Dear Joshua,
I think I nearly get it. I can sort of feel myself on the cusp. And I love the thought of having faith that it's all working out. The faith part is a BIG deal, because it takes nearly all the pressure off me (us) to say to myself "cancel, cancel" on a thought. I more easily say " it's as it should be, it's working out" and believe it more.
I do get between moments of fun etc, pangs that I've been paying attention to, of anxiety, but then I can't seem to trace the thought attached to it to work on, since the twinge stays for such a short period and I wasn't aware of my thoughts so I just let it go, but there must be thoughts which come with it which are irrational fears (as I said, I'm nearly there:).
Kate
Dear Kate,
This is excellent progress indeed. To notice how you are feeling and then to find a better-feeling thought is the work. If you can go deeper and find the fear, then analyze it, that is also good. However, if the fear is fleeting and it disappears as soon as you find that better-feeling thought, then we say job well done. The fear has been reduced in its intensity and that is all you are trying to accomplish here.
In the past you might have lingered much longer in the feeling of anxiety. You may have let it affect your mood. You may have dipped into a lower emotional state of being. You might have said things or done things that were caused by your lower emotional state. Now you find a better feeling thought and this allows you to regain your natural sense of well-being. We are not saying your work is finished, we are saying that you are making tremendous progress.
If you feel fear, you limit yourself. By releasing the fear as you are now doing, you remove your own self-imposed limitations. All that you want exists and you set limits on what you will allow yourself to receive. Limits are created from fear. The fear is irrational and therefore it's false. However, you have previously bought into the grand illusion. Now that you are increasing your vibration through this interaction with us, the illusion caused by fear is starting to fade. As you continue to ask questions and read and reread our answers, you will allow the illusion to continue to fade. Soon everything will become clearer.
Having faith that everything is right causes you to drop your fears more easily. This is an important step. Without this step you won't allow yourself to search for the better-feeling thought. Unless you trust that everything is there because you require it, then you can appreciate whatever comes and have faith that it is for your highest good. Think about the message contained in the event rather than judging it as wrong or bad.
Every event is for your personal benefit and growth. Every manifestation event causes expansion and allows you the opportunity to analyze your fears which are the basis of some limiting belief you have been carrying along with you. The limiting belief places limitations on what you would otherwise be receiving. Once those limitations have been dropped, all that you want will flow to you in the most elegant way imaginable.
A lot of your limitations remain unknown to you. Your negative emotion flushes them out. Start looking for obvious episodes of negative emotion and then play around with them. When you feel angry, ask yourself why. When you feel that someone is saying or doing something wrong, ask yourself why you believe it is wrong. When you see something you think is bad, ask yourself why you think it's bad. This takes it all a bit further. This analysis gives you a glimpse into your own self-imposed limitations. The art of analysis is the act of removing limitations.
You are more than you perceive. You are stronger than you imagine. You are wiser than you can know. You are braver and smarter and bolder than you can conceive. As you begin to reduce the intensity of limiting beliefs, you'll start to glimpse just how magnificent you really are. We can see who you really are. We know the real, authentic you. You are truly a being of pure positive love and acceptance. We want you to see who you really are, just as we see it.
You are love and you are loved.
Joshua
