An “Aha” Moment in a Mundane Place

Sometimes I think I have my most brilliant thoughts on the toilet.  I don’t know what it is.  Maybe it’s when I stop doing, doing, doing and my mind has a chance to quiet down. That makes sense.

So last night I got up to pee in the middle of the night.  I was half asleep.  I think being half asleep helps, too.  Shuts off the “monkey mind”.  And I was just sitting there, thinking absolutely nothing, from what I can remember.  And suddenly something that has never made sense to me suddenly did.  You know that expression:  “The Universe doesn’t understand negatives”?  (In case you’re not familiar with it, it basically means if you DON’T want something to come into your life, don’t put it out there, as in:  “I hope I don’t get into a car accident.”  Whew!  I’m even scared to write that!  The idea is that, whatever you’ve said you don’t want, you will get.)  The part that’s never made sense to me is this:  I know the Universe is not stupid.  So why wouldn’t the Universe be able to understand negatives?  Human beings are bright enough to understand negatives, so why can’t the Universe?  Now, maybe I’m the only one that ever took this saying so literally, but all of a sudden, sitting on the toilet the thought popped into my head that it’s not exactly true that the Universe does not understand negatives.  That is more like an oversimplified explanantion of what is really going on, which in simple terms is the Law of Attraction.  Like attracts like.

In other words, if I say “I hope I don’t get into an accident”, what am I focusing on?  Getting in an accident.  So I am putting myself in the vibration of getting in an accident.  Which I’d have to say is a rather low vibration, right down there at the bottom of the barrel with fear and despair.  And then since I’ve put that particular low vibration out there, it is more likely that I will manifest it.  And especially if I have the same type of fear thought/feeling over and over again.

We’ve probably all seen this kind of negative manifestation before.  In fact, I can think of an exmaple of it myself.  One of my family members had said many times over the years that this or that physical ailment was probably cancer.  After so many times “crying wolf”, so to speak, when he said it to me again several years ago, my response was:  “I’m sure you’re fine.”  I was wrong.  He really, finally, had cancer.  I don’t think this was a coincidence that he had talked about having cancer so many times and then he ended up having it.  What we put out into the Universe comes right back to us.

If you’d rather create what you want in you life instead of what you don’t want, start creating different thoughts and verbablizations.  What’s ever better than “I want to have a brand new car”, for example, is “I am enjoying driving in my brand new car”, or something ot that effect.  Be specific with what you want to manifest.  If you keep saying you want something, that’s exactly what you will create- wanting.  Which, I’ll bet you’ve noticed, is not the most pleasant state to be in ;).  Instead, make a list of all the positive things you desire to create in your life, convert them to statements (called affimations), like the one above, that reflect those things already being in exixtence, and read them out loud at least once a day.  Then, see what you create!