This is another post about the process of taking an Emotional Journey from feeling really poorly about a situation, to feeling okay or even hopeful about it, by systematically reaching for a better feeling place on the Emotional Scale.

It’s true that these days, Jerry and Esther Hicks’ material doesn’t really talk as much about the Emotional Journey, but back in 2004 and 2005′s material, there was a lot of talk about it, and I’ve been listening to those older workshop CDs for quite a few weeks now since it’s all good stuff anyway!!

Basics Of The Emotional Journey

The emotional journey, simply put, is how we talk to ourselves inside our own heads in order to move from a place of negative emotion into a place of more positive emotion.

It is contrasted with the “physical journey” which is when we actually take physical action – sharing our thoughts on a situation, making decisions and going forward with them, and other activities that once done, cannot be reversed.

The emotional journey comes before all physical action, and according to the Law of Attraction, is where most of our “work” needs to be done.

Physical action, in contrast, is like the “icing on the cake”, because by the time we line up our emotional state on a subject, the action part seems almost quaint since it also feels like the “next natural step”, like that’s the most normal thing to occur at that point. It’s not even all that exciting once the emotional state is lined up!!

The Emotional Journey From Sadness To Hope

Many of us have at least one aspect of our lives that we’re sad about, or angry about, or frustrated about… and according to the Law of Attraction, all we need to do is think and feel our way from the low point to a point closer on the Emotional Scale to “hope”. Once we get to Hope, a natural positive momentum starts to take over, making the emotional journey even higher up the scale a lot easier than the rest of the journey.

If we’re sad and want to get to a feeling of hope, the emotional journey in front of us is phased. A person may feel the need to acknowledge every step along the way, or they may be able to skip over steps, depending on how they choose to make their emotional journey:

From Sadness to Anger
From Anger to Revenge
From Revenge to Frustration
From Frustration to Disappointment
From Disappointment to Accepting
From Accepting to Hope

As this blog progresses I will write more articles about the finer points of moving from one emotional state to the next – for those purposeful creators who are actively re-programming their emotional habits from the inside, out.

Emotional Journey From Revenge To Frustration

I historically haven’t liked hanging out in the feeling of Revenge or Vindictiveness. As I mentioned in a previous entry, my experience with those emotions when I have seen others display it is that there can be significant damages sprayed everywhere if the power of Revengeful or Vindictive thoughts is not respected properly.

With my growing understanding of Law of Attraction, I’ve started to see the handling of negative emotions as if they were a little like handling of electricity – if harnessed correctly in a channeled way, the powerful surges of emotion can be fuel for positive growth and advancement. But if the powerful surges are released in an uncontrolled way, that creative energy is also very likely to create uncontrolled results.

So what’s a good way to harness the powerful surges of emotion that thoughts of Anger and Revenge bring to the forefront of our brains? What’s a good way to channel this powerful energy so it results in a positive Emotional Journey?

Revel Until It’s Ridiculous

With limited experience really reveling in thoughts of revenge, I found that progressing through that phase happened quite quickly once I really allowed myself to get into it.

Once I really allowed my brain to conjure up all sorts of wicked or silly or mean or angry or hurt scenarios of revenge, without feeling guilty about any of them, I realized something:

If I think of the most ridiculous ways I could be revengeful towards a hurtful situation in my life, I actually start to laugh about the situation VERY quickly. Laugh about the situation, and about how my brain can come up with completely ridiculous scenarios that would never happen except in the funniest of satire tv shows and movies.

And then after the laughing at my own ridiculous thoughts dies down, I find I’m here – frustrated and a little disappointed, instead of revengeful.

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, my friends. I hope you can, too, in your own emotional journey!

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1. Vindictiveness and the Law of Attraction
2. How This Site Is Helping Me Practice Self-Soothing
3. The Psychology Of Habit Change
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