Make Good Use Of Your
Awesome Power Of Choice

One of the most amazing faculties we have is our power of choice. As soon as we decide that we are going to be happy no matter what, the Universe moves in miraculous ways to get us there. Yes, happiness is a choice!

Scientists, philosophers, and spiritual explorers all confirm that we are vibrational beings living in a vibrational universe. In fact, everything is energy. Everything. And everything has a unique vibrational signature, including each of us humans. At any one time we can have a different vibration or emotional tone from other times, depending on where our attention is directed.

How We Change Our Energy

Simply by shifting our attention we can change our vibration. The object of our attention determines our vibration. Because we are made of energy, we are constantly influenced and transformed by the energies we focus on. We are especially influenced by what is the dominant focus of our attention. If we focus on negative events in the world, we vibrate with that negativity and we feel negative and create negative situations. If we focus on the loving events of the world, we vibrate with that love and we feel love and create loving situations. This is why it is so important that we use our power of choice consciously and deliberately choose happiness.

Years ago I rented a downstairs room
from a man who was active in a local
peace organization. They had meetings
in the upstairs room that was right over
my bedroom. Often the meetings became
heated, sometimes with people angrily
shouting at each other. Even though in
their hearts they wanted to create peace
in the world, they were keeping their
attention on discord. Therefore what they
actually emanated and created in the world
was negativity! And they’re not alone.
I’ve been guilty of this one myself.

The Law of Attraction

Through practice, we can consciously change our vibration with our power of choice, by choosing where we focus our attention. Consequently, our outer life changes in synchronization with the new vibration. This is what is known as the Law of Attraction, or “like attracts like,” or “birds of a feather flock together.” We literally become what we place and keep our attention on. You can think of each of us as energy magnets. We attract circumstances that are in agreement with whatever vibration we are holding and emitting.

Have you ever had the experience of getting up in the morning, feeling off-key and then one thing after another happens so that the whole day is off-key? This is what I’m talking about. What usually occurs when we feel “off” is that we focus on the negative feeling, thereby intensifying and perpetuating it. Then, since we are emitting a negative energy, like a magnet, we attract situations that are in sync with where we are: more negativity. We just keep creating more of the same, without even realizing we’re doing it. We create by default. This is what happens when we squander our power of choice.

Using the Power of Choice for Wellbeing

So, think of how we can use this all-pervading, amazing, universal principle of the Law of Attraction for wellbeing! If we wake up in the morning feeling lousy we don’t have to create a whole day of feeling lousy. We can consciously, deliberately train our attention to go in the opposite direction. We can choose happiness! As far as emotional energy goes, there really are only two directions: one feels good (positive emotions) and one feels bad (negative emotions).

By consciously using our power of choice and choosing the direction of thought that feels good, we can actually make that the tone and quality of our reality. How? Because whatever we put our attention on we become, literally. Our vibration changes to match that which we put our attention on.

This is very much like selecting a radio station. By turning our radio dial to station 92.5, we now have access to 92.5 and can enjoy that station. But if we keep our dial on 76.4, it is impossible for us to access and enjoy the music on 92.5. It is simply not available to us.

Likewise, the only way to tap into good feeling thoughts and feelings is by turning our attention away from the negative feeling thoughts and then purposefully turning it toward the direction of better feeling thoughts. This is using our power of choice at its highest potential!

How Our Emotional Feedback Guide Works

We can use our Emotional Feedback Guide to immediately find out which direction our thoughts are headed. Positive thoughts will produce only positive feelings and negative thoughts can only produce more negative feelings. We can use these feelings as your compass for wellbeing! Our feelings will always tell us where we stand. Our emotions are like a built-in guru who is constantly giving us feedback, letting us know if we are moving toward wellbeing or away from it.

So the first step in how to be happy is to choose happiness.
“No matter what, I am going to be happy. No matter what
situations I face today, I will find something about each
of them to be happy about, even if it is something tiny.
I will focus on that tiny thing and keep my radio tuned
to that station, knowing that the positive energy
will grow by feeding it with my attention.”

Incremental Relief

Yes, this takes some discipline! But it is so worth the effort. Sometimes, if we are in an extremely negative state, we can't make the leap to pure happiness all at once. However, by using our power of choice, we can get there incrementally! From where we are we can reach for a thought that feels better than the one we've been dwelling on.

For instance, if the neighbor's dog has been barking for awhile and you've gone from feeling irritated to beginning to feel angry, reach for a thought that feels better, such as "I know this noise is just temporary. His owner will be home soon and he'll take him inside." It is important that you reach for a thought that is true for you and that you believe, otherwise it won't work. But from wherever you are, there will always be a thought that is true for you, and brings a sense of relief from where you were.

Then, when you feel the relief with that thought, reach for one that feels even better. "I could go over to the neighbor's house later and talk to him and honestly tell him about what is going on with his dog. He's a nice guy. I'll bet we can work something out."

Then when you feel the relief from that, deliberately use your power of choice again and reach for another thought that feels even better. "That would be nice. I'd enjoy getting to know my neighbor more." By continuing on in this way you can move up the wellbeing scale incrementally from anger to frustration, to hope, acceptance, and even joy.

Here is a "Bridging the Gap" exercise that might be helpful as well.

Be careful to not judge yourself for any of the emotions that flow through you. None of them are bad. They are just energy.

17 Life-Changing Seconds

Just by keeping attention in a positive direction for 17 seconds or so, the positive energy starts to expand exponentially. Then if you hold attention there for another 17 seconds, it expands exponentially again, and so on. So the longer you stay with a positive thought it will automatically expand into more positive thoughts that are related, making it easier to keep your attention there.

Please don't just take my word for this, or anything else I share with you. Test it all out for yourself. Using your power of choice, gently place your attention on a thought that brings you good feelings and keep it there.

I use this technique daily. I've never timed it with a clock because I don't want to divide my attention, but sure enough, after what feels like 15-17 seconds, I feel the positive energy kick into a higher gear and more positive thoughts pop in. Check it out for yourself – it's really cool!

Even though it seems our lives are beyond our control, the one thing we absolutely do have control of is our power of choice. Choosing happiness isn’t something to just do once then assume that will set the tone for the rest of our life. Instead, we have to make the choice for happiness again and again. Sometimes I find myself making that choice several times a day. This one technique has made a huge difference in my wellbeing!

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