Day 264: Turn the Wheel Sooner
The lesson for today from The Teachings of Abraham was that it's easier to change the direction of your thoughts before you manifest something you don't want than it is to wait to change your thoughts until after it manifests.
This is one of those times we can all say, "Easy for you to say!"
Because if we knew we were thinking in a way that would bring us what we don't want, of course we would stop thinking that way.
Or would we?
We do things against our best interest all the time.
Intellectually, we know when things are bad for our health, for our mental health, for our heart in relationships, and yet we do them anyway.
Or more passively, we allow them to continue.
Every single second of every day we are making multiple choices or we are letting the part of our minds that run those old tapes decide for us about every teeny tiny actions we take, or don't, each day.
On the surface, it may feel unimportant, but when you look at how many thousands of decisions are made each day, and how they compound over days, weeks, years, decades, without being challenged, that's a lot of unchecked decisions.
This reinforces why it's so important to be aware of how we are feeling and what level of vibration we are putting out into the Universe.
When we do something or think something that is against our best interest or what we say we want to create in our lives, we may feel an instant good feeling, because we are convincing ourselves this is really good when we know it isn't.
And then shortly afterward we feel any of the negative emotions when we can't keep up the facade if it being good.
This happens so naturally because we've been doing it our entire lives that it can be almost imperceptible. You have to be paying attention to how you feel to catch it. And the more you catch it, the quicker you begin to notice it happening throughout the day.
That's where the practice begins.
It's not about shaming ourselves for the thought. It's noticing the tiny shift inside.
That little tightening, the drop in energy, or a moment when something in us knows we just stepped out of alignment, even if another part of us is still trying to justify it. That's the moment we usually skip over.
We keep going, explaining, telling ourselves it's fine. And then later, when the feeling has grown bigger or the situation has turned into something we don't want, we wonder how we got there.
But we got there one thought, one justification, one ignored feeling at a time.
That's why changing the thought earlier matters.
We're not monitoring ourselves in some exhausting, perfectionistic way. We're simply noticing what our emotions are telling us in real time.
They're letting us know when we've started moving toward something we don't actually want to create.
And if we can catch it while it is still just a thought, while it is still just a mood, while it is still just a little irritation, worry, resentment, or story forming in our mind, we have so much more power.
We can pause.
We can breathe.
We can ask if this thought is taking us closer to the life we want or farther away from it.
And then we can choose again. That is the part that changes everything.
Because we don't have to wait until the unwanted thing has fully formed before we decide to shift.
We can shift when we feel the first sign of resistance. When the thought still has soft edges. Before it gathers momentum and starts feeling like truth.
That doesn't mean we'll catch it every time. We won't. We're human.
But every time we do catch it, even once, we interrupt the old pattern. And when we interrupt that pattern, we prove to ourselves we are not at the mercy of our old tapes.
We don't have to keep thinking the thought just because it showed up. Or follow the emotion all the way down just because it pulled on us.
We can stop sooner. Choose better. Turn the wheel before we end up somewhere we didn't want to go.
That is self-leadership in real time.
Not after the fact.
Not after the mess.
Not after we've created the very thing we were afraid of.
In the moment, in the thought, the feeling. In the tiny choice that seems too small to matter, but absolutely does.
Because our life is being created there too.
Today's Gentle Practice
Think about one thought or story that has been lowering your energy lately.
Ask yourself:
Is this thought moving me toward what I want to create, or away from it?
Don't judge yourself for having the thought.
Just notice what it is doing inside you.
Then see if you can reach for one thought that feels a little more honest, a little more peaceful, or a little more aligned.
You don't have to change everything at once.
Just turn the wheel a little sooner.
With you,
Lynn
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