

In short, we have experienced a series of miracles that have left our minds reeling and challenged our understanding of how Source is able to provide for our needs.

I didn't write for the longest time because I was avoiding bringing attention or focus to the difficulties we were experiencing while trying to settle in with our family and the religious/cultural environment  we faced in India. Focusing on what wasn't working and on the pain being experienced would only have brought more energy and focus to the things that were troubling us than was healthy for our situation.

Emotional Set Point . . .

The guiding principle of the universe, The Law of Attraction, would tell us that --what we give focus to is drawn to us, or rather, we are drawn toward what we give focus to.  By sharing the difficulties, I was concerned that I would put myself in a negative mindset and contribute to or place undesirable focus on the things I did not prefer. Giving additional focus to the negative would place me more deeply into, and make, the negative complaining voice in my head my "emotional set point" for attraction. The more I talked about the things I did not prefer the more accustomed to that negative frequency I would become. Instead, I focused on what I could do and on the blessings we had around us - a private apartment to live in, enough income to set up house and to meet our living expenses, a scooter - no need to depend on others for transportation, a washer - no need to wash clothes by hand.  We made gratitude lists and repeated them nightly.  We listened to inspirational teachings on YouTube from Ekhart Tolle, and from Abraham/Ester Hicks.  We held each other. We spoke only words of encouragement. We supported each other in every challenge with unconditional love.

I would like to offer an audio I found on YouTube that has helped me. It was taken from the teachings of Abraham, at one of Ester Hicks's channeled workshops.

Practicing a Positive Emotional Set Point . . . 

Even now, I would prefer to keep my mind focused on what is going well in the moment, rather than share with you the drama stories of my time in India. In future blogs, if I am able to re-frame these experiences into a useful example or illustrative story with some spiritual benefit, I may write about what I experienced, what I discovered about myself, the struggles of humanity, the problems I witnessed, and other such. For now I just want to share that. . . We have come home. And I want to reaffirm what became my mantra in India . . .

I am safe.

Source is my generous provider.

I always have everything that I need, with enough to share and to spare.

I Am Safe. 

Source is my generous provider

I always have everything that I need, with enough to share and to spare.

I Am Safe. . . .

What I will share with you today is this . . .

While I was in India our financial needs were being met by our income. However, there was no way for me or my husband to earn enough money to purchase return tickets to the USA. Certainly, at our level of earning and the exchange rate, it would have taken us an unknown number of years to save the price of those tickets. If we had been able to come home, there was no apartment to return to, no job, no car, no clothing. We did the only thing we could do. We surrendered to what was, and accepted all of that. I set my mind, and my husband set his mind, toward finding or creating work -- with the agreement that we would prefer to live in the USA, and should the means be present we would come back. We then turned our focus to doing the best we could where we were at, accepting that for the moment our life was in India.

The next time I was asked how things were going I responded honestly. "Not well, but I don't want to go into the horror stories. If we could come home we would."

That was the turning point. Source took over and moved the willing components into alignment. We stepped into the Vortex of Creation and out poured the miracles.

Four days later my husband and I boarded a plane headed to Detroit. We were able to leave our Indian relatives in good health, with more than enough money to cover our remaining expenses, and all of our household possessions including a new clothes washer, a new refrigerator, and a 2017 Honda Activa 4G scooter. We left without debt, having benefited our family.

Vonnie's Message Given at the Light House Chapel Service 9/16/18

 When you look at your life, reflecting back over your varied experiences,  how often do you see yourself being negatively impacted by the demands and expectations of others; family friends, society, work, culture, religion?  How many times have you made decisions based on receiving the approval of or to accommodate the needs of others? Are you mirroring their choices or following their ideas of instead of your own?
How many times has the influence of others caused you to go against your own self interest?

