Gloom Be Gone! Shifting Out of Depression One Day at a Time.

Many, if not all, of us have Facebook friends who constantly complain about their lives, health, exes; who make negative or critical posts, and dour comments, or always seem to be focusing on some source of pain in the world. Well, I have been there, chronically depressed and anxiety ridden, experiencing panic attacks, engaging in self harming behaviors. I have been stuck in gloom to the point where I just wanted OUT, out of life.

That began to change when I watched a movie called What the Bleep Do We Know.
Here is a clip from that movie which helped me understand that I could start to make the shift out of gloom and into emotional health and mental well-being.

It was in watching this movie, I began to realize my responsibility in creating the negative state of my existence.  I was addicted to and fostering a negative mindset and emotional state of being, and in doing so attracting more negative situations to feed my addiction to negative emotions. After all, I am the one choosing to believe the thoughts I'm thinking, choosing how to react to the various circumstances of life. I am the one choosing to obsess, to be offended or irritated, to personalize and otherwise absorb the negative encountered. I was the person looking in the mirror and hissing hateful self criticisms. Yes, I experienced bullying as a child. I've had hateful things said and done to me.  I have been abused by others. But, through all of that, I also have had a choice in how to respond and in what I would believe. Through the movie, I learned that cells recreate themselves based on the chemical composition of their parent cell and that when I foster negative thoughts I keep my body in a state of growing chemical imbalance.

The second big influence on my emotional well-being came through the work of Ester and Jerry Hicks, The Law Of Attraction, and the teachings of Abraham, where I learned about how to use my emotions as a compass --indicating how far in or out of alignment with Source my thoughts are based on the level of negative charge my emotional state of being has in any given situation.

For some time now, I have been making an internal shift away from a negative emotional "set point." In fact, making this shift has been something I've been working on with focused intent for several years and is the main reason I didn't write much about my stay in India while I was there. 

If you are unfamiliar with the terminology "set point," I'm referring to what the teachings of Abraham describe as one's habitual mental and emotional state of being, or frequency of vibration. The key word being HABITUAL. Our "set point" is the most practiced mental/emotional state-of-being or response we offer the world. It is where we are most comfortable emotionally and mentally, our "go to" most practiced habitual hang out frequency, our main vibe. For most people their "set point" has become a huge part or expression of their self concept or personal identity, their ego-- when they identify who they are with having essentially practiced a characteristically negative emotional set point. 

It has taken me years of actively choosing to foster healthier thoughts to shift my habitual responses away from negative and self destructive patterns. Part of the reason for the long journey was that I had to find my way with little or no guidance. Thank Source for others on the same path who have lit the way, offering their own experiences and wisdom. In that time, I've had to develop patience with myself, to have compassion for my failures, and to forgive past behaviors that I am not particularly proud of. I can share with you there is immense relief to be found through every stage and aspect of making this shift. Gradually, one day at a time, I have grown out of gloom and into a state of peace with life. My emotional set point is no longer one of anger and self loathing. I find happiness everywhere. True, life still has its ups and downs but now that I am discerning about my emotional "set point," and taking charge of how I'm creating through attraction, I spend more of my life in joy and I invite you to do the same.

This card, drawn from the Money, and the Law of Attraction Cards, has been helpful in guiding me to a better state of well-being and receptivity. I hope it can help you too.

In My Appreciation I allow Myself to Receive Wonderful Things . . .

The best way to accomplish and improved environment is to focus upon the best things about where you currently are until you flood your own vibrational patterns of thought with appreciation; and in that change the vibration, you can then allow the new-and-improved conditions and circumstances to come into your experience. 
Look for good things about where you are, and in your state of appreciation, you lift all self-imposed limitations (and all limitations are self-imposed) and free yourself for the receiving of wonderful things.

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.