How To Get Into The Feeling Of What You Want
It was a business I very slowly moved into,
briefly became excited about but eventually grew to hate.
By JEANNIE SHAW
This Is A Feeling Universe
The Secret teaches that this is a FEELING universe. It took me a moment to grasp the concept of it. Then, during the Easter weekend of 2012, it finally made sense. I understood how to get into the feeling of what you want.
Those days seem like centuries ago and yet sometimes it feels like it was just yesterday. I was running a small family hotel with my brother. I wanted a change. By then I was listening to The Secret on CDs (yes, so ancient now haha) repeatedly, day after day. And each time I listened, I’d learn something new.
Then one of the most profound teachings stood out to me. “This is a feeling universe”. It went on to teach that one needed to get in the feeling of what they say they want in order to see it come to life.Â
Free Weekends
At that time in my life, one of the things I desired was to have my weekends free for me to do as I pleased.Â
The hotel was an inheritance that came on the heels of our mom’s passing. She left her legacy flat in our hands. Big shoes to fill, believe me.
It was only then that I realised how much work it really was and why she would stay up until 2am to get any sort of paper work done. The day time hassles and hustles just wouldn’t allow it. Hotel Mopan was her dream and her escape.Â
But for me, it was a business I very slowly moved into, briefly became excited about but eventually grew to resent.
Always In Work Mode
Running a hotel is hard work and it’s constant. Living on the property on amplified that. My mind was always in work mode – even on my “days off”.
Just about every public and bank holiday, Easter, Christmas and New Years and the like were not my own. Even if I did manage to get one of them off, it would inevitably involve work some how. I used to especially dread Easter holidays because where I’m from, it meant 4 days off for most people traveling and enjoying life.Â
And, I was either behind the desk, swaying with a broom, cleaning a table, registering a guest, cleaning up from a leaking air-conditioner, serving a drink or something that involved “hospitality work”. Exhaustion crept in. Change was much desired and the 3 years that followed brought all the change I wanted.
Ask, Believe, Receive
Fast track to 2012 where I took my first real Easter break in years! I decided that I would enjoy that Easter and I went to Northern Lagoon, Belize with family and friends. It was a tiny decision that delivered HUGE changes.Â
I decided and the universe conspired with me to make it happen – or was that just my brother? 🙂 I would take the kids and he would hold the fort.
Little did I know it was the first of many free weekends and Easter breaks to come – something I treasure beyond measure.
My weekends are for me.
We took off on Holy Saturday happily leaving the city behind. Our boat came in just for us and we embarked on a few days of fun in the sun. It turned out to be a weekend I would never forget.Â
There was enough food, drinks, a couple kayaks, a beautiful pier with a bar and even a jet ski. Most important, I was with people I loved and cherished and who loved and cherished me – at least enough to send a boat to get us that Saturday evening.Â
That’s a pretty big much, wouldn’t you say? I was about to be “Sweetly Nourished”.
Scary Silence
The kids were happily swimming all day and taking turns to see who could go out the farthest. Hours in the lagoon then back to the shore. They were searching for seashells while their Easter Egg Hunt was being strategically planned. We had delicious meals, comfortable accommodations and amazing company. Easter Sunday started with breakfast and egg hunt and rapidly shifted to water fun.
The entire crew decided to make a little tour around the lagoon and I opted to have Easter Sunday evening all to myself on the beautiful wooden pier.Â
I can remember the feeling of LIFE – like I could breathe and my breath was mine. OK, so that might sound a bit dramatic, but that’s how it felt. Since everyone went off in the boat, it meant I had silence, fresh air and the sunset.
Balance Is My Kryptonite
It was a day of balance – just enough of everything. Balance is my “kryptonite”. I laid out in the sun and basked in her glory. My evening was quiet and serene. In fact it was so quiet and serene that my complete detachment to the world became so silent, I started to wonder if my crew was coming back. [Insert side eye here -.-]
I heard all kinds of movements in the bushes behind the house and no sign of a human person.
Scary Silence
In the midst of silence, you can hear yourself think… you can also hear all kinds of scary things in the distance.
It didn’t matter. The “freedom” became etched in my being. I knew what it would be like again to be free and to have my weekends off and holidays to myself. The actual experience was now in alignment with the vision and feeling. It was pure delight. It was one of those life experiences that become a part of who you are.
Back To Work But Mentally Checked Out
We returned home on Easter Monday. I was right back to work. That was April 2012. And in August 2012, I shut down my life as I knew it and embarked on a new journey.
What started out as a dream and vision of having weekends to myself and holidays as actual holidays became a reality within only a few months. Weekends are now mine and I can enjoy Easter, Christmas and New Years as I see fit.
The moral of the story is: get in the feeling of what it is you say you want. This is, in fact, a feeling universe. When I say get in the feeling of it, I mean truly feel it as if it’s real… as if it has already happened.
That Easter weekend gave me the feeling of what it would be like to be free and on my own time. It created my weekends as real and true and MINE.
And this is a gentle reminder to myself as I write the items of my most recent vision board – you can have these too! All I need now is to get into the feeling – focus on the feeling and immerse myself into gratitude and to ALWAYS Nourish Me Sweetly.
I invite you to believe.
Awesome. I think I need my ‘Easter’ awakening. My adventure. My… Great post.
🙂 thank you Colin. I really appreciate your reading them. Thank you.
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Put it out there, or in your ‘space’, and if it’s for you, when you’re completely ready to completely embrace it, it’ll happen. Your story is testament to that, BusyLady!
Thanks Shan! I always remember our phone conversations and you would sometimes stop me and say “don’t even put it out there” lol. Love + Hugs. Thank you for reading. I truly appreciate your time.