Some people will tell you to completely ignore reality. Supposedly, if you ignore something, it will go away.

The positive thinking idea is that you can have such a high vibration that only good things happen. Everything else is supposed to fall out of existence.

My personal choice is to look both ways before crossing the street. And I choose to read contracts before signing them.

Let’s look at a couple of definitions.

Positive is what you like.

Negative is what you don’t like.

The alternative to positive thinking is the approach of deleting negatives. After you delete enough negatives, there is nothing left but the wonderful you.

However, it seems that you can keep deleting negatives forever. If we do nothing but delete negatives, we can create holes in the energy fields around our bodies. This opens the door for more negatives to enter.

With either of these systems we can get into a state where we’re resisting negatives.

You know what happens when you resist things. They persist.

When we get into resisting negativity, we can actually intensify the negativity. This is one of the traps of positive thinking.

If you spend much time with the audio meditations on this website, you’ll see that the exercises add positives while subtly letting go of negatives.

Transformational Breathing energizes your body and energy field. At the same time, if you breathe into uncomfortable feelings, you release those uncomfortable feelings.

One good approach is to start working on some project that excites you. When negatives come up, and they certainly will, you simply release them. The meditation audios will help you.

November 23, 2004 – Update

A few days ago the latest book from Abraham showed up in my life. I’ve been devouring the information and the processes.

The idea is that you focus on the positive and totally remove your attention from the negative. You expand whatever you focus on.

I can tell you one thing. After doing the processes, I feel really, really good.

There will be more about this as I progress.

Note: I originally wrote this article in 2004.

2006 – 2007

I have written the Blissercise Book and have done hundreds of blissercises (bliss exercises). Blissercises go way beyond positive thinking because they:

• bypass the logical mind and work with the super consciousness
• work with the Real You rather than the false identity that we thing we are.

The exercises in the back of “Ask and It Is Given” have been a dependable way to raise the way I feel. The book has a smorgasbord of 22 exercises to lift your spirits and your emotions. And they can enhance the way you experience life.

You can select the exercise(s) that fit your mood level. For example, if you happen to be feeling in the pits, you can select one or more exercises that will help you get out of the pits.

Once you’ve risen …

you can select another exercise that is appropriate for your better feeling mood. That will take you even higher. If you keep following this approach, you can get yourself out of a funk fairly quickly.

Once you’re feeling good, you don’t have to stop there. There is no limit to how good you can feel. The temptation is to stop once you start feeling good.

You can certainly kick back and enjoy your wins for the rest of the day. However, if you practice these Abraham-Hicks appreciation exercises daily, you’ll keep feeling better and better.

Accentuate the Positive

The vast majority of self-help systems emphasize getting rid of mental and emotional garbage. But what you put your attention on expands.

In other words, if you keep looking for mental and emotional garbage, you’ll find it. Without end.

The Abraham-Hicks appreciation exercises keep adding positives. When you keep doing this, you get on a real roll and keep finding more good stuff. This puts you on a rocket ride to the good life.

You enter the good life and it keeps getting better and better.

By the way, this is one of the most powerful, simplest, and safest ways for you to improve your life experience.

You can click here to see a partial list of my various consciousness explorations.

Have you done any of these exercises yourself?

Would you be interested in a retreat that includes Abraham-Hicks exercises?

I’m grateful to God for the means to help people experience life in a happier way. And I’m grateful to you for the wonderful feedback. Thank you so much.

The other day I went into my favorite coffee shop and bought just a cup of coffee. This happened to be the wonderful situation of being the right person in the right place at the right time.

The cashier gave me two souffles. They had apparently reached their expiration time. They would either wind up in the garbage or my stomach. My stomach was the winner. As always I radiated gratitude and thanked my new friend.

This happened again the following morning.

The third morning I stood in line for the cashier so I could place my coffee order. My friend filled a tray with two souffles, a coffee cup, and handed it to me while I was in line.

My response was a heartfelt thank you. But it also contained a feeling of guilt.

“Who am I to receive all these goodies without paying money?” The guilt feeling was very strong. It accompanied me to my usual booth where I sat down with my writing device.

Fortunately I knew how to let go of things. So I spent a good part of the day letting go.

Then I was wondering if these gifts came because of the way I looked. Depending on your viewpoint you might think that I looked like a homeless person, a mountain man, or a guru. So I got a haircut and a beard trim.

When I came today my friend didn’t say anything about the new look. But she still gave me two free souffles.

The gift gave me the opportunity to demonstrate the amazing scope of gratitude, blessings, and acceptance.

Guilt stands in the way of acceptance. Letting go of guilt opens up acceptance. It also empowers more gratitude and blessings.

You’ve heard the old saying “It’s better to give than to receive.”

But it’s vital to be willing to receive.

Receiving empowerment gives us more ability to give.

We can give first priority to service. We can accept empowerment in order to give more.

This isn’t saying that you have to give anything at all. Many people don’t.

But there can be pure joy in giving to people who receive in gratitude. People like to help you when you live in gratitude.

Some of the greatest gifts include unconditional love, attentive listening, and other forms of empowerment.

And when we empower others, we let go of guilt and become more willing to accept the goodies.