Its all about Feeeeeling Good!

"Dear Diary. Over the last few days, I have really come to understand the importance of my emotions as my "inner guidance system". I am really aware that when I feel good, I am attracting more positive things into my life and when I feel bad, I can be pretty sure that I am attracting negative experiences. I have noticed significant changes to my overall emotional standpoint . I spend much more time being content and accepting of where I am whilst still being clear about what I want to create. I even feel good about some of the things that I want that have not yet arrived... I can be in joyful anticipation of what is on its way! I still experience negative emotions but my ability to recover from them is much quicker and I recognise that setbacks are only temporary. I am beginning to truly recognise that I am the creator of my own experience"

The principles of the Law of Attraction have been part of my life for some time now, and yet, I am noticing a deepening of my understanding of how our emotions provide us with our own internal guidance system to let us know when we are moving towards our goals and when we are off track. Our thoughts are our point of attraction and yet we don't need to constantly monitor our thoughts (which would be a time consuming task!), as our emotions our are feedback source to let us know what we are creating. The analogy used by Abraham Hicks is that our feelings are like our Sat Nav system, gently guiding us when we are heading in the right direction and reminding us when we are not. Those "feeling bad" emotions are the equivalent of the Sat Nav saying "turn around when possible"!

We all experience a range of emotions from anger, disappointment and frustration to joy, peace and appreciation. And within that range, we will tend to find an emotional standpoint that we occupy more often than others. John Overdurf refers to this as our "enduring state of being"... the emotional state that we go to in the absence of environmental stimulation (ie when people/events are not causing us to act or react!). As our enduring state moves towards peace, joy and appreciation, it is much more likely that we will attract positive experiences into our lives.

So how do we raise our emotional standpoint and access a more empowering enduring state of being?

• Be gentle with yourself - recognise that your starting point is just your starting point. Be accepting of where you are whilst gently allowing your focus to fall on where you want to be. Watch out for the words we tend to use that let you know you are beating yourself up for not yet being where you want..."shoulds, oughts and musts" are the give aways.. replace them with words of possibility.."I could" or "I would like" are much softer and kinder to the spirit

• Monitor your emotions - Find quiet moments in the day to reflect on how you are feeling and use a journal to record your progress. As a busy working mum, my attention is often directed towards others so I find it is easy to be distracted from checking in on myself and my feelings. I find that scheduling time to reflect in my diary gives me an opportunity to quieten the mind and access my state of being. As I build this inner awareness, I am much more likely to notice dips in my emotional standpoint before problems arise.

• When you notice you are off track, gently re-focus - We all have a tendency to want to "get things right" and so we are often hard on ourselves when we are not doing so well. In fact, these negative feelings about how we are doing then become the issue..its the feelings about the feelings that keep us off track! If you notice you are heading in the wrong direction, gently allow your attention to focus back on what you want. Appreciation in any form, is one of the fastest ways to recover a more positive state of being.

Developing this conscious process of recognising our point of attraction through the guidance of our emotions allows us to move towards our goals easily and effortlessly. As we fine tune this awareness and are able to track and align/re-align ourselves with what we want, we literally become the deliberate creators of our own experience.

For more on this, you may enjoy reading "The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent" by Abraham Hicks