WHAT DOES COMPLAINING GET YOU? LET ME TELL YOU...

It's so hard to believe that the summer of 2014 is winding down, though I am "placing an order" for an extended Indian Summer. My son gets married in Newport October 18. I'm visualizing it as sunny and mild......join me in the visualization please? It would be a win-win for all!

Saturday and Sunday of the Labor Day weekend were high vibrational days. Got to see some old friends and I remained optimistic about my upcoming groups and classes. Monday took on a different twist. It started with finding out that my unemployment is all done. That initiated the rumble of underlying financial worry. I decided to go out to the beautiful castle on the lake where my youngest child lives, so I could kayak. Determined not to have flabby arms for the wedding, I have been power-walking with weights daily, and kayaking every time I got the chance.

I had to move my kid's car in order to make room to park my own, and from the sounds I heard, I knew there was definitely something not right with the car. I just imagined a big hassle and more dollar signs which only fed the fire of my anxiety. Neither one of us is working right now, thus with no financial resources for an expensive fix.

Then found out that this beautiful abode where she has been living is going on the market, meaning everyone OUT by the end of the month..... That living space was almost too good to be true....When I say castle on the lake, I mean just that. More anxiety now......where will she go, where will she live? More stuff I have no control over.

Harken back to the good old days when I was doing EFT groups in the Partial Hospitalization Program at the hospital. In my lectures, I would always remind the group, that, despite the problems we all were experiencing, if, for example, we went home and found that our house, God forbid, burned down and rendered us homeless, we would look back to our current problems of the day and plea bargain with God and say: "Take me back to yesterday and I promise I will never complain again" . Things can always be worse. This is a truth I doubt anyone would argue.

So in retrospect, all of those events of Labor Day stirred up an energy of powerlessness. It brought back the job loss and everything that went with that. You know, the stuff that happens that we really have no control over? I was in the energy of feeling powerless........and I stayed there, in my head complaining about things. I didn't tap or try to move it along....or remind myself that things usually work out and Universe has my back.....I could have turned it around, but I didn't, I complained instead, and then.....

....that night I took a tumble. A fall. I'll spare you the details, but the point is, I fractured my clavicle in the process. No more "power" walking or kayaking for me......with the wedding 6 weeks out! Anyone who has taken a bad fall will tell you it is the ultimate in powerlessness. Unreal how my body manifested the energy that was looking for a way out.  

So I am in a sling immobilized, and wondering how the heck I am going to get into that sexy bandage dress for the rehearsal dinner. With two strong arms it was already a challenge. (As my mother used to say, it's like putting the skin on the baloney) I am in pain. BUT hold on. Note that I am NOT COMPLAINING. I am grateful, because it could have been worse. I am right handed, it is my left side affected. It will heal and there is a good chance I will be fine for the wedding. I am visualizing me doing the chicken dance flapping my wings as I speak!! I now remind myself that my energetic flow is up to me, not my circumstances.    

It is so important to keep our energy finely tuned up. Regardless of what other people are doing or saying, regardless of circumstances going on, regardless of situations outside of ourselves, it is up to us to use our energetic vibration (feelings) as a barometer. Complaining only jazzes up the system and invites in trouble. This I know for sure......
Stick with gratitude for what you DO have and ease up on focusing on what you don't have (yet). Complaining hurts one person, and one person only..YOU!!