Ask and it is Given Card 37

I am not speaking of choices you made - not to do this or that -out of a decision to protect say, a relationship. Those choices are made from a place of self interest. "I want this relationship therefore I won't do something that will harm it."
I am referring to choices we make about what school to attend
what to wear . . .
who to talk to . . .
what friends to make . . .
the field of study we'll follow . . .
the career we choose. ..
I am referring to silencing our creative inner being because our impulse to paint, to dance, to sing or make music doesn't meet the approval of our family, friends, social or religious group.
I am referring to picking the study of law over literature because our parents don't think there is a career in writing; because someone else's influence overpowers our will to create a life of our own choosing.

Ask and it is Given Card 37, back

Beyond the personal examples that might weigh more heavily on our hearts. . .

How many times and in what ways  . . . 

have we been guilty of imposing our choices, beliefs, and fears on others; of trying to influence their choices based on our biases, beliefs, and prejudices - our needs and self interests?

We are very blessed to be living in a time and in a nation where the cultural influence, as it has evolved, leaves room for expanded experience and individual self expression.

Look around at the shifting awareness levels our society is experiencing.
Gender norms are being challenged . . .
Gender roles are being rewritten . . .
Gender identification, sexual orientation and the divisions of power within society, down to accepted behaviors and sexual based power divisions are all being challenged and reassessed. Other countries and places in the world are not so tolerant of people with new ideas or ways of doing things and of looking at the world. Yes, we still have differences in religion, politics, sexual orientation, desire and what is acceptable. In some countries these differences are more rigidly defined, guarded, and enforced.
In some places you could be killed by a mob for breaking a taboo.

I know it doesn't always seem that way, but we live in a place and time when ideas about reality are less defined by religion and conventional thought; where science is playing a role in opening rather than closing the possibilities.
Our expanded understanding of Quantum physics, and other studies, String Theory for example, have offered explanations to ideas that were once solely in the realm of mystics and mysticism. Once only the shamanic experience postulated/described what Science now theorizes - worlds within worlds, where every possibility exists in it's own universe.

There Is No One Right Way Of Being . . .

Most of you may be aware that my husband and I are recently returned from 8 months in India.
If there is one thing I have learned, or rather experienced through living abroad, it is that there is no one right way of being. What works in the USA may not work in another country. What works overseas doesn't always transfer here, may not be necessary or even appropriate.

For me, what truly makes living in the USA preferable is the flexibility found in a culture made up of blended ideas and influences. India is full of distinct cultures and languages but very little blending. There are many religions and religious cultures, but in India people pretty much stick to their ethnic/religious groups or casts and are largely intolerant of outsiders and outside influences. For the most part they do not inter-marry. People keep to their groups, even to the point of maintaining separate languages.
What makes America great is the co-mingling of our diversities, the melting and combining of solutions and possibilities within a blended society. Oh, we have our problems. This is not a Utopia, but this is a country built by many peoples from diverse cultures who have had to learn from each other in order to grow and prosper.
In our country's life, as in our own, some of our best solutions, our most fulfilling moments have come through allowing others and ourselves freedom to expand and create.
When we stop trying to influence and instead turn our attention to our own creations, to the reality we are choosing for ourselves we flourish.

Like attracts Like. . . and . . . We Choose!

We are drawn to others who are like minded, who have the same vibe or frequency as ourselves.
We find our tribes.
We find them faster when we allow others rather than trying to control them.

Source, Life is expanding through us. It will have every experience good, bad, painful, pleasurable; all possibilities and permutations of reality will come into being. However, we can choose. We create our reality, are drawn into it, through our beliefs and what we will allow into being, by what we give focus to. It all exists. Through our belief we choose the reality we exist in.
What we give focus to draws us in or is drawn to us.
There is room for all ideas and experiences.
What are you choosing?
What are you giving your focus to?
And if you aren't giving your focus to what you prefer, what are you going to do about that?

There Is Enough Room For All Ideas and Experiences

My appreciation to the Abraham Teachings and Esther Hicks for inspiration and guidance.