A scale of your emotions would look like this:
1. Joy/Knowledge/Empowerment/Freedom/Love/Appreciation
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
- from The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent by Esther and Jerry Hicks
*to be continued*
24 February 2006 at 22:50
shit mine is like this
boredome
lameness
stupiditty
childish amusements
plotting my domination
vengence
doubt
fat headedness
over eating
and finally pooping alot
25 March 2007 at 09:05
I am rather puzzled by the Spirituality blog content, if this person understands the teachings of Abraham. Perhaps butchjax would benefit from The Secret DVD with Esther Hicks. If you go to my website, http://www.newllight.us and click on The Secret DVD navigation button, the movie is available to watch free. Enjoy!
25 March 2007 at 09:53
I’m not sure what you’re point is. I have a pretty good grasp on these teachings because they are so thorough. The secret, while a good introduction for people, is nowhere near complete enough. Otherwise I wouldn’t be hearing people constantly make comments that show a lack of understanding.
But then again, it also takes time to put the pieces together. So thank you for the offer, but no thank you. I’m always up for discussion, but being told to watch the secret is not a discussion.
30 August 2008 at 21:46
The secret makes me a little bit tired in my soul some times. Mostly because spiritual matieralism is so abundant these days, but I wont go there.
hit this on a google search and I wanted to comment that the scale of emotions is important because of the idea of resonance and discrepancies in resonance. Abraham describes the effect of being low on the scale and trying to think high on the scale (like the secret might ask you to do) and then falling back, and feeling defeated and powerless.
It is like telling a depressed person that they created their own unhappiness and why dont they just think different. Because they cant. Because they must create the causes of happiness and move in steps. Because, if anyone could…they would.
we need to have the right to our process and sometimes its ugly, but this scale makes it easier to recognize sometimes uncomfortable emotions and growing pains so that we might direct our attention (the secret) towards our power, not our powerlessness.
30 August 2008 at 22:01
I’m tired, so maybe I’m missing what you’re actually saying here. I haven’t seen the secret. I didn’t find it necessary having already read a few of the Abraham-Hicks books. However, I have seen a whole lot of misunderstandings come from it by those who only saw or read it. So clearly something was missing there.
However, the scale of emotions is there precisely because we cannot jump passed too many of them. You have to progress through them steps at a time. Sometimes we have to hit every one, sometimes we can hit every 3rd or so. But we definitely cannot go from depression to joy in one step. Abraham has never stated that is or should be the case. The scale of emotions gives us our next goal to reach to gradually feel better about our situation. If we are depressed, get angry! Anger will produce motion and energy, exactly what is needed when depressed. But then, don’t stay there, you must look above and see what is next. Then try to find slightly better feeling thoughts until reaching a higher rung on the ladder.
You seem to be saying that, I just wanted to make sure people understood that you will never hear Abraham tell a depressed person to just be joyful, it would be impossible for them. I certainly hope the Secret doesn’t say that. My guess is that it isn’t made explicitly clear that a person is just look for better feeling thoughts, those that bring some element of relief. If their thoughts are bringing a sense of relief, they are doing the right thing.