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The Law of Attraction and Its Relation to Journey Work
by Joanie McMahon
The Law of Attraction states first and foremost that we are vibrational beings and extensions of Source energy. The vibration of Source energy shows itself in the emotions of joy and empowerment and love. When we are having fun and joyful and feeling empowered, we are accessing Source energy.
When we are in the lowest vibrational energy, we are experiencing emotions of depression or grief or despair. These emotions are so far from who we really are (extensions of Source energy), that they feel bad and constricting to us. These emotions feel like we are suffocating and can hardly breathe. This is Sources way of letting us know that we are going in the wrong direction to our own happiness.
We came here from pure loving energy into a world of hot, cold, up, down, love/fear, knowing that we would be called endlessly towards the desires we created due to our exposure to the diversity and vastness of experience here. Simply, we knew that as we experienced pain, our desire would shoot out ahead of us (so to speak) and that the larger part of ourselves, our non-physical source energy aligned with self, would immediately align with our new expanded desire and like a magnet would draw us towards it and our new idea of who we are.
Our emotions are our navigational tool, on the way to our new expanded version of ourselves. Feeling sad (or any other negative feeling) is to know that we are resisting our natural flow to unite with the higher vibrational part of ourselves, that has already become the perfect match, vibrationally, to our new expanded awareness of who we are.
The key then is to be aware of our feelings as they are our truest and purest form of guidance available. It is so simple really. When we feel good we are in Source energy, and when we feel negative emotion, constricted and tense, we are not in this energy, in fact, we are working against this energy.
Our emotions, which are attached to thoughts, are our guidance system. This emotional guidance system is always letting us know if we are moving towards or away from our happiness. And so, whatever one chooses to do, the only question to ask is "will this bring me relief and move me towards more happiness?" Because when we choose things that please us or make us feel better, we start to access the emotions of pleasure or joy or happiness and we are moving in the direction of Source energy.
Source, this magnificent ever-powerful universal energy (sometimes called God)...... that we are all extensions of....... guides us into expansions of joy and love. This is our birthright......This universe that we chose to come forth into is supposed to be fun........
The Law of Attraction is the most powerful law in the universe and it states that what we think about and feel about, we bring about or "manifest" into physical form. This amazing and all powerful law allows us to choose what we want and bring it into manifestation through our vibration of desiring it. When we are in alignment with this desire, this WANTING, meaning, when we know for certain what we want and we imagine that we have it and we get into the vibration of joy and knowing around it, it must and will manifest into our physical reality. This is the Law of Attraction.
There are three steps to this manifestation
1.) Ask for what you want. (this is your job)2.) The answer is given (this is the universes job)3.) Allow it to come forth (this is your job).
This state of allowing is being in the state of joy and love. It will come to you through this high vibration.
One can get a fuller understanding of this Law by reading any of Jerry and Esther Hicks work. Four that I recommend are the two books "The Law of Attraction" and "Ask And It Shall Be Given" and two DVDs "The Law of Attraction in Action: Part 1 and Part 2. From all that I have read on the Law of Attraction, it seems that, Abraham, as expressed through Jerry and Esther are the teachers of the teachers of the Law of Attraction.
For several years now, I have been practicing a form of therapy/ healing/ teaching (whichever term most resonates with you) called The Journey or Journey work. The title, was coined by Brandon Bays. In her early 40âEUR?s, Brandon was diagnosed with a very large tumor in her abdomen, that was crushing her vital organs. When she was diagnosed, her doctors gave her a 2 month, window of time, before the tumor must be removed, in order to save her life. Brandon put out a fierce prayer or "asking" to be restored to perfect health...and she then went about getting access to a peacefulness inside of her, in other words putting herself into alignment with her desire, whereby, she was able to hear the answer to her prayer. She was given the "how" to release this tumor. In 6 weeks time her tumor was gone.
She has subsequently been teaching this "how" that she discovered, all over the world. And her book entitled "The Journey" is a must read for all interested in wellness.
I feel deeply blessed to have discovered this work, at a time when I needed it badly. Even though I was a psychologist/counselor, I was in a state of depression, that I did not know how to get out of and none of the people that I went to for help, knew what to do to help me either. I, like Brandon, put out a fierce prayer to be restored to the vibrant soul, I was, and as always, it happens (it is Law), I was led to the guidance I needed, the book Brandon wrote about her experience.
In this book, Brandon explains what she did to release her tumor. After one session, with a Journey practitioner, my depression lifted, and three sessions later, I let go of the medication that I had been on for several years.
With the knowing, that, anything that heals someone, must be in alignment with Source energy and what is now becoming more known "The Law of Attraction," it has become important to me to understand how the Law of Attraction is at work in the use of Journey process work. Anything that works (makes people feel better or get well) has to be in this alignment.
