I saw “Yes Man” yesterday. It made me laugh. The message was right up my alley so, in the darkened theater, x-tra large bag of popped corn on my lap, I whispered to my friend, “I’m gonna blog about this.”
I’m all about positive energy, keeping the focus on what I want and climbing into the feeling of it all having already happened. I would rather say yes than no to what the universe presents in unfailing abundance each and every day. In fact, one of my intentions for the New Year is to welcome everything that happens as GOOD. I have a ways to go!
What got Carl (the hero/anti-hero) into trouble was saying yes automatically, no matter what he was feeling. In the beginning it’s sometimes as matter of “acting as if”, “faking it until you make it”, and showing up the way you’d like to be to over-ride centuries of negative programming and default settings on “No.” Often times your feelings catch up with your actions: – smiling and putting on a happy face can result in the world treating you like a happy person and into your actually feeling happier or choosing fruit over an Eskimo pie even if you’d rather have the ice-cream. It’s a crossover dance that gives you a chance to have a new experience and jumping over the rut you’re in.
But once you’ve jumped the rut and know what fruit and ice cream have to offer and how yes and no feel and are “at choice”, it is really important to check in with your feelings. Sometimes it feels better to say yes and other times it feels better to say no or, as the movie suggest – maybe.
The most sure-fire way to be, do and have whatever our little hearts desire is to picture being there and then power-up our visions with heart. The Law of Attraction is constantly reminding us that our thoughts are the engine and our emotions are the fuel that keeps us moving us toward the fulfillment of our dreams.
Saying yes when our hearts are in our dreams is the countdown to blast-off. Saying yes when we are still really unsure, afraid or blocked simply doesn’t work. It a message to take a look, do some inner investigation, clearing, cleaning, howling at the moon so we can get clear, lined up, tapped in, tuned in and turned on.
Carl found this out and instead of being compelled to say yes and afraid to say no, he was able to choose and take it from there. It’s a happy ending.
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