Later, as we were heading home on SR 46, twice there were white birds flying from the north, headed south, and twice they flew right toward us and like they were going under the car. "Under the car. Who does that?" Joanne asked. I was shocked we didn't hit any of them. They should have been flying over our heads. They were white, kinda like seagulls but a different beak, I was watching the road and didn't get a steady look at them. When I called Jo to ask her what kind of birds they were, she said she didn't remember, then 10 minutes later called back and said the name "tern" came to mind. I looked it up and that's what they were. I love when the correct answer just comes to mind.
Driving east of SR 46, halfway to I-95 I heard a bell tone that I'd not heard before, and I checked my phone, my Bluetooth, nothing. Then I noticed the gas gauge was blinking. Blinking green, but low and blinking. We'd gone 400 miles on that tank. I knew there'd be a gas station on 46 and knew we could make it. We found one, gassed up and continued on our merry way.
We were home by 6pm. We went maybe two hours out of our way, but we had such a good time and such good conversation that we didn't mind. It was one of those days that flies by at lightning speed and you're having almost as much fun as it's possible to have. I like those kinds of days. But then, that can be almost every day if I want it to be, can't it?
How to Stop Attracting Stuff You Don't Want
A friend sent me one of those email petitions last night, the one about Social Security Benefits to Illegal Aliens. Not everyone gives much thought about the impact of the words they send around the planet. I wrote back to him: These email petitions are false. They are started by haters who like to get things stirred up. I always check at www.snopes.com before I forward anything. Once you understand how you "really" attract people, events and circumstances into your life, you don't worry about stuff like this. If you dwell on problems and talk about them and theorize about them with pals, that keeps you feeling vulnerable, and that keeps you attracting more of that sh*t. We will not eradicate the crappy aspects of this planet, nor will we ever need to do so. But we can delete them from our own experience and we can teach others how to do the same. We do that by taking our focus OFF what pisses us off and putting our focus on something that makes us have good feeling emotion when we think about it or do it.
For me, that means spend more time petting the cats and hanging at the firepit and watching the moon and the squirrels and listening to the windchimes and taking walks around the neighborhood. That means spending thought-time in remembering happy things, and daydreaming about the best "what if" scenarios. "What if I win the lotto? What if I find the love of my life? What if I find my life's calling? What if everyone lives happily ever after? What if?"
The reason to have these thoughts and to train yourself to have thoughts like this, is not to deny anything that is going on in the world under the pretense of "positive thinking." No, it is to take you into an expanded state of consciousness. At an expanded state of awareness, you have access to a wider range of thoughts and ideas than you usually have. These thoughts and ideas can be used to greatly improve your quality of life. Period.
Think of like an upward spiral tornado shape and at the ground level is the caveman and all the thoughts he had access to. Not too many. He did not live in a complex world. Higher up the spiral is where thoughts led to the Industrial Revolution. Even higher up they lead to the Technology Revolution. At each state of consciousness, what we knew expanded so we could see the broader picture, and we used that expanded info to improve our quality of life. Just the same, at each upward stage of your own consciousness, you have access to thoughts and ideas you didn't have before, and you can use these to improve your quality of life.
So how do you go up the spiral so you can have these more expanded thoughts and ideas?
You take yourself up the spiral when you release resistant thought, when you stop thinking about what's worrying you or what you're afraid of. The fastest way to release resistant thought is to do something that makes you feel good. Like turning off the news, turning off complaining friends, like petting the cats or taking a bubble bath or gardening or making love or whatever it is you do that makes you feel good. That's the reason to stay focused on "good stuff." To attract a wide and expanded range of good stuff.
And since I am selfish enough to want to have a happy and joyful life full of fun and opportunity, I ask myself all the time: am I spiralling upward or downward with this line of thought??
