Happiness is an inside job.

And it comes naturally when you come to appreciate who you are underneath it all.   When you can answer the question “Who Are You?” with the light of life shining from your eyes and radiating from your heart.

Below is an article I wrote to help you on your life journey.  I’ve called it:

‘The 3 A’s’
It was inspired by reading Abraham-Hicks’ ‘The Vortex’

The Vortex: Where the Law of Attraction Assembles All Cooperative Relationships

Think of the 3 A’s like the 3 R’s, that were considered basic for ‘an education’.  An understanding and appreciation of the 3 A’s are a required education about ‘life’ itself and your essential part in it.

Also consider these two concepts – expansion and holograms.

Science has shown us that the universe is expanding at some amazing rate of knots.  What if, so too were we?

And what if we were holographic parts of the universe?  What if, as the universe expands so do we and as we expand so does the universe?

What if that was what life was about?  The continuous expansion of life and all its fundamental goodness?

See if you can get this picture:  Imagine yourself as a diamond of light (as is everyone else).  Imagine as one diamond expands all diamonds expand.  Such is the nature of a hologram.

Let’s take another image.  An iceberg.  We all know that only 1/10th of the iceberg is above the surface.  The rest is under the water.

Think about the image of a diamond of light, that is you, in the same sense as an iceberg. Only the tip of it is above the water.  Think of that tip as the physical you in the physical world.  And the rest of the diamond, as real as the rest of the iceberg, is the real You, the one that exists in and beyond your body and mind.

Can you relate to that?  Do you have that sense that the part of you that operates in the world is only a small part and there are much greater reserves of you, under the surface?  As Einstein and many others have said we only use a 1/10 of our capacity.

Then think of the physical self as a supremely sensitive instrument that is here for a good reason.  Many wonder why we exist in the world and there are many that have sought to answer that question.  And there are many who have given up on trying to sort that out because all the answers are so confusing!!!

What if our ‘wanting’ to be in the world was to experience what Abraham calls ‘contrast’?

What is contrast and why would we want it?

Contrast happens when we have an experience that we do not like.  That experience immediately sets off ‘rockets of desire’ (another gem from Abraham) .  In experiencing what we don’t want we come to appreciate what we do want. That is the essence of the concept of ‘contrast’.

What if we came to experience the contrast that only the world can give us, so that by experiencing it we can clarify what we want and in so doing expand not only our own sense of self but the whole of consciousness itself?  Remember the hologram?

Abraham has another saying that I really enjoy – ‘the leading edge’ of thought.  That is our function and purpose here; to be the leading edge of thought in an expanding universe.

With that possibility in our minds let’s crystallise the mechanism and lay out the 4 A’s and let’s see if you can put it to the test in relationship to your own life, right here and now.

The First ‘A’ – ASK

The contrast has led you to ASK for what you want and the consciousness of the universe ANSWERS.  Immediately.

That is The Second ‘A’ – ANSWER.

This step is something that you do not need to do anything about.  It is a given once you have asked.  And your asking does not need to come as a clear picture or understanding.  You know what you don’t want and therefore you know what you do want.  An inner sense of it is enough.

Ask yourself – can you remember a time when you had an experience that you can relate this to?  A time when you had an experience that helped you make a decision that your life was no longer going to include ____________ because you had made up your mind that you were going to have _________________ in your life?

Do you remember in that moment, even though you didn’t have the physical whatever it was that you wanted (a level of income, a place to live, a girlfriend/boyfriend, a girl/boyfriend that loved you, a girl/boyfriend that loved you and treated you well) you did have a new sense of being, of who you were in the world?

Think back to the picture of the diamond.  As soon as you ASKED did the universe/consciousness/whatever-you-want-to-call-it, not ANSWER with an immediate expanded sense of Self, an expanded sense of the self that you feel is real for you?

Does this model express it to some workable degree for you?

I hope you can get a sense of that for yourself because if you can, I know that life itself has just got a little clearer for you.

So if the answer is already handled, what then?  How do you move to the next step of manifesting the life that you have now decided that you want?

The Third ‘A’ – ALLOW

Can you allow the new expanded you to be?  Can you act and live from that new you?

I’m sure that you have had the experience of doing just that and I’m also certain that you have had plenty of times when you couldn’t!

What do you think was the difference in those times?

Enter The 4th ‘A’ – APPRECIATION!

The simple key to living an abundant life.

What difference do you think it would make to how you would go about living and going for what makes you happy, if you did that from the perspective of;
·    Hating the past for all it’s miseries and mistakes
·    Fighting the present, with the people and events that are ‘causing’ you to feel miserable
·    Dreading the future because you ‘know’ you are powerless to change and are ‘doomed’ to repeat past experiences

Compared to coming from this perspective?

·    Appreciating the past (even though it may have been horrible) because it was exactly the thing, the contrast that led you to ASK, to decide what you want that would make you happy.
·    Appreciating the present the people and events that are crystallising your ‘wanting’,  appreciating the expanded ‘you’ that will help you get there and appreciating the ‘means’ you sense surrounding you to help you get there.
·    Appreciating the future for the vision of hope that dwells there, for the ongoing fulfillment of You

Can you ‘appreciate’ how not appreciating these things would not allow the energy of the expanded you to show up in your physical reality?

And how by maxxing out (if you can ever do such a thing) on appreciation you would more fully allow the expanded you to be, so that you would be inspired to do what you needed to do, so that you could have what you wanted?

I know in my own life this one simple step has been the one that I’ve fallen over on plenty of times.  But there’s a remarkable thing about life that I’ve discovered.  No matter how many times you fall on your face and forget your way and wallow in self pity it’s always right there, waiting for you.

And the moment you decide to appreciate and allow your Self to be, in that same moment you are back to who you truly are.

To you and your magnificent Self,

Darag

p.s.  There is a next step in understanding and working with this.  Life and creating what you want is an emotional process and you can’t always jump straight into appreciation. We can get completely stuck in our emotions or we can learn to use them to expand our sense of freedom.  This is the book that elaborates on it: Ask & It Is Given

I also go into the emotional journey more in my free ecourse. Get started today by filling out the form on the top right of this page.

For a great introduction to Abraham, Oprah’s Interview with Esther and Abraham is delightful:  http://daragrennie.com/happiness/oprah-interviews-esther-and-abraham

p.p.s  I hope you got the implication here that it’s not that we were ‘perfect’ and ‘lost it’ and need to ‘get back to it’.  I was stuck in that spiritual picture for a long time.   And there is no end point of ‘success’ on the journey where we put our feet up and say “Ah, it is done!”.  Can you appreciate (there’s that word again) that each step on the way leads you to a new ‘wanting’, a new expansion of yourSelf and that it is good that it is so ongoing?

p.p.p.s.  I hope you also got that there is no need for everyone to be the same, to think the same or to like the same things.  Remember it is the contrast of all the differences that help us all decide what we want and life and it’s appreciation expands for all of us as we do that.