day 20, season 1 -- is fear contagious?

[Lily]

for the first time since the economy took a nosedive, i felt fear about losing job. i was taking a walk with a co-worker and all her energy and words were focused on our company and how sales are down....way down and how the "powers that be" were looking closely at job descriptions and performance....she went on and on about how change is on the horizon etc. etc.

i came back from what should have been a nice, relaxing, energizing walk out in the sunshine feeling awful. really awful. scared. in a panic.

i don't want to be naive...and i'm doing everything i can to make sure i'm secure financially, but NOTHING is secure really, right? no job, situation, relationship or circumstance is 100% secure.

i'm not saying i walk around detatched from everything and everyone, but i try to remember my source. i also try to identify the feeling i'm ultimately looking for when i desire certain things or circumstances. typically what i truly want is a feeling of love and security.

money itself doesn't have the power to give me a feeling of security.

my job itself doesn't have the power to give me a feeling of security.

security is something i generate by my thoughts.

i'm not impervious to energy, so.....i'm gonna watch my energetic exchanges from now on. no shame in needing/prefering to spend time around people who think positive thoughts and who speak positively.

ah....i feel better now. MUCH better. i'm floating back downstream now.....

[Lily]

thanks rich. it's really so simple, right? focus on what i want, not what i don't want. it's so nice to be in the company of like minded people here. people who get that beating the drum of "reality" and focusing on negative aspects of our present circumstances is not the way to move forward....and toward what you want. thank you!

[Lily]

jenna -- and now it's me who hasn't been on CCOR in quite a while. that is so well put...that the biggest impact you've seen is on people's emotions and minds. i too have been meditating a lot. i enjoy it so much and immediately feel better (balanced, centered and at peace) when my practice is consistent. choosing better feeling thoughts has really been working for me lately....where you ask yourself which thought feels better? it is similar to the "moving up the vibrational scale" process, but for some reason, i prefer this one and find it easy to do. you know what? i think i kind of did it as i was writing this blog post. i kept choosing better feeling thoughts and by the end of my post, i felt better. the other thing i'm not above doing is literally finding something else to occupy my thoughts. seriously. if i'm having great difficulty changing my vibration about a specific issue, i'll just let it go and think about or do something else - completely unrelated - that feels good. i think i even remember abraham-hicks talking about how sometimes taking nap is a good course of action when you are really stuck. in that vein, i'm a big fan of crossword puzzles lately. i've just re-discovered them find them relaxing and challenging (in an entertaining way). thanks so much for sharing your thoughts jenna and for your continual support.

[Yenna]

Hey Lily,

My understanding about LOA is those who expect the negative get it- as we all know! It sounds to me that those coworkers who are practicing a negative mind-set are the first ones to be laid off if anything happens, whether someone makes a decision about that personally or it is all done randomly because they would have attracted it by their focus.

Like you I am also sensitive to the energies of the people around me and some days I am more resiliant than others. It makes sense to limit our interactions with people we are sensitive to when they are focused negatively. I've had some of that myself lately. In fact, I've been so all over the map recently in activities and thoughts that I haven't been on CCOR since we last communicated. I've had to be a little more isolated so I could remain centred and positive. But I've managed and to be honest I've heard people worry about their security, and yet I don't know anyone directly affected other than emotionally and mentally.

I have been taking time to meditate quite a bit right now so I can remain connected to that positive aspect inside myself. It has been working and I am feeling better for it. What sort of things do you do to feel better and recapture that wonderful allowing state of being? Do you have any suggestions? I'm glad you're feeling better!

Jenna