How I see Journey work in relation to the Law of Attraction is that Journey work helps us clean up the negative vibration that is stopping us from accessing "Source." It helps one, bring into awareness, emotions that are out of alignment with Source energy i.e. negative, bad or constrictive emotions and discover what thoughts are activating these emotions. These thoughts are often past negative memories, whereby the emotions attached are vibrating in the body creating distress or disease of some sort or other.
Journey work teaches one to sit with the negative emotion, until the thought attached to it, comes clear........most of the time people are so eager to stop feeling bad, that they will not sit in the constricted/bad feeling for long, it is too uncomfortable. A person will often try to medicate or soothe these feelings with anything that helps them feel better i.e. alcohol, shopping, over-work, eating, drugs, loud music etc.......and while this is a temporary solution, in the long term, it does not put a stop to the negative emotions we are feeling.
Once the thought (event) of what is bothering a person comes forth, there is a simple process that helps release this constricted emotion, attached to this past event, and then transforms this past negative event into a positive event.....thus bringing the body back into alignment with Source energy......restoring one to a state of well-being.
These past events will only affect us if the emotions attached to them are activated, otherwise, they are not in our vibration. Often events in the present will remind us of a past event and will activate the vibration (in the form of negative emotion) of what this past event felt like. Once this thought is activated, distress occurs in the form of constricted or negative emotions.
A personal example of this is the memory, that, when cleared, lifted my long standing depression. I was extremely vulnerable at the time and this unknown activated memory caused me great despair and I did not know what was happening to me. I had never felt such long-standing despair/grief/sadness before. Deep inside of me, I knew that something unusual had happened and I had no idea how to help myself, even though I was a trained psychologist/therapist.
Now, when I initially went to a Journey practitioner and became aware of this activated memory and cleared it, I became so excited and hopeful. The memory was from my being "in the womb experience" and I realized that if I could clear a memory from as far back as in the womb, then healing for anyone on the planet was possible. At the time, I was working with many troubled teens and began to use Journey work in my sessions with them, with the same astounding results.
How disease manifests, i.e. Cancer or asthma or MS or depression or anything, is that we are not paying attention to our thoughts (past or present events) and our emotions and we are allowing negative emotions, attached to negative thoughts, to become the dominant event in our vibration. One cannot possibly manifest cancer, without having been in a low emotional vibration over a long period of time. It may seem like a tumor or other disease, came out of the blue and this is not the case. It has been "being manifested" for quite a while. Brandon, in her book, speaks of this when she talks about the memory that she cleared that lifted her tumor, she said "I finally let go of decades of blame." Journey work helps us bring into awareness these activated negative thoughts.
Once we clean up our vibration around these past or "anticipated future" events, then, our body becomes restored to improved health and wellness. And it can be very quick, as in the case of Brandons tumor and my depression.
This is the way the Law of Attraction works. When we become aware of and change the negative emotions we are feeling that are attached to negative thoughts and then change these thoughts to ones of a higher emotional vibration (ie. Positive thought attached to positive emotion), it is the Law of Attraction that states well-being will be restored. When we are in Source energy, which is positive emotional vibration, we are in a state of well-being or on our way to well-being.
Journey work, very quickly, helps us access "Source energy" this love and joy that we all came from. We feel good when we are in Source energy because this is our true nature. This is where we have all come from.
When Journey work is taught in conjunction with the Law of Attraction, it then gives us a framework and a method to keep ourselves in Source, most, or ultimately all of the time. I have discovered that Journey work is greatly enhanced with the knowledge of the Law of Attraction.
It is the constant attention to the desire to "feel good" that is the key to all wellness. When we feel good, we are in this stream of wellness or Source energy that is the key to happiness. And when we feel bad, we are moving towards that which we do not want. When we turn our attention to feeling good, soon we will, more often than not, be hanging out in the emotions that make us feel good.......like enthusiasm and passion and joy.
And it is from this feeling state, that all manifestation of our desires comes forth into physical form. Until then, Source is waiting for us to get into alignment with it, coaxing us moment by moment (if we are listening) towards what we are "WANTING."
Jerry and Esther Hicks in their book "Ask And It Is Given" provide an understanding of what they call "our emotional guidance system", this system can always give us an indication of where we are at, in relation to "source energy." They also explain that this can vary and what is most important to understand is which emotions feel better than the other. For example, on this emotional scale, depression, grief and powerlessness are at the bottom of the scale, insecurity and guilt is next, jealousy next, hatred and rage next, revenge next, then anger, discouragement, blame, worry, doubt, disappointment, overwhelming, frustration and impatience, boredom, contentment, hopefulness, optimism, positive expectation, enthusiasm, eagerness and happiness, passion, and at the top of the scale is joy, knowledge, empowerment, freedom and love.
