Let's Do The Math

"Noticing how things are turning out for you is one very clear way of understanding which Vibrational requests you are emanating, because you always get the essence of what you are thinking about, whether you want it or not."
--- Abraham

What is the essence of what we are emanating? It is the dominant intent of our thoughts. Being a mathematician, I think of it as the average of all my thoughts. So if half the time I'm crabby and half the time I'm happy, the essence is a so-so energy for that day right down the middle; not horrible, but not stellar either. However, if my dominant vibration is positive and upbeat just 51% of the time (a bit over half the time), that will register with the Law of Attraction as my essence. That makes for a pretty good day.

So, it turns out, we don't have to be perfect in our thoughts all day, just 51% of the time according to the Abraham Teachings. That's a relief!

Here's how I calculated it once: There are 24 hours in a day, and if I'm sleeping 8 hours, that leaves 16 hours awake. 51% of my awake time is 8 hours, 9 minutes and 36 seconds. I wonder if I could emanate positive thoughts for that long? Could you? If it's too hard to think of it that way, just look around you. If things are going smoothly, then you are having warm fuzzy thoughts (about yourself or others) at least 51% of your day.

I am encouraged to realize this is doable. Maybe we could all start with one minute of loving thoughts, and then two, and then see how it all adds up. Right now in this moment that you are reading this, what if you held a loving thought for one minute. Try it!

Then have a good day on me!

Love you,
Sherry

Faith

"There will be a time, not so far from now, that you will look back on this phase of your life and instead of condemning it or beating up on it... Instead of blaming or guilting, you will feel appreciation for it, because you will understand that a renewed desire for life was born out of this time period that will bring you to physical heights that you could not have achieved without the contrast that gave birth to this desire. "
--- Abraham

Excerpted from the Esther & Jerry Hicks workshop in Boston, MA on Saturday, October 4th, 1997

For me, the above quote speaks to faith. It is a very deep faith that I have. I don't know where it comes from; I wasn't raised with it, but it is very strong. My faith speaks to me and says, "one day, you will be glad this is happening through you (not TO you) ...so why not be glad today?" It says that I am not alone as I go through this, and that all shall be well. So I ride the wave of the challenge, carrying with me faith that it will always bring me safely to shore.

Surfs up!

Happy New Year

Tonight begins Rosh Hashonah, the Jewish New Year. It is one of the holiest days of the year, and my favorite holiday. It is a time to reflect on your past year, to seek forgiveness, and a time of renewal.

When I was younger, the blowing of the shofar at temple ushered in the excitement of a New Year, being with family, and my mom's delicious Noodle Kuegel. I loved Fall and the hope of new beginnings. Preparing my notebook with colored dividers and buying new PeeChee folders, I felt the hope of a fun year ahead in school. A clean slate. A fresh start.

Today, as I reflect on my life in the past year, I am seeing my courage in creating a new beginning in my life. After raising my children, and living in that city for 15 years, I decided it was time to leave. My sons had already moved on; graduating from college and thriving in their grown up lives. Now it was my turn. This past year has been filled with a lot of adapting and creating a new life for myself.

About halfway into my year here, I realized, as Mary Tyler Moore's opening theme song said, "You're gonna make it after all."

The road hasn't always been easy, but I'm still on it, fortified by my faith and the love of friends and family, excited to usher in the hope of a joyful, prosperous and loving year ahead.

I am grateful for all that I have. I am wishing you and yours all of the sweetness life has to offer. Happy New Year...

Catch and Release

I've been getting a lot of junk email lately. About 25-30 junk emails await me every morning. It was getting annoying and taking up my time. Then it occurred to me I could do something about it. I took a look and discovered that my junk email filter setting had been turned off. So I reset the filter to high. Now the software will automatically screen emails for me, filtering out the "bad" spam.


Then the light bulb went on. Voila! I can write about this in my blog! The junk email is symbolic of our negative or critical thoughts. Unwanted incoming clutter. It keeps coming in, piling up, until we take notice. Maybe there is something we can DO about this. Maybe we don't need to wake up to the negativity every morning. Yes, it exists, but we don't have to give it the time of day. It is this awareness that causes our shift to inspired action.


Wouldn't it be nice if we could set an automatic feature within us, that filters out our "junky" thoughts and deletes them? Well, we can. They don't serve us, and they take our energy away from more delightful thoughts. We can rid ourselves of them with intention. We can ask the Universal Manager to help us catch and release our negative thoughts. We may be exercising a new muscle here, but over time, IT (catching & releasing) becomes strengthened into a habit of choice. I choose to catch and release my negative thoughts.



Care to join me?

I Look to You

I watched the second part of Oprah's interview with Whitney Houston today. I am not a big fan of Whitney, although she has a beautiful voice.

She made her "comeback" debut today, and says it is more a "come through."

I know she had a lot of turmoil in her life, with drugs and an abusive husband. I must admit, I felt judgemental about her whenever I heard the gossip. "She is wasting a good life that God gave her," I thought to myself.

I am sorry that I judged her. Now I see she was going through a Divine experience. There was a higher purpose. Through her 7 year absence from the public eye, she asked God for strength and God answered her prayers. It was her faith, and being surrounded by people who loved her and believed in her, that pulled her through.

On her new CD she sings a song, "I Look to You," about looking to God for strength. It was written by R. Kelly 10 years ago. Whitney said, "everything has it's Divine Time." She was referring to why R. Kelly's song came out so long after he had written it. But I felt it also was a reference to the time it took for her to "come through." Divine Time.

Whitney said she wasn't concerned about losing her voice when she was down and out. She always had it. She was singing to herself even through those challenging years. But she said she was most concerned about losing the Spirit behind her voice.

At the end of the show, it was evident in the lyrics of the song, "I Look to You," that Spirit never left her:

"I was not built to break [my mother told me].

I didn't know my own strength.

... Now I know my own strength."

God Bless you Whitney and thank you for the poignant reminder - God did not build us to break...

A Thought from Source

Last night at bedtime, I wrote in my journal, "I am connected to Source while I sleep." I was woken up in the middle of the night with a message to share from Source:

"Get. Get. Get.
Gimme. Gimme. Gimme.
Give. Give. Give.

When we shift from asking, 'what can you do for me?' to
'what can I do for you?' the world-at-large and the world
within become a bit more healed.

Give. Give. Give.
Because you can...
...and we'll all feel a little bit better."

Where can you give today?

On the Wings of Angels

Today is the day we honor the memory of those lost on September 11, 2001 and send love to those left behind to mourn. If you watch the news today, you will probably see those images etched into our minds forever.

I would like to share a different image...the one that stays in my mind. I have never shared the clairvoyant image I received after 9-11 until now. From time to time, and certainly during readings, Spirit shows me images. I relay what I am shown, and I'm told it can shed new light on situations.

After 9-11, I was shown a beautiful image. I saw a huge fishnet about the size of 2 football fields. The perimeter of the fishnet was being held up by Angels. Lots of them. About every 3 feet there was an Angel. Yes, they were the kind with wings. They placed the fishnet underneath the twin towers, and BEFORE the planes hit, the Angels held onto the edges and began flying upward with the net. As they rose up higher and higher their arms pulled the net up with them, gathering all those who were going to lose their lives. They were gently swooped up in the net, carried up together into heaven...on the wings of Angels.

"The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms."
~ Deuteronomy 33:27