You may not know this but when Ester Hicks first set out and started meditating it was because they wanted to grow their business. Her communication with Abraham actually started out as a quest to share better business information! Since Abraham came to be, so did the Abraham Hicks Business connection.
We may think that we are complicated individuals with busy lives. At times, we may feel separate from others, or that nobody understands. And, at times, even we may not understand our own actions. When it comes down to it… Why do you do what you do — and act how you act?
While you might first consider this to be a difficult question to answer, it is really not. People are all motivated by one factor:
We Want To Feel Good
It is a Universal fact. If we have a chance to do something that feels bad, or something that feels good, we will almost always lean towards the situation that feels better! Where this can get confusing is that we may not understand another person’s actions–because we don’t understand what it is that feels better for them. However, I had a rather large breakthrough when reading a book by Jerry and Ester Hicks, The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent: The Art of Allowing.
This book encourages us to enjoy life, make your intentions clear, but mostly, to understand that our ability to identify our emotions will ultimately help us to realize where we are, and what will make us feel better. (Remember, we are always wanting to feel good, or better, so the higher we go on this scale, the closer we are getting to our happiness.)
One of the big takeaways is the Emotional Guidance System. This is a list of emotions from one, feeling the best, to twenty-two, feeling really horrible. As previously mentioned, we *and everyone around us* are always trying to climb this scale.
Emotional Guidance System Jerry & Ester Hicks
1. Joy/Appreciation/Empowered/Freedom/Love
2. Passion
3. Enthusiasm/Eagerness/Happiness
4. Positive Expectation/Belief
5. Optimism
6. Hopefulness
7. Contentment
8. Boredom
9. Pessimism
10. Frustration/Irritation/Impatience
11. Overwhelment
12. Disappointment
13. Doubt
14. Worry
15. Blame
16. Discouragement
17. Anger
18. Revenge
19. Hatred/Rage
20. Jealousy
21. Insecurity/Guilt/Unworthiness
22. Fear/Grief/Depression/Despair/Powerlessness
Have a look at this list, and consider the following:
If you were angry with someone, and feeling hateful, didn’t you feel a little bit better having a thought of revenge (what you would like to do or say)? Then, maybe you were angry for a bit – eventually got yourself back up the scale to disappointment and worked your way up to feeling good again. We do this without even recognizing it. However, we are always attempting to move ourselves up this scale or at least keep ourselves feeling as good as we are.
The Abraham Hicks Business Connection
As a business owner, our productivity and success is dramatically impacted by how we feel. If we have a difficult client, argument with an employee, or struggle with our technology all day — we are feeling down. We need to quickly master how to turn things around and start feeling good.
Life can be seen a constant struggle to feel better–or–a constant opportunity for allowing the best of each moment to sink in.
“Mining the moment for something that feels good, something to appreciate, something to savor, something to take in, that’s what your moments are about. They’re not about justifying your existence. It’s justified. You exist. It’s not about proving your worthiness. It’s done. You’re worthy. It’s not about achieving success. You never get it done. It’s about “How much can this moment deliver to me?” And some of you like them fast, some of you like them slow. No one’s taking score. You get to choose. The only measurement is between my desire and my allowing. And your emotions tell you everything about that.” – Abraham
Emotionally Balanced In Business and Life
When we learn to emotionally balance ourselves and feel good or hopeful about ourselves, our future, or what we want, life feels better! This is the Abraham Hicks Business connection!
This works well with the idea that in order to get what we really want, we need to be feeling good about it. It makes sense that like attracts like, so our biggest job is to continually try to elevate our mood and emotions so that we spend as much time as possible feeling good.
“When you understand your emotions and what they mean, and so, are able to deliberately improve the way you feel through a deliberate choosing of increasingly better-feeling thoughts–there will be no intent that you cannot easily accomplish…All things that you desire will flow quickly and easily into your experience.”
– Abraham