Now, the importance of knowing this scale is to understand that each level going upward into freedom and love, feels better or has a higher vibrational energy. For example, anger feels better than depression, and blame feels better than anger and frustration feels better than blame etc.
There is a component during a Journey process called the Campfire, that helps one move up this emotional scale. In doing Journey work, what I find is that a person who has hung out in depression for a long time, by activating depressing thoughts over and over again, will feel better after a Journey Process and will most of the time, do so, only temporarily, if not encouraged to be faithful to regular Journey work. In addition, if one learns the Law of Attraction, the learning becomes most potent because one learns to break the HABIT of thinking negative thoughts.
This too, I can speak from experience. Even though that one memory of being in my mothers womb is what cleared the worst of my depression, it was my consistent faithfulness to clearing anything negative that came up, that resulted in my moving in a step by step way up this emotional scale, cleaning up my vibration even more with each Journey that I did. What I discovered is that I had many many memories that were contributing to my distress and each of them was part of my overall sense of unwellness.
In other words, it is too big a leap to go from depression into joy and love and stay there for very long. With one Journey Process, we will go into this higher vibration and it will be only temporary, if we do not understand that it has been these activated negative emotions, attached to habitual negative thoughts, that keep us going backwards down the emotional scale. With regular Journey work, one can continually move into a higher and higher vibration.
Many people think that they do not have the ability to change their thoughts and emotions. What is really true is that most of us have become so used to thinking negatively, that we think this is normal........we know that this kind of thinking feels bad and we do not know how to change it. In other words we have become accustomed to "sloppy thinking."
If we tend to our emotions and when they are negative, look at the thoughts attached and then immediately reach for a better feeling thought, we will move more and more into alignment with Source energy. The main skill used here is the power of FOCUS. We need to focus on that which feels good. And sometimes, it means that, we need to do a Journey process because it is an activated past memory.
An understanding of the Law of Attraction, meaning what we think about and feel about, we bring about, gives us the theoretical framework of understanding, to then, take tools like Journey process work, to clean up our vibration, so as to feel better and to manifest what it is we are wanting.
Journey works ability to help us clean up our vibration around events and people from our past and present and our thinking about the future, is invaluable. What is also most interesting about Journey work is that when these past memories are cleared, the healing becomes effortless, a calmness starts to take over and this calmness is our true state, it is Source energy flowing through us. For me, it was a new feeling, one that I had experienced mostly when I was in nature, as a child. And now it is becoming more and more a part of my everyday experience. At first it felt odd, not ordinary. I, at times, felt like I was waiting for the anxiety or depression to come again. Like a doubtfulness was there, and what I noticed was that if I wasfaithful to clearing all negative emotion, I stayed in this state more and more of the time.
Brandon Bays and her team are brilliant in their development of such effective tools for wellness. I am incredibly grateful for her desire to help more and more people, release resistance and move into alignment with their true nature......this magnificent "Source Energy."
The ability to inspire a "REDUCTION OF RESISTANCE", or a movement from negative into positive emotion.....is the key to all healing. Every time we have a desire and get into alignment with it, we contribute to an expansion of the universe. The universe becomes more than it was, because we have become more than we were.
To me this is a very empowering thought. It means that our role on the planet is infinitely important. We choose to come forth in order to help in this magnificent unfolding. And how we do this is to get into "good feeling" and become an expansion of joy or love or empowerment.
I am proposing that if we understand and teach the Law of Attraction, along with using methods of healing, like Journey work, in order to bring more and more people into alignment with Source Energy, then each new person, who has become aligned with their true nature, causes an expansion of the universe, the universe is actually becoming more and more, because peopleâEUR?s desire causes this expansion.
My sincerest thank you to Jerry and Esther Hicks and to Brandon Bays, her husband, Kevin Billet and their team (the North American team is led by Skip and Kristine Lackey), for the work that they are doing. They are calling us all forward into this that we truly are. How wonderful it is!
Joanie McMahon is President of Investment In Serenity Inc. She is a teacher/counselor/life coach/psychologist/writer and business woman. Joanie has worked her entire adult life helping others move into their magnificent selves. Her passion is understanding fully how to use The Law of Attraction to her and her clients benefit. She has an understanding of achieving overall health either physically through nutrition, exercise and stress release; emotionally through Journey work and understanding our Emotional Guidance System; Financially; and Spiritually.
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Joanie's website is joaniemcmahon.com.
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