How to Use Feelings to Ensure You Get What You Want | VictorSchueller.com

By Dr. Victor Schueller | health

Let me ask you a question: If a dear friend of yours was going through a difficult time, what would you do to help them feel better?  Maybe you’d kid around with them or tell them a joke.  Perhaps you’d offer to do something with them to help them think about something else for a while. No matter what methodology you would employ, you’re really doing one thing, which is trying to help your friend think of something that helps them find an emotion that puts them at a little bit better of a place and which helps them feel a little bit better in general.

You’d know whether or not your friend is feeling better about their current circumstances based on the visual cues you’d pick up from them.  You’d observe them to see whether they’re smiling a bit more, or whether they seem to be in a happier state of mind.

Just like we can use the emotions of other people to gauge their level of overall satisfaction, we can use our own emotions and feelings as a barometer for how much our resistance is getting between us and something wonderful.  If we feel joyful, happy, enthusiastic, and excited, we are at a low resistance level and we are primed to receive the wonderful things we so deeply desire.

On the other hand, if we feel any emotion that is the opposite of joy, happiness, enthusiasm, or excitement, then it’s an indication that we are not primed to receive what it is we desire.  We are actually resonating with something that is not in line with our desires.  We’re giving energy with our thoughts to something that distracts us and moves us further from what it is that we really desire.  Whatever we resist persists. We’re deviating further from what we want.  These feelings are an indicator of resistance, and resistance will continually put us at a distance from accomplishing and getting what it is that we desire.

To resist is to fight the ways of the universe.  The universe runs on laws, and if you resist and fight based on fear and apprehension, you are in essence violating universal law.  To fight against “what is” is to fight against the universe.  You’re stagnating the flow of abundant blessings that can come your way.

The key to overcoming resistance is just to treat yourself like you would your dear friend.  If you determine that you are experiencing emotions that are anything other than positive, all you need to do is find an emotion through thought that brings you to a more positive emotion than you are currently experiencing.  It doesn’t have to be a drastic change — it just has to be a change in the positive direction.

It’s all about self discovery.  It’s about awareness of your emotions in the present — in the here and now.  By staying in present awareness, you’ll quickly discover if your feelings are indicating whether you’re in line with that perfect version of yourself, the wonderful creator of awesome things and able to receive all the blessings life has to offer, or whether you’re resisting the flow of good things to you.

Use your feelings as a measuring device for how you’re doing.  If you’re feeling less than wonderful, just seek out feelings that bring you to a little bit better place.  That small shift in your thoughts will lead to better feelings, and better feelings will lower your resistance.  When you lower your resistance, good things will come your way.  Give it a try!

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  • Elle says:

    Hi Victor, wise words my friend. Feeling is the only language our subconscious understands and since that’s the creative powerhouse within us all, only entertaining thoughts and feelings that are beneficial is most definitely the way to go. Are we going to feel upset sometimes. Of course. And we’re not meant to stuff those feelings away, simply feel them and move on to something that feels better.

    You put it so well. 🙂

    • Victor Schueller says:

      Elle, you captured it so eloquently. “…we’re not meant to stuff those feelings away, simply feel them and move on to something that feels better.” I love that, and it’s exactly what I was trying to get to. Thanks so much for coming by. It’s great connecting with you here! Take care and best wishes to you. 🙂

  • I like this topic Victor. It reminds me of climbing a latter. You don’t just go from the bottom rung to the top with a huge leap. You take one rung at a time. Emotions are similar in that you climb to the next closet, better feeling, higher emotion. One emotion at a time. Just like you said, “If you’re feeling less than wonderful, just seek out feelings that bring you to a little bit better place.”

    Great article!

    • Victor Schueller says:

      Ooh…I love the “ladder” analogy! That’s a great way to look at it! You’re so right! Thanks for the insight. That’s a keeper. Thanks so much for your feedback and contribution to the discussion Melissa! Come again!

  • Li-ling says:

    Great reminders Victor. We are so often harder on ourselves than on the people around us.

    • Victor Schueller says:

      Hi Li-ling! It’s a pleasure to connect with you! I just ran over to your site to check it out! 🙂

      I agree — we can cut ourselves some slack and find more peace more often. We’ll be happier that way!

      Please come by any time. I look forward to learning more about you! Take care.

  • Hiten Vyas says:

    Hi Victor,

    This was an excellent post, my friend. The point you made about resisting to what is, is really resisting against the universe really struck a chord with me. This is such a powerful message and so true. If more people were just able to apply this principle a little in their lives, they would be so much happier. All the emotional strain caused through fighting would suddenly disappear.

    Thank you.

    • Victor Schueller says:

      Hello Hiten,

      It’s great to see you here. Thanks for stopping by. I am so glad this piece touched you and spoke to you as it did. I agree with your observation that if more people moved toward feeling better we would all be better off. We’ll keep working on that! 🙂

      Thanks for coming by, and come again any time. Take care.

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