So I got sucked into the movie Castaway with Tom Hanks the other night.  I had forgotten what a great movie it is.  For those who haven’t seen it, basically he gets into a plane crash and gets washed up alive on a deserted island.  Most of the movie is just him on this island and how he survives for over 4 years there and eventually makes it back home.  He says something at the end of the movie (once he’s back home) that I think is so powerful.  Here’s the quote:

“We both had done the math. Kelly added it all up and… knew she had to let me go. I added it up, and knew that I had… lost her. ‘cos I was never gonna get off that island. I was gonna die there, totally alone. I was gonna get sick, or get injured or something. The only choice I had, the only thing I could control was when, and how, and where it was going to happen. So… I made a rope and I went up to the summit, to hang myself. I had to test it, you know? Of course. You know me. And the weight of the log, snapped the limb of the tree, so I-I – , I couldn’t even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over *nothing*. And that’s when this feeling came over me like a warm blanket. I knew, somehow, that I had to stay alive. Somehow. I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope. And all my logic said that I would never see this place again. So that’s what I did. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. And now, here I am. I’m back. In Memphis, talking to you. I have ice in my glass… And I’ve lost her all over again. I’m so sad that I don’t have Kelly. But I’m so grateful that she was with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?”

Sometimes we can feel so hopeless, and all your logic may be telling you you’re completely screwed but if you just keep breathing, if you just keep living in the breath, and stay, at the very, very least, neutral (not positive or negative), you never know what will open up for you.

According to the Accurate and Reliable Dictionary (compared to all those phony, unreliable ones), hope is defined as a desire of some good, accompanied with an expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable; an expectation of something which is thought to be desirable; confidence; pleasing expectancy. 

Next time you feel like you have no control, or you’re just feeling really lousy, whatever you do, don’t give up hope because you never know what the tide will bring!

So it’s been way too long since I’ve made a post!  I could go into my excuses but I’ll spare you.

What I do want to share with you though is this quote from an Abraham Hicks Workshop in NY back in 1997 (13 years ago…seems so long ago when put like that!).

Be easy about this. Be playful about it. Don’t work so hard at it. Let your dominant intent to be to feel good, and if you don’t feel good, then let your dominant intent be to feel relief. Feel your way through it. If you think your way through it, you can get off on all kinds of tangents. If you feel your way through it, you can come quickly to your Core Energy, and when you do that only good can then flow to you.
— Abraham

I just love this!  It’s so simplistic.  We typically try to make things hard, but it really doesn’t have to be.  If we can just connect to how we feel (emotionally & physically), and go for a better feeling or a feeling of relief then everything else will take care of itself.

When our intention is to feel good and we go about our day feeling good, or feeling a sense of relief, then we can be playful.  We can have fun.  We can fully enjoy life!

No matter what, no matter the situation, no matter how stressed or anxious you are, remember you just have to feel good.  So how do you do this when you think your world is crashing in on you?  You think about something or someone that puts a smile on your face.  You listen to your favorite song.  You play a game, or go for a run.  You take a yoga class.  You meditate.  You get a massage, or maybe you give a massage.  You volunteer to help someone less fortunate than you.

When you start to feel your way through your experiences, rather than thinking through them, then you start to move quickly to your core energy.  Abraham said when you do this only good can flow to you.  That’s because your core energy is goodness.  It’s love, light, happiness, peace and positivity.  And when we start to pay attention to how we feel and have the intention of feeling good, then we’ll always be led to our core energy.  We naturally want to feel good.  We naturally do feel good.  Sometimes we just let our mind and reactions take us away from our natural state.  Once we get back to our core energy…we’re feeling good, we’re feeling love and happiness, and good will continue to flow to us.  As the Law of Attraction states, like attracts like.  So the more we’re at our core energy, the more goodness will flow to us.

It’s really an awesome cycle.  One that I definitely want to be in!